Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Indy Transponder 08-NOV-2011 2300z

Red Arrows Pilot killed in ground incident at RAF Scampton - Flightline UK | It is with regret that the Ministry of Defence must announce that a member of the RAF Aerobatic Team was killed in a ground incident at RAF Scampton earlier today.  Group Captain Simon Blake, the Commandant of the RAF’s Central Flying School, has issued the following statement:...

Red Arrows Pilot Dies In Ejection Accident - AVweb | For the second time this year a pilot in the RAF's Red Arrows air demonstration team has been killed in an accident but in Tuesday's mishap it appears the aircraft never left the ground. Early details are sketchy but it appears the pilot was killed when the ejection seat activated while the aircraft was parked at RAF Scampton, the team's home base. "It would be inappropriate to speculate on the cause of the incident until that inquiry is complete," Group Capt. Simon Blake told BBC News. "The investigation will determine the facts." In August a Red Arrows pilot died when his aircraft went down at the Bournemouth Air Festival....

Coast Guard to appear at the Stuart Air Show this week in celebration of the ... - TCPalm | Coast Guard Air Station Miami will be participating in this year's Stuart Air Show on November 12th and 13th. This marks the fifth year the Coast Guard has appeared as part of the static displays. Two aviation assets the MH-65 Dolphin helicopter and ...

Top Notch Weekend for Alabama Area Aviation Events from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Highlighting this weekend's schedule of aviation events is the Blue Angels Homecoming Show at NAS Pensacola. The Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, will close the 2011 season at their annual Homecoming Air Show aboard Naval Air Station Pensacola on Friday and Saturday, November 11 and 12. Along with incredible flying demonstrations, more than 50 military and civilian aircraft will be on display.  A replica of the first aircraft to take off from a ship, the Ely-Curtis Pusher will take to the air and numerous warbird aircraft...

Army Strong Showing at the 2011 US National Championships - US Army Golden Knights | The US Army Golden Knights Competition Team nearly swept all four Formation Skydiving events at the 2011 US Nationals, thereby earning the title of Combined Overall Champions for the first time in over a decade.  Competition began early Monday morning with the 4way event.  The Golden Knights Gold 4way Team...

LUCHTMACHTDAGEN LEEUWARDEN AIR SHOW 2011 - Translated | On 16 and 17 September 2011 was held in Leeuwarden (Netherlands) Luchtmachtdagen the new edition of the Dutch Air Force Open Day. The motto of this year's event was "The Future Hangs in the Air." ...

Local vet gets wish to fly in vintage plane - ABC7News | (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- This Veterans Day will be special for a local World War II veteran.  Beau Bancroft, 89, is getting his wish to travel to Pensacola, Fla. to fly on one of the planes he used to train other pilots....

B-17 Bomber at Airport on Vets Day for 66th Birthday - City of Georgetown Texas | A B-17 Flying Fortress bomber will be at the Georgetown Municipal Airport for Veterans Day on Friday. The event marks the 66th birthday of the Airport, which opened as a municipal airfield on November 11, 1945. The public is invited to celebrate the ...

Bookkeeper turned aviator - Vermilion Standard | ...After serving the Canadian military for 30 years, Alex Burnett retired as a squad-leader in the Royal Canadian Air Force.  As Remembrance Day approaches, Burnett says the day is very important to him each year because he remembers the hundreds of pilots he trained, who most likely died in the war.  In his home in Vermilion Burnett waits to wear his Air Force cap along with his jacket decorated with the Canadian Service Volunteer Medal, the most important one of all, his War Medal he received after winning the war, his NATO...

Stillwater veteran honored with resolutions from Halligan, Fallin - Middle East North Africa Financial Network | Roscoe Rouse Jr. of Stillwater served as a B-17 Flying Fortress navigator with the US Army Air Forces, the predecessor to the modern-day US Air Force, from 1944-1945. During that time, Rouse was stationed at Royal Air Force Station Grafton Underwood in...

“Cierva Air Horse Farnborough Airshow 1949” (via) - X planes [pictured left]

Confined to the Clouds - NORDO News | ...“List all aircraft flown in the last two years”. Were the streets outside filled with Model A Fords, I would own this moment. Upon completion, nearly thirty planes served as reference for two years of my life. Friends far and wide, machines rare and exotic, and once in a lifetime experiences were marked by each type. And yet, in this world, mine is not an amazing...

Avro Vulcan over the wreck of the B-24 “Lady Be... from x planes | Avro Vulcan over the wreck of the B-24 “Lady Be Good”, Libya, date unknown (via)

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