Indy Transponder 22-OCT-2011 1600z

Video: Snowbirds fly final show of the 2011 season - Global Regina | In the past sixth months, the Canadian Forces Snowbirds have flown over fifty shows across North America. Their year end show was performed at 15 Wing Moose Jaw Friday, in front of family, friends, dignitaries and alumni. For half of the squadron,...

Hundreds of students get preview of Amigo Airsho - Las Cruces Sun-News | Bianca Gutierrez stretched her neck as far back as she could to watch as jets and aerobatic pilots twisted and turned in the sky. "I really enjoy it when they fell and did the turns," Gutierrez said....

Video: Last flying B-29 Superfortress visits Austin - YNN, Your News Now | The plane, named Fifi, and another WWII vintage bomber, a B-24 Liberator, are in town as part of the Ghost Squadron Tour 2011 of the Commemorative Air Force. Both planes are available for ground tours and rides from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Saturday...

Paramotor Pilots A First For Amigo Airshow - KTSM News Channel 9 | The Blue Angles will have to share the skies at this weekend's Amigo Airshow with an aircraft many people aren't familiar with. We're talking about two guys out doing stunts on their paramotors. So, what are those, ...

They'll fly through the air...Greenwood Lake Airshow and Car Show this weekend - Warwick Advertiser | WEST MILFORD, NJ — Turn your eyes to the skies for a ceremonial parachuting jump followed breath taking aerobatic performances by top air show acts such as Team RV, Jane Wicker's wing walking, Buck Roetman, Dave Windmiller knife-edge aerobatics,...

Around pinal: About 500 planes expected for Casa Grande 'fly-in' aircraft ... - TriValley Central | The first is AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis., sponsored by the Experimental Aircraft Association. It's the granddaddy of fly-ins. The Lakeland fly-in is the second leg. The Casa Grande fly-in, the 39th, is formally known as the Copperstate Fly-In and ...

Whirly-Twirly-Hover Machines Just Might be Your Thing from Flight Monkeys by Chief Monkey | Yesterday we showed you the simplest, least expensive flying machines that can get you into the sky and smiling. Today we’re rocketing past all the other options and putting you in the front seat of the most complex flying machine in general aviation – the helicopter...

Airport to shut down for 40-minute air show - The Daily Star | BEIRUT: Rafik Hariri International Airport will be closed Saturday for 40 minutes for an air show, Civil Aviation officials have announced. The airport will be closed from 1:10 pm to 1:50 pm during which the Breitling Jet Team will perform an aerobatic...
   
Fly In pilots thrilled, pampered at Barahona's Casa Bonita - Dominican Today | the pilots of 16 private airplanes which flew from the United States visited the Casa Bonita Tropical Lodge hotel boutique, as part of the tourist Fly In staged by public and private agencies to promote the Dominican Republic as an ideal destination...

Fliers get a taste of WWII in Wings of Freedom Tour - Richmond Times Dispatch | A WWII-era B-17 Flying Fortress taxied into position at the Chesterfield County Airport on Friday as part of the Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour. The foundation owns and restores historic war birds for national air shows....

Model air show TODAY at RNAS Yeovilton - Yeovil Express | AROUND 2000 model aircraft enthusiasts are expected to descend on the Fleet Air Arm Museum's autumn model show on Saturday, October 22, from 10am. The British Model Flying Association's spectacular display will take place outside the museum on the...

In the Cockpit with Legendary Hollywood Stunt Pilot Corkey Fornof - NYCAviation | JW “Corkey” Fornof is perhaps Hollywood's foremost aviator, his work having appeared in 46 feature films—including James Bond classics such as Octopussy—as well as over 1000 commercials and TV shows. The legendary pilot shares his story, from ...

Lucasfilm’s Red Tails Will Take Flight January 20, 2012 from Midwest Flyer | SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. – A high-flying action epic inspired by the heroic exploits of the first all African-American aerial combat unit, the Lucasfilm Ltd. production of “Red Tails” will launch on January 20, 2012, released by Twentieth Century Fox. Red …

Sikorsky VS-44 of Avalon Air Transport taking off from... from Planeshots

WWII pilot and bomber reunite - Progress Index | After training, he was assigned to fly the B-25. But Worrell was switched over to the B-17 Flying Fortress. It was a transfer Worrell wasn't thrilled with, but he realizes now it may have saved his life. "Most of my buddies didn't come back home," he...

MythBusters Video Digest Of The Duct Tape Plane (4 Videos) from AirPigz | So, did you catch the MythBusters episode last Wednesday (or the re-runs since) that showed their Alaskan duct tape airplane re-creation? If you didn't, I've got good news. Here's 4 short videos (<13 min total) that give you most of the meat from the episode... plus the aftershow (last video) that covers several things not shown in the broadcast...

F-22s grounded - again.from Black Horizon by Steve Douglass | All F-22 Raptors at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia have been grounded after a pilot experienced loss of oxygen while flying.  Air Force officials are meeting on Friday to determine whether it is necessary to extend the grounding to the rest of the F-22 fleet. The pilot experienced what is known as "hypoxia," and had to return to base...

Airport Appreciation Days again a soaring success - The Banner-Graphic | Some 145 Young Eagles took to the air over the weekend. The PCAAD group also announced that it was able to donate $1000 to this cause. The EAA is planning on using this money to help send two young individuals to the EAA's Air Academy next summer. ...

Today in Aviation History – October 22 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal

Rumor Has It from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | It’s no secret that I’m a big proponent of private companies taking the lead in the space race. All one has to do is study history to see that when private companies take charge, the race accelerates. Yes, those who are incapable of studying history, always point to the disasters and accidents that befell private entities competing in any challenge. But what those people fail to understand is that setbacks are the signposts of growth.  Do something big and you can expect something big to go wrong. Aviation has a long and dubious record of such things. Historically...

What happened on SpaceShipTwo’s last glide flight? from Personal Spaceflight by Jeff Foust | SpaceShipTwo is nestled between the twin fuselages of WhiteKnightTwo during a flyby at Spaceport America in New Mexico on October 17.  On September 29th, SpaceShipTwo made its 16th glide flight, and first in three months, in the skies above Mojave Air and Space Port in California. The SpaceShipTwo test flight log at Scaled Composites indicates that the flight did not go exactly as planned:...