Indy Transponder 02-DEC-2013 1715z

Osprey displayed at air show at ASDF base - The Japan Times | SHINTOMI, MIYAZAKI PREF. – A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor transport aircraft was displayed at an air show Sunday at an Air Self-Defense Force base in Miyazaki Prefecture. It is the first time the controversial military aircraft was ...

We Love The Air Races – Donate Today * Photorecon.net | The only event of its kind in the world, the National Championship Air Races celebrated its 50th event in September 2013 with approximately 200,000 spectators from all around the world. This proved an important benchmark in the event’s recovery from the tragedy of 2011. Unfortunately, despite a thrilling and worthy celebration, the event suffered a significant financial shortfall for the...

Aluminum Overcast Soared Over Lambeau, Video Taken From The Bomb Bay · Warbirds News | After all the sequestration wasn’t that bad for warbird operators. In fact since when the military flybys were stopped, along with air show appearances, due to the sequestration many warbird organizations replaced what the USAF and US NAVY used to do...

Happy Birthday To The Beechcraft T-34 Mentor · Warbirds News | Sixty-five years ago today, the Beechcraft T-34 Mentor took flight for the first time.  A two-seat pilot trainer, the T-34 developed from the Beechcraft 35 Bonanza and was the west’s most successful postwar basic trainer.  Fully aerobatic, the Mentor was strengthened to withstand +6g and -3g.  The Air Force adopted the T-34A in 1953 as its first postwar primary trainer and the Navy followed in 1955 with the T-34B variant...

Texas flight museum: Fatal crash won't impact move - The Eagle | ... Executive director Larry Gregory declined to discuss why the project is now delayed until fall 2014. But he said it's unrelated to the recent crash of a P-51D Mustang known as "Galveston Gal."...

Remembering Seymour Johnson's participation in JFK's funeral flyover - ACC | ...Of those 50 fighter aircraft, 30 F-105s from the 4th Tactical Fighter Wing called the flightline of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base home. Twenty Navy F-4Bs rounded out the succession of fighter aircraft passing overhead. Then, Air Force One followed the fighters, concluding the flyover...

63 women broke the new women vertical world record - Bonjour BlueSky | Last week-end, 63 women broke the new women vertical world record. Congrats. Picture by Norman Kent.

Drone Origins: World War II and Vietnam-era Remotely Piloted Vehicles - Understanding Empire | ...During the “official” U.S. involvement in North and South Vietnam between 1965 and 1973, the region proved to be a “laboratory” for the testing and trialing of advanced American technology. The “electronic battlefield” was (at the time) a radical doctrine that aimed to map the entire battlespace with sensors and automated, machinic responses. The “McNamara Line” as it was known by its detractors, aimed to cover vast swathes of territory below the DMZ and into Laos with acoustic and seismic sensors that could detect human and truck movements....

Video: 'Amazon Prime Air' Makes A Fabulous Publicity Stunt For Cyber Monday - AirPigz | I could be wrong, but Amazon Prime Air looks like nothing more than a very effective publicity stunt to me. The video above has received over 2 million views in well under 24 hours... and it just happens to be Cyber Monday, hmm. If you were in the retail sales biz, offering a massive inventory via the great big interwebs, wouldn't you love to have half the country chatting you up right now? Of course you would...

Ghost of Comet ISON Fading Fast - Spaceports | Comet ISON has just begun to teach us about the nature of comets. First it was going to be the "Comet of the Century", and then it was immediately counted as dead because astronomers had the wrong perspectives of its perihelion, and then alive and it brightened immensely, and then was hammered by CME's from the sun...