Indy Transponder 02-OCT-2011 2100z

Blue Angels return to Amigo Airsho - Fort Bliss Monitor | The Blues are back at this year's Amigo Airsho. Organizers are finalizing this year's plans and promise to deliver another spectacular event featuring the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, better known as the Blue ...

Great Wall Of Fire Highlights Airshow - Video - KMBC Kansas City | The Great Wall of Fire display highlights a California airshow.

Leesburg Airshow  - Toriaflies | The part of the show I was most looking forward to was seeing Jane Wicker wingwalk.  She came to my Fly it Forward event last year and I have been dying to see her in action.  Unfortunately the strong winds ...

Visitors fly in, over Sheppard Air Force Base - Times Record News | Robert Wood, vice president and lead for the BAE Systems Inc. Hawk Advanced Jet Training System team, said his company's system allows pilots to train in an aircraft that is similar to the newest fifth-generation fighters such as the F-22 Raptor and ...

Air show and navy draw crowds - Stuff.co.nz | Wellington's waterfront and city streets were crammed with people at the weekend, but they were not just watching the rugby. Yesterday, those arriving at the fanzone and stadium ahead of the All Blacks' game against Canada, as well as those gathering ...

The Hawker Sea Fury “Argnonaut” from Moose Peterson Aviation Photography | The Hawker Sea Fury is a massive aircraft! You get a hint of that seeing it wrapped around pilot Mark Watt as he takes off for a heat at the Reno Air Races. Argonaut Hawker Sea Fury FB. 11 started off in the Royal Canadian Navy in May 1947. One of the fastest production prop fighters every built, the Sea Fury saw (not Argonaut) significant Korean War involvement mainly in the ground attack role alongside the Fairey Firefly. The Hawker Sea Fury has the distinction of being the first piston engine fighter to shoot down a Mig-15.  “Argonaut” is one of the Sea Furys to come from the famous shop of Sanders Aircraft who acquired the ...

Pilot dies after plane crash in the festival, say firefighters - Translated | We still do not know the reasons for the fall.  The pilot Fabio Luis de Almeida, Fábio known as Raccoon, died during a stunt show with historic aircraft from the Aero Club of Paraná, in the neighborhood Bacacheri in Curitiba, according to the Fire Department. The accident occurred around 14:30 this Saturday (1st).  The aircraft model Christen Eagle II, prefix PR-ZRT , was privately owned and participated in the 6th Air Festival of the Aero Club of Paraná.  We still do not know the reasons for the accident. According to preliminary information, the pilot was performing the same maneuver for the third time, when the ...

Aviation Pioneer Carl "Chub" Wheeler Honored at His 100th Birthday from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo | Carl "Chub" Wheeler was honored for a century of achievement in aviation at his 100th birthday party October 1.  He learned to fly at Curtiss-Steinberg Airport (later Parks Airport and now St. Louis Downtown Airport) in 1934, earned his private and transport licenses, operated a flight school, taught Army Air Corps pilots during World War II, managed the renamed Parks Airport in the 1950s, flew corporate DC-3s for  ...

Judge Rice to be honored for volunteerism - Dayton Daily News | ... a founding trustee of Aviation Heritage Foundation, Inc. — co-chairman and member of the steering committee of the Dayton Dialogue on Race Relations. — co-chairman of the Montgomery County Ex-Offender Reentry Policy Board. — trustee of the ...

Around the world in our home-made plane from Pilot News Magazine | After a year and a day, 99 flights, 23 countries and bags of teamwork, an intrepid couple have flown around the world in a tiny home-made plane they spent 16 years building.  Retired British Airways pilot Patrick Elliott and his wife Linda Walker are believed to be the first married couple to have circumnavigated the globe in a home-built aircraft.  On their epic voyage they diced with death and saw wonders including the ...

Moving the National Air and Space Museum’s Archives from AirSpace by Allan Janus | ... You may have heard that the National Air and Space Museum Archives is moving.  The collections and offices are moving from the current location of Building 12 at the Paul E. Garber Restoration and Storage Facility and from the Museum in Washington, D.C. to their new location at the Steven F. Udvar Hazy Center. ...

Convair NB-36 (The ‘Crusader’) from I n f o r m a t i o n 2 S h a r e by pawangkul | The ‘Crusader’, or NB-36, was built for the NPA, or Nuclear Powered Aircraft programme. It was made out of parts from a B-36 destroyed in a tornado. There was a front section, which the crew lived(a pilot, copilot, flight engineer, and 2 nuclear engineers) inside, and a rear section, where the reactor was. The nose was brand-new, and was heavily lined with lead and thick yellow glass to protect against radiation. The engines ...

ABC’s Pan Am Television Series Continues To Grow In Viewership from AvStop | The Pan Am drama on ABC which premiered on the 25th of last month is tuning out to be a big hit. ABC’s  ...

Sunday Matinee: The First Of The Few (1942) from Theo Spark | The First of the Few, known as Spitfire in the United States, is a 1942 British film directed by and starring Leslie Howard as R.J. Mitchell, the designer of the Supermarine Spitfire, alongside co-star David Niven. The film's  ...

Rocketry is a blast at Coalwood's October Sky Festival - Bluefield Daily Telegraph | For the past few years, Jack and Kathy Colpas of “Reach For the Stars,” A Christa McAuliffe - Challenger Center Program that supports science education through model rocketry, have presented the National Rocket Champion awards at the festival. ...