Thursday, March 28, 2013

Indy Transponder 28-MAR-2013 0215z

Accountant wins Red Arrows experience - Bournemouth Echo | AN accountant swapped her
computer for a cockpit yesterday after her firm won a prize of a ride in a jet formerly used by the Red Arrows. Prue Mitchell, 50, from Poole, was nominated for a thrilling fast-taxi ride in a Folland Gnat jet, of the type ...

Red Arrows to return to Swansea this summer - This is South Wales | Red Arrows to return to Swansea this summer. Trusted article source icon. Tuesday, March 26, 2013. Profile image for RichardYoule · RichardYoule. Follow. THE Red Arrows are returning to the skies above Swansea! The display team will be performing at...

#Oshbash Will be 'Rockin' With Help From Ardy & Ed's! from Airplanista Aviation Blog by Dan Pimentel | The Airplanista Blog Meetup, #Oshbash, is set to bring the aviation family and Twitter #Avgeeks together at EAA Airventure Oshkosh on Wednesday night, July 31 from 5:30 - 7:30pm in the EAA Press Tent. We'll be...

Preparations under way for October air show - NeighborNewspapers.com | Preparation and fundraising are under way for the Salute America 2013 Air Show at Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport. Air Show director Brent Sparks updated the Paulding County Airport Authority last week on the progress of the show, set for early October....

Exhibition Bucharest International Airport Moves to Dubai April 8 from WAI Connect Blog by Amy Laboda | The last day of the exhibition “Woman in Aviation” at Henri Coanda, Bucharest International Airport was March 25....

WWII hero Farrow, NASCAR great Yarborough join SC Hall of Fame - The State | ...Farrow was
posthumously inducted for his role in the famed Doolittle Raid in April 1942. His crew bombed Nagoya, Japan’s fourth largest city, in response to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. They destroyed an oil storage tank and damaged the Mitsubishi aircraft factory....

Podcast: Dick Rutan Remembers from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast  | It's only been 27 years since Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flew around the world without refueling, but the technology that has been introduced since then would make it a much different trip today. Rutan spoke with AVweb's Paul Bertorelli after speaking to the Aircraft Electronics Association convention in Las Vegas.


B-17 "Memphis Belle" to visit Long Beach Airport on March 30th from Aero Pacific Flightlines by Michael Carter | Laurence Stevens was a 19-year-old B-17 tail gunner, dozing off above Brux, Czechoslovakia, in 1944 when a jolt snapped him alert....

Solar-Powered Plane Uses Its Lightness To Fly In The Dark - NPR (blog) | Next month, a very odd looking plane will take off from Moffett Field in Mountain View, Calif., and head east to New York. The Solar Impulse — the world's first solar-powered plane — is capable of flying nonstop all day and all night. Its creators ...

Local pilots recipients of Wright Brothers award - Polson Lake County Leader | Timm was a flight instructor for the Wright-Patterson AFB Aero Club. Hiss military career was in intelligence, and he retired as a colonel in 1992. He amassed more than 5,000 flight hours and has flown 50 aircraft makes and models. Morin recalls that ...

The Jolly Green Giant approaches from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | The Jolly Green Giant
approaches Military helicopters differ from conventional military combat aircraft in a subtle but significant and often unrecognized way — they are forged to continuously work in an extremely rigorous flight regime. None inherently fly though they can dance like a dragonfly, hardly any can be called graceful but nearly all can [...]

Video: This Is The Way To Start Your Day! (F-18 Cat Launch From Cockpit!) from AirPigz by Martt

Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame Expands Scholarship Program from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | The Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame (WAHF) has expanded its scholarship program to include Wisconsin students enrolled in aviation/aerospace courses of study at out-of-state colleges and universities.

Disney's Planes Cast Revealed! - Babble | Roger Craig Smith (Captain America in Disney XD's “Marvel's Avengers Assemble,” voice of Sonic The Hedgehog in “Wreck-It Ralph”) voices world champion racer Ripslinger—wings down, the biggest name in air racing—and he knows it....

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