Indy Transponder 10-OCT-2012 1045z

Red Bull Stratos mission attempt aborted due to high winds from Aerial Sports Feed | Red Bull Stratos’ daring mission to the edge of space, which has been five years in the making, has been made to wait a little longer after high winds forced the mission to be aborted on Tuesday...

Baumgartner Launch Postponed by Winds - from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Felix Baumgartner's record parachute jump attempt from the edge of space was aborted at 11:42 a.m. MDT on Tuesday in Roswell, New Mexico, according to the Red Bull Stratos team.

Eyes to the sky as Thunderbirds head for Daytona Beach - Daytona Beach News-Journal | Area residents will hear the roar before they see the planes but they're in for a treat as the U.S. Thunderbirds arrive today about 2 p.m. at the Daytona Beach International Airport for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Wings and Waves Air Show ...

Preparations begin for 2012 Miramar Air Show - KGTV San Diego | "We're fortunate that many of the performers know about Miramar and want to participate because it's one of the largest, of not the largest military air show in the country," said Wahl. The airfield will shut operations down in the small hours Tuesday ...

Re-enactors to bring AirSho history to life - Midland Reporter-Telegram | When visitors attend this weekend's AirSho at the Commemorative Air Force, they will learn about history not only from the planes that fly overhead but also through people on the ground representing the soldiers of the wars. Several groups of re ...

Salute America 2012 Air Show lands in Northwest Atlanta - WXIA-TV | DALLAS, Ga. -- The Salute America 2012 Air Show will bring aerial performances and static aircraft displays to the Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport on Saturday, October 20. Several aerial acrobatic acts are coming to perform in Dallas, including Team ...

Huntington fly-in - Emery County Progress | The Huntington Airport Fly-In and Wings and Wheels Show and Shine Sept. 28-29 was the largest event in its three year history. The show featured the largest number of planes, antique autos and visitors ever. At the Saturday morning breakfast, Emery...

Classics at Pine Mountain Lake from Antique Airfield News | Mike Shreeve sent these photos of several classics from the Pine Mountain Lake airport day in California this past weekend. The DC-3 was flown in by Clay Lacy, and there was fine form by several 140s in the flour bombing competition...

Hood River Fly-in 2012 from Antique Airfield News The folks at WAAAM, one of the best antique aviation museums in the country, put on a fly-in every year at the beginning of September in Hood River, OR...

Volunteer Group Flying Tigers to visit National Infantry Museum - Columbus Ledger-Enquirer | Members of the Flying Tigers, the first American Volunteer Group, will visit the National Infantry Museum on Oct. 19. The 1-2 p.m. event gives the public a chance to meet four of six surviving members of the group, get an autograph or have a picture taken.

Continuing a Sentimental Journey - DVIDS | The Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing Aviation Museum, a traveling group of aviation enthusiasts, displayed the B-17G at the War Eagles Air Museum at the Doña Ana County Airport Oct. 1-4, but unlike many aircraft displays, Sentimental Journey is a ...

Still mighty Connect Savannah.com | A hundred and three feet across, the B–17 bomber fills the Mighty 8th Air Force Museum's entire Combat Gallery, the tips of its spit–shined wings just inches from the walls. It's a piece of history with all kinds of relevance: Built in 1945, it was the ...

Avro Lancaster lll PD259 coming home to RAF Waddington from stickandrudderWTO | On the 5-10-2012 I took part in a visit to RAF Waddington to see behind the scenes at the base. One of the ports of call, was the RAF Waddington heritage centre on the base, where the crashed remains of Avro Lancaster PD259 are on display. This Lancaster was on the books with number 463 Squadron RAAF based at RAF Waddington Lincolnshire (Bomber county). On the night of the 31-8-44, this aircraft was on a night nav/ex training sortie. For some reason, this aircraft broke up in mid-air over Kingussie Scotland, and the aircraft came...

XM607 'Black Buck' current status concern from stickandrudderWTO | I'm a little concerned about the current 'status' of an historic aircraft I saw at close hand last friday (5-10-2012). This historic aircraft is Avro Vulcan XM607 'Black Buck' on display at RAF Waddington. This aircraft bombed the airfield at Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands during the Falklands conflict. When you drive past the Vulcan on the A17, it looks in pretty good condition. But if you get close to it, like I did last friday, you might think...

October 2, 2012 Under the Wire from Ely Air Lines by Linda Street-Ely | ...A couple of weekends ago we had a choice of three fly-ins within an hour’s flight. We opted for the 23rd annual “Under the Wire” fly-in in Louise, Texas, just a smidgen past El Campo along Highway 59. Robbie Vajdos invites the whole town of Louise and anyone who wants to fly in to his nearly 3,000-foot-long turf strip for a grand party...

Tic 4 Tale from The Lexicans by Busbob |  The Navy, for a long time, had in the inventory a small number of curious, odd-looking aircraft called the TC-4C Academe. It was really a Grumman Gulfstream 1 with an A-6 nose mounted on the front. It was ungainly, ugly, and a heck of a good idea for training A-6 Bombardier Navigators.

A little 1940s-era flying from A mile of runway will take you anywhere. by Steve | Mike sent me a message this afternoon and said he was going up in the big Cub after work. He said to see if another aeroplane was available so I could tag along. I'm not current in the Champ (it's all that was available when I called Stewart) so I was planning on a quick re-checkout with Emerson. However, the little Cub opened up when I got there so I grabbed the J-3's keys instead...

Heroic nightime icy Arctic sea search and rescue mission awarded with trophy for Helicopter Rescue from David Cenciotti's weblog | The Canadian Forces Search and Rescue team was selected as the winner of the AgustaWestland‘s 2012 Cormorant Trophy for Helicopter Rescue. The trophy was awarded for a dramatic long range complex rescue mission which took place on Oct. 27, 2011, when the crew of AW101 Cormorant “Rescue 915” from the 103 SAR Squadron, from Canadian Force Base Gander, Newfoundland, were tasked with rescuing two walrus hunters stranded on an ice flow in the Arctic sea near Igloolik, Nunavut...

ISS Sightings Possible Along Mid-Atlantic States Following the Docking of Dragon from Spaceports | The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will dock with the International Space Station Wednesday morning, October 10, 2012 with live coverage provided by NASA-TV. For more earthly observation of the ISS this week, there may be opportunities to see them together from your backyard.