Monday, September 3, 2012

Indy Transponder 03-SEP-2012 1330z

Wing walker Jane Wicker wows crowd at Cleveland National Airshow - Plain Dealer | Girls of all ages lined up to see svelte blond, with windblown hair who the Cleveland National Airshow's announcer described as maybe "120 pounds, soaking wet with a rock in her pocket." "Did you see the airplane with the lady on it," one mother asked ...

Air Show crowd in awe of sights - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette | Scattered showers and ominous clouds certainly didn't deter the thousands of people who descended on southwest Allen County for the three-day Air Show hosted by the Indiana Air National Guard's 122nd Fighter Wing. Dennis and Chris Felger of ...

CNE air show delights Sick Kids fans - Toronto Star | While her siblings flipped proudly through their pilot autograph books, Karissa Kruk's eyes were glued to the sky. The 7-year-old leukemia patient at Sick Kids has just spent the last month and a half in the hospital. On Sunday, she was given a rare ...

Red Arrows star at Uffington White Horse Show - The Oxford Times | On Sunday, sunny weather saw the turnout increase by 40 per cent on last year, while yesterday rain failed to keep the visitors away from one of the main attractions, the Red Arrows display. Other activities included helicopter rides, historic...

VIDEO: Avro Vulcan swoops in for third day of Bournemouth Air Festival - Bournemouth Echo | BEACHES, clifftops and Bournemouth's waters were crammed with spectators on Saturday to witness the thrills of the Air Festival's jam-packed weekend of flying. Space was at a premium on the beach between the two piers as people jostled to get prime ...

Two weeks of the highly anticipated Air Show tricolor arrows in Imperia  - Ventimiglia.biz  | The preparation work started almost three years ago, and in recent months the meetings, meetings, appointments to make dot the machine organizer took a frantic pace. And now we are in the home stretch. To ...

Fastest race on earth by Ben Murphy The Armidale Express | AN ARMIDALE man will become the most experienced Australian ever to challenge for the competition billed as the fastest race on earth. Lachie Onslow is preparing to head to Reno, Nevada for the jet class of the 49th US National Championship Air Races on September 12-16. The heart-stopping competition features...

Thousands get unique look at aircraft in Atwater - ABC30.com | Castle Air Museum in Atwater hosted its annual fall Open Cockpit Day. Visitors were allowed to climb inside 30 of the museum's 55 restored military aircraft. The collection includes planes used in World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam. A crew chief ...

Memorable Moments With American Warbirds  - KMPH Fox 26 | But twice a year at Castle Air Museum the curious get the chance to sit in the cockpit of a bomber. It was open cockpit day Sunday at the museum in Atwater. Kids big and small got a chance to pull back the controls and watch the flaps respond. Rick ...

Lee Bottom Clothing Rescued After Tornado from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | During the tornado clean up, some very special friends offered to take home the Lee Bottom apparel that got wet. Thousands of dollars of shirts and other clothing with the logo on it needed to be laundered and they stepped in to make it happen. Now, as the fundraiser approaches, it is time for us to gather up all the clothing and get it ready for the event. If you...

Geez Beez Honey from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | Ginger’s world class flying machines, also knows as Geez Beez, delivered a bumper crop of honey this year. If you are near Lee Bottom and...

This month's Duluth airshow will feature Canadian Forces Snowbirds  - Duluth News Tribune | The Duluth Airshow is pleased to announce that NASA astronaut Gregory H. Johnson will be participating in this year's events. This is the first time in Duluth history that a NASA astronaut has been able to attend. In the past, NASA has brought moon ...

AirFest scheduled for Oct. 13 - Culpeper Star Exponent | October in Culpeper is spectacular. I met with Mike Dale, former President of Jaguar North America and Culpeper resident to talk about one of the highlights this fall, the annual Culpeper AirFest on Oct. 13. Mr. Dale serves as the Chairman of the ...

