Indy Transponder 06-APR-2013 0200z

B-25s to arrive for Doolittle Raiders reunion - The Northwest Florida Daily News | Okaloosa County commissioners have agreed to spend $25,000 to bring five restored B-25 bombers to town for the 71st Doolittle Raiders Anniversary Reunion later this month. The World War II-era planes are among 25 B-25s still flying in the United States.

Sun, Fun, Florida…and the RISE ABOVE Adventure! from CAF Red Tail Squadron's Blog | After a quick maintenance break we headed to Florida! It's been a fun-filled week with our first stop at Campbell Middle School in Daytona Beach, on Wednesday and Thursday, where we met droves of children that couldn't wait to experience the RISE ABOVE Traveling Exhibit and history of the Tuskegee Airmen. From there we moved to the New Smyrna Beach Balloon & Sky Fest, where we'll be all weekend! If you're here, stop by and say hi! ...

Thunder preview provides close up of planes - WDRB | Hundreds of people got a behind-the-scenes sneak peek at this year's Thunder Over Louisville. The show's producer, Wayne Hettinger, says the annual Thunder preview event has become a family affair. It's the one time the kids and older fans ...

Air Show Legend Patty Wagstaff Returns to Oshkosh in 2013 - Airventure.org |April 4, 2013 - Patty Wagstaff, the three-time National Aerobatic Champion and National Aviation Hall of Fame member who was a popular fixture at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh for more than two decades, is returning to the EAA ...

Tragedy part of flying daredevil's life, but the show goes on - Daytona Beach News-Journal | ...The love of flying, the passion for performing, the thrill that can only come from wowing a crowd is what has kept Franklin in a business that has extracted a seemingly unfathomable emotional toll. Franklin's father, father-in-law and, most recently, his wife were all killed in accidents at air shows....

B-25 to be star of air show - Mohave Valley News | “The B-25 is an extremely rare aircraft and extremely expensive aircraft to get to any air show and we got lucky,” said Jeremy Keating, assistant director, Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport. Gates to the spectator/vendor area open at 9 a.m. at...

Binghamton Airshow Canceled - FOX 40 News WICZ TV | According to David Hickling, Deputy Commissioner of Aviation, the military has withdrawn all support for airshows due to sequestration. "It's really a disappointment to not have a show again this year, we really intend to bring the show back next year ...

Sequester sparks Rockford air show cancellation - Chicago Daily Herald | Officials say the Blue Angels must put in a minimum number of practice hours before any airshow, but have stopped practicing due to federal budget cuts. The cancelled practices put their chances of performing at the Rockford show in doubt. Airport ... [note: earlier articles stated postponed until Labor day]

AIRSHOW NEWS: RAF Cosford Air Show braces for the Vulcan Effect from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News | RAF Cosford’s 75th Anniversary Air Show is thrilled to announce the news that many have been waiting for, as Avro Vulcan XH558 from the Vulcan To The Sky Trust is confirmed to attend the event on Sunday 9th June....

Council sets up company to run Sunderland Airshow - Sunderland Echo | Sunderland Live, which operates in partnership with Sunderland City Council, will take over the running of major events including the Sunderland International Airshow, the Sunderland Festival and the Marathon of the North. The organisation will be ...

Doolittle museum proposes project at Vacaville's Nut Tree Airport - The Reporter | Key elements of the letter of intent include construction of an air museum, air park, multi-use facility, hotel, restaurant and education and restoration center. "We're pleased to announce this opportunity to help create what we believe will be a world ...

WWII Exhibit Opens in Agoura Hills - Patch.com | Included in his collection is a print of a B-25 fighter plane signed by Lt. Col. James Doolittle, commanding the first air raid over Tokyo in 1942, intended to bolster American morale and help bring down the influence of Japanese leadership in its own ...

Air Museum's press release on moving the Air Museum - Tillamook Headlight Herald | Ltd., who owns the Tillamook Air Museum, recently purchased an air-tanker operation based in Madras Oregon. Erickson Aero Tanker operates three DC7 air-tankers and is developing an MD87 new generation air-tanker with plans to operate a fleet of at ...

Air Museum hosts fifth annual Celebrity Waiter Dinner - WDAY  | The Fargo Air Museum tonight is raising money for a new addition, named after two legends, Bob Odegaard and Gerry Beck....

Staggering Beauty..... from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | Beech C17B Staggerwing VH-UXP (c/n 104) has been a work in progress at Mandeville for some time now and it made its first flight during May 2012. It made its way north to participate at the Classic Fighters Airshow, Omaka over Easter weekend which was dubbed "The Yanks Are Coming" so it was an apt inclusion in the aerial line-up....

Mary wonders from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Friday's Fabulous Flyer | What may have started out as a shear determination to live ended up being the journey of a lifetime, and Mary just keeps on racing to that finish line. Mary is the Wunder part of the "Wunder Women" team who will be racing in the Air Race Classic, June 18-21, 2013. After reading her story, you can imagine how fortunate any woman would be to spend four days of flying fun with her...

Leonardo da Vinci's Aerial Screw - nascent helicopter? from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Leonardo da Vinci’s Aerial Screw — nascent helicopter? As we all know, Leonardo was a visionary beyond all measure. He also sketched what is often credited with the first concept of the helicopter in 1480, though the Chinese had been playing with rotor blades as toys since 400 BCE — they were called bamboo dragonflies or zhuqingting [...]

First F-35B Night Vertical Landing from The Original Rocket Dungeon by Dick Stafford | For some reason, this shot reminded me of the hovercraft in the movie The Matrix.

Supersonic Speeds, Comfy Seats, a QWERTY Keyboard, and a Bathroom...Welcome to The Perfect Airplane! from Airplanista Aviation Blog by Dan Pimentel | Let's say for the sake of discussion, we were all Burt Rutan for a few moments, with his unbelievably large pool of aeronautical engineering knowledge to draw upon. He is, in my opinion, our most innovative airplane designer, and when he starts thinking of new ways to make a flying machine look better, fly faster or go farther, the result is always an incredibly efficient work of flying art...

NASA Flies Dragon Eye Unmanned Aerial Vehicle into Volcanic Plume - Science World Report | NASA has now flown a small electric aircraft into a volcano plume. Why? They wanted to study the volcano's chemical environment and gain data so that they could improve the remote-sensing capability of satellites and computer models of volcanic activity....