Thursday, September 20, 2012

Indy Transponder 20-SEP-2012 2300z

High pitched jets above you this afternoon? Say hello to the USAF Thunderbirds - The Salinas Californian | Shrieking through the skies above Salinas and Monterey this afternoon will be none other than the U.S. Air Force's Thunderbirds Air Demonstration team. The eight-aircraft team is coming to town to be the starring act of this weekend's California ...

Duluth Air Show Is Saturday And Sunday - KDAL | DULUTH, MN (KDAL) - The 2012 Duluth Air and Aviation Expo is being held on Saturday and Sunday at the airport. The featured performers include the Canadian Forces Snowbirds, the United States Army Golden Knights Parachute Team, a U-S Air Force ...

Rockledge native's pride goes supersonic for Cocoa Beach Air Show - Florida Today | Brewer is superintendent of the Air Force F-22 Raptor Demo Team, which performs gravity-defying aerial stunts for more than 10 million spectators around the globe each year. Two F-22 Raptors — the world's highest-performance military aircraft — will ...

Courtland Air Show to be held Saturday - Moulton Advertiser | The sky over Courtland Airport will be filled with all types of aircraft, flying demonstrations and fabulous aerobatic performances at the second annual Courtland Air Show on Saturday, Sept. 29. The show will end with a bang with a fireworks finale.

Prettner Solon to skydive with US Army Golden Knights next week - Duluth News Tribune | Minnesota Lt. Gov. Yvonne Prettner Solon of Duluth announced today that she will skydive with the U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team on Tuesday to show support for military personnel. By: Don Davis, State Capitol Bureau. Yvonne Prettner Solon ...

Austrian Wings Tip: Red Bull Air Race on Sunday on the Danube Island - Austrian Wings - Austria's aviation magazine | Between 11:30 and 16:00 clock it goes rapidly to the point: model aerobatics with Markus Zeiner, spectacular flight deposits of Red Bull Air Race World Champion Hannes Arch, the Red Bull Skydive Team in freefall, a helicopter aerobatic of the BO-105. ...

Hightower to Attend Zenith Open House from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Zenith Aircraft Company's Open Hangar Day and 20th anniversary celebration takes place this weekend at company headquarters in Mexico, Missouri. Events kick off Friday night with a banquet, followed Saturday by Open Hangar Day activities at Mexico Memorial Airport.

Tulsa Fly-In to offer day of aviation fun in Bartlesville - kjrh.com | Saturday will be a day of just plane fun for pilots and spectators alike headed to the Bartlesville Municipal Airport for the annual Tulsa Regional Fly-in. According to event organizer Charlie Harris, the reasons to join in on this year's "Grand Day of ...

County to pursue air show - Cedartown Standard | Leroy Peugh, standing, inquired about presenting an air show at the Polk County Airport during the Polk County Board of Commissioner's meeting.

Pilot gets dream job with the Red Arrows - This is Bath | The Red Arrows will return to a nine-plane formation after flying with seven for much of this year, following the deaths of two pilots in separate accidents last year. All three new pilots have completed at least one fast-jet frontline tour of duty and...

Photos: Beale featured in 49th annual Reno Air Races from Air Combat Command - Top ACC Stories

F-35 and Spitfire get side-by-side at Edwards from The DEW Line by Craig Hoyle | Two historic combat aircraft sit side-by-side in this stunning image, which was captured by Lockheed Martin photographer Matthew Short at the US Air Force's Edwards AFB late on 14 September.

Air Zoo to celebrate WASPs from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The Air Zoo is celebrating the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) with a special reunion and presentation on Saturday, Sept. 22, at 1 p.m

Thomas Hudner - Medal of Honor recipient from eaavideo.org | Thomas Hudner, Medal of Honor recipient, is honored at EAA's 2012 Gathering of Eagles as part of the "Salute to the Greatest Generation in the Air".

Henry L. Moore, 91, one of the Tuskegee Airmen from Stars and Stripes | Henry L. Moore never stopped moving. Born in tiny Ocilla, Ga., in 1921, he was out by 19, after graduating at the top of Ocilla High's Class of 1940. He moved to Newark, N.J., to escape the poverty and racism that had marked his childhood.

Tuskeegee Airmen Tribute from eaavideo.org | Introduction video shown at EAA's 2012 Gathering of Eagles event saluting the "Greatest Generation in the Air."

Sport Aviation Classic to Honor Tuskegee Airmen from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | The first Heart of America - Sport Aviation Classic is scheduled for October 4-7 at the University of Central Missouri Aviation Department's airfield, Skyhaven Airport (KRCM), in Warrensburg...

The Doolittle Raiders from eaavideo.org | Introduction video shown at EAA's 2012 Gathering of Eagles event saluting the "Greatest Generation in the Air."

Warbird Epic from Warbirds Online by Scott WRG Editor | By Jason Fortenbacher via Fight to Fly Photography | Sit back and watch the battle unfold! This video features some of the rarest WWII aircraft anywhere in the world, including the worlds only airworthy...

Ninety Nines return to Warwick Municipal Airport - The Warwick Advertiser | WARWICK — This past year Sue Jones, Bev Weintraub and Lorna Mack completed the women pilots' 2012 Air Race Classic, which, crossing 10 states, began in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, and finished at Batavia, Ohio. The three are members of the North ...

Boomerang wings way to pioneer fame - The Australian | They joined record-breaking aviatrix Lores Bonney, 19th century "father of flight" Lawrence Hargrave and the first man to fly solo from England to Australia, Bert Hinkler. Other inductees were Norman Brearley, Reginald and John Duigan, and Keith and ...

Missile from Chanute gets facelift - Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette | Mark Hanson, air museum curator, said the village approached air museum officials "a couple months ago about doing something with the missile because it looks so bad." The missile is on loan to the air museum from the Air Force Museum. Hanson said the ...

Photos: C-130Js weather the storm from Air Combat Command - Top ACC Stories 

In a quiet corner of some foreign field... from Flight Image of the Day by Dominic Perry | ...lies this quietly mouldering Bell 212 formerly (possibly still with) the Norwegian air force...

From the AC-130U Spooky gunship 25mm Gatling-type rotary cannon gunner's point of view during live firing in Korea from David Cenciotti's weblog | Although not exactly from the gunner's point of view, the following picture, taken over the Republic of Korea on Sept. 12, 2012, gives an idea of what firing down on a range with the AC-130U Spooky's 25mm Gatling-type rotary cannon looks like. Two AC-130U gunships, similar to those that were...

Scholarship Winner Update from WAI Connect Blog by Pat | Brittney Miculka of AOPA passes along the good news that Theresa Farley, the winner of AOPA's $3,000 flight training scholarship, has now passed her private pilot checkride. The scholarship was awarded to Theresa at the WAI Conference in Dallas. Congratulations to Theresa and thank you to AOPA for providing this opportunity.

Share the Love from eaavideo.org | This video shares the excitement of flying for the first time as a Young Eagle. Narrated by Harrison Ford.

Kids can be Young Eagles at Fitchburg flight rally - Sentinel and Enterprise | FITCHBURG -- Local kids and teens ages 8 to 17 will have a chance to take to the skies on Saturday, as the Fitchburg Pilots Association EAA Chapter 1454 hosts a Young Eagles Flight Rally at Fitchburg Airport. The rally is part of the EAA Young Eagles ...

Endeavour makes final leg of flight to Edwards AFB - The Desert Sun | It is on display at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York. The shuttle Challenger was destroyed in an explosion that killed its crew of seven shortly after takeoff in 1986 and Columbia disintegrated on reentry at the end of a mission in 2003 ...

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