Sunday, October 16, 2011

Indy Transponder 16-OCT-2011 1200z

Crowds wing it to Ellington for the air show - Houston Chronicle | Show visitors get a view from the cockpit aboard an Air Force plane Saturday during the 27th annual Wings Over Houston Airshow at Ellington Field. Visitors also had the opportunity to chat with pilots. ...

Cleveland air race a thrill for pilots and spectators - Your Houston News | Pilots turned out in force to compete in an old-fashioned cross-country race against each other over a 150-mile course during the thrilling event, sanctioned by the Sport Air Racing League. Airport Manager Alf Vien said he thought there was a great ...

Plane Makes Crash Landing At Airport - WJXT Jacksonville | Florida Highway Patrol officials are investigating a plane crash at the Northeast Florida Regional Airport Saturday. A World War II model P-51 Mustang plane was landing at the St. Augustine airport when its right landing gear collapsed, ...

CALIFORNIAN GO!: SR-71 Symposium set for March Field Air Museum - North County Times | RIVERSIDE ---- March Field Air Museum will be hosting its third SR-71 Symposium on Oct. 22-23. Twenty-two former SR-71 personnel will lead discussions, sign books and be available for photo opportunities during the two-day event at the museum. ...

WWII vet recounts Doolittle's Raid in a B-25 – HeraldNet | Ed Saylor of Puyallup, 91, one of the few remaining survivors of the group known as Doolittle's Raiders, the crew members of 16 B-25s that made a daring attack on Japan in April 1942. The raid, with Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle in the lead plane, ...

Aviation history celebrated at Millville Army Air Field Museum - The Bridgeton News - NJ.com | By Jim Cook Jr./The News of Cumberland County Staff photo by Jim Cook Jr. Pilot Buzz Cortese about to take off in his North American T-6 Texan, featured at the Millville Army Air Field Museum Aviation Celebration 2011 last Saturday. ...

Curtiss P-40 E featured in 'The Flying Tigers,' new exhibit opening ...  by Ho'okele Staff | The aircraft is a memorial to Robert Prescott, Flying Tiger Line founder American Volunteer Group (AVG) ace , and the Flying Tigers in China, which consisted of AVG pilots recruited from U.S. Forces and contracted with the ...

'Top Gun 2' Has Some Writers, But No Word On The Story - Screen Junkies | Regardless, it's got a crack producing duo behind it in Jerry Bruckheimer and David Ellison, so chances are if these guys want it to get made, it will get made. Of course, the gazillion-dollar question is whether or not the man himself, Tom Cruise will ...

It must be the full moon!  from VAF Forums by pierre smith | Team RV at the Boshears Memorial air show/fly-in were on top of their game ....again!  Photo credit: Dean Wingard from Augusta.  Another RV owner and friend from Beaufort, S.C, Tim Verroi, was there and I enjoyed watching his jaw drop while watching Team RV, that he had never seen perform!  While the 5-ship was circling the skydiver with our flag, he remarked that "Those guys are really good!" to which I replied, "You ain't see nuthin' yet!"  With their opening act and the 4-ship hammerhead turns, he was beside himself:)...then they looped in formation and barrel-rolled…

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