Indy Transponder 20-NOV-2012 0100z

Blue Angels visit Barksdale to promote air show - Shreveport Times | The Blue Angels Lt. Ryan Chamberlain (right) and Lt. Cmdr. Michael Cheng in front of the F/A-18 Hornet that they landed at Barkesdale Air Force Base, Monday afternoon to publicize the 2013 Defenders of Liberty Air Show...

World first for Jetman - Auckland stuff.co.nz | Yves Rossy, the famous Jetman, headlines the first New Zealand International Air Show at the North Shore Aero Club's Dairy Flat airfield during Auckland Anniversary Weekend. Jetman is the world's top aviation act and one of the few able to fly like a jet.

Jacques meets the People's Daily from Apache Roll, patrolling blog by Breitling Grifil | The 9th edition of acrobatic Zhuhai began on November 13 and the Breitling Jet Team acquainted with a new audience fell in love. November 14, Jacques Bothelin, the team leader gave an interview to People's Daily Online....

Reporter freaks out on air show ride-along - Washington Post | Aviator Sean Tucker takes WBBM-TV's Vince Gerasole along for a ride 3,500 feet in the air in his Oracle Extra 300...

Airport reveals plans to revive air show - The Northern Echo | Colin Granton, chairman of the Friends of Durham Tees Valley Airport, said they hoped to attract the Red Arrows, RAF Tornado and Falcons Parachute demonstration teams and helicopers and glider displays for an air show at the airport, near Darlington,...

Don't forget the Aviators' Ball! - PilotWeb | Aviation personalities – including Buzz Aldrin and the Red Arrows – will be making an appearance, and attendees will have the chance to try their hand at a Breitling Reno Air Race simulator. There will also be a gourmet dinner with wine, auctions, live ...

Pay it forward when you "Fly it Forward" from Toriaflies | ...The initiative has doubled in size each year since 2010. Doubled. In. Size. In two years! So, this, their third year, could potentially see 10,000 girls and women in 72 countries on 8 continents... ok, so there are only 7 continents, but there are 196 countries (or 195, depending on your reference)....

Cold Start at St. Eugène from Vintage Wings of Canada by Dave By Dave O'Malley | I hear voices. The voices of brave men. Gentle voices, creaking with age and weariness, soft and humble after a long life. I hear voices. The flinty voices of warriors at peace with themselves. Voices that linger in my head for weeks on end, calling to me from across the decades since the Second World War, from across the country, from the opposite side of this world. I hear voices. They call to me, they speak to me, willing me to understand. The men whose voices I hear, I have never met nor have they ever spoken to me in person on the telephone, yet I know their voices – clear in my head, individual, identifiable, personal. The first voice that spoke to me was that of Australian P-40 Kittyhawk pilot Arch Simpson. Arch and I exchanged e-mails no more than ten times as we put together his story about how our P-40 Kittyhawk came to...

Veteran pilot Urban Rahoi to speak on flying adventures Tuesday - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner | Pete Haggland, the curator of the Pioneer Air Museum, expects to hear plenty of good material Tuesday at 7 p.m. when Urban Rahoi starts talking about his decades as a pilot. Rahoi has more energy and enthusiasm for life than most people, regardless of ...

Earhart mystery still intrigues Como resident - Park Bugle | When early news reports depicted last July's search for Amelia Earhart, the vanished aviatrix, as a failure, Kenton Spading knew that wasn't necessarily the case. Having participated in earlier expeditions sponsored by the International Group for...

Santa and Mrs. Claus will fly into MAPS Air Museum Sunday - Canton Repository | Sleighs will get you where you need to go on Christmas Eve, but a Cessna is all you need for a quick visit to Stark County. Sunday, Santa and Mrs. Claus pilot their personal aircraft to the MAPS Air Museum where they will greet children of all ages ...

Museum Restoring Historic Hangar at Sikorsky - Patch.com | Pictured on Saturday, November 17 2012, are members of the Connecticut Air & Space Center museum in the process of cleaning and restoring the historic Curtiss Hangar at Sikorsky Memorial Airport. The Curtiss Hangar is an integral part of Connecticut's ...

Awesome video shows what a fine piece of machinery the Air Force’s C-5 Galaxy’s landing gear system is from David Cenciotti's weblog | After publishing a series of posts about the C-5 Galaxy, readers have sent me a lot of interesting links to both articles and videos of the gigantic U.S. Air Force cargo plane. The one in this post is an interesting footage filmed with a camera mounted on the aircraft’s main landing gear....

Podcast: Speaking of Talking on the Radio from AvWeb Podcast | Cody Bias is a young CFI and T-38 instructor pilot with the Air Force who is not afraid to put his money where your mouth is. Bias has developed an online radio communication course for pilots, Sound Like an Airline Pilot -- and if you're not impressed, he says...

Starbase Indy - WISH | View a Tribute to Neil Armstrong NASA Exhibit, see astronaut David Wolf, and see stars from Star Trek and Stargate SG-1 at Starbase Indy: The 17th Generation Nov. 23-25 in the Indianapolis Marriott East, 7202 E. 21st St. Rock on during the Starfleet vs....