Indy Transponder 13-JUN-2012 1015z

EDITORIAL: Blue Angels would make festival great - Evansville Courier & Press | If the Navy's Blue Angels precision flying team makes its appearance at next summer's Hadi ShrinerFest, the event is almost assured of its best Downtown festival yet. The Blue Angels pretty much saved the Freedom Festival back in 2001 and 2002 for a ... 

RAF Fairford flypast will be first appearance in UK for eight years - Wiltshire Times | An aircraft considered by many to be one of the finest symbols of man’s conquest of the skies will receive a modern ‘guard of honour’ when it makes a rare appearance in the UK this summer. The only flying Super Constellation in Europe, and one of only three flying ‘Connies’ in the world, will make its first appearance in the UK for eight years when it performs a special flypast at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford on July 7-8....

VIDEO OF THE ARROWS TO TRICOLORI ACIREALE - Meridiana Web Magazine | The performance of the Tricolour Arrows experienced at Acireale in Sicily by an enthusiastic audience. In about 200 thousand massed in different areas of the city from 14 onwards despite the intense heat. If a few years ago the event was included only after ...

Gliders make fly-in - Carman Valley Leader | By John Carley, For The Valley Leader The fly-in at the Carman-Dufferin Airport got a real treat when two gliders from the Winnipeg Gliding Club came swooping in. The pair of sleek aircraft, each with wingspans of about 50 feet, were released from ...

Biplanes on the Breakfast Run to Hoquiam: Formation Takeoff Video from Antique Airfield News | In the Puget Sound area it is common to fly out to the Pacific coast at Hoquiam, Washington for a breakfast run. Bob Juranich, Bill Juranich, and Jeremy Young were out flying last weekend and took this video of their...

High flying in the wild blue yonder - NorthFulton.com | Last week, I had the chance to partake a tiny bit in history, as I was allowed to fly in a B-17 "Flying Fortress" bomber. It was all part of a media day to drum up support for the flights. Col. Roy Reid, 92, joined us for the flight and added a ...

Flying fortress back in Beds - Bedford Today | The "Sally B" B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft flies overhead during the Memorial Day ceremony held at the Madingley American Cemetery near the city of Cambridge, England (ENG), in honor of the World War II fallen. EUROPE'S last remaining airworthy ...

Westmoreland air show to delay airport expansion discussions - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | By Joe Napsha With the Westmoreland County Air Show next weekend, a discussion about plans to expand the terminal at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport have been temporarily put on hold, an airport official said Tuesday. "All discussions are put off ...

Air Show - Dreaming Davis | While we were in Columbia, my girls got to go to their first air show (and so did I).  I was worried about how they would handle it, but Kaythlen was in love with all of the planes.  Kennedy figured out how to find them in the sky and would just point and say "Weeeeee" over and over again.  She's even...

Loire 130 in its launching cradle from Planeshots

FlyNano Goes Electric, Starts "Airborne Test Flights" - AVwebFlash current Issue | The creators of the FlyNano sport aircraft launched from a lake in southern Finland, near Helsinki, on Monday, and posted a video at their website showing several short hops above the surface. Over the winter, the prototype was re-fitted with an all-new electric motor, which the company says is "substantially stronger" than the earlier gasoline powerplant. "Now we will continue to work on further development," the company...

Palm Springs Air Museum welcomes statue of kissers - The Desert Sun | A 6-foot version of Seward Johnson's statue “Unconditional Surrender” — a sculpture depicting the 1945 Life Magazine photo of a couple celebrating the end of World War II in Times Square — will make a brief stop at the Palm Springs Air Museum on ...