Indy Transponder 10-MAR-2012 0300z

Blue Angels give sneak peek to air show - KSWT-TV | El Centro, CA- The Blue Angels are wrapping up their winter training at the Naval Air Facility in El Centro and preparing for their big show this weekend. The United States Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron is made up of some of the worlds most ...

Blue Angels gearing up for show season - Imperial Valley Press | NAVAL AIR FACILITY EL CENTRO — The fence is up. The performers are arriving. The planes are painted. Steps are being taken to finalize preparation for Saturday’s air show hosted by the local U.S. Navy base, and the Navy’s flight demonstration team, the Blue Angels, are prepping for their first air show of the season. ...

TICO Warbird Airshow Takes Over Skies Above Titusville This Weekend - Examiner.com | The Valiant Air Command's 35th annual TICO Warbird Airshow kicks off this weekend at Brevard County's Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville, promising to draw thousands of spectators to the small city whose economy has suffered dramatically since ...

Running Away to Join the Circus – TICO 2012, Day 1 - Airspeed | I’m in Titusville, Florida for the next couple of days for the Valiant Air Command TICO Warbird Airshow. This is my second year attending and I thought I’d use the opportunity to learn a few things by digging even deeper into the airshow culture. I’m here as crew for Mark Sorenson and Tiger Airshows. Mark flies a...

F-22 confirmed for Robins air show - The Warner Robins Patriot | ... and a combination of sensor capability, situational awareness and weapons." The free, two-day air show will feature the Navy's Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron. Gates will open at 10 am each day with aerial performances beginning about noon.

F-22 Raptor To Perform At Bethpage Air Show At Jones Beach Memorial Day ... - CUinsight.com | Civilian performers confirmed to date include: American Airpower Museum Warbirds, GEICO Skytypers, Sean D. Tucker – Team Oracle, Lt. Col. John Klatt – National Guard Reserve, Matt Chapman, David Windmiller, and Ed Hamill, who will fly the Bethpage ...

Air Force Week in Photos - af.mil | This week's photos feature Airmen around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.

Friday's a Fantastic Day for a WAI Conference from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | The Daily

Explore Aviation Exploring! from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | Have you ever thought of starting an Aviation Exploring Post at your airport or aviation business? To learn more about this program open to young men and women, visit the Aviation Exploring display, Booth 256 in the Exhibit Hall. There you will meet actual Explorers who can fill you in on the fun and opportunities an Aviation Explorer post can provide....

Keeping the Peace from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | You may not naturally think of aviation when you think of the United Nations Peacekeeping missions around the world, but if you stop by the UN booth and talk to Susan Hunington, she’ll be happy to enlighten you. “When people think peacekeeping mission they imagine military missions,” says Hunington, “but in fact there is a huge civilian side to the United Nations peacekeeping missions....

Helicopters a big hit at Women in Aviation Conference - Helicopter Association International | Thursday - opening day for Women in Aviation conference - included the membership meeting and the awarding of the first round of scholarships, totaling more than $35000, to 19 young women. HAI VP of business development and expositions Karen Gebhart ...

Podcast: Calling All Women with the Flying Bug from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast | The Week of Women in Aviation Worldwide is March 5-12, and there are introductory flights being held all over the world. The defending champion for the World's Most Women-Pilot-Friendly Airport is Frederick Municipal in Maryland. AVweb's Russ Niles spoke with Frederick organizer Victoria Neuville about her event and the movement in general.

Suzanne Skeeters from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Friday's Fabulous Flyer | This is Women of Aviation week where we introduce women to flying. And today I am in Dallas at the Women in Aviation conference. If you want to know why we do this—Suzanne is the perfect example. Thanks to that coupon, the doors were opened to the sky. But it was a special woman, Wanda Strassburg—a 99—who gave Suzanne her wings to fly....

'Miracle on Hudson' crewman to speak - Northwest Herald | Skiles volunteered to come to the area after he saw some of the things the community was doing, namely a first-of-its-kind after-school aviation club for high schoolers, Wallis said. The event starts at 10 am in Galt Airport's maintenance hangar.

A WWII giant remembered - Daytona Beach News-Journal | The largest planes we had ever seen were B-17 "Flying Fortresses" and B-24 Liberators; we could not imagine any larger, but one day when we were proceeding on an assigned mission from Guam, a huge bomber overtook us, flying past our starboard side...

Air Force Officer Honored For Aid At Nev. Crash - KRDO | An Air Force Academy instructor was honored for rushing to help people after an air race crash in Nevada. Lt. Col. Ryan Osteroos was presented the Military Hero Award by the American Red Cross during a ceremony in Colorado Springs on March 8.

Joe Gomer – Part II (plus "FiFi") from CAF Red Tail Squadron's Blog | Last week’s blog outlined Tuskegee Airman Joe Gomer’s early years and his deployment to Italy as a Tuskegee-trained pilot. Joe had spoken at an event sponsored by the Galaxie Library in Apple Valley, MN on February 25. Here are some more anecdotes that Joe shared that day regarding actually flying in combat and his homecoming....

Aviation Community Mourns the Passing of A. Paul Vance, Midwestern Aviation Giant from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation | The aviation community mourns the loss of A. Paul Vance, namesake of the Fredericktown, MO airport recently dedicated in his honor. Mr. Vance passed away last Sunday at the age of 9...

Cruise Is In For Top Gun 2 - But F-35 Is The Scientology Star! (CoolPix + Video) from AirPigz | ...Regardless of how you feel about the whole F-35 project (cost, schedule, capability), when you watch the video below, it's pretty hard not to be exceedingly impressed with what this little beast can do. I love watching the control surfaces and the vectored thrust nozzle on those rolling, short carrier takeoffs! (the 1:50 mark is a good example) - I hope the onboard computers have chips that are well cooled as I'm guessing there's some serious processing going on there....

“Mercedes-Benz style” EC145 twin-engine helicopter - Blades Magazine | Leave it to Eurocopter to take the EC145 helicopter to a whole 'nother level. Our hats go off to Mercedes-Benz's Advanced Design Studio team in Como, Italy who...

Don’t Land With Your Gear Up from Fear of Landing by Sylvia | If you’ve flown a retractable, you’ve had it drummed into you: put the undercarriage down, check you put the undercarriage down and then check it once on short final. I came close, once. I was doing a circuit to land at North Weald. I wanted to get around quickly and ...

Fighting with autonomous aircraft, but how? — Boeing answers with the X-45A by travelforaircraft | Boeing tested the idea of the Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) to patrol and fight autonomously with the X-45. First, the X-45A was built as a scaled down vehicle to test the concept:...

Space Pioneers chooses Pelham 4th grade class name for lunar lander - The Huntsville Times - al.com | "Spirit of Alabama" will be the name of the RCSP lunar lander competing in the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE, thanks to some help from Karen McDonald's fourth-grade class at Valley Intermediate School in Pelham, in north Shelby County just south of ...

X-37B Marks One Year In Orbit from Aero-News Network: Military | Still No Updated Landing Date From The USAF An X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle passed one year in orbit March 5th, with no indication from the Air Force when it will return the unmanned spacecraft to earth.

The Airport of the Future from Flightglobal | The airports of the future might bear little resemblance with those of today...or so seem to think the winners of the recent '2011 Fentress Global Challenge'. This international contest, launched by airport design firm Fentress Architects and open to architecture and engineering students, aimed to present an unconventional and unconstrained vision of the airport in decades to come....