Monday, June 30, 2014

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The Wood, Fabric, & Tailwheels Fly-In is Back  * NORDO News - Aviation Unedited · Rich http://nordonews.leebottom.com/2014/06/the-wood-fabric-tailwheels-fly-in-is.htmlDavidson | The Wood, Fabric & Tailwheels Fly-In is back. Many of you have been asking about it for months and up till now all we could say is we’d get back to you. Well, this is us getting back to you. The Lee Bottom Fly-In is a go for this year and the dates are September 19-21; that’s a Friday through Sunday. Now, before some of you start sending angry emails because of the date and the rest of you begin asking questions, let me try to address them first....

PHOTOS: Tinker Air Force Base Air Show * KOCO | Last weekend, Tinker Air Force Base held its air show. Viewer Jeff Halasz sent us these photos. He's a retired Airman and an amateur photographer from Midwest City.

45th Annual Cracker Fly-in set for Sat. - Access North Georgia  | GAINESVILLE - The Gainesville-based Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 611 will host its 45th Annual Cracker Fly-In July 5 in Gainesville at Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport...

Typhoon and Spitfire D-Day Flypast at The Royal Air Tattoo  · WarbirdsNews | On Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 July we also have a special flypast to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of D-Day when an RAF Typhoon from 29(R) Squadron and a Spitfire from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will fly together, both in their D-Day markings. Another flypast is scheduled to commemorate the British aerobatic team Red Arrows.The Patrouille de France, Frecce Tricolori, Patrouille Suisse and the Breitling Jet Team will all take part in this tribute to...

Boeing P-26 Peashooter Heads To Duxford for Flying Legends · The Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California is sending their Boeing P-26A Peashooter to England this July to take part in the Flying Legends air show over the weekend of July 12th/13th at Duxford, in Cambridgeshire. This ulra-rare fighter plane is one of only two originals in existence, and the only one flying....

Air Show San Diego 2014 - Photorecon.net · On Saturday and Sunday, June 7th and 8th, the San Diego Wing of the Commemorative Air Force, ‘Air Group One’, held their 19th annual airshow at Gillespie Field in El Cajon, Ca. The show (formerly known as “Wings Over Gillespie”) has been renamed “AirShow San Diego”. This years show commemorated the 70th anniversary of D-DAY. The star of the show was the C-53 Skytrooper known as “D-Day Doll”, which actually flew 3 missions in the invasion of Normandy....


ERAU Team Takes Top Collegiate Honors In Women's Air Race Classic * Aero-News Network | Daytona Beach Campus Students Also Finished Second Overall | Pilot Val Mehanja and co-pilot Nancy Snyder from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach, FL campus took first place in the collegiate division of this year’s women’s Air Race Classic, besting 11 other university teams. Mehanja and Snyder also finished second overall out of 50 teams from across the country in the 2,338-nautical-mile race that concluded last Saturday in New Cumberland, PA...

World War II aircraft to land in Marion * By Scott Fitzgerald | MARION -- One of the world's oldest flying bombers is coming to Southern Illinois. The Consolidated B-24 Liberator "Diamond Lil" will land sometime between 10:30 a.m. and noon Monday at Williamson County Regional Airport.  Free tours will be offered throughout the day as people will be allowed inside the aircraft....

A conversation with Jack Pelton * Kansas.com | As child, former Cessna Aircraft chairman and CEO Jack Pelton attended the country's largest aviation event – AirVenture Oshkosh – with his dad. It was through his father that he got interested in the aviation industry. “My dad was always an aviation...

‘No Guts, No Glory’: 334th FS honors legendary fighter pilot * seymourjohnson.af.mil |The Air Force is no stranger to excellence. It is a virtue engrained into the service's core values and is an integral part of each Airman's life. According to those who knew and served with, Maj. Gen. Frederick "Boots" Blesse, a former Air Force ace pilot, he exemplified excellence during his service....

Aviator hall gets remodel - Paris News | Nine years after it was first begun, a display of military aviator pride has received a face lift. In 2005, Capt. Jack Ashmore, a member of Cox Field’s airport advisory board, envisioned converting the airport’s conference room into something akin to a museum, showcasing photographs and memorabilia from military pilots with local connections...

An Electric Altitude Record in Short Sleeves · Dean Sigler, CAFE Foundation Blog | Gary Davis of Greenville, South Carolina set a world altitude record for electric trikes, about the simplest of powered flying machines. His flight to 4,790 feet above mean sea level (under 4,000 feet above ground level) exceeded his hope to reach at least 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) and puts him and power system provider Randall Fishman in the record books, at least when the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) ratifies the numbers....

Palm Springs Air Museum Announces New Development Manager · WarbirdsNews | Palm Springs, CA: After eight months of lengthy interviews, the Executive Board of the Palm Springs Air Museum is pleased to announce Victoria Cracknell as the museum’s new Development Manager. Board Chairman Dan Gilbertson said “As a non-profit organization, our dedicated staff must wear many hats and Victoria’s multi-skill-sets definitely fit our requirements; it’s the Board’s pleasure to welcome her into the family of the Palm Springs Air Museum.”...

The F-106 which almost got away with it by travelforaircraft | The F-106A on exhibit in the Heritage http://travelforaircraft.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/the-f-106-which-almost-got-away-with-it/Hill Air Park of the McChord Air Museum was originally assigned to Major Joseph "Joe" Rodgers for a speed record attempt. As so often happens with complicated aircraft it was grounded at the last moment so Maj. Rogers simply hopped into another F-106, setting a still standing record of 1529.29 mph (2446.864kph) — impressively, though set in 1959 the record stands for a single engine aircraft.... 

