Indy Transponder 06-AUG-2012 1045z

Firefighter who saved boy's life honored with Thunderbird flight - KATU | PORTLAND, Ore. – A Hillsboro firefighter who saved a boy's life four months ago got a chance to fly with the Thunderbirds Sunday while the boy and his family looked on. Eliceo Lopez, 7, was standing near a charcoal grill on Easter Sunday when his...

Camarillo man achieves Blue Angels dream that began in elementary school - Ventura County Star | His job will be to ensure air show sites have adhered to the Blue Angels support manual, which requires venues to provide items such as cranes for repairs and smoke oil so the jets' trails are visible. He'll also work with the Federal Aviation...

Airshow Pilot Kent Pietsch Injured Following Wetaskiwin Airshow from Aero-News Network | Accident Reportedly Not Part Of Weekend Airshow Performance A well-known and highly-experienced member of the airshow community is recovering from an accident in his 1942 "Jelly Belly" Interstate Cadet. Airshow Pilot Kent Pietsch is reported in stable condition following a 1700 (local time) Saturday accident that occurred during the first day of a weekend airshow in which he was listed as a featured performer. Wetaskiwin is some 70 km South of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. According to local media reports, Kent had finished a performance at the show when the accident occurred in which the aircraft flew close to the ground in a bank, struck a wingtip, and thereafter impacted just off the runway. Some reports indicate that a power failure may have led to the accident...

Great New England Air Show at Westover Air Base in Chicopee attracts 100000 - MassLive.com | CHICOPEE – For some, the highlight of the Great New England Air Show was the performances from the vintage aircraft, for others it was being able to view some of the most modern aircraft used today. And for some veterans, it was checking out the planes ...

Air show adds ship tours - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | The venues are the biggest of all: the land, the water and the sky. The Milwaukee Air & Water Show is teaming up with the U.S. Navy's commemoration of the War of 1812 bicentennial to bring a week of entertainment at the lakefront that stretches across ...

ARCTIC THUNDER 2012 Review! from Photorecon by Brandon Farris | The bi-annual Arctic Thunder Event held at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) up in Anchorage a couple of weeks ago and was attended by approximately 225,000 people between the two days. The headline acts for the show was the United States Air Force Thunderbirds and the F-22 Raptor Demo team. JBER was a must do for the F-22 team as the base houses the 525th and [...]

Details Emerge On 'Close Call' During OSH2012 Airshow from Aero-News Network  | It's Good To Be Lucky... And It's Lucky To Be Good -- Greg Koontz Is Both One of the airshow industry's more experienced performers had an 'interesting' incident during this Thursday performance at the recently concluded 2012 Oshkosh EAA AirVenture airshow. Greg Koontz, known for his precise work in a bright red Decathlon (his previous Decathlon pictured below) showed up with a new airplane for this year's show and wound up using up more of his luck and skill than he cared to expend. In a recent chat with ANN, Koontz told the tale of what could have been a very bad day, rather dispassionately. As he undertook his first performance in a brand new Super Decathlon... an airplane he had picked up at the factory just a few days before... he did not expect what would transpire just a few short minutes into its inaugural outing...

The Tricolour Arrows enchant tourists and bathers - Chronicles Maceratesi | All looking up for the show in Porto Recanati Frecce Tricolori. The acrobatics areas have attracted tens of thousands of people and bathers, already out in force at the beach, they had no choice but to raise his eyes to heaven...

Fleets at the Fly-In from Antique Airfield News | Last week we got two registrations for Fleet 2's for this year's fly-in. Stan Sweikar has been updating us with pictures and videos of his Fleet over the past several years, and just completed his restoration in July. We're looking forward to seeing the finished airplane at Blakesburg. Jeremy Young and Bob Juranich just purchased their Fleet 2 this past weekend, and will be flying it to...

