Saturday, April 14, 2012

Indy Transponder 14-APR-2012 1500z

Fast Lerner - News 4 Tucson's Danielle takes flight with the Thunderbirds - KVOA Tucson News | TUCSON - News 4 Tucson's Danielle Lerner had the rare privilege of flying with the US Air Force's Thunderbirds today - the F-16 squadron is in Tucson to perform at Davis Monthan's "Thunder and Lightning Over Arizona" Open House tomorrow...

Sonic boom from air show jets rattles Tucson area - AZFamily | A sonic boom during practice from an upcoming air show at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base broke some windows in homes and businesses in Tucson. Authorities say the incident was reported about 2:45 pm Friday in the midtown area as aircraft ...

Davis-Monthan Air Force Base - TucsonSentinel.com | The Thunderbirds, the Air Force's elite fighter jet demonstration team, screamed across the desert skies Friday afternoon in a practice run for VIPs and guests ahead of their weekend performance. The team was established at Luke Air Force Base in...

Robins AFB gears up for April air show with Blue Angels, 20 other performers... - The Republic | The US Navy's famous Blue Angels and many other flying performers will soon be taking to the skies in middle Georgia. Robins Air Force Base is gearing up for its annual air show the weekend of April 28 and 29. In addition to the headlining Blue Angels, ...

Air Show Pep-Rally For Area Students - KIII TV3 | Ahead of this weekend's air show at Naval Air Station-Kingsville, there was a pre-show pep rally Friday at Javelina Stadium on the Texas A&M University -Kingsville campus. The 90 minute show featured a flyover with several civilian and military ...

Air show prep already under way - News-Press Now | Once the FAA relinquishes control, the air space around Rosecrans will be controlled by Wayne Boggs, the air boss. The air boss manages air show activities on the ground and in the air. The weekend of activities will kick off Friday night, May 4, ...

AirFest set for Memorial Day weekend - Janesville Gazette | Also expected are the US Army Golden Knights, a US Air Force F-16, a P-51 Heritage Flight, Susan Dacy and "Big Red," and a jet-powered truck. According to the Black Diamond Jet Team website, the group is a seven-ship aerobatic, civilian-owned jet team ...

Blue Angels Hauled Through Jonesville MI - Mike Venturini | ...Today, I was informed that two Blue Angels Navy Jets were coming through Jonesville on flatbed trucks. I ran downtown just in time to see the last of the two Navy Fighters. It was so cool... 

BAFB prepares for worst case scenario at air show - KTBS | Planning for an event as big as the Barksdale Air Force Base Airshow involves specialized training for the unthinkable - an airplane crash. "We've created a bunch of injuries and so we have a lot of casualties, a lot of people that are badly hurt... 

Red Arrows to showcase skills at flight festival - This is Grimsby | The Grimsby Telegraph can reveal that the famed RAF aerobatic team is to perform its full display over Cleethorpes seafront on June 10, and bring the town's two-day celebration of the skies to an awe-inspiring close. world famous: The Red Arrows will...

No Red Arrows - No Problem, say visitors - Falmouth Packet | For the first time in four years, the world famous Red Arrows will not be performing at Falmouth Week this summer. In the past, they have drawn crowds numbering in the tens of thousands - but what affect, if any, will their absence have on the turnout ...

the Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant (via) from x planes

Air Show scavenger hunt to start Monday - Havelock News | By Drew C. Wilson A first-ever web-based scavenger hunt will be put on next week to boost interest in the upcoming Cherry Point Air Show. “The purpose of it is like any marketing initiative for the air show, to gain awareness and hopefully attendance,” ... 

Vintage WWII aircraft fly into Scottsdale - KPHO Phoenix | By Diana Kendall - email History buffs can get an up-close look at vintage WWII aircraft during the "Wings of Freedom" tour, honoring WWII veterans at the Scottsdale airport through April 16. Sponsored by the The Collings Foundation, the 110-city ...

The Aggie Air Flying Circus from sUAS News by Brett Whalin | Another positive use story and in essence something being undertaken by commercial operations in Europe and Australia. USU students are flying under COA’s hopefully before some of them finish their courses rules will be in place to make this a commercially viable operation in the USA. Those students will be leaving with valuable skills. Well done to the team from...

70th Anniversary of the Doolittle Raid: Minnesota's Untold Story - FOX 9 News | On the Hornet's deck, there were 16 B-25 Mitchell bombers and 80 crew members anxiously preparing to make a daring mission in the outset of WWII. For each of the B-25s, this would be their final flight in a mission that began in Minneapolis...

100th anniversary of Royal Flying Corps celebrated at Yorkshire Air Museum - The Press, York | THE 100th anniversary of the formation of the Royal Flying Corps has been celebrated at the Yorkshire Air Museum. Marking the anniversary today, Ian Reed, director of the air museum, said: “The scope of our historic aircraft collection, which includes ...


Low pass from Planeshots

Humble hero could get lofty honor - Boston Globe | CONCORD - As America's first black naval aviator took to the sky over North Korea one frigid December afternoon in 1950, skeptics still questioned the wisdom of a racially integrated military. Critics feared that prejudice would bleed onto the ...

Lost Spitfires buried in Burma since WW2 - British Forces News | Twenty "lost" Spitfires that have remained boxed and buried in Burma since the Second World War could be recovered and flown again. David Cameron and Burmese president Thein Sein have agreed to work together to find and restore the historic aircraft as ...

Northrop Flying Wing N-1M (1941) from AIRBOYD.TV

Ready to fly the 4,000th from Randy's Journal by Randy Tinseth | When you talk about the world’s best-selling airplane, it’s easy to get lost in the mind boggling numbers. But today, we celebrated a milestone that really proves how wildly popular the 737 is with our customers—and shows just how busy our employees are in Renton...

Boeing Celebrates 4,000th Next-Generation 737 from PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense | SEATTLE, April 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing (NYSE: BA) executives and more than 500 employees, suppliers, union representatives and government officials joined China Southern Airlines to celebrate the 4,000th Next-Generation 737 at a special event today at Seattle's Boeing Field. The...

Space Shuttle and 747 Mating: In-Depth Look | Video from SPACE.com | The orbiter and its flying taxi, a retrofitted jumbo 747, have shared many a flight. Take a look at the history and development of the Mate-Demate Device (MDD) and catch a time-lapse of the joining of these two massive aerial machines....

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