Indy Transponder 27-JUL-2011 0530z

Watch The Cheyenne Air Show This Wednesday - KOWB | Adding to the excitement will be the US Air Force Thunderbirds! The Thunderbirds have been a staple in Cheyenne Frontier Days air shows in the past and their performance is one that will stick in my memory forever. The high intensity event is surely ...

Thunderbirds Arrive - KGWN | The Thunderbirds air show plans to amaze on-lookers Wednesday morning with acrobatic stunts and daring maneuvers. Monday morning the Jets finally all arrived to Cheyenne and are preparing for Wednesday's show. Nicholas Holmes, the demonstration pilot ...

It's Navy Week In Los Angeles - KHTS Radio | At 6 pm, Admiral Greenert will throw the first pitch at the Los Angeles Dodger game and US Navy Leap Frogs will make a jump into Dodger stadium. On Sunday, the USS Lincoln will be open to the public for tours from 10 am to 4 pm. ...
   
School chief to fly with the Blue Angels for Seafair - PNW Local News | Renton Schools Superintendent Mary Alice Heuschel will take to the air this Seafair with the US Navy's Blue Angels. She was selected for the ride-along as one of the region's influential leader. She'll ride in an F/A-18 Hornet on Aug. ...

Volunteer Staff Keeps Air Show Aloft - TippNews DAILY | Success always has a story behind it and the Vectren Dayton Airshow isn't any different. While the nearly 80000 spectators may be drawn to the daring aerobatic stunts or the awesome power of F-16 fighter jets buzzing the crowd, its seamless operation ...
   
Snowbirds show in Kelowna to benefit Rotary and Hospice charities - Global Regina | Canada's aerobatic flying team is coming to Kelowna to perform for BC Day long weekend crowds. The Canadian Forces Snowbirds air show takes place in front of downtown Kelowna's waterfront from 5 pm to 5:30 pm on Monday, August 1. ...

Matadors to swoop on Bournemouth Air Festival - Bournemouth Echo | DARINGLY tight formation flying will be the order of the day when the Matadors Aerobatic Team takes to the skies at Bournemouth Air Festival. This year the team will be bringing a new plane to the event, held between August 18 and 21, ...

Falcons team is ready to thrill at Sunderland International Airshow - Sunderland Echo | A WORLD-FAMOUS display team is preparing to take to the skies at this weekend's Sunderland International Airshow. North East servicemen will also be among the RAF Falcons Display Team who perform amazing stunts thousands of feet in the air. ...

The Blades will leave their mark at Sunderland International Airshow - Sunderland Echo | “I'm very pleased to hear that we are by being joined by The Blades – the country's only full-time civilian aerobatic team. “They have a wealth of flying experience and I am sure The Blades are going to put on a real barnstorming performance for the ...

VIDEO: Air tattoo thrills on final day - BBC News | Some of the aircraft unable to fly because of bad weather on Saturday took to the sky on day two of the The Royal International Air Tattoo to wow the crowds below with stunts and formation flying. The air tattoo at RAF Fairford is celebrating its 40th ...

Golden Knights Lead Team USA at Military World Games - US Department of Defense | RIO DE JANEIRO, July 26, 2011 – The U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team won four medals, including gold in the women’s overall country competition, to lead Team USA athletes at the 5th Conseil International du Sport Militaire Military World Games here.  Two Air Force women’s soccer players flew their teammates and track and field athletes to Brazil aboard a KC-10 Extender, but a parachute team of soldiers skydiving from planes triumphantly brought home more than half of Team USA’s medals. ...

War Birds: Replica WWII planes raise funds for Honor Flight - Vinton Today | War Birds over Iowa did a benefit for Eastern Iowa Honor Flight by bringing in vintage exact replicas to scale of several planes, including a B-17 and Jet Fighter. These remote control aircraft are identical to the real planes and when they are air ...

4th FAI World GP Gliding Championship - First (valid) competition day - FAI | After one week of rain and strong wind, eventually we have had a valid competition day here at the 4th FAI World GP Gliding Championship in Wasserkuppe, with sun and cumulus. David Jansen from Australia became first, Didier Hauss from France second and the young German Sebastian Naegel became third. Very well done!

PARAGLIDING WORLD SILVER DONINI LAUNCH WORLD HANG GLIDING IN UMBRIA  - via Translator | The silver medal Luca Donini (Molveno, Trento) is the booty that the Azzurri take home from the paragliding world championships in Piedrahita, Spain.  The championship was due to end July 16 but was closed prematurely due to some accidents. Accused the paragliding competition class, that shoot fireballs at 70 km / h without the aid of any engine, and which the International Aeronautical Federation has suspended certification and use in the race.  ...

