Indy Transponder 06-JUN-2012 1630z

1812 bicentennial celebration kicks off in city with a loud boom - Baltimore Sun | The Navy's celebrated Blue Angels will perform shows over Fort McHenry and numerous activities for all ages are scheduled throughout the city and at Glenn L. Martin Airport in Baltimore County. "Baltimore is providing a depth to the events like we will...

Vintage flyover caps jubilee - TheChronicleHerald.ca | The British Royal Air Force Red Arrows fly in formation over Buckingham Palace in London to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee as the royal family stood on the balcony on Tuesday. (STEVE PARSONS / AP) LONDON — Pealing church bells,...

Diamond Jubilee RAF Shorts Tucano T1 from Flight Image of the Day by Miquel Ros | The Diamond Jubilee is also being celebrated in the...

Snowbirds take flight at Borden Air Show this weekend - The Barrie Advance | The Snowbirds demo team will take to the sky, along with the Canadian Forces Parachute team the Skyhawks, a CF-18 Hornet team and a demonstration by a CP-140 Aurora Maritime Patrol Aircraft. There will be several exciting performances from civilian...

P-51 vs Me-262 - AAFO | I had the unique opportunity to fly with the Collings Foundation's P-51 Mustang and Me-262 today....

Texas Chapter 50th Annual Fall Festival of Flight Fly-In from Antique Airfield News | The Texas chapter is proud to announce the 50th Annual Fall Festival of Flight, to be held October 11-12 at the Gainesville Airport, TX. For more information see the Chapter Website.

Alphajet planes from the Patrouille de France fly over the Philippe Chatrier court before the start of the French Open - Stuff

Sixth Cannes AirShow - Corporate Jet Investor | Fast becoming a must go to show, the Cannes AirShow will open its doors for the sixth year running this week on Thursday 7 June at Cannes International Airport. The event continues until Saturday 9 June 2012. The show highlights all kinds of general ...

La Ferté Alais Airshow 2012 - Zap16 | 40 km south of Paris is Musée Jean Baptiste Salis at Aérodrome La Ferté Alais. Every year at pentecost there is an airshow with more than 150 aircraft on display. This year it was organised for the 40th time. There are many historic aircraft, original or replicas like:...

Sudden cancellation for weekend air show in Addison - WFAA | The Cavanaugh Flight Museum postponed its annual Warbirds Over Addison Air Show, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. The museum would only say "unforeseen circumstances" prompted the sudden decision, saying it would work better to move the show to the...

Runway project celebrated - Laurinburg Exchange | Following the ribbon cutting, members of the Golden Knights Parachute Team conducted a demonstration for those gathered at the event, conducting a jump and landing at the airport. “What better way to mark the opening of this completed project than by...

Looking Forward To Reno 2012 (Sept 12-16)... And I Hope I See YOU There from AirPigz by Martt | Back in 2008 when I was brainstorming the idea for a high-quality aviation blog that would celebrate a wide range of aviation interests, there were two specific aviation events I knew I had to attend and share with you: Oshkosh and Reno. There are many great aviation events around the U.S. (and of course around the world) but these two really stand out...

Gordon Bennett Cup (1923) from AIRBOYD.TV

The Flyin' HawaiIowans | Our 2012 Air Race Classic adventure will take us from eastern Iowa to Lake Havasu AZ and then to Batavia OH via New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, S Dakota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. We invite you to join us on this flight of fancy...

Solar Impulse Crosses Mediterranean, Joins Continents from CAFE Foundation Blog by Dean Sigler | Waking up in the middle of the David Letterman show this morning, your editor stumbled into the computer room to check on the Solar Impulse trip to Morocco.  From the live Google Earth map shown on their web site, and the inset live video of Bertrand Piccard, all was well, and the giant solar-powered craft was sailing over surprisingly irregular terrain.  It just wasn’t the expected flat, featureless desert seen in countless films...

Clemmons D-Day veteran: 'I didn't get a scratch' - Winston-Salem Journal | Kermit Smith of Winston-Salem remembers preparing a B-17 bomber for its mission over Normandy on the morning of June 6, 1944. Smith, a 21-year-old aircraft engine mechanic, and a crew chief started the plane's four engines at their Army Air Force base...

