Indy Transponder 26-SEP-2012 1045z

While in the Announcer Booth, Rob Reider — ‘The Voice of Aviation’ — Depends on Sennheiser for Unsurpassed Comfort and Clarity  - Hummingbird Media | If you’ve ever been to an aviation show, you’ve very likely heard the warm, hospitable and instantly recognizable voice of Rob Reider, the most famous and accomplished aviation announcer in North America. Reider, who has announced no less than 135 air shows in the past five years alone, has brought the excitement of aviation into the hearts of millions of fans over the course of his aviation announcing career, which is already well into its third decade. Reider is a recipient of The International Council of Air Show’s “Sword of Excellence” award — the highest honor an air show professional can receive. On the announcer’s stand, he relies solely on Sennheiser headsets to make sure his communication with the fans and the control tower is perfectly clear...

Lieutenant governor all smiles in parachute jump - Grand Forks Herald | Yvonne Prettner Solon and Sgt. First Class Aaron Figel of the Army Golden Knights slowly come in for a landing on a sunny Tuesday afternoon. Lt. Gov. Yvonne Prettner Solon after her parachute jump. image. All smiles after her first parachute jump...

Prettner Solon makes Capitol parachuting first - West Central Tribune | Prettner Solon made her first skydive, in tandem with Amy Sgt. First Class Aaron Figel of the U.S. Army Parachute Team, Golden Knights, to draw attention to the Community Covenant, a 5-year-old initiative to show support for military families. She said ...

Airport to celebrate 60th anniversary with fly-in - Canon City Daily Record | Airport to celebrate 60th anniversary with fly-in. Saturday event will offer displays, demonstrations, rides.

Tulsa Air & Space Museum hosts food trucks, festival - Tulsa World | Along with "FIFI," the Texas-based Commemorative Air Force's B-29, two other World War II-era aircraft owned by the CAF will be flying in for the weekend, including a North American P-51 Mustang and a Beech C-45 Expediter, said Kim Jones, curator of ...

Astronaut Guardian Angels Perform Flawless Air Show Rescue Demos  By Mike Killian | This past weekend saw the return of the Florida Space Coast’s annual Cocoa Beach Air Show. Tens-of-thousands of people turned out to enjoy the sights and sounds, and also to cheer on their local combat search-and-rescue airmen – the 920th Rescue Wing from nearby Patrick Air Force Base, the “guardian angels” who kept watch over NASA’s astronauts for so many years...

The Patrouille de France in Le Touquet on Saturday  - lesechosdutouquet.fr  | As promised by the deputy mayor, Daniel Fasquelle, the Patrouille de France returns to the station on 21 and 22 September as part of the Centenary of the city, following the cancellation of the demonstration of 2 and 3 September 2011 due to bad ...

The festival Barcelona air patrols dispense miliatres  - La Vanguardia  | Last year came the Patrouille de France, the Suisse, and the Eagle of the Spanish army. The festival will also feature the participation of paraglider pilots, responsible for opening the exhibition at ten o'clock. Álvaro Bultó Later, Santi ...

Ohio Air News 215 - Charles Johnson | The Canadian International Air Show in Toronto, ON, a special issue just for Ken Mist.....

Oris Air Racing Edition Silver Lake in special series  - Deluxeblog (Blog)  | The Oris watch Air Racing Silver Lake was born in a special series to celebrate the Air Racing Team and the participation of the squadron to Reno Air Race, capped by the second place this year from Scarlet Screamer pilot Don Vito ...

Air racing in Alderney - Channel Television | Alderney's annual air racing championships have been given a boost this year. For the first time the island will host the coveted Schneider Trophy - first presented in 1911. The race is being organised by the Royal Aero Club and will form part of this ...

Linda's Air Race Classic 2012 video | Flylines Newsletter | 99s ... from Flylines newsletter by Flylines Editor | Just plane joy–pilots and members of the Ninety-Nines organization, Judy Snow and Linda Moody as the Nor'Easters Team fly the Air Race Classic 2012....

Come fly with me - Jackson County Floridan | Zack Greene watches as Eddie Howard, left, makes his Yak-54 remote control plane hover a few feet off the ground at a Chipola R/C Aviators Fly-In earlier in the year.

RAF Museum at Hendon - Intro from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney | One of my final "aviation related" activities [apart from my flight home, of course!] was a visit to the RAF Museum at Hendon [effectively a suburb on London these days].  I last visited here about 3 years ago. A few things had changed - enough to make it worthwhile visiting again - and so I spent the best part of a day walking around the various buildings, including the old Grahame-White Factory building, which was closed the last time I visited....Also posted: RAF Museum at Hendon - The Quiz!, RAF Museum at Hendon - Very old aircraft,  RAF Museum at Hendon - time for the jets, RAF Museum at Hendon - the Helos,  RAF Museum at Hendon - Fighters and others

Stoof! — Grumman’s S-2 Tracker by travelforaircraft | Formerly known as the S2F — the nickname came from S2F for "Stoof "— Grumman's Tracker was the Navy's first platform which served as a submarine detection and weapons platform similtaneously. In other words, the Navy's first complete antisubmarine warfare (ASW) aircraft. Carrying a crew of four with two Wright R-1820 nine cylinder radial engines the Tracker had a range of about 900 miles/1440km. The ASW load was impressive:..

B-17, B-24 bombers pounded Germany and Japan into submission during WW II from War Tales by Don Moore | America’s airborne military might in Europe during World War II was hammered home by thousands of four-engine B-17 “Flying Fortress” and B-24, four-engine “Liberator” heavy bombers dropping thousands of tons of bombs on Hitler’s “Fortress Europe” from 1943 until the end of the war two years later. By then, there was little left of most [...]

Vintage planes, cars and cycles - Deeside Today | Peter showed pictures of these aircraft many of which are unique and historic planes, such as the DeHavilland DH88 Comet which won the England to Australia air race in 1934, the last Westland Lysander still flying, used to fly agents in and out of ...

Antonov AN-2 - PilotWeb | HA-MKF is owned by James Black, who has wanted an An-2 since he first experienced the inside of one while flying in the World Aerobatics Championships in Russia before the Wall came down. A Polish-built late model, KF differs little from the 1946 ...

British engineering at its finest... from Flight Image of the Day by Dominic Perry | Alright, I'm stretching the description a bit, but there is some UK content on Lockheed Martin's F-35 you just have to squint abit to see it and it's stood next to the greatest fighter of World War II made by those fine folks at Supermarine in Eastleigh. And yes...

Space Shuttle Endeavour retires to the California Science Center - The Daily Titan | Discovery is at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C., Enterprise is at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City, and Atlantis is at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “With the intent that even though the missions were ...