Monday, February 6, 2012

Indy Transponder 06-FEB-2012 2300z

Wartime melodies: Ladies for Liberty re-create sounds from the '40s - Courier-Journal | Wanda Martin was a private pilot, a marketing executive, co-owner of Allen-Martin Productions recording studio and a former rock ’n’ roll singer. So perhaps it wasn’t too surprising that during an air show in Jeffersonville, Ind., in 2006, she volunteered to handle the show’s voice-overs, commercials and playlist of recorded 1940s World War II-era music — with an accent on “America’s Wartime Sweethearts,” the Andrews Sisters....

Warrant Officer Mike Goff received 2 DFCs in Vietnam while flying ‘choppers - War Tales | Warrant Officer Mike Goff never saw “The Valley of Death.” He wasn’t with the 400 soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Division surrounded and attacked by 2,000 North Vietnam soldiers at the La Drang Valley in mid-November 1965. But Goff saw enough action as a helicopter pilot with B -Troop, 2nd Battalion, 17th Air Cavalry Regiment, 1st Division in ‘Nam in 1970-71. He was attached to the 101 Airborne Division....

Bell 47 - HH | This is a photo assembled in photoshop. It's made from an overlay of a scan of a perfectly fine black and white print and a pattern of an old cardboard piece with creases....

Lieutenant Colonel James A. Walker - Guided by History | Wells Fargo is very proud that former team members were part of the (again-) famous Tuskegee Airmen. We have blogged about this several times. With the release of Red Tails a couple weeks ago, I told of our search within the Company for other team members with ties to these fliers, and shared a couple. We have long known of Lieutenant Colonel James A. Walker who, like George Roberts, joined Wells Fargo when his military career ended....

Anatomy of the B-17: Construction Images from Seattle, 1941/2 - JF Ptak Science Books | I've long been an admirer of the Boeing B-17 aircraft and have posted about it on this blog a number of times. Today I just wanted to share some images of the aircraft's production and assembly at the Boeing Seattle works in 1942. All photographs are from the Farm Security Administration series (Office of War Information) and can be found (with a hundred others) at the Library of Congress site, here....

Bomber Boys Documentary - Apron 6 | Colin and Ewan McGregor follow up their BBC One “BATTLE OF BRITAIN” with a film exploring BOMBER COMMAND, a rarely told story of WW2. The film will focus primarily on the men who fought and died in the skies above occupied Europe – with numerous examples of individual heroism and extraordinary collective spirit, and...

The WASP trainee alphabet - Golf Hotel Whiskey | Hat tip to the Winged Victory Women in Aviation Webzine for posting this Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) trainee alphabet by Mary Hart. No doubt its still useful for student pilots even today!...

DC3 in formation leaving lopresti's - Vans Air Force | saturday was packed at sebastian airport. the wx was perfect, ladys dressed in 50's garb, men in american airlines suits, lots of food, and some rv's to boot. this dc3...

Restoration: Beech Staggerwing | A true story with an O.Henry ending.

Fun with model airplanes! - Bayou Renaissance Man | This is cute! YouTube user 'muethenmetz' has put together a series of video clips he made by attaching a GoPro HD 960 video camera to a hobbyist's remote controlled scale-model aircraft and flying it around and through all sorts of obstacles.

Aircraft Lightning Strike - All Things Aviation | There is nothing quite like an aircraft lightning strike, and sometimes we catch one on video that is truly interesting. Today I am going to share one such aircraft lightning strike with you....

SNC Completes First Dream Chaser Test Flight Vehicle Structure - Aero-News Network | Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems has achieved a major Dream Chaser milestone under NASA’s Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) Program. Successful completion of this milestone required the assembly and delivery of the primary structure of the first Dream Chaser flight test vehicle. SNC has now completed all of its 11 scheduled CCDev milestones....

Russia's Space Woes Stress NASA's Need for Private Spaceships - Space.com | The recent delay of the next manned launch to the International Space Station due to a damaged Russian space capsule highlights NASA's critical need for commercially built vehicles, space policy experts say. The Russian Soyuz spacecraft was originally scheduled to launch to the orbiting outpost on March 29, but the...

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