Monday, July 2, 2012

Indy Transponder 02-JUL-2012 1045z

Watching the show from high in the sky - Seacoastonline.com | On Sunday I had the opportunity to witness the Service Credit Union Boston-Portsmouth Air Show from a different perspective. Instead of watching from the ground like most other visitors to the air show, I got to fly high with some of the most fearless men I've ever been around: The U.S. Army's Golden Knights parachute team....

NH air show gets 2nd straight day of sunny skies - Boston.com | Thousands of people are getting a second straight day of sunny skies for the final day of the Service Credit Union Boston-Portsmouth Air Show.

As air show wraps, organizers mull future plans - Seacoastonline.com | PORTSMOUTH — There is one thing that many attendees of the Service Credit Union Boston-Portsmouth Air Show said they want: more.

Garfield Air Show cancels pyrotechnic elements - Glenwood Springs Post Independent | RIFLE, Colorado — Officials will not allow any pyrotechnic elements as part of the upcoming Garfield County Air Show, due to the extreme fire...

Veterans aid group to participate in South Shore Air Show charity event - nwitimes.com | GARY | Webb House Inc.'s goal is to help veterans in need. Since 2009, Executive Director Robert Farmer and the rest of Webb House Inc. have worked toward providing assistance to the men and women who have put their lives on the line during their time ...

F-16 flyover to mark 4th of July along South Carolina coast - TheDigitel | Beginning in Little River at 1 p.m. on July 4, F-16s of the 79th Fighter Squadron "The Flying Tigers" of the 20th Fighter Wing stationed at Shaw Air Force Base — some of the last armed forc
es to leave Iraq. The flight will cover every beach on the ...

Ethanol-powered airshow team schedules flyovers - Mason City Globe Gazette | The 100 percent ethanol-powered airshow team will be doing a flyover at POET Biorefining, Hanlontown, between 9:45 and 10:30 a.m. Monday on its way to Dubuque. The group will stop at the Mason City Municipal Airport that day to top off their tanks with ...

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Indiannaplois Air Show 2012 - Steve's Digicams Forums | A few from my visit to the Indiannapolis Air Show during media day on June 22. Jehan Aero L-C39 Albatross Formation Team "The Hoppers" North.

Gratiot Airshow: A lot to offer - The Morning Sun | ...From Friday, Aug. 24 to Sunday, Aug. 26, the sky will fill with all kinds of planes, wing walkers, aerobatic teams, even a comedy team as the air show gets underway at 11 a.m. Saturday, along with a special night time air show starting at 8:30 p.m. Still another air show begins Sunday at 1 p.m...

Canada celebrates 145th birthday - UPI.com | The Royal Canadian Air Force's precision flying team, the Snowbirds, performed over Ottawa July 1, 2012, in observance of the country's 145th founding anniversary

In pictures: Waddington Air Show attracts 125000 visitors - BBC News | South Korean Black Eagles The seven-hour display included the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and the South Korean Black Eagles who had never been seen in the UK before. Italian Frecce Tricolori display team The Italian Frecce Tricolori display team ...

RAF's giants taking to skies for impressive Air Tattoo flypast - The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald | Giant aircraft from the RAF's air transport and air-to-air refuelling fleets will fill the skies over RAF Fairford during a flypast at the Royal International Air Tattoo...

New manoeuvre by Red Arrows in honour of two fallen pilots - This is Lincolnshire | The two Red Arrows who tragically lost their lives last year will be honoured in the team's 2012 displays, as Lincolnshire Echo reporter Paul Whitelam discovers... The Red Arrows will remember...

Flying Legends 2012 - Pictures from Duxford from Another Time by Dan LinnIt is that time of year again. Texas is a long way from Duxford so I turn to the PlaneTalk forum to see pictures from this weekends Fighter Collection/Flying Legends Warbird show. Take a look at a few pictures below from Brian Marshall of the pre-show activities. Wow...

