Monday, July 4, 2011

Indy Transponder 04-JUL-2011 1500z

Sell-out crowds enjoy Waddington International Air Show - This is Lincolnshire | Waddington International Air Show, which has been running since 1995, saw about 65000 people from across the country and beyond flock to the air base. EYES TO THE SKY: The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight entertains sell-out crowds during the 2011 RAF ...

Thousands attend 'Wings Over Tyler' – KETK | TYLER — Sunday's air show, the first of its kind in about 15 years, kicked off in a true patriotic fashion with a paratrooper delivering a giant American flag -- all as the Star Spangled Banner played in the background. Soon after, Tora, Tora Tora, ...

Man pulls 150000 pound plane at Kalamazoo air show - Fox 28 | Mark Kirsch pulled a 150000 lb. airplane 120 ft. at a Kalamazoo air show on Friday, July 1. The pull was done in front of dozens of participants from Battle Creek Community Inclusive Recreation, which provides events for people of all ability levels, ...

Two more classics crash!  from Classic Aviation Worldwide by classic-aircraft | In further sad news for the aviation world - Bucker Jungmann, based at Old Warden, crashed upside down in a field while performing at the airfield. Meanwhile Kennet Aviation's Supermarine Seafire was forced to conduct a wheel's up landing with Anna Walker at the controls. Thankfully no major injuries or fatalities occurred in either…

Air Show Fan Now A Pilot - KMOX.com | “Every summer, we'd come up, watch the Cardinals play in that blazing heat, and cap off the 4th of July with an air show. Then it was head back home after saying goodbye to grandma, grandpa, and the uncles,” Capt. Carmean tells KMOX News. ...


AMA plans festival for 75th anniversary - Muncie Star Press | There is no cost to the public to attend the event, which will feature aerobatic flying demonstrations, hands-on radio-controlled flight training, national soaring competition, NASA exhibits, RC boats and cars, tethered balloon rides, ...

Warren air show benefits military families – WCAX | The fun was all part of this year's Stars and Stripes Charity Air Show. Pilots from across the country took to the cockpits of all different models including biplanes and sailplanes to volunteer their time. Hundreds of people packed the ...
A celebration of a local hero at Yeovilton Air Day - This is Somerset | Watch that agility in action when the Navy's Lynx display team, the Black Cats, of Yeovilton-based 702 Lynx training squadron perform their superb aerobatic display. This year Lt Chris Chambers, 36, is the lead pilot, with Lt Dave Fleming, 31, ...

Museum members get trip back in time - CTV.ca | As part of a nation-wide tour by an organization dedicated to preserving Canada's aviation history, some vintage airplanes took to the skies over the capital city – demonstrating to members what a flight might have been like in the 1940s. ...

Floating Mooring Mast Proposed as Way Station for Airships  from I n f o r m a t i o n 2 S h a r e by pawangkul

Horton family story to be shared at museum - News Chief | CL Chennault and the "Flying Tigers," where he flew more than 50 missions in a B-25 before returning to the US Later, he returned to the US Air Force Reserves as a lieutenant colonel. In November 1941, second son Andrew Smith Horton enlisted in the ...

The B-25N “Panchito”  from Moose Peterson Aviation Photography »  “We owe it to present and future generations to wisely maintain and operate these treasures as living history monuments . . ..Larry Kelley” I think July 4th is the perfect day to reflect on the words of Larry Kelley, owner of Panchito…

Movie about pilot Joe Moser's story of WWII survival to premier in Bellingham - TheNewsTribune.com | Moser, who was in the Air Force, is featured in a World War II documentary about him and 168 airmen being shot down, captured and moved to Buchenwald concentration camp. The movie will premier at 7 pm on July 16 at Mount Baker Theatre. ...

B-47 bomber crews loaded with hydrogen bombs were told it was the real thing  from War Tales by Don Moore | Donald Gatrell of Port Charlotte, Fla. was a crew chief on a B-47 “Stratojet” six- engine nuclear bomber during the early 1960s. One mission stands in his mind after more than half a century. “It was the morning after Thanksgiving Day 1961. About 5 a.m. horns on our SAC base at Little Rock Ark. sounded. [...]

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Terrafugia flying car gets road-safety exemptions Register | The Terrafugia Transition "roadable" aircraft – a stylish combination of light aeroplane and car – has been granted useful exemptions by the US Department of Transportation. It's a car. It can fly. ...

The final shuttle launch  from Spacevidcast by Benjamin Higginbotham

Happy last shuttle launch!  from make the logo bigger by mtlb | The history of the space shuttle, in pictures. For Gen Star Trek, the end of an era:

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