Indy Transponder 17-OCT-2011 2330z

'Gift of life' transferred during recent air show - Sparta Expositor | An emergency medical flight during the 2011 Upper Cumberland Air Show, on Sept. 17, went mostly unnoticed by the approximate 10000 attendees, because of the professionalism of airport and emergency personnel. ...

Wings Over Houston takes flight in spectacular way - Your Houston News: News | The 27th Annual Wings Over Houston Airshow took to the air Saturday at Ellington Airport with thrilling aerial performances, aerobatics and demonstrations.  The Canadian Forces Snowbirds captivated audiences with an aerial ballet of high-speed jet flight featuring dozens of formation passes...

Slideshow: Tigers burning bright in autumn airshow - Cambridge News | The Imperial War Museum Duxford hosted its annual Autumn Airshow with thousands of visitors coming to see its homage to the aircraft of the Korean War. The conflict, coming soon after the Second World War, was the first major battle arena in which jet ...

Seoul air show kicks off - Korea Times | The Seoul International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition (ADEX), better known as Seoul Air Show, kicks off today at Seoul Airport in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. The biennial event, which will feature local defense equipment such as the ...

Awesome close up of the business end of the Panavia Tornado GR4.... from You like airplanes, too?

Dream comes true for WWII pilot - Buffalo News | He spent more than a year training on different airplanes before graduating up to the medium-range bombers, the B-25 and B-26. He was also recruited to play in a military band, despite what he says was his “mediocre” musical talent for the clarinet and...

P-51B "Lucy Gal" Project - Geneseo, New York: F/O Leland H. Pennington from fighterfund.blogspot.com | Leland "Sticks" Pennington was born in 1921, he grew up in Rochester, New York. Leland called Alma Place home, and he attended school at Monroe High. He grew up dreaming of flying, at Monroe he was a member of the aviation program. Athletics were also one of Pennington's strong-suits as he excelled in football and was offered scholarships. In 1942, our local flyer qualified as an aviation cadet, overcoming significant odds which were in place against African Americans at the time. By 1943, Pennington was a member of the elite "Tuskegee Airmen," flying the infamous P-51 Mustang. He served with the 332nd Fighter Group from this point on, until one fateful day in 1945...

Alberta Aviation Museum received it's award from the Canadian Aeronautical Preservation Association from Aviation.ca News | On October 14th 2011, the Alberta Aviation Museum received it's award from the Canadian Aeronautical Preservation Association during the annual banquet, held this year in Windsor Ontario...

Robins unit helps museum rebuild aircraft from Air Force Times | ATHENS, Ga. — The Museum of Aviation and a unique unit of aircraft maintainers at Robins Air Force Base have a perfect marriage.

MISSING; Massive Plane Disappeared During Air Exercise 50 Years Ago - Military & Aerospace Electronics | "It disappeared quietly and very quickly," said Roger A. Mola, an aviation journalist and consulting researcher for Air & Space/ Smithsonian who has done extensive research on the Sky Shield program and the missing B-52. "This was a massive machine...

The First Across the Continent - Air & Space | A 100th anniversary remembrance of Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz.

An Eclipse Jet Is Donated to the Veterans Airlift Command at NBAANEWS - AMTOnline.com | VAC Founder and AirBoss Walt Fricke says, “Although none is needed, this is further proof that the aviation community is made up of great Americans whose generosity knows no bounds. This aircraft will supplement the work of some 1800 volunteer aircraft...

Construction Helicopters Sikorski S-61N at Mount Vernon Outland Airport Walkaround from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo

The direction of EAA from Letters from Flyover Country by Bob Collins | A short-lived thread at Van's Air Force raised the question of what's happening to EAA's Sport Aviation. The author of the thread -- I think it was the very talented Bill Repucci -- said it's becoming too much like Flying Magazine, not surprising since J. Mac McClellan, who was the editor of Flying, is now the editor of Sport Aviation magazine...

Movie Monday - October 17 - Building Virgin Galactic from FlightBlogger | Today's Movie Monday is about commercial aerospace, but from a slightly higher altitude. This National Geographic documentary takes you inside the development of Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites' White Knight Two and Spaceship Two for Virgin Galactic. If this is your first introduction to VG, the company's goal is to achieve regular commercial space tourism and science missions with suborbital flights...

Virgin Galactic opens world's first commercial spaceport from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin | Richard Branson blogs: "A historic day today in New Mexico as we will be opening the first commercial spaceport in the world - Spaceport America." ...

Virgin Galactic’s Private Spaceship Makes Safe Landing After Tense Test Flight - Space.com | A malfunction during the most recent test flight of the private spacecraft SpaceShipTwo sent the vehicle hurtling out of control until its crew could stabilize the craft for a safe landing.  The issue provided some heart-stopping moments for its airborne crew and ground handlers, but also...