Indy Transponder 22-DEC-2011 1600z

Red Bull Airshow: Peter Besenyei in Maldives | Photostory from Red Bull (International) | The 'Flying Hungarian' Péter Besenyei showed off his remarkable and instinctive skills in a special plane used for Red Bull Air Races at the Red Bull Air Show in the Maldives last weekend. Péter, 55, who has been world champion eight times, ...

Aeronautics: tricolor arrows, presented training 2012 - ANSA.it | Arrows tricolor presented Aimed at training with which they will fly in 2012, and the poster for the new year. Lieutenant Colonel Mark Lant, Commander of the Tricolour Arrows, after presenting ...
   
2013 Airdrie Air Show dates released - Airdrie City View | The Airdrie Regional Air Show Society recently announced the 2013 Airdrie Regional Air Show will take place July 13 and 14, 2013. The two-day show will feature the Canadian Forces Snowbirds with additional performers to be booked in 2012. ...

Aerobatics in HD - Shortfinal.tv | I picked this video up on the FlyAfrica thread last week and must commend the videographer, Scott Slocum, for some excellent air-to-air videography! Great clean shots in full HD, what a pleasure! This clip also has a catchy tune by Shinedown titled "If You Only Knew"

Last Surviving B-52 Designer Has Gone West - Aero-News Net | Bob Withington Also Built 1941 Wind Tunnel, Served As Boeing VP | In April, it will be time to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first flight of the US Air Force's B-52 bomber. More remarkable, the venerable design is expected to remain in service another 20 years. The last of the original Boeing design team, whose proposal and balsa scale model won Air Force approval to build the plane, has passed away at age 94....

Video: Women Can do Anything! - Flight Monkeys | “Women can do this non-traditional job.” That’s what Lt. Sarah Flaherty says, and we’re inclined to believe her. She’s a highly skilled instructor pilot flying MH-60R helicopters for the U.S. Navy, so there’s a pretty good chance that she knows what she’s talking about....

25-year anniversary of single-tank plane that circumnavigated earth - The Union | Friday marks the 25th anniversary of the Voyager airplane's circumnavigation of the world, nonstop, without refueling — a historic journey flown with a little bit of Grass Valley on board.  The aircraft contained about one dozen antennas and two electric doo-hickeys created by Jim Weir, owner of Radio Systems Technologies of Grass Valley and a local Sierra College campus professor....

Me 262A-2a, ‘Milestones of Flight’, RAF Museum, London - Shortfinals | It broods over the ‘Milestones of Flight’ collection in the RAF Museum, London, as if poised to strike. The Messerschmitt Me 262 is one of those aircraft which seems to exude an air of menace, even when its fangs are drawn! The jet engine was developed in both Britain and Germany, but...

Today in Aviation History – December 22 - CRUFC

Video: 'Woopy Jump' Inflatable (Sorta Arup) Flying Ski Wing! - AirPigz | The slick little glider in this video is called a Woopy-Jump. A while back I saw a video for the enlarged and motorized version of this inflatable flying wing concept called the Woopy-Fly, and while I found it interesting, it just didn't quite trip my trigger. But now I...

Fundraising under way - The Flightline TV Show | ...The Flightline TV Show brings you stories on all types of aircraft and the people that fly them.  Our goal (with your help) is to bring our program to a national audience. We not only provide stunning visuals and entertainment, but we'd like to inspire participation in the world of aviation whether as an enthusiast or maybe even as a career....

Rudolph the red nose bomber - Military Photos | 12/21/2011 - The static B-1 Bomber at the front gate is all lit up with a Rudolph nose on Dec. 20, 2011 at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas.

Media Theatre Announces Full Cast for WINGS - Broadway World | ...Directed by Artistic Director Jesse Cline, “Wings” will star Tony nominee Ann Crumb as Emily, an aviatrix who performed stunts in her adventurous youth as she fearlessly walked on the wings of a biplane. As she once plummeted dizzyingly through space, she is now falling...

Colorado Seeks 'Spaceport State' Status - Aero-News Net | Those skeptical of the potential for commercial space flight to become a major industry certainly have their counterparts among state and local governments. Colorado is the latest state to apply to the FAA for status as a "spaceport state."  Tom Clark, executive vice president of the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation, tells the Denver Post that Colorado, which already claims more space-related industry than any state except...

Skydive From Space May Be On Again - Aero-News Net | The 'Red Bull Stratos' stunt may be back on track, as activity involving a stratospheric balloon has been noted in Roswell, NM.  The energy drink company has been talking for years about a skydive from the fringe of space, with the jumper ... Felix Baumgartner (pictured) ... being carried aloft by a balloon similar to the one which was inflated but then collapsed last week in Roswell. Baumgartner would wear a pressure suit, and could free-fall at speeds faster than Mach 1 before being slowed by the thickening atmosphere....