Indy Transponder 28-JUN-2011 0330z

   
Blue Angels to take "Flight Over the Falls" - Beartooth NBC | Malmstrom Air Force Base's open house, July 30th and 31st, includes performances by the Blue Angels. "Flight Over the Falls" is a free event hosted by the base and supported by the Montana Air National Guard in Great ...

Details released for Great Falls Air Show - KXLH Helena News | The highlight of the two-day event will be aerial performances by the US Navy Blue Angels. All of these performances will be featured July 30 and 31. A Blue Angels flight demostration exhibits choreographed refinements of skill possessed by all naval ...

Guard: Air show victim of its own success - Turn to 10.com | The Rhode Island National Guard Air Show announces they are closing their parking lots to attendees after they reached capacity. (more) By NBC 10 News Officials with the Rhode Island Air National Guard said Monday they partly blame the weather and the ...

Air Race Classic Finishes in Mobile Alabama from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | After four days of air racing competition over a 2,300 nautical course, the 35th year of women's air race classic landed at the final destination, Brookley Aeroplex, Mobile, Alabama, last Friday. Women pilots from ...
Weather Shortens Air Race Classic
Results here.

Air Venture Update: Oshkosh Here We Come from Nuts About Southwest | [video] We are about a month away from opening day at one of the world’s great aviation events, Air Venture 2011 at Oshkosh, Wisconsin.  What could be better than warm Midwest summer days, cool summer nights, and airplanes from sunrise to sunset?  ...

Snowbirds returning to Sarnia June 29 - Petrolia Topic | The Huron Flight Centre is hosting a free Canadian Snowbirds Aerobatic Show June 29 above Canatara Park's waterfront. The 6:45 pm show features the Snowbirds 431 squadron and is being held to honour the Canadian military. Dinner with the Snowbirds is ...

Armed forces display - News of the World | ... The spectacle ended with a flypast by the Red Arrows, leaving trails of red, white and blue jet smoke lingering over the city.  ...

Three more reasons why the Paris Air Show rocked - Run Way Girl 

WAI Loses a Cherished Member of its Board from WAI Connect Blog | It is with great sadness that we must announce the passing of Major General Ted Mallory, ...

"Playing Dave's Game" UCAP #240 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
Amy Laboda joins the boys in the virtual hangar this week. Alt titles: "The Heart of the Biscuit" "UCAP Jeopardy" "The Immortal AD" "Not Hal Holbrook"

European Vacation - Randy's Journal | When two of the stars of the Paris Air Show left Le Bourget last week, they still had some stops to make in Europe. And let me tell you, they got the rock star treatment.
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All-Electric Airliner Could Take to the Skies by 2035 - Reuters | By Cleantechnica at Cleantechnica Last week's Paris Air Show highlighted a number of innovations in aviation, but none "electrified" show-goers like EADS' VoltAir airliner concept. The VoltAir concept is aimed relatively near future, ...

Oakland’s history in the air on display at aviation museum - Oakland North | The Short Solent Mark III flying boat was once owned by Howard Hughes. It appeared in the first Indiana Jones movie (“Raiders of the Lost Ark”). During its heyday, the late 1940s, the plane would fly passengers from Southampton, England, to Johannesburg, South Africa roundtrip for $1,400—the modern-day equivalent of $35,000.  There are three of these flying boats left in the world. One of them ...

World War II veteran Matt Lamer shares B-17 bombing memories - Waynesboro Record Herald | Lamer was a gunner and flew with the 425 Bomb Group on a B-17. His program was part of a slate of activities in Blue Ridge Summit that also included living history programs at the Battle of Monterey Pass site and a trolley tour of local historic ...

A Challenge From Brazil - The Speedy Record Setting CEA-308 | from Airpigz | Here's an article by my friend Elliot Seguin, a project engineer and flight test engineer at Scaled Composites. It's on the Brazilian CEA-308 aircraft and the world records it set in December 2010 in the class ...

Tanker's first flight over top of the world marks new era in efficiency from Air Force Link Top Stories | The U.S. Air Force has gone to the ends of the earth to support operations in Afghanistan.  A KC-135 Stratotanker flew north until it started flying south June 21 an 22, cutting a new pathway over the Arctic Circle and the North Pole between Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., and the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan.  It was the first time an Air Force air refueling tanker has ever flown this route. ...

Dakota Norway arrives at DX! from Classic Aviation Worldwide | ... Dakota Norway's immaculate DC-3 ...

White Knight in patent form from The Unwanted Blog | Patent drawings (design patent D612,791) for the Scaled Composites “White Knight carried aircraft, part of SpaceShipTwo.