Friday, October 28, 2011

Indy Transponder 28-OCT-2011 1030z

Thunderbirds set to thrill - The Daily Advertiser | One of the members of The Unites States Air Force Thunderbirds does a fly by during his arrival a for the Sertoma Air Show at the Lafayette Regional Airport on Thursday in Lafayette. The 2011 Sertoma Cajun Air Festival will be held at the Lafayette ...

Sertoma Cajun Air Festival KLFY | In addition to the USAF Thunderbirds, the air show will feature aerial performances by the US Air Force A-10 West demonstration team, the Navy's F-18 Super Hornet, Mike Goulian Aerosports, the AeroShell Aerobatic Team, Corkey Fornof, Bill Stein, ...

Randolph welcomes public to air show - Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base | JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO--RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- The air show is here, and with it, thousands of visitors will soon be on Randolph Air Force Base. The 2011 Randolph AFB Airshow is projected to ...

Stuart Air Show announces F-16 practice demonstration at Dirty Flight Suit party – TCPalm | STUART — Mike Moon, president of the Stuart Air Show, has announced that for the first time ever there will be an F-16 practice demonstration shortly after the gates open at 4:30 pm. You won't get a better opportunity to witness the full force of the ...

Airshow season concludes at IWM Duxford - Haverhill Echo | Thousands of visitors flocked to the Autumn Air Show at Imperial War Museum (IWM) Duxford on a bright and sunny Sunday (October 16) to see a fantastic flying display which had something for every fan of flying. The Remembering the Korean War theme ...


Skies open for model Melton high flyers - Melton Leader | EVER wanted to take the controls of an aeroplane, but don't have a pilot's licence? The Melton Model Aircraft Association is opening up the skies, and it wants you to get behind the controls. The association's annual open day is on November 6, ...

A legacy is secured…and it only took 30 years  from AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points by Jill Tallman | The brand-new air traffic control tower at Memphis International Airport has a name. It’s the Omlie Tower. Omlie, for Phoebe Fairgrove Omlie.  Omlie was the first woman to get an aviation mechanic license, as well as the first woman to earn a commercial certificate. She flew a Monocoupe Warner in the very first Women’s Transcontinental Air Race in 1929, competing against pilots like Pancho Barnes, Amelia Earhart, and Louise Thaden. She was one of the charter members of the International Organization of Women Pilots (the Ninety-Nines)…

Aviation pioneer heads to Sask. hall of fame StarPhoenix | Bateman, already a member of the US National Inventors Hall of Fame, will be inducted into the Saskatchewan Aviation Hall of Fame tonight. Don Bateman is in the US National Inventors Hall of Fame and just last week he received the National Medal of ...

Cliff Robertson at EAA slideshow tribute  from eaavideo.org - most recent by eaavideo.org | An overview of Cliff's appearances at EAA Oshkosh, originally shown at the 2011 EAA Sport Aviation Hall of Fame event.

The Measure of the Man - Gary Austin from Vintage Aeroplane Writer by Vintage Aero Writer | Yesterday was the second anniversary of the untimely death of Gary Austin. He was a remarkable man who became well known internationally in the warbird world via the WIX forum when he was working for the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) as an engineer. He was, of course, already well known to the many who'd come across him in the US in real life. But those two statements are the least of someone who was clearly a remarkable personality, an inspiration and a gentleman in his dealings on the web. As Taylor Stevenson said on WIX when recording Gary's demise we lost "a true artist in the Warbird Community"…

Females in Aviation at Air Museum; NYC Singer/Songwriter in Windsor; Ghosts in ... - Patch.com | Astronaut Susan Kilrain is among 20 female aviators participating in "Women in Flight," a program of presentations and panel discussions, at the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks. New England Air Museum Twenty extraordinary women who have ...

Canadian Crew Member on a US Tour!  from AirSpace by flyvertosset | At 6:30am the wake up call jars my mind and after a quick shower it is off to hotel breakfast. At 8:00am sharp the crew van leaves for the airport. we are 15 members and the van is packed and quiet.  Arriving at the airport we check the planes and the perimeter fence and suddenly there is a crowd of excited people who are going on a 30 minute flight in either the B-17 or B-24. The B-17 is the most popular and will fly every day while the cousin B-24 could have a morning rest. We need a minimum of 6 passengers to make the flight pay for itself…

Saluting the Belle  from Randys Journal | Boeing and FedEx teamed up to help dedicate a memorial to the crew of the “Memphis Belle,” the famed WWII B-17 bomber. The monument is a life-size, bronze statue of Margaret Polk. She was the sweetheart of Captain Robert Morgan, who named the B-17 Flying Fortress the “Memphis Belle” in honor of her…

B-17 Memphis Belle® undergoes restoration milestones at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force  from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories by nationalmuseum.usaf@wpafb.af.mil (Sarah Swan)  As the United States approaches the 70th anniversary of its involvement in World War II, one of the most famous aircraft from that war recently reached two milestones in its restoration at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.  Both wings were mated and the landing gear was extended on the Memphis Belle, a Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress that in May 1943 became the first U.S. Army Air Forces heavy bomber to complete 25 missions over Europe and return to the United States…

WWII bomber tours air - Tulsa World | Joe Macri spent the trying years during World War II in a Studebaker plant in South Bend, Ind., doing his part by building engines for the B-17 bomber and other military planes. For the first time ever Thursday, ...

B-25J Walkaround  from Travel for Aircraft | What is not to like about the Mitchell? It was extensively modified to carry several forward firing machine guns, even a medium caliber cannon for a time, as well as flown off of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet in early WW II — the famous Doolittle Raid against the home islands of Japan…

Heads up – Sub-orbital flights are coming  from Roger-Wilco by steve | Although sub-orbital flight may seem like the plaything of a few crazy bilioners, it is anything but. There is huge potential in this and it is not for nothing that so many entrepreneurs led by Richard Branson, as well as visionary airports, are getting on the band wagon. Even mighty KLM is involved, albeit only in a marketing capacity… for now anyway…

Pic of the Day: Osprey and an F-35B Aboard Wasp  from Defense Tech by John Reed | Here’s a photo showing two of the Marines newest (and most controversial) aircraft operating from the USS Wasp last week. Yup that’s an MV-22 Osprey pulling up after dropping off Navy Secretary Ray Maybus with an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter in the foreground.  The SECNAV was among a host of dignitaries and reporters who went out to the Wasp to watch the F-35B taking-off and landing aboard the ship

DIY Space Program Breaks Records with Airship Flight  from SPACE.com | The highest airship test ever flown represents just a first step toward taking humans into space…

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Today in Aviation History – October 28  from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal

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