Indy Transponder 09-DEC-2011 1700z

Wings over Encompass: Thunderbirds pilot visits local preschool - Valley Record | U.S. Air Force Capt. Kristin Hubbard simulates the wingspan of her Thunderbirds jet formation for a combined preschool classroom on Wednesday, Nov. 23, at the Encompass Main Campus....

Thunderbirds Returning To OC In 2012 - The Dispatch | OCEAN CITY – The U.S Air Force Thunderbirds team released its 2012 show schedule on Wednesday, revealing it will be heading to Ocean City for this summer’s OC Air Show, scheduled for June 9-10, 2012.  Ocean City Air Show LLC President Bryan Lilley will be coming before the Mayor and City Council on Tuesday to announce the Thunderbirds will return for the OC Air Show’s fifth anniversary event.  Lilley said...

Meet the new president of Sun ’n Fun - GAN | Just a few months ago, John “Lites” Leenhouts was thinking about retirement. “My life was set,” the 27-year Navy veteran said. “I was going to retire after 10 years at Northrup-Grumman and we knew exactly what we were going to do.”  He and his wife Nancy had built a good life in Jacksonville, Florida, during the decade at...

Raptors and reindeer and whiskers on kittens... by Air Force Staff Sgt. Zachary Wolf | 12/8/2011 - JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- I caught up with Santa's helper, Col. Terry Scott, 3rd Operations Group deputy commander, and got an inside scoop on Santa and the F-22 Raptor....

EAA lands B-17 in Kerrville - Bandera County Courier | The Experimental Aircraft Association recently landed a WWII B-17 bomber at the Kerrville Municipal Airport to cap off a two-day event sponsored by the Kerrville Chapter 747 of the EAA as part of a promotion for aviation enthusiasts and veterans throughout the Texas Hill Country area....

December 7, 1941 and the First Around-the-World Commercial Flight - Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Stranded. Six days from its home port of San Francisco, a luxurious Boeing 314 flying boat, the Pacific Clipper, was preparing to alight in Auckland, New Zealand, as part of the airline’s transpacific service when the crew of ten learned of the Japanese attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941. All across the...

Replica fighter for birthday bash - The Marlborough Express | Staff at the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre are gearing up for a big day tomorrow to celebrate its fifth birthday since opening in December 2006.  To mark the milestone, the Omaka centre is opening its doors to people at half-price all day.  Chief executive Jane Orphan said it was exciting to be celebrating half a decade and wanted to invite everyone along to share the celebrations.  Since the centre opened, about 134,000 people have been through the doors and...

Hey USAF, One of Your Thingamajigs is Missing - Flight Monkeys | This news clip from the CBS affiliate in Mobile, Alabama is self-explanatory. It’s also funny on multiple levels. Not to mention an excellent starting point for a homebuilder with ambition and a really unique dream....

Pilots collect toys for Tree of Hope - GAN | The morning of Dec. 3 dawned overcast, with predictions of snow in the Flying Cloud, Minn., area. Flight service was reporting weather in the area was OK now, but would get worse later in the day. As we were heading out to the airport, we wondered if we would be able to fly our...

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Photos: Team Apache Demo Team 2011 - Military Photos | Luckily and touch wood in spite of the mammoth defence cuts faced by the Dutch which affected their rotary wing force, they still field an excellent AH-64D Apache display team!...

Lynx 40th Anniversary - Yeovilton and throw in a Wildcat - Military Photos | Just as I was uploading my Team Apache photos from both Yeovilton Air Show and RIAT, I thought I better put these pics from Yeovilton because this years air day was special as it was the 40th anniversary of the AgustaWestland Lynx. So coupled with the excellent restored to life museum pieces from...

Today in Aviation History – December 9 - CUFC

High resolution - enhanced photos of recovered RQ-170 stealth drone - Black Horizon

Kennedy Space Center — why I will go back, what I saw, what I missed and what NASA missed - Travel for Aircraft | I recently visited the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and was elated though somewhat disappointed.  It is one of the premier sites which preserves our country’s (USA) history as well as legacy. Rockets from post WW II to present are here — Mercury through the Space Shuttle programs are well remembered here, to be sure. A replica Shuttle is here but soon a real one will be exhibited and in a new building....