Friday, November 1, 2013

Indy Transponder 01-NOV-2013 2345z

Indianapolis Air Show calls it quits - Indianapolis Star | Duncan said he thinks attendance was falling http://www.indyairshow.com/because “it got to be kind of ‘same-old, same-old.’” “People had been to the air show once or twice, and they said, ‘Well, we’ve seen that.’” “It’s unfortunate, I’m disappointed, but sometimes something may rest for a while and then get re-energized, and that may happen here.”...

The Temora Aviation Museum Is Making Final Preparations For Warbirds Downunder 2013 This Saturday 2nd November. · Warbirds News | More than 18 months of planning is complete and the staff and volunteers of the Temora Aviation Museum are now in the final stages of preparation for Warbirds Downunder 2013, which will take place this Saturday 2nd November. Warbirds Downunder will feature warbird aircraft from as far away as South East Victoria and South Australia to Toowoomba and Caboolture in Queensland....

Plans are under way for 2014! - RAF Waddington International Air Show's Blog | ...The 2014 Air Show will focus on the following themes: Commemoration of the onset of the First World War, 65th Anniversary of NATO, 70th Anniversary of D Day and the 50th Display Season of the Red Arrows.  The spectacular 7-hour flying display will feature the Red Arrows, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, the RAF Falcons freefall parachute team and many more military and civilian aircraft from the UK and around the world...

Red Bull Air Race training camp-on track - YouTube | On board with Peter Besenyei

Boeing VP Jean Chamberlin Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Women in Aerospace - Aviation.ca News | ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 30, 2013 – Jean Chamberlin, Boeing [NYSE: BA] Defense, Space & Security (BDS) vice president of Program Management, has been honored by Women in Aerospace for her “outstanding career and lifelong commitment to furthering the advancement of women’s opportunities in aerospace...

RI Aviation Hall of Fame to honor seven - The Providence Journal | This was the group that took over from the American Volunteer Group, or Flying Tigers. On this tour he had five confirmed kills and three probables. He returned to the U.S., and with another ace helped form the Air Commandos. He returned to combat with ...

Re-hang of the Lindbergh Monocoupe at Lambert International Airport from Missouri History Museum | Charles Lindbergh’s plane, which had previously hung in Terminal 1 at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport since 1979, has returned to its place of welcoming passengers to the St. Louis airport. Lindbergh’s 1934 Model D–127 Monocoupe, an iconic...

Heritage Flight Museum moving from Bellingham to Skagit - bellinghamherald.com | The Heritage http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2013/10/31/3289142/heritage-flight-museum-moving.html#storylink=cpyFlight Museum has announced it will be moving out of Bellingham International Airport to a new home at Skagit Regional Airport. Since the museum moved to Bellingham in 2001, its "Warbird Weekend" events have been popular with aviation and military history buffs. Vintage aircraft from...

Patuxent River Naval Air Museum loses formal status - So Md News | The Patuxent River Naval Air Museum is no longer a formal Navy museum, its association told the St. Mary's County commissioners in a letter last week. The Navy will no longer be paying the monthly utilities for the museum, but the terminated ...

Soon-to-be DC-7 Grille walkaround by travelforaircraft | Home of the Jack Bolt Memorial*, New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport will soon have a new and unusual restaurant which will be contained within a Douglas DC-7 — the soon-to-be DC-7 Grille! N381AA was built in 1957 and now resides, wheels on the grass, in the southeastern corner of the airport property. Carlos Gomez and the Perna family are the...

Connie V - Apron 6 | This weekend it is exactly one year ago we went to Lahr to visit the Super Constellation crew. So I think it’s matching to post some more shots from our photoflight we did last summer...

Photos: Final flight for 81 A-10s headed to boneyard - Air Combat Command

MIG 21 crash near Stead Airport - MyNews4 | A MIG 21 plane has crashed near the Reno-Stead Airport.  The crash happened near the East end of the airport.  The pilot of the airplane is being transported to the hospital with minor back injuries.

William Foard was reunited with a P-51 restored in the markings of the very one he flew during WWII

Photos: Guinness Rosie the Riveter Record | Yankee Air Museum's attempt to gather a world record number of Rosie the Riveters at the Willow Run Bomber Plant drew 143 lovely ladies, including four real WWII Rosies! Although we didn't gather quite enough to set a record, everyone had a great time, and we raised awareness for the campaign to save a small part of the Bomber Plant as our NEW home at www.savethebomberplant.org

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