Indy Transponder 25-MAR-2012 2345z

Black Diamond Jet Team – Florida International Airshow - Birds n Bugs | This civilian precision flight act was at last years Florida International Airshow as the Heavy Metal Jet Team and had five L39s in the group. This year, an added attraction was a pair of Mig-17 Frescos painted in the teams Arctic Camo livery.  These...

Breaking News: Balloon launches scrubbed at New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport ... - NSBNEWS.net | Paul Roy, one of the organizers of the fourth annual New Smyrna Beach Balloon and SkyFest, made the announcement just after 8 am "The winds are reported strong at 500 feet," he said over a loud speaker. "No take off." Sally Mackay, one of the founders ...

Video: US Army's Golden Knights a heavenly treat for thousands at New Smyrna Beach Balloon & SkyFest - nsbnews.net | Under bright sunny skies Saturday, people craned their heads upwards for a once-in-a-lifetime view of an elite group of parachuters with their precision landings at the fourth annual New Smyrna Beach Balloon and SkyFest. The highlight of the day, no doubt was the death-defying aerial maneuvers of the U.S. Army's Golden Knights....

Sky's the limit for fearless aerobatic ace - The Canberra Times | 25 March 2012, Canberra Times photo by RICHARD BRIGGS, Aerobatic pilot Matt Hall put on two breath-taking aerobatic displays at the Canberra Airport open day . Story-Chris Knaus Photo: Richard Briggs RCB Fear is a dangerous emotion for extreme ...

Brownsville welcomes stunt fliers, vintage aircraft - Brownsville Herald | He said the show, put on by the Commemorative Air Force Rio Grande Valley Wing, is run completely by volunteers. The only paid participants are the performers. Ticket proceeds go toward the putting on the show and maintaining the Commemorative Air ...

Former Tuscaloosa resident recalls early days with Blue Angels - Tuscaloosa News | Swann was in the Blue Angels in 1952, maintaining all of the Navy communication aid equipment. By Wayne Grayson Before they were world-renowned daredevils admired for their trademark diamond formation and low-flying acrobatics, the Blue Angels were an ...

The Blue Angels show us the meaning of courage - valheisey.com | If you ever needed an example of what it means to step out of your comfort zone and learn the meaning of courage, then you need look no further than the Blue Angels....

Bits & Pieces air show - Adrian Daily Telegram | The Bits & Pieces RC Airplane Club's annual air show began Saturday at the Adrian Mall. The event continues from noon to 6 pm today. The club began in 1981. Members fly their planes every Saturday and Sunday at Heritage Park in Adrian.

The Breitling Jet Team from Apron 6  

Ohio’s Grimes Field target for largest gathering of B-25s since WWII from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Flying in from around the U.S., about two dozen B-25 Mitchell bombers will converge on Urbana, Ohio’s municipal airport, Grimes Field, beginning Saturday, April 14. The largest gathering of B-25s since World War II, the Grimes Gathering of B-25s will lead into the 70th Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Reunion at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force (NMUSAF), near Dayton... 

Amelia Earhart mystery could be solved with new clue - NOLA.com | By AP Washington -- A new clue in one of the 20th century's most enduring mysteries could soon uncover the fate of American aviator Amelia Earhart, who went missing without a trace over the South Pacific 75 years ago, investigators say...

Bids fly for Amelia Earhart’s gloves from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Signed flying gloves reportedly worn by Amelia Earhart during a historic flight have been found on eBay, according to a post at WhatSellsBest.com. According to the sellers listing, the historic signed leather gloves were worn by Earhart during her 1935 "Goodwill Solo Flight" to Mexico. The seller states the...

Women’s History Month: The Unchainable Pancho Barnes - Women's Voices of Change | “Why isn’t ‘Pancho Barnes’ a household name?” demanded a viewer at Athena Film Festival’s screening of a new documentary on the life of Florence Lowe. Gun-runner, stunt pilot, proprietress of a notorious bar, the woman who was to become Pancho Barnes was a lifelong rebel...

RedBull Lightning from Apron 6

Huey at Oakland Museum of California '68 exhibit - San Francisco Chronicle | According to Huey historian Wayne Terry of San Francisco, there were about 10000 of these birds mass-produced for the war, the most of any aircraft since the B-25 bomber in World War II. No other piece of heavy equipment is as deeply associated with ...

The U-Deuce - airspacemag.com | The secret to a spyplane's eternal youth is a new suite of gadgets installed on a classic chassis. | “THE AIRPLANE IS NOTHING LIKE WHAT POWERS FLEW,” says Bryan Swords, currently the chief engineer for the U-2S at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company’s Palmdale, California office. Swords is referring, of course, to Francis Gary Powers, who, four years after overflights began over the U.S.S.R., Poland, and East Germany, had the unfortunate distinction of being shot down in a U-2 near Sverdlovsk in the Soviet Union on...

Designers imagine skylines of wood high-rises, made possible by new technology - National Post | In an Oregon air museum sits one of the last gasps of the wood age. Built by business magnate Howard Hughes, the 66-metre-long “Spruce Goose” airplane was designed as a revolutionary way to carry supplies overtop the submarine-infested waters of the ...

Last of its Kind - airspacemag.com | A look inside the Smithsonian's Stratoliner. | The Boeing 307 Stratoliner at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in northern Virginia is the final survivor of 10 Stratoliners built in the late 1930s as the world’s first pressurized airliners. Named the Clipper Flying Cloud, the Museum’s airplane has played a number of roles over the years—as an airliner for Pan American in South America in the early 1940s, personnel carrier for the Army during World War II, personal transport for Haitian dictator Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier in the...

Atomic Testing Museum explores Area 51 - LSRJ | ...For all those years, Barnes said, he, and the workers who came before and after, were attempting to toil in obscurity. They'd fly out to Area 51 on Mondays and return on Fridays. Most of the workers, he said, couldn't even live in the area, so as not to draw attention to the project....

"Longest UCAP Ever" UCAP #278-alpha from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Saturday Evening through Sunday Morning, March 24 & 25. UCAP Daily. Jack and Dave have joined Jeb in Florida and are preparing to head to Lakeland for the 2012 Sun 'n Fun Fly-in.