Saturday, December 22, 2012

Indy Transponder 22-DEC-2012 1730z

Team Little Rock Lands Top Air Show Honor - KARK | The Dick Schram Community Relations Award is presented each year to the military air show that uses its air show to build stronger community relations. According to the award citation, Team Little Rock was cited for its effective efforts to partner ...

Winners announced in air show design contest - Hilton Head Island Packet | A Brooklyn woman's artwork will be used to publicize the 2013 Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Air Show, officials announced Thursday. Mingda Liu was named the grand-prize winner of the air show's design contest. Her artwork will be printed on a ...

A pilot in the Ghedi Arrows tricolor - Corriere della Sera | A pilot of the sixth flight of Ghedi becomes part of the Frecce Tricolori. This is the captain Pierangelo Semproniel, Tornado pilot from the 154th Squadron of the 6 ° Stormo of Ghedi, who will fly with the number 7. Another new entry is the captain...

AIRSHOW NEWS: Royal Air Force delivers Air Tattoo early ‘Christmas Gift’ from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News | Organisers of the Royal International Air Tattoo have described news of the Royal Air Force’s plans for next summer’s airshow as an exciting, early Christmas present.  In a letter to the organisers this week, the RAF outlined an ambitious programme of involvement at the Air Tattoo, which takes place at RAF Fairford, in the heart of the Cotswolds, on July 20 & 21, 2013...

Maj. Roy Sproul - Silver Falcons from Latest Vlog | Rory & I got to film Maj. Roy Sproul at the Wings & Wheels air show that took place at AFB Ysterplaat in December 2011. This...

Photo: U.S. Air Force plane prepares for take off under giant double rainbow on Dec. 21 “Doomsday” from David Cenciotti's weblog | Taken on the day of the alleged Mayan Apocalypse Dec. 21, 2012, the following cool photo shows pilots preparing the cockpit of a U.S. Air Force T-38 Talon jet at Beale Air Force Base, California...

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EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Airport from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012 was a great destination for thousands of pilots and aviation enthusiasts, but sometimes the travel to Oshkosh, especially when taking the RV ground route, can be an adventure in itself. On a fuel stop during our trip from southeast Missouri, we noticed a crop duster doing his thing over a nearby field, and had to capture the moment....

Year nine students from Bournemouth schools embark on project in memory of ... - Bournemouth Echo | PATHFINDERS: Students who have embarked on a pioneering project in memory of Red Arrows pilot Jon Egging. YEAR Nine students from two Bournemouth schools are embarking on a pioneering project set up in memory of Red Arrows pilot Jon Egging....

Roman exhibition at Hugault Artludik from Passion for aviation by Xavier Cotton | ..."The Last Flight", "The Grand Duke" or "The Pilot in Edelweiss" are albums that despite the youth of its author is now among the "classic comics". Combining design the most precise attention to detail genuine sensitivity and related colors, Romain Hugault (http://romain-hugault.blogspot.fr) imposed a style that is already a reference. Arludik gallery is proud for its first opening in 2013 to host a unique exhibition of original drawings, drawings ink, unique digital paintings by the artist. The opening of this exhibition will be held Thursday, January 3 from 18:30 to 21:30....

Winds prevent 'Memphis Belle' takeoff - Salisbury Post | ...High winds prevented the World War II-era bomber “Memphis Belle” from departing Rowan Regional Airport today. A large crowd that had turned out to watch the B-17 take off at noon had to leave disappointed...

'Memphis Belle' takeoff set for second try today - Salisbury Post | The B-17 bomber that portrayed the Memphis Belle in the movie of the same name is now scheduled to leave the Rowan County Airport today after high winds prevented its scheduled departure Friday. The plane, famous for portraying the bomber that was...

Christmas from CAF Red Tail Squadron's Blog | Today’s short blog entry will be about two interesting Christmas-y items related to the military...

The Christmas Roundel of the RCAF from Vintage Wings of Canada by Dave

Santa and Fighter Jets - Planeshots | Today's theme is Santa with USAF fighter jets, past and present.

Original fly girls get Denver tribute - 9NEWS.com | In 1944, during the graduation ceremony for the last WASP training class, the commanding general of the U.S. Army Air Forces, Henry "Hap" Arnold, said that when the program started, he wasn't sure "whether a slip of a girl could fight the controls of a ...

WWII veteran receives medal: WWII veteran receives medal - Great Falls Tribune | Between May and November of 1943, he served as flight engineer/top turret gunner aboard the Evil Eye Egbert, a B-17 bomber under the command of the U.S. Army's 12th Air Force in the war against the Italian and German armies in North Africa and Italy.

XC-142 — the un-fixed wing V/STOL from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | XC-142 — the un-fixed wing V/STOL Many design tracks have been tested so that the benefits of vertical flight can be realized by fixed wing aircraft — tilt rotor, vertically oriented additional engines and tilting wings. The XC-142 design by Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) was a four turboprop engine tilting wing aircraft produced for testing by the U.S. [...]

Solar Impulse will fly the United States in 2013 from Passion for aviation by Xavier Cotton | In 2012 Solar Impulse (HB-SIA) conducted the first intercontinental flight between Europe and Africa, performed entirely by solar energy. Which allowed him to register with the FAI (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale), two world records for distance in the "solar airplane." At the invitation of King Mohammed VI, Solar Impulse has crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and the Moroccan sky won for a role as spokesperson during the construction of the Ouarzazate largest solar thermal plant in the world....

Canadian NORAD Region Names Pilots to Track Santa from Aviation.ca News by National Defence and the Canadian Forces | With Christmas around the corner, the Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Region is set to track and escort Santa Claus during his annual visit to Canada, and has selected four CF-18 fighter pilots who will act as Santa's official escorts.

Disney Sets Cars Spinoff Planes for a Theatrical Release - ComingSoon.net | Planes follows Dusty (Cryer), a small town dreamer who longs to enter the most epic around-the-world air race... despite his fear of heights. With the help and support of a fleet of new and hilarious characters, Dusty wings his way into the biggest ...

Aerostars from Apron 6 | First picture for the Sanicole Airshow album.

Russian Air Force MiG-29 (Strizhi) from FenceCheck Forums

Man Spins 568 Times Head-Over-Heels In the Air and Somehow Doesn't Vomit - Gizmodo UK | Apparently infinity tumbling is the hardest aerobatic paragliding manoeuvre there is, and I can see why. One wrong move and you might get wrapped up in your parachute, sending you flying like a brick into the ground. But probably the most impressive...

Intrepid Museum, Home of Shuttle Enterprise, Reopens after Hurricane Sandy ... - Space.com | The Enterprise, which never flew to space, was used as a prototype to test the space shuttle design during glide flights in the 1970s. The orbiter has been exposed to rough weather many ...