Indy Transponder 24-JAN-2012 2300z

Today Bob Hoover Celebrates 90th Birthday - AviationWeek | Robert A. "Bob" Hoover, the "greatest stick-and-rudder pilot who ever lived," according to General James Doolittle, turns 90 on January 24, 2012. Last Friday at the annual Living Legends gala at the Beverly Hilton, Hoover reflected on his life experiences with the characteristic graciousness that also distinguishes him as the consummate Tennessee gentleman....

Thunder Over Utah adds rare appearance from MV-22 Osprey - St. George Daily Spectrum | The Thunder Over Utah Air Show announced today that it will host a rare demonstration from the United States Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey at this year's air show. The show will take to the skies March 17-18 at St. George Municipal Airport and ...

Airshow star 'whispers' into town - Sun Live | One of the stars of the Tauranga City Airshow on this weekend is the World War Two Corsair – and it has arrived. While it is now painted in US Air Force markings, the aircraft is the sole surviving Corsair that was flown by RNZAF squadrons in the Pacific during World War Two....

Air show announcement - PJ Star | The PNC Air Show 2012 will be free and take place on the Peoria riverfront June 8-9....
Visitors to Galveston Island Can Experience Historic Airplanes Seen in Red ... - Galveston.com & Company | You can also see the rugged B-17 Flying Fortress bomber that the Tuskegee Airmen often escorted on their missions over Europe. These three airplanes, along with 10 others from the museum's collection, actually fly without the help of computer animation ...

Indy Prepares For Super Bowl Fly-In from AVweb Top News | The business jet fly-in that is also known as the Super Bowl is shaping up to be an even larger display of shiny aluminum after the event in Dallas last year attracted 600 aircraft. According to the Wall Street Journal, jet charter and brokerage companies are touting private aviation as being more weather resistant and generally a lot...

Overdue recognition for the Tuskegee Airmen from AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points by Mike Collins | World War II’s Tuskegee Airmen are receiving well-deserved attention this month, following the release of George Lucas’ movie Red Tails. Here’s a short video well worth viewing, produced for the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture....

Col. Donn A. Byrnes, USAF Ret - Roadrunners Internationale | It is my sad duty to report the final flight of Col. Donn A. Byrnes, USAF Ret. The loss of Colonel Byrnes leaves a void in the aviation community that will be impossible to fill. He was a corner post to all our aviation reunions and events as well as in the aviation literary world where he published books about aviation. Colonel Byrnes was a mustang who...

‘Red Tails’: Will George Lucas’ $100 million gamble pay off? - EW.com | George Lucas must have the deepest pockets of any independent filmmaker on the planet. He self-financed Red Tails – the epic passion project about the Tuskegee...

Visitors to Galveston Island Can Experience Historic Airplanes Seen in Red ... - Galveston.com & Company | You can also see the rugged B-17 Flying Fortress bomber that the Tuskegee Airmen often escorted on their missions over Europe. These three airplanes, along with 10 others from the museum's collection, actually fly without the help of computer animation ...

Rare WW1 plane heading to Warbirds Over Wanaka - Voxy | Wanaka - Visitors to the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow will be witness to the flight of a 'Flying Razor' - an extremely rare aircraft which was considered the German's deadliest fighter in the first World War. The building of the Fokker ...

Museum at former Willow Grove air station looks to expand - The Mercury | ... of the Willow Grove Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base (NAS JRB) — presented last Wednesday — calls for the expansion of The Harold F. Pitcairn Wings of Freedom Air Museum, at its current location at 1155 Easton Road, to approximately 13 acres....

Building project makes Legion handicapped accessible - Daily American Online | The Vietnam veteran, now 58, was once a member of the Blue Angels, the United States Navy's flight demonstration squadron from 1972 to 1976. Yuhas' life changed suddenly 10 years ago when a stroke left him physically challenged....

Groundbreaking marks first step to building massive space plane - Los Angeles Times | The plane will be built at the Mojave Air & Space Port, where the venture, bankrolled by Allen, is starting work on a building that will house an 88000-square-foot factory floor where carrier aircraft wing assemblies and associated parts will be built....

Recap: ‘Flying Wild Alaska -- One Flying Family’ - Alaska Dispatch | Well, another season of “Flying Wild Alaska” -- the Discovery Channel’s reality TV show about Bush pilots working for Era Alaska in some of the most remote parts of the Last Frontier -- has come and gone.  This second season had more...

11 things you must do with your pilot’s license from Air Facts: the journal for personal air travel by John Zimmerman | You worked hard, paid a lot of money and earned your pilot’s license. Congratulations! Now what do you do? It’s a question that comes up more often than most pilots care to admit. Sure, you’ll want to take friends and family up for a ride, but once you’ve done that a few times, you may find yourself looking for new missions....

Kickstarter Project to Create an Affordable Done for Aerial Photography - Popular Photography Magazine | Created by aerial enthusiast Kellie Sigler and her robotics maker husband, the “eye3” is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that can be used without any special training. The six arm structure of the eye3 weighs four ...

Video: How Aeroplane Wings Really Work - Gizmodo Australia | You probably think that a wing lifts an aeroplane because the airflow moving over the top has a longer distance to travel and “needs to go faster to have the same transit time as the air travelling along the lower, flat surface”. Well, you are wrong....

Western Virginia Sport Show features country legend - Augusta Free Press | Country superstar Aaron Tippin will take a break from his Roots and Boots Tour with Sammy Kershaw and Joe Diffie to appear at the Western Virginia Sport Show in Fishersville next month. “I'm excited about it. Nobody likes being around the outdoors ...

Engaged in the Sky from Nuts About Southwest - by vkugelmann | all together now....Awwwwww!  Kudos to Southwest for helping make it happen.