Bremont and Rudells at Duxford Airshow - Prfire | The Duxford airshow is billed as “The Greatest Warbird Event in Europe” and showcases the outstanding Fighter Collection. Run by a professional team of engineers and pilots, the Fighter collection team rebuild, maintain and operate Europe's largest ...

The Toughest Plane Ever Built? Take a Look. - Wired News | Is this great trial, the B-17 Flying Fortress put up one of most impressive displays, proving not only an effective carrier of firepower (the plane delivered over a 3rd of the ordinance dropped by the allies in Europe and much of the ordinance dropped ...

Vintage aircraft on display at Griffith-Merrillville Airport - nwitimes.com | The Wings of Freedom tour will bring several vintage aircraft from July 27 to 29 to the Griffith-Merrillville Airport, 1705 E. Main St. Among the planes will be the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress "Nine O Nine" World War II heavy bomber; ...

Wreckage may reveal fate of missing Bakersfield aviator - Bakersfield Californian | 21, 1966, when Bakersfield native turned naval aviator James B. Mills took to the skies over Vietnam in a Phantom F4B. It was thought to be his 150th mission. The 26-year-old radar intercept operator, along with pilot Cmdr. James Bauder, were tasked to ...

Relic lands at museum - Scotsman | Now the late Duke's widow, Kay, has donated a prototype plane, which was bought by the Duke and flown regularly at the Museum of Flight airshow in East Lothian, to the new-look National Museum of Scotland.

Flying gracefully at 'zero' speed in a hot air balloon at the Warren County Farmers' Fair -  By Warren Reporter | The first thing you notice when you lift off in a hot-air balloon is that you don’t notice anything.  With an 80-foot-tall blue balloon over your head, you have almost no sensation of rising; it’s no more noticeable that an elevator going to the next floor. As our affable pilot Rick Bryant (whose voice still has traces of his native Atlanta), said, “In a balloon, your speed relative to the wind is zero.”  Rick and his wife C.J. are owners and operators of ...

Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon from Boing Boing by Sawyer Rosenstein | “It’s still flying?”  This is a question I and many of my fellow space enthusiasts have been hearing a lot lately. As the space shuttle program comes to an end, public excitement around space travel seems to be rekindled. Attention sparked up again as people heard that Space Shuttle Atlantis was preparing to launch for the last time, marking the end of the space shuttle program. But for one young person, that interest had never faded, and witnessing the shuttle’s final flight became an imperative, a very personal hope and dream. That person was me.  When I was 12, in my ...

16 students complete Aviation Camp - Midland Daily News | Campers experienced everything from aviation history to the future of space travel. They heard speakers from the World War II carrier pilot Bill Eyre to Vietnam Army aviator Larry Meier. Campers participated in hangar visits, spent a full day at ...

Young Eagles fly at airport - Lakenewsonline.com | Pilots, parents and kids prepare to take a ride at the Young Eagles event in Camdenton last weekend. By Deanna Wheeler 1. More than 70 kids of all ages earned their flight wings at a Young Eagles event held at the Camdenton Memorial Airport on Saturday ...

July 26, 2011 Final Space Shuttle Mission by Linda Street-Ely | Linda: Seagulls and pelicans crisscross and dive for fish in the Intercoastal Waterway until, suddenly, tranquility is ripped apart as a flash of light, eardrum-shattering blast, and earth shaking vibrations reverberate from 8.8 million pounds of thrust rocketing the Space Shuttle Atlantis into orbit at 17,500 mph. The thunder continues until the ...

Russian Soyuz in the Year of the Cosmonaut from Spaceports | Russian rockets from the 1960s are the only way to send crews to the International Space Station now that the United States' space shuttle program has ended. Some Russians believe that the United States will innovate and provide easier access to space in this decade however.

Iron Maiden’s Flight 666 Hits Theatres from I n f o r m a t i o n 2 S h a r e | ... “Taking you on a visual global tour from Mumbai to Sydney, Tokyo to LA, Mexico City to Costa Rica, Bogota to Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Puerto Rico, New Jersey and Toronto and places in-between, you are traveling with the band and flight crew, to and from shows, in bars and during leisure time, while experiencing the chaos and exhaustion fan that comes with such a mission FLIGHT 666 (airways aviation official nickname). reveal how the unique idea of this tour actually came about and how ...