Rob Taylor/The Daily Reflector - Greenville Daily Reflector | Jasper Lewis, Sr., stares proudly at photographs of himself and his B-17 bomber squadron at the office he maintains at his son's pediatric dental practice in Greenville. Lewis, 91, participated in the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944,...

At 12000 feet, a fiery moment of truth - U-T San Diego | His B-17 had been shot up by Luftwaffe fighters. Two engines were on fire and the crew began parachuting out of the crippled bomber. As Voit stood in the flaming plane, preparing to jump, he had second thoughts. "I've got to say, I was really scared,"...

WW II planes to fly over Bellingham on D-Day anniversary - TheNewsTribune.com | The Heritage Flight Museum, located at the airport at 4165 Mitchell Way, is putting on the show and contributing its P-51 Mustang, a US Army Air Corps plane. The other two planes in the flyover will be British Supermarine Spitfires, on loan from the...

Explorers Hope They Are Close to Solving Amelia Earhart Mystery - Voice of America | Seventy-five years after the disappearance of famed woman aviator Amelia Earhart, explorers are getting closer to solving the mystery of what happened to her. She disappeared over the Pacific while attempting to circumnavigate the globe in her airplane ...

Palm Springs Air Museum to adopt cutting-edge A/C - The Desert Sun | The vintage World War II airplanes at the Palm Springs Air Museum will soon have a cutting-edge solar thermal air conditioning system to keep them cool, run almost entirely by hot water. The technology, called micro-concentrated solar power,...

A Sexy Beast Returns to the Air from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | The Lairds built some awesome flying machines. The latest one to go airborne after restoration is no different. Damn this thing is sexy. Woo hoo what a hot little number!...

Snapshot of plane spawns show - The Sunshine Coast Daily | ABC Coast FM presenter Robert Blackmore was intrigued when he came across a Queensland Air Museum photograph of a plane which landed on Maroochydore beach on February 1, 1922. Mr Blackmore said that according to one story about the landing,...

June 5, 2012 Rocket Man part 1 from Ely Air Lines by Linda Street-Ely | Linda: We spent some time recently at the world headquarters of Team Rocket, the company that developed the F-1 Rocket, a very fast two-seat experimental airplane. The F in F-1 stands for Frederick, as in Mark and Cheryl Frederick, who live on their air strip they’ve named Macho Grande....

Wolfenbarger makes history as AF's first female four-star - Dayton Daily News | Wolfenbarger's historic accomplishment marks another major aviation-related milestone in the Miami Valley since the Wright brothers invented the airplane, said Tony Sculimbrene, executive director of the National Aviation Heritage Alliance...

Helicopter Does Double Duty As Diving Platform from Aero-News Network | But When They Find The Pilot, He Or She Will Likely Be In Hot Water Video recorded on cell phones on Memorial Day could land the pilot of a helicopter in Tennessee in hot water. That's because he or she was recorded allowing people on a pontoon boat on Dale Hollow Lake to climb onto the landing skids of the aircraft, and then fall from an altitude as high as 50 feet back into the water....

The teenager who landed at Red Square from TAKEOFF TUBE | Do you remember the teenager who landed with a Cessna 150 at Red Square in Moscow? His name is Mathias Rust and this is his story.

Youngsters Learn About Aviation At Combat Air Museum Camp - WIBW | Area youngsters are learning the sky is the limit a the Combat Air Museum camp this week. Kids between the ages of eight and 12 are learning all about flight theory, aircraft structure and everything between the engines and the cockpit...

Young Eagles a soaring success - Minden Times | Seven airplanes, three days, 71 kids. The 19th annual Young Eagles event at the Stanhope Airport on May 31 and June 2 was a success, despite forecasts of ominous weather...

"Where did model rocketry really start?" from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick | Issue 314 of Apogee's Newsletter features an article with the same title as this post.  Written by sport and...

Shuttle Enterprise Damaged On Trek To Manhattan - Aero-News Network | Right Wing Dinged On Bridge Abutment | It must have been a sinking feeling on the part of the tow boat captain when the space shuttle Enterprise crunched ever so slightly into a navigation marker for a New York Railroad bridge. The shuttle was being towed to a temporary stop in New Jersey ... the first leg of its final voyage to the Intrepid Museum in Manhattan....