Indy Transponder 10-JUN-2012 1500z

PHOTO GALLERY: 2012 MN Air Spectacular - Mankato Free Press | The Blue Angels zoom by during Saturday's performance at the Minnesota Air Spectacular Saturday at the Mankato Regional Airport. Pat Christman Air show spectators look up to watch airplanes perform during the Minnesota Air Spectacular Saturday at the ...

8-year-old with ties to Ocean Pines kicks off OC Air Show - Gannett | ...Baylee Morrison, wearing patriotic colors, performed while a team from the U.S. Army and Navy jumped from parachutes and over an American flag in the sky before a roaring crowd. Baylee also was scheduled to perform patriotic tunes Saturday night at the Ocean Down Casino...

Shrinersfest Air Show flies high and low over Ohio River - 14 News WFIE Evansville | Crowds gathered to watch the Shrinersfest air show. Planes did all sorts of tricks and turns, flying high and low over the Ohio River. The show featured solo pilots, and the Red Steel Jet Team. "It's very daring and the pilots take their lives in their ...

Underwater warbirds may grace EAA event | Plans in motion to go lake diving ... - Avionics Intelligence | Efforts are under way to retrieve the dive bomber, or possibly a World War II Grumman FM-2 Wildcat, later this month or early July and take it to EAA AirVenture in late July. "There's something fascinating about seeing an aircraft that has just been ...

Ukiah Airport Day: A chance to see history up close - Ukiah Daily Journal | Each year, Airport Day gives local residents a chance to encounter at least 30 different varieties of aircraft - some of them extremely rare Warbirds owned by private aviators. Other than being disassembled enough to transport it to Bishop's shop at ...

Ocean City, Maryland Air Show photos, June 9, 2012 - Crisfield News | Since it's not too late to catch the next show on Sunday, June 10, I won't give away the show until next week when I have time to post more photos. The beach is beautiful and the ocean breeze and the water will cool you off, so grab a chair, a beach towel, pack a lunch, and head out to Ocean City Maryland and watch the best of the best perform. I promise they will thrill you...

Look At These Electrifying Navy SEALs Take Parachuting To A Whole New Level - Business Insider |That's what the Leap Frogs do. And as the US Navy parachute team, they are incredible. Based in San Diego, the team is made up of fifteen elite men — either Navy SEALs or certain Special Warfare commandos (SWCC). The Navy says each member joins the ...

Base fly-in event gives Air Force mission wings - Times Record News | Alyssa Johnston/Times Record News Sheppard Air Force Base's 80th Flying Training Wing pilots welcomed civilian aviators on base Saturday for a fly-in event. Civilian pilots were cleared before flying onto base and were able to talk with airmen and ...

Wrens Fly-In goes on despite fatal gyroplane crash - WRDW-TV | Saturday was the annual Wrens OB Brown Memorial Fly- In. It's an event that attracts different small aircrafts including gyro-planes. On Friday, a gyroplane in town for the event cashed -- killing the pilot, but despite the accident the gyroplanes ...

Prairie Dog Fly-In Held in Big Spring - NewsWest9.com | The fly-in is put together by the Big Spring Airport Board and features between 25 and 30 planes that fly in from all over the area including Lubbock, Snyder, San Angelo and of course from the Commemorative Air Force in Midland.

Call of the skies Ex-teacher competes in 4-day trek across U.S. - Evansville Courier & Press | Next week, Glisson, who is a co-pilot, is headed to Lake Havasu, Ariz., to compete in the 36th annual Air Race Classic. She and her pilot, Amy Bogardus of Danville, Ky., will square off against more than 40 other teams in a four-day trek across the ...

Embry-Riddle team to compete in women's air race - Daytona Beach News-Journal | Marisha Falk and Danielle Erlichman are used to spending many hours flying as instructors at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. They hope that will be an advantage when they fly in a four-day national race across the country...

Big Muddy Air Race takes to the skies - The Southern | More than 20 pilots took part in the second annual Big Muddy Air Race over Southern Illinois and part of Missouri on Saturday. People came to the region from across the nation and north of the border to participate in the 170-mile race...

The Blue Angels - All Things Aviation | ...Admiral Nimitz choose Lt. Commander Roy “Butch” Voris (WWII Ace with 8 victories) to lead and form the squadron at Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, FL. The squadron was given Grumman F6F “Hellcat” aircraft to fly and performed their first air show in June of 1946 at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, much to the delight of the personnel there...

War Pilot Recieves Proper Burial After 43 Years - 5 News | Meroney's remains were found last year after excavation teams located his military identification. Now, he's here in his final resting place next to his wife, Connie. A permanent display has been set up in the Fort Smith Air Museum to honor Meroney and ...

"Miracle" B-17's Bombardier Remembers - KMJ Now | That is the B-17 "All-American" of the 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, after a German fighter plane crashed into it, slicing the fuselage, knocking off a horizontal stabilizer, trapping the tail gunner in the rear of the aircraft, ...

Retired naval aviator killed in 'experimental aircraft' crash - Dayton Daily News | Flower was a naval aviator for 31 years who still loved to fly in his retirement, said Jan Flower, his wife of 50 years. “It was his life, ” she said. “He was flying a plane that he had built and flew out of Greene County Airport and was there every ...

Battle of Britain prelude: the birth of the Luftwaffe - xplanes | The end of the First World War in 1918 brought the German aircraft industry - largely military orientated - to a grinding halt. At least a hundred companies were suddenly without work. The Treaty of Versailles in 1919, which imposed limits on...

Documentary film about the Flying Tigers to be released - China Post | An official documentary film of Lieutenant General Claire Lee Chennault, who is best remembered as leader of the famed Flying Tigers, an all volunteer air service in China that fought the Japanese during World War II, will be released in November in ...

Red Yak from Apron 6 | After photographing the T-6 on the ground, I strapped myself in. First part of the flight we were only joined by the Yak. This gave me the opportunity to photograph it without the F-16 next to it. After the solopart I could...

A 'plane' exciting exhibit - Lompoc Record | Items on display include commemorative stamps, model planes, air race logos, brochures and other collectable items. A collection of commemorative stamps honoring historical aircraft that flew the skies during the 1930s and played an important role in...

Meseum of Flight Seattle WA from Mike’s Adventures | ...Saturday while E was at the conference Colby his little brother and I went to the Flight Mesuem at Boeing Field. Very cool place....

Analyst Says USAF Faces Crisis From Aging Aircraft Inventory from Aero-News Network | Assessment Came As Senior Air Force Officers Meet At Wright-Patterson Defense analyst Loren B. Thompson spoke recently to senior Air Force officers at Wright-Patterson AFB, saying the USAF faces a crisis from the aging aircraft in its inventory. He added The Air Force is “facing challenges because it has not succeeded in modernizing its fleet to anywhere near the degree it needs to, so the fleet is getting old.”

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Kennedy Space Ctr Visitors Getting Rare Access Inside NASA’s Launch Control from Aero-News Network | Second Special Behind-the-Scenes Tour Added For Space Center’s 50th Anniversary For the first time in more than 30 years, NASA is allowing Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex guests inside the Launch Control Center – where NASA directors and engineers supervised all of the 152 launches for the space shuttle and Apollo programs. The KSC Up-Close: Launch Control Center (LCC) Tour, the second in Kennedy Space Center’s special 50th anniversary series of rare-access tours, takes visitors inside Firing Room 4, one of the LCC’s four firing rooms and the one from which all 21 space shuttle launches since 2006 were controlled...