Plan to bring Red Bull Air Race to Gold Coast - Courier Mail | THE Queensland Government and Red Bull Air Race supremos are in talks to lure the lucrative event to the Gold Coast, The Gold Coast Bulletin reports. The event, which features displays of high-speed aeronautical acrobatics, has long been coveted by the ...

Ohio Air News # 209 - Charles Johnson

Podcast: Flying to America from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast  | It's an ambition for many pilots in the U.K., and Flyer magazine publisher Ian Seager invited some of them along for the ride on his trip to AirVenture Oshkosh. Seager flew his Cessna 182 and talked to AVweb's Paul Bertorelli at the show in late July.

67 Years Later: WWII Veteran Flies Again in B-17 - Patch.com | The 90-year-old Park Ridge, IL, resident rode in the B-17 Aluminum Overcast at the Waukesha County Airport Friday during a special media flight in preparation for the Wings Over Waukesha air show this weekend. “It brought back memories,” said Karl ...

Eye woman tracks down relatives of B17 crash crew - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press | At 10.30am on the morning of Wednesday, November 10, 1943 a B17 heavy bomber crashed in Brome, near Eye, killing all 13 onboard. Nearly 60 years on, Diane Godbold, 61, of Eye has put five years of research into the crash. “We only found out about it ...

Relaxed Sunday at Antique Airfield from Antique Airfield News | After Saturday's rain and overcast Sunday has turned into a good flying day at Antique Airfield. The Gone West Memorial service was held in the morning. Some folks are...

Video: Russian Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet buzzes highway drivers from David Cenciotti's weblog | Filmed on Aug. 9, 2012, the following video shows an extreme low pass of a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 combat plane over a road between Volgograd and Kalach-on-the-Don, Russia. The Su-24 Fencer is a supersonic, all-weather attack aircraft developed in...

September 2, 2012 Video of the Day – Human-Powered Helicopter Flies to Record Height in Maryland from Flight Monkeys by Chief Monkey

Arrow Sport Model F in SFO’s Terminal 3 from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Arrow Sport Model F in SFO’3 Terminal 3 The San Francisco Airport Museum & Library uses most of the airport spaces for exhibits, some rotate and some semi-permanent. Truly, it is a joy to spend time there and well worth walking around — but go to the International Terminal for most of the displays as well as the [...]

U.S. Army Apache Helicopters Reach Flight Milestone from Warplanes Online Community by yna | The fleet of the AH-64 Apache helicopters of the U.S. Army has surpassed 3.5 million flight hours. Boeing and Apache suppliers all over the world are commending the impressive milestone.  The milestone is a proof of the endurance and reliability of the helicopter model. Apaches had been in service since 1984 and it had flown combat missions in Afganistan, involved in exercises in South Korea and trained alongside the new AH-64D Apache Block III....

LCHS student gets license to fly solo - The Decatur Daily | COURTLAND — When Lawrence County High School student Trent Morris saw the Blue Angels fly in Huntsville at age 7, he knew he wanted to get into aviation. “For my 14th birthday, my grandpa took me to Pryor Field” at Regional Airport in Tanner “and got ...

Wreckage Of 707 From 1966 Found In French Alps from Aero-News Network | Diplomatic Mail, Newspapers, Other Debris Discovered By Hikers The wreckage of a Boeing 707 which went down 46 years ago in the French Alps has been discovered by some hikers on Mont Blanc. The wreckage is thought to be that of Air India Flight 101, a Boeing 707 which impacted the mountain on January 24, 1966 on a flight from Mumbai to New York with several intermediate stops. The flight had departed Beirut on its way to Geneva when the accident occurred.

Elon Musk Considering A Holding Company For SpaceX, Tesla from Aero-News Network | Company Would Not Be Publicly Traded The founder of both SpaceX and electric car maker Tesla Motors is mulling a plan that would create a holding company that would own stock in both companies, but Elon Musk says the stock would not be publicly traded.

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