Indy Transponder 23-FEB-2012 1500z

Demonstration Team CF-18 Hornet Canadian Air Force will attend the 60th anniversary of the Smoke Squadron - Cavok (Translated) | The Team Official CF-18 Demonstration of the Canadian Armed Forces returns for the season of air shows in 2012 with a mission: to provide spectacular performances throughout the year. And in 2012, the team will participate in 15 air shows in Canada, including two in the north of the country (Yellowknife and Inuvik), four shows in the United States, as well as the first deployment in South America, when the team will be present at the Anniversary 60 of the Smoke Squadron, the 12th and May 13th, the Air Force Academy in Pirassununga, São Paulo. The Demonstration Team CF-18 embodies the excellence required to...

Impromptu ceremony at Banner Boswell honors Blue Angel - Your West Valley | ...Tom Fenner, military liaison with Hospice of the Valley, performed a small ceremony to commemorating Crain’s service to the country as a member of the Blue Angels Squadron. He presented Crain with a lapel pin and flags representing the Navy and United States....

Salinas aerobatic star summits Africa's Kilimanjaro - As if he doesn’t already have enough thrilling things to do, world famous aerobatic pilot and Salinas resident Sean D. Tucker has decided to add mountaineering to his resume as an adventurer. And, in his typical style, the 59-year-old decided to tackle none other than Tanzania’s famous and iconic Mt. Kilimanjaro...

The City of Homestead Welcomes Golden Knights to their 2012 Winter Training - USAGK | On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at the City Hall Council Chambers, the U S Army Parachute Team, Sergeant Major Stephen Young and SSG Shelby Bixler, the Gold Demonstration Team Recruiting liason accepted a wonderful award from the city of Homestead. Mayor Bateman thanked...

Golden Knights Promote Three of Their Own - USAGK | This week, the US Army Parachute Team promoted three of their own to the rank of Sergeant First Class.  SFC Drew Starr, SFC Scott Janise and SFC Laura Dickmeyer, along with previously promoted SFC Dannielle Woosley, SFC Josh Coleman and SFC Justin Blewitt, are all members of the Golden Knights Competition Team and have contributed to putting the “Gold” in Golden Knight multiple times over the past three years....

Pilots zoom in on theme park ride - The Press Association | Former Red Arrows and RAF fighter pilots have been drafted in to test a new ride at a theme park. Thorpe Park in Surrey took the unusual step after crash dummies were left with limbs missing during a previous test of The Swarm....

Herald and Gazette series teams up with Shoreham Airshow - THE Herald and Gazette series is again teaming up with Shoreham Airshow to help raise money for RAFA. With plans for this year’s airshow, set to take place on September 1 and 2, already well underway, editor Colin Channon, reporter Sheena Campbell and managing director Karl Dimmock met organisers last week. Once again, we are...

FIFI B-29 and The Brat III P-51 Mustang Coming to Mobile -Video Link from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | FIFI, the world's only flying B-29 and The Bratt III, a WW II P-51 Mustang will land at the Mobile Downtown airport on Thursday, February 24 for tours and rides through Sunday. The B-29 Superfortress regularly tours the US each year in remembrance and honor of our American military...

FAA Production Studios to Broadcast During 2nd Largest U.S. Airshow from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | SUN 'n FUN 2012, the 2nd Largest Airshow in the United States will take place March 27 - April 1, 2012 in Lakeland Florida. During this event, the volunteer FAA Production Crew (National Aviation Safety Foundation) will be operating from the CFAA, Central Florida Aerospace Academy, Room 103 and a Satellite Uplink Truck next to the Sea Plane Pilot's Association facility...

Civil Air Patrol squadron to hold open house - The Leader | Big Flats —The Chemung-Schuyler Cadet Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol will host an open house from 7-9 p.m. on Tuesday Feb. 28 to raise awareness of the group and its purpose. The Civil Air Patrol is the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, and is open to anyone 12 years old and older. The group...

Pneumatically Pumped Up - Cafe Foundation | Robert J. Englar is Principal Research Engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Georgia Tech Research Institute in the Aerospace & Acoustics Technology Branch. ...His research combines attempts to achieve low noise, high lift and short takeoff and landing (STOL) capabilities while applying pneumatic power to the equation. Not to be confused with inflatable rafts, pneumatic, in this case, refers to the careful routing of high-pressure airstreams over very different airfoil and high-lift device surfaces, and has led to...

Aero club future up in the air - ABC | The board of Tamworth Aero Club has called a public meeting next month to discuss its fate, after Tamworth Regional Council decided not to renew the club's lease. President Adele Mazoudier says...

Then & Now Explains Present With Past from Jetwhine by Scott Spangler | If there’s a poster child for the public’s misunderstanding of the physics of flight, it has to be the stall. Every time some poor reporter in print or on TV, who hasn’t dug deep enough, relates it to the airplane’s powerplant, haven’t we all shaken our heads and thought less than nice things. So, my smug aeronautical compatriots, let me ask you this. Who first used stall in an aerodynamic sense, when was it first used,  and whose flying inspired it? If you know the answer, you’re either a...

Wingsuit Pilot Releases Video Of Near-Fatal Jump - AVweb | Professional base jumper Jeb Corliss is due out of the hospital Friday and Tuesday released comprehensive video of the accident that broke both his legs and came within feet of taking his life when he clipped a rock formation at roughly 180 mph. The accident happened last month while Corliss was filming a jump for a TV documentary at Table Mountain in South Africa. Corliss cleared the rock formation with his upper body, but his legs hit. The contact significantly changed Corliss' trajectory causing him to nearly tumble but he quickly recovered and deployed his parachute. Multiple cameras placed on the ground, on a trailing wingsuiter and on Corliss himself captured the flight and the impact. Click through for video....

Video: The East Coast at Night - airspacemag.com | The sprawl of major metropolitan areas, the lights on oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, and the northern aurora are all visible in this sequence of images shot by the astronauts on the International Space Station on January 29. The time-lapse is speeded up slightly more than 11x: the pass actually took 15 minutes, beginning over Central America and heading northeast.