Pilots Killed In Air Show Crashes - AVweb | Accidents at opposite ends of the world and opposite ends of the air show performance spectrum had a common and deadly result on Saturday.

Report: Throckmorton Airshow 2012 (ruined by bad weather) from David Cenciotti's weblog | Throckmorton airfield was built in 1940 at the beginning of World War II and became home to No. 23 Operational Training Unit equipped with Wellingtonbombers. It then became home to No.1 Ferry unit, the RAF Pershore Advanced Flying School and then the Royal Radar Establishment Flying unit...

The 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Naval Aviation (July 1)  from Historic Wings | On this date in aviation history, the world's first naval aircraft carrier (of sorts) sailed into battle. Specifically, the ship would launch a balloon tethered to its deck to reconnoiter enemy positions as it sailed up the James River ..

Memphis Belle didn't set record for bombing missions, researcher claims - Sacramento Bee | An Air Force veteran himself, Lux was helping put together the program for an air show and gathering in about 1999 organized by what was formerly called the Confederate Air Force (now Commemorative Air Force). Jacobson, a golfing buddy of Lux's in the ...

CAP sub chaser Vern Kramer passes away from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | World War II Civil Air Patrol sub chaser and South Dakota aviation legend Luverne “Vern” Kraemer passed away June 20, in Rapid City, S.D. at the age of 95. Kraemer is the last known CAP sub chaser in South Dakota...

Al Welsh remembered - Dayton Jewish Federation | A commemorative sign honoring his place in aviation history was unveiled along with a Welsh Commemorative Medal, commissioned by the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington. The Welsh exhibit at College Park ..

He flew a ‘Gooney Bird’ in the C.B.I. from War Tales by Don Moore | It was a little hard to read, but the black handwritten account of Maj. Thomas Lemery’s World War II career in the China, Burma and India Theater flying supplies in a C-47 Transport to the British 14th Army in Burma was a wonderful supplement to his fading memory. Written for his grandsons, Robbie and Jeffery, [...]

Hastings woman recalls WWII work on planes - Sioux City Journal | HASTINGS, Neb. | In her garage on Home Street in west Hastings, Ellie Roberts has a large green metal toolbox that conjures up memories of her youth and a tense time in American history. Ellie, now 92, spent 12 hours a day, seven days a week pulling ...

Canadian Museum of Flight, Langley B.C. from stickandrudderWTO by Peter | Photos

Brian "Brain" Kissinger Shares His Positive Outlook On Life Through Inspirational Video from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo | Brian "Brain" Kissinger, two-time brain cancer survivor and pilot preparing to break a third world speed record, is also founder and itinerant minister for Pax et...

Stuck Mic AvCast Episode #27 - Oshkosh is Coming, the Australian ... | Interview with Monika Petrillo about circumnavigating Australia in a general aviation aircraft, scariest moments, & living life to fullest.

Creators of Chicken Wings Comics to Release New Book at AirVenture 2012 from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | The guys from the coop at "Chicken Wings Aviation Comics" are at it again. This summer at the biggest aviation gathering in the US, Oshkosh's very own "AirVenture", they will be releasing their fourth book titled "Gold Rush". "It's about time!" Mike Strasser, one of the authors, says. "We got sidetracked with too many...

Students experience flight, explore career - The News Journal | Emeinke was one of about 30 students who are taking part in a summer camp at Delaware Airpark that aims to encourage youngsters to think about careers in aviation. ... “I want to be one of the medics – the people in the Army that aid soldiers,” she ...

Gift of Inspiration: from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | This weekend the people of Seattle
gathered at our Seattle's Museum of Flight for the arrival of the Guppy, carrying our very own Space Shuttle Simulator....

The Space Coast marks 50 years - Alexandria Town Talk | The prototype Enterprise was recently delivered to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Endeavour and Atlantis are still at KSC. This fall, though, Endeavour will depart for the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Atlantis will stay home. It ...

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