Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Indy Transponder 24-DEC-2013 1900z

 
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NORAD to track Santa's global journey - ACC | 12/23/2013 - WASHINGTON -- On Christmas Eve, tens of thousands of children around the globe will gather around their family telephones and computers to track the path of Santa Claus as he makes his rounds delivering gifts on his sleigh led by tiny reindeer...

Tusker Air Show Dazzles Nairobi - AllAfrica.com | The Wilson Airport in Nairobi, which is more famous as an airport for smaller aeroplanes, hosted the Tusker Air Show this past weekend. The event, which had been postponed because of bad weather, returned as the skies turned blue skies with some of the most exciting actions in the air that Kenyans have seen...

Sywell Airshow to get WWI theme in 2014 - Minuteman Press | As next year marks the centenary of the First World War, it was recently announced that an airshow near Print company in Northampton printing services Northampton will be delivered with a distinctive Great War theme. The 2014 Sywell Airshow – which is held every two years – will feature a unique line-up of biplanes that soared over the battlefields of one of the most significant conflicts of the 20th century...

Women pilots of WWII will get grand recognition in Rose Parade - LA Times | After waiting decades http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-wasp-float-20131223,0,1569145.story#ixzz2oQJO9y39for military status and honors, several WASPs, all around 90, will ride atop their own float in the Rose Parade.

Red Tail Pilot Monument Dedication | The first monument in the nation to specifically honor the Red Tail pilots of the Tuskegee Airmen was dedicated on November 11, 2013, at the Orlando Science...

Join The AirPigz 'Naval Aviation Museum' MeetUp (Pensacola January 24-26, 2014) - AirPigz | This is your official invitation to make a trip to sunny Pensacola Florida for the AirPigz Naval Aviation Museum MeetUp on January 24-26, 2014...

Navy pilot who performed heroic blind landing during Korean War dies - Stars & Stripes | The stunned Navy pilot was gripped in pain, blood was pouring down his face and a good part of his warplane was destroyed. But worst of all, Ensign Kenneth Schechter couldn't see. An enemy shell had smashed into his Skyraider and fragments pierced his eyes. Hurtling over the Korean coast at 200 mph, Schechter was suddenly enveloped in blackness...

B-25 “Sandbar Mitchell” Update · Warbirds News | Moose Peterson reports. It took flight February, 1945 and in June, 1969 it came to an end. The B-25J 44-30733 saw military life as a trainer and civilian life as a fire bomber. July of 2013, the B-25J took flight again underneath a sky crane that lifted it off the Tanana River sandbar where it has rested for the last forty-four years. Patrick Mihalek had a child age dream of working with warbirds and at age 30, now heads the Warbirds of Glory Museum that is taking the Sandbar Mitchell back to the skies...

A Very Special F-104 Starfighter-Ferrari · WarbirdsNews | The F-104 was officially retired from the Aeronautica Militare Italiana ( Italian Air Force)  service during a large ceremony at Pratica di Mare in 2004. Almost ten years later this aircraft is still the favorite of many pilots, officers and aviation enthusiast in Italy, as well as around the world. In the...

Post flight - Apron 6 | Some more shots made at the first day of the A2A Academy. Shortly after the sunset flight...

USAF planes going to boneyard cited in rubbish report - Arizona News | The Air Force’s preference to mothball a swift of mint load planes — unclosed in an I-Team review in Oct — done this year’s list of a tip 100 examples of supervision rubbish in America, published annually by U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. Coburn’s Wastebook 2013 notes, as a I-Team reported, that Congress destined a Air Force to continue purchasing a planes even after a Air Force Chief of Staff pronounced it didn’t need them...

Day 7 - December 21, 2013 - TeenFlight! | It is exciting to see the progress and the excitement around the TeenFlight hangar on Saturdays.  The TeenFlight 3 crew is really getting into the build.  The mentors divided the students into four teams: Purple, Red, Green, and Blue.  Each of these teams consists of three or four students.  The teams have...

Astronauts make rare Christmas Eve spacewalk from RGJ.com | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts wrapped up urgent space station repairs during a rare Christmas Eve spacewalk Tuesday, braving a 'mini blizzard' of noxious ammonia as they popped in a new pump.

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