Indy Transponder 21-JAN-2012 1430z

US Sport Aviation Expo is a Hit! - Flight Monkeys | Mike Willingham, the airport manager at Sebring’s Regional Airport, reported with some pride that Thursday’s opening of the US Sport Aviation Expo was the busiest opening day they had ever had. By lunchtime on Friday it was clear that attendance was on the uptick again, with enthusiastic crowds of sport aviation enthusiasts wandering the ramps and kicking the tires of aircraft from one end of the field to the other....

Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame 2012 inductees include Preston S. "Pete" Parish ... - Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com | He's served as the president of Warbirds of America, as a trustee of the Experimental Aircraft Association Foundation, and as treasurer and chairman of the National Business Aviation Association. Bob Ellis, president and CEO of the Air Zoo, ...

PNC Air Show Flies Back into Peoria By: Kim Behrens | It's official, the PNC Air Show is landing back in Peoria.  Word of its return is spreading fast.  "It's a domino effect," said Bob Marx. "When one event comes, then another event might see the potential of coming or expanding."...

Pilot promises to bring 'illusion of danger' to relocated air show - Journal Star | Skip Stewart plans to bring "the illusion of danger" to the skies above Downtown Peoria in June.  Stewart, who pilots a beefed-up biplane on weekends at air shows around the world when he's not piloting a 727 for FedEx, said he's agreed to fly, though not yet signed a contract, for the Prairie Air Show on June 8 and 9 along the Illinois River between the Peoria and East Peoria downtowns....

Photo from:  Skip Stewart Airshows - Official Website

CAF and Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. Join Forces to Share American Aviation History from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | -Midland, Texas - On Fri., Jan. 20, 2012, the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) and Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. (TAI) announced a new alliance that brings together two of the nation's premier aviation associations in an effort to support aviation participation and enhance World War II education in youth and adults across the country. "Since the m...

The Tuskegee Airmen: 5 Fascinating Facts - History | The aim was to send pilots—many of them veterans of the original Tuskegee fighter group—back to the States for training on B-25 bombers. While in Indiana, some of the African-American officers were arrested and charged with mutiny after entering an ...

Tuskegee Airman buried at Arlington Cemetery from Air Force Times - News by The Associated Press | ARLINGTON, Va. — On the same day that retired Air Force Lt. Col. Luke Weathers Jr. took his resting place among other war and military heroes, his real-life story as a World War II aviator played out on movie screens across the country.

The Tuskegee Airmen And Their 'Red Tails' In Theaters Today (With Video) by Martt | With the release of the movie Red Tails finally here, you may have noticed that I haven't said anything about the film since many of us first heard about it back at Oshkosh in July. I've got a range of thoughts on this project, but the bottom line is I hope we'll all go see it as a way of paying tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen, and to George Lucas for making the film. I know I'm planning to see it this weekend.  I think the real story of the Tuskegee Airmen is amazing...

The Furious Dogfights of George Lucas' Red Tails - Popular Mechanics | Then Lucas called in Ed Shipley, an acrobatic pilot of P-51s, to help. "He's an absolute expert," Hammack says. "And so he was always made available to talk through dynamics of the scenes." The actors who portrayed Tuskegee pilots also studied with ...

Seymour air museum salutes 'courageous' Red Tail pilots - Times-Mail | SEYMOUR — The tie that Bedford Second Baptist Church Pastor Donald Griffin Sr. has to the new movie “Red Tails” joins another regional connection to the movie. A squadron of the famous African-American Red Tail pilots celebrated in the movie once was ...

The Museum of Aviation in Georgia from Airplanes Channel | The Museum of Aviation, located at the Robins Air Force Base outside Warner Robins in Georgia, is the second-largest museum run by the United States Air Force. It consists of five buildings on a 51-acre piece of ground and boasts close to one hundred aircraft and an impressive range of aviation-related memorabilia. In addition to the exhibits, the museum offers guided tours, team-building exercises, educational events and summer camps.  Guided tours offer options...

Florida Antique Biplane Association January 2012 Newsletter - Antique Airfield

Vietnam fighter ace holds reunion with museum F-4 - The Warner Robins Patriot | Debellevue can only imagine what life is like for aircrews flying today's modern fighter, the F-22. "I know a little bit about it, but not too much," he admitted. "It's an awesome jet. It's an airplane that in the heat of battle will survive. ...

Tiger moth restoration turns the clock back 71 years - The Maitland Mercury | Now, 71 years later, it has been authentically restored to its original condition and is proudly sitting at Royal Newcastle Aero Club at Aberglasslyn in a hard to miss mustard colour. Seeing the plane resting in the hangar rouses a sense of nostalgia, ...

Mesa woman honors father at traveling WWI exhibit  - East Valley Tribune | She visited the exhibit, "Honoring Our History," that was at the Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing Aviation Museum on Wednesday as a way of honoring her father and his boss. As a member of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, her father, ...