Indy Transponder 03-JUL-2011 2345z

Curtiss A-1 Triad mishap grounds Saturday flight - Steuben Courier | The seaplane had been slated for a flyover Saturday as a part of day-long festivities celebrating the 100th anniversary of the day the US Navy took delivery of the Curtiss plane, then called a “hydro-aeroplane.” Local pilot Rob Kinyoun was pegged to ...

COMING TONIGHT: Thousands attend 'Wings Over Tyler' - KETK | Soon after, Tora, Tora Tora, explosions, and other various aerial acrobatics from aircraft such as the B-25's, the P-40, and the Trojan Flyers. Also in the air on Sunday, pilot Justin Lewis and his FLS Microjet - what Lewis calls the smallest jet in ...

Annual air show may be grounded two years - Brantford Expositor | The Snowbirds won't be flying at the Brantford Municipal Airport this year, and maybe not next year either. When they will fly again in the annual Rotary Brantford Charity Air Show is uncertain, after Coun. ...

Man escapes vintage plane crash in Bedfordshire - Morning Star Online | A pilot escaped with slight injuries today after the vintage aircraft he was flying crashed during a display. Bedfordshire Police said all three emergency services were at the scene of the crash near Old Warden airfield this morning. ...

Beverley celebrates Armed Forces Day - BBC News | A Tiger Moth aeroplane fly-past and poetry readings marked Armed Forces Day in Beverley, in the East Riding. The work of servicemen and women was celebrated with a parade through the town. Music was provided by the Prince of Wales' Division band, ...

Formation flight Sunday. Spitfires from Planeshots | P-38s, Canberras, Tiger Moths, and more HERE

Video: VE Day Buckingham Palace (1945) from AIRBOYD.TV 
   
Michigan pilot killed in 2010 Alaska F-22 crash gets honor - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner | Haney was killed when his F-22 crashed 100 miles north of Anchorage. Haney was on a training run with another F-22 to practice "intercepts" when his plane disappeared from ground radar tracking and from communications with the other stealth fighter. ...

Former RAF/Virgin Atlantic pilot trains to fly SpaceShipTwo from RLV and Space Transport News | Here's a profile of Dave McKay who is training to become a SpaceShipTwo pilot ...

First Orion Assembled at Denver, Another Orion Displayed at Kennedy Space Center from Aerospace-Defense News | Assembly of NASA's first Orion Crew Module is complete Shown here is the first Orion/Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle being hoisted into position in the Reverberant Acoustic Lab at Lockheed Martin's Waterton Facility near Denver, Colorado where it will undergo ground tests simulating the harsh environment of deep space. ...

Shuttle Atlantis and MIR: The Realization of Program Goal from NASASpaceFlight.com | With Atlantis’s early years behind her, the middle years of OV-104′s impressive career would serve to radically shift the gears of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program as the iconic vehicles gradually drifted away from solo research missions toward construction, utilization, and support of orbiting space stations. But for Atlantis, this shift in priorities would be immediate, with all 20 of her remaining missions following STS-66 revolving around MIR, the ISS, and Hubble. ...

Major moments in the US shuttle program - Space Daily | Columbia became the first shuttle to fly in orbit with its launch on April 12, 1981 with two astronauts on board. Five years into the program, which mainly focused on deploying satellites into orbit and conducting experiments in space, disaster struck ...

5 Patriotic Space Shuttle Missions from SPACE.com | Here are some of the most patriotic missions by NASA's space shuttle program, just in time for the Fourth of July.