2012 AAA/APM Fly-In T-Shirt Designs from Antique Airfield News | The new Antique Airfield shirt began with an ad in the May 1928 issue of Popular Aviation magazine. While browsing through the newly donated magazine last winter, Bob Taylor found this great image of a barnstormer giving rides and waving to the crowd below. Starting with that image, APM artist Peggy Bates worked her magic... 
 
WWII era plane giving rides over Lexington - WKYT | The B-17, named "Texas Raiders", is owned by the Commemorative Air Force, which flies vintage warbirds across the country to keep the memories of WWII alive. A woman whose late husband was a B-17 crew member came from Franklin, Kentucky to find ...

The “Vampire” from Moose Peterson Aviation Photography | The DH-115 Vampire is a WWII British Jet, the second they entered into service. Its first flight was in 1943 and in military service in 1979 with over 3200 being constructed. It’s single engine design was unique in its day with...

Bill Springer Flew bomber escort i sin P-51 Mustang from War Tales by Don Moore | Bill Springer will never forget his first night on Iwo Jima, March 1, 1945. He was a 20-year-old P-51 Mustang fighter pilot attached to the 72nd Fighter Squadron of the 21st Fighter Group in the 7th Air Force. They had just flown in when the Japanese attacked that first night on the island during World...

AREA 51 VETERANS BETRAYED by tdbarnes | With the declassification of the CIA U-2 and A-12 projects at Groom Lake, the Roadrunners engaged in a mission to record our legacy on a web site, and with various oral history programs to include UNLV and the Library of Congress. The National Geographic Channel did a great documentary about our proud legacy and our members conducted numerous presentations to our nation’s intelligence agencies in Washington, D.C....

Aero-TV: Col. Mark Tillman (Part 4)--The Most Important Left Seat In Aviation from Aero-News Network | An Honored Flyer Tells Of His Service To America (Part 4 -- Final) OK... we gotta tell you... this one was one of the best speeches we have EVER heard at any aviation event... and it occurred this year at the 2012 AEA Convention and Tradeshow. The kind folks of Universal Avionics pulled off quite a coup and arranged for a truly inspiring speaker for one of the most important gatherings in all of aviation -- the opening ceremonies of the 55th Annual AEA International Convention and Trade Show. And Universal's choice knocked it out of the park. Former Air Force One Command Pilot Colonel (ret) Mark W. Tillman, the United States’ 12th Presidential Pilot, served as Commander of Air Force One from 2001-2009...

The streamlined decade from General Aviation News by Dennis Parks | During the decade of the Great Depression, the streamlined form stood as an optimistic symbol of progress and efficiency. Streamlining was applied to cars, trains, ships, buildings, and even household appliances. This new idiom replaced the angular, art deco forms of the 1920s. By the mid-1920s aircraft construction was in need of a new design approach. With the availability of engines with 200 to 350 horsepower, aircraft were flying faster, but not in proportion to the increase in power. With all the higher turbulent flow being experienced at higher speeds due to common design practices of the time, a reduction in drag became important to improved performance. So in the era between the middle 1920s and middle 1930s, streamlining came into its own in aircraft design...

Nuclear Powered Geologist on Mars! from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Nuclear Powered Geologist on Mars! NASA officially terms their latest extraterrestrial rover to land on the Red Planet the Mars Science Laboratory — but it is widely known as Curiosity. It is the size of a small car, like the MiniCooper, and literally weighs a ton (909kg). Also twice as large as the twin rovers [...]

NASA's Curiosity Rover Successfully Lands on Mars from  http://www.theledger.com | NASA says it received a signal from the Curiosity rover Sunday night after a plunge through the Martian atmosphere described as "seven minutes of terror."

NASA: Mars rover lands on the red planet from RGJ.com by ALICIA CHANG,AP Science Writer | In a show of technological wizardry, the robotic explorer Curiosity blazed through the pink skies of Mars, steering itself to a gentle landing inside a giant crater for the most ambitious dig yet into the red planet's past.