Monday, October 29, 2012

Indy Transponder 29-OCT-2012 1600z


St. Charles Flying Service Open House Brings Wide Variety of Aircraft from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | The St. Charles Flying Service Open House held at St. Charles County (SMARTT) Airport this weekend brought a variety of aircraft just west of St. Louis for the last local fly-in of 2012. The star of the day, the Missouri CAF B-25J "Show Me," flew passengers and later dropped pumpkin cluster bombs as part of the pumpkin drop competition. Aircraft from throughout the area...

Airscapade DC3 inbound NZ! from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | Douglas DC3 N451ZS "The Jean Batten Clipper" has embarked on its journey from the UK to NZ retracing (as best they can) the route flown by Jean Batten...

First-time author wins Combs Gates Award from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | DAYTON, Ohio — The National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) will award its 10th Annual Combs Gates Award to first-time author, Regina Wirtanen Buker, of Baltimore, Maryland. Buker is being recognized for her as yet unpublished book, "The Skytrain Pilot: Flying a C-47 into Combat," about her late father, Lieutenant George Neale Wirtanen. Buker will receive the $20,000 cash award in a formal presentation on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 31, at a special opening session of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) 65th Annual Meeting & Convention in Orlando, Florida...

CUMMINS: The perils of my Aunt Pauline - Evening News and Tribune | Pauline flew many times in the Powder Puff Derby, an air race for women, later named the Air Race Classic. The competitors zigzag across country making five stops where their times are recorded to determine the placement of each pilot. She emphasized...

Remembrance Sunday at IWM Duxford from Flightline UK | Sunday 11 November 2012 – Free admission to all | Remembrance Sunday holds a special significance in the IWM Duxford events calendar.  On this day, we offer free admission to all and we very much hope that people will take the opportunity to visit IWM Duxford on the day when we remember members of the Armed Forces who lost their lives in active service.  At 11am, a two-minute silence will be observed across the museum, starting and finishing with a traditional gun salute by The Garrison.  This will be followed at 12.30pm by a remembrance service in the Conservation Hall in AirSpace, where there will be standard bearers from the Royal British Legion and local air cadets...

Mission to Tokyo — a book for those who want the knowledge, not simply the facts from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Mission to Tokyo — a book for those who want the knowledge, not simply the facts Mission to Tokyo: the American airmen who took the war to the heart of Japan...

Video: Flying DH Mosquito KA114 from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon

Poll: Which Logo Best Represents The Experimental Aircraft Association? from AirPigz by Martt | This is the same poll I put up almost a week ago in 3 Reasons Why I Should Be The New EAA President (And 3 Why It'll Never Happen), but the poll wasn't the focus of that post so I thought it might be good to make it easier for people to find it. Almost 200 votes have come in since last Tuesday and I have been extremely pleased to see that my retro logo is currently running at over 82% favorability! I'd like to see where the numbers are at with about 1,000 votes, so if you haven't voted in this poll yet, please do....

‘The Aviators’ debuts as best seller on iTunes from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | “The Aviators,” one of PBS’ most-watched television reality docuseries, reports that the debut episode of its third season was the number one “best-selling” iTunes download of a free non-fiction television episode on its inaugural day of availability. Episode 3.01 garnered thousands of downloads on its initial day of release, Sept. 18...
Civil Air Patrol Prepares For Sandy’s Arrival from Aero-News Network | Standing Ready To Respond To All Requests For Assistance With northbound Hurricane Sandy storming toward the East Coast and expected to arrive Tuesday, Civil Air Patrol’s Northeast Region and the Florida and Massachusetts wings have approved missions to move aircraft inland, and members throughout potentially affected areas stand ready to assist as needed.

Helicopter scholarships available from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The deadline is fast approaching for the 18 scholarships that the Helicopter Foundation International (HFI) will award to students in the helicopter industry...

City hopes new club puts youths on a flight path - Houston Chronicle | In an effort to get high school students on a path from imagining flight to piloting an aircraft, the Houston Airport System began an Aviation Club in two Houston high schools this fall. "We're announcing the launch of a new collaborative effort to ...

Miss NASA, 1968 from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick | ...from the late 1960s and early 1970s, and NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver mentioned a 1968 Miss NASA pageant in...

The Dragon CRS-1 Splashes Down on Earth from Spaceports | The SpaceX Dragon CRS-1 cargo craft that delivered about a half-ton of supplies and hardware to the International Space Station has now returned to Earth with more than 13-hundred pounds of scientific and other materials...

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