Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Indy Transponder 27-SEP-2011 2230z

Friday Is Military Day at the Miramar Air Show - Patch.com | “We are pleased to welcome back the world-famous US Navy Blue Angels for what is sure to be another thrilling performance,” Wright said. In addition, Wright said MCAS Miramar is honored to host an “amazing lineup” of military and civilian performers. ...

188th Fighter Wing Details Air Show Activities - Air Show Fort Smith | News release from the 188th Fighter Wing highlights static displays and other important info. We'll be pushing bits of this information out ...

Lyon Air Museum to host ‘Cars & Cockpits’ from General Aviation News | Lyon Air Museum, a Southern California showcase for vintage military aircraft and automobiles, will host more than 50 classic and late-model Chevrolet Corvette sports cars as part of a “Cars & Cockpits” event scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 2, from 10-11:30 a.m. at the facility, located on the west side of the runway at John Wayne Airport in Orange County. ...

Wings of Dreams Fly-in Breakfast - Flyer

Another high-flying air show - Shore News Today | Sponsors and pilots from the Ocean City Aerobatic Airshow, held Sunday, Sept. 18, gather on the Ocean City boardwalk From left, Nick Marotta, Ocean City Board of Realtors and Ocean City Tourist Development Commission; Pat Gallelli and Scott Simpson, ...

2011 air show profits far below 2010 - Seacoastonline.com | PORTSMOUTH — Revenue estimates from this summer's Service Credit Union Boston-Portsmouth Air Show appear to be less than stellar, compared to last year's event. The annual show, which benefits the Brain Injury Association of New ...

Video: Lightspeed Aviation Foundation Awards Ceremony from AOPA Live

AOPA Live Pilot's Choice Awards from AOPA Live

Figuring out how to avoid another Reno air crash - Los Angeles Times | Robert Hoover, a World War II combat veteran who helped start the Reno air races, said he experienced a trim tab failure when his P-51 was the pace plane a couple of decades ago. It was only because he recognized an unusual sound that he was able to ...

Back in the air - from Solar Impulse News | After a busy European flight schedule last spring and a well deserved holiday for the team, we are back to work! A large part of the team is dedicated to the construction of …

Save a Whale! from The Warbird Rescue Company by Chris | Join us Thursday night at 8 P.M. EST when we talk with the A3D Skywarrior Association.  We will talk about  ...

Air Force Museum’s virtual tour expands from General Aviation News | The Korean War Gallery just went virtual at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.  ...

Skyhooking: rural postal mail artifact, 1949 from Boing Boing | From the archives of the Smithsonian Institution and the National Postal Museum:  In the 1930s, U.S. postal officials tried different ways of moving the mail. One technique was called “skyhooking,” which brought the mail to rural towns that had no adequate railway or highway mail routes.  ...

CAP NESA MAS 2010 - Part 2 from Airspeed by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper) | This is the second of a three-episode series covering my experience at Civil Air Patrol’s National Emergency Services Academy Mission Aircrew School (NESA-MAS) in Indiana in the summer of 2010.  You can check out the first episode here.  I intend to make available the entire 30,000-word piece in a single file and PDF document with photos at about the time at which I release the third episode. I might also put the long-form file into the podcast feed on its own. ...

KLM CELEBRATES 80 YEARS OF FLIGHTS TO ROME WITH THE DAKOTA DC3 from Aviation-Report.com | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines the national airline of the Netherlands, to celebrate 80 years of its links Amsterdam-Rome, Italy has brought to the DC-3 Dakota in 2010 named "Prinses Amelia" in honor of the great-grandson of Prince Berrhard, second in line of succession to the throne of Holland, who in 1946 bought the aircraft to become the first official flight of the Dutch government. ...

US Air Force A-10 crashes northwest of Valdosta, Georgia. from Velozia Air by Fernando Montalvo
A US Air Force 23rd Wing jet crashed during routine training operations near Berlin, Georgia yesterday (September 26th) at approximately 2:45 PM EDT.  The pilot of the Fairchild Republic A-10C Thunderbolt II/Warthog ejected safely before the plane crashed and was OK after the accident.  The jet was based at ...

PennDOT Invites Students to Enter Aviation Art Contest - The Kittanning Paper | Young artists are invited to display their talents and learn about aviation through an annual art contest sponsored by PennDOT's Bureau of Aviation. In a news release, PennDOT Secretary Barry Schoch announced the contest this past week. ...

Venezuelan Plane loses engine lands but no casualties - Translated | A Venezuelan Aeropostal plane landed online today (27) emergency in Puerto Ordaz, Bolivar state, after they broke off its engines, which emerged unharmed from the incident the 125 passengers and five crew members. ...

No comments: