Sunday, September 2, 2012

Indy Transponder 02-SEP-2012 0200z

Deadly Crash at Air Show - KWQC | There has been a fiery crash involving a flight team performing at the Quad City Air Show.... KWQC-TV has confirmed that at the pilot is dead. We have also confirmed that it involved the Hopper Demo Flight Team.

Plane crash has occurred at the Quad-City Air Show - Quad City Times | Officials at the scene told spectators to not go to their cars because the area near the air show at the Davenport Municipal Airport in Mt. Joy was being cordoned off to let emergency vehicles in and out. Flights continued soon after the crash ...

Coast Guard rescues Army Golden Knights parachutist during Cleveland ... - Plain Dealer | CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Coast Guard rescued a member of the Army's Golden Knights parachute demonstration team on Saturday morning, after he missed the landing zone and ended up in Cleveland Harbor during the Cleveland National Air Show...

Canadian International Air Show wows Toronto - Toronto Star | The 63rd annual Canadian International Air Show — which repeats 1 p.m to 4:30 p.m. Sunday and Monday — brought fighter jets and acrobatic flyers to the CNE waterfront. Snowbirds, CF-18 Hornets, T-33s and CP-140s dove, looped and carved white ...

Plymouth Airshow - Wicked Local | PLYMOUTH – Plymouth Aero Club will host the Plymouth Airshow from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 2, at the Plymouth Municipal Airport. There will be two shows, one in the late morning and one in the afternoon. The featured performer will be Dan...

Wild West Air Fest brings back memories Saturday in Steamboat - Steamboat Pilot & Today | Less than an hour earlier, Harris, who turns 96 years old in a few months, had been helped onto a C-47 aircraft at the eighth annual Wild West Air Fest to take a ride she had looked forward to all her life. “I've been in almost every kind of airplane ...

Labor Day weekend visitors drawn to the Cleveland National Air Show - NewsNet5.com | An economic impact analysis suggests that Labor Day weekend visitors will spend more than $7.1 million annually in the Greater Cleveland area as a result of the Labor Day Weekend Cleveland National Air Show. The 2012 Cleveland National Air Show ...

Brunswick air show a chance for outreach to veterans - Lewiston Sun Journal | BRUNSWICK — As jets soared and tumbled through the air at the Great State of Maine Air Show last weekend – an event meant to honor those who have served in the U.S. armed services – Randall Simonse of North Yarmouth remembered a darker time ...

Rain forces air show flights to end early - WANE | FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -Rain forced officials to end the flying part of the Fort Wayne Air Show two hours early on Saturday. Flying ended at 2 p.m. after the F-22 Raptor show. The static displays would have remained open until 5 p.m. even with the ...

Rain not stopping air show - Quad City Times | Despite the rain, the Quad-City Air Show at the Davenport Municipal Airport is going on, officials said about 11:30 a.m. today. If conditions become unsafe, with thunder and lightening, flights would be delayed. However, just rain will not change the...

Stearman Fly-In celebrates 41 years - Burlington Hawk Eye | As a special treat this year, "The Tin Goose" comes to Galesburg Municipal Airport for the National Stearman Fly-In, which starts Monday and continues through Sept. 8. It's a nine-passenger aircraft built by the Ford Motor Co. in 1929. Fly-In visitors ...

Fly Baby Gathering Set for September 8 to Sparta, IL from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo

Picture: The air date came on Saturday 50-thousand people - Webnoviny.sk  | Italian Frecce Tricolori aerobatic formation during their acrobatic show at the International Air Siafu days of the 2012th Sliač, 1 september 2012.Foto SITA / Branislav rack. SLIAČ 31st (Reuters) - International Air Day Slovak ...

Public invited to welcome B-25 bomber - Journal-Advocate | "Maid in the Shade," a World War II B-25 bomber from the Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing in Mesa, Ariz., is scheduled to land at the Sterling Municipal Airport at noon Tuesday. It will be in Sterling through Sept. 10. The public is invited to help ...

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012 - Aviation International News | While the 60th EAA AirVenture didn't disappoint in the normal arenas of kitbuilt aircraft, workshops, new light sport aircraft, ultralights, warbirds, stirring airshow aerobatics, a performance by the Steve Miller Band, outdoor movies, bratwurst ...

Oshkosh Review on Stuck Mic #31! from Toriaflies | Bob joined me on the Stuck Mic AvCast this episode and we took over the show to tell you all about our 2012 EAA AirVenture experience! Listen now!

Grass Roots Perfection: Antique Airplane Association Fly-In 2012 (9 Pix) from AirPigz by Martt | I was a member of the Antique Airplane Association when I was a kid (thanks dad!) but I haven't been active as a member or to any of the official Fly-Ins since the early 70's... until today. I joined the AAA again (you have to be a member to participate in the fly-in) and I'm at Antique Airfield near Blakesburg Iowa right now! The AAA/APM Invitational Fly-In runs August 29th thru September 3rd, and I drove over from northern Indiana yesterday afternoon and evening, slept in the car (of course) and arrived at Antique Airfield this morning. Btw, the APM in the...

Big plans possible for Castle Air Museum - Merced Sun-Star | ATWATER -- ATWATER -- As Castle Air Museum readies its grounds for another Open Cockpit Day this weekend, volunteers are toiling away on two military planes that soon will be ready to add to the site's collection. And bigger plans may be in the works.

Indonesia gets new shark-faced warbirds - Jakarta Post | Sinister grin: Indonesian Air Force officers take a closer look at the newly arrived EMB-314 Super Tucano airplanes at Halim Perdanakusuma airports in Jakarta on Saturday. The Brazilian-made warbirds are famous for their shark-face nose art...

Tony Scott, Hank Kleeman, Kara Hultgreen and the F-14 Tomcat: three (tragic) stories and a legendary plane from David Cenciotti's weblog | Few days ago, Dario Leone, a long time reader and a huge F-14 Tomcat fan, sent me an email to point out what he had noticed about the date Tony Scott, the famous director of “Top Gun”, chose to commit suicide. He had observed that Aug. 19 was the 31th anniversary of the day when two F-14s...

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