Illinois National Guard Troops Welcomed Home at Mount Vernon Outland Airport · Carmelo Turdo, The Aero Experience  | Members of the IL Army National Guard were welcomed back from a training deployment at Mount Vernon Outland Airport Thursday. The troops arrived in six C-130H Hercules transport aircraft flown by the IL Air National Guard 182nd Airlift Wing based in Peoria, IL. Airport Manager Chris Collins assembled a great team of staff and volunteers to safely direct and park the aircraft. The troops were greeted at the terminal by a unit of Young Marines and ushered to waiting coaches for the remainder of the trip. The Aero Experience was on site to capture the arrivals, and we can now share some of the photos here...
Eyes On the Sky: Six Tips For Photographing An Air Show ... · Andrea Nay | The 2014 Vectren Dayton Air Show has one more day left, and — weather permitting — you might find yourself there with your eyes on the sky and a cell phone in hand. I’ve covered the show for Tipp News Daily several times, and I’ve had a chance to photograph the Blue Angels three different years. Would you like a few tips for stopping time and snapping some fantastic memories?...

Sun N Fun pilots to participate in 'Fly In' to Grand Bahama and Bimini | PLANTATION, Florida -- For decades aviators have loved flying over the pristine waters and clear skies of The Islands Of The Bahamas, and June 25-29, 2014, some twenty-five pilots of Sun N Fun, led by Captain Mike Zidziunas, The Bahamas’ Flying Ambassador, will navigate the skies of Grand Bahama and Bimini. The Fly-In is a...

F-35A Flights at Eglin Suspended After Fighter Catches Fire * Aviation International News | The grounding will not affect the imminent departure of four F-35Bs to the UK, where they will appear at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) and the Farnborough Air Show. The aircraft are set to fly direct from NAS Patuxent River, MD to RAF...

Irena Raymond on Flying the Sunseeker Duo · Dean Sigler, CAFE Foundation Blog | A few days after posting the entry on the Raymond’s first cross country flight in their new solar-powered Sunseeker Duo, your editor received followups from Irena and Eric. First, Irena shares her impressions of what sounds like a beautiful flight....

NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility Operations Highlights · WarbirdsNews | You got to Love YouTube! Here is a great find, this videos show the historical archive film footage from the NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility. Part 1 shows the1940′s experimental aircraft including the Northrop YB-49 flying wing and the X-series research aircraft on the ground and in flight, including scenes of http://video.boeing.com/services/player/bcpid1173939806001?bckey=AQ~~%2cAAAAukPAlqE~%2coAVq1qtdRjwBrIkHYj2MSytJiEK9s5fy&bctid=1331877361001Chuck Yeager’s record breaking X-1 flight and the X-15 space plane.Parasail & lifting body experiments.... 

Phantom Eye - Boeing | Let's learn about a surveillance plane that can stay aloft for 4 days.

Weekend Recap: 30-JUN-2014

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Dayton Air Show wows thousands * Dayton Daily News | “They're awesome,” said Nadaud, wearing a NASA t-shirt as the six F/A-18 jets thundered over the Vectren Dayton Air Show. Nadaud and his wife, Julie, were part of a crowd of thousands who spilled through the gates of the air show at Dayton...

Flying with a legend * Piqua Daily Call | I was to be given an honor of my own, an aerobatic flying lesson, courtesy of Sean Tucker. Tucker is a fun and entertaining man to be around. There is “that” point, when planning a flight or actually flying, that Tucker is all business. While still...

Wide open skies at Hill air show - Standard-Examiner | HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Thousands of eyes were glued to the sky Saturday, as some of the country’s best aerial performers “knife-edged” “dived” and “hammered” their way through the air as part of the 2014 Warriors Over The Wasatch: Power Of Airmen air show open house at Hill Air Force Base.  The Hill team that helped organized the event put Saturday’s crowd at about 200,000 people....

Air force secretary gets sick flying with Thunderbirds * Washington Times | Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James became “violently ill” during a ride with the storied Thunderbirds aerial acrobatic team this week.  Commanders at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., thought it would be good PR to invite the relatively new secretary for a flight with its most famous squadron. Amid tight defense spending, there is pressure to demonstrate the worth of the Thunderbirds, which is back in the air show business after having been grounded last year when sequestration took hold...

Annual Waterloo Air Show takes flight for thousands of spectators - CTV News | All eyes were on the sky today for the annual Waterloo Air Show. Thousands came to check out the sights and very loud sounds of the aircraft, at the Region of Waterloo International Airport. The first of two days, the airshow runs with a variety of planes both in the air and on the ground. Though it might not be for everyone, it was quite an experience for the Dittmer family, who came to the show for the first time....

Taking flight: News reporter Charles Lefebvre would not be denied a ride again - Medicine Hat News | Story time: Shortly after I began working at the Medicine Hat News, the Flying Fortress Sentimental Journey arrived in Medicine Hat, and I was scheduled to take part in the media ride. I love aviation. My father served in the Air Force for 23 years as an aircraft mechanic and my grandfather Gordon Charles Blair served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, as a gunner in the Lancaster...

Festival of Speed 2014: Red Arrows rule the skies above Goodwood * Chichester Observer | THOUSANDS of Festival of Speed visitors tore their focus away from the hill climb to spot the Red Arrows fly by at Goodwood today (June 27). The air display by the elite flying squad lasted for at least ten minutes, until the Arrows did a low fly-past...

F-16, F/A-18 and Mig-29′s Solo demos at Roma International Air Show 2014 · David Cenciotti | ...Along with the Frecce Tricolori and Patrouille de France display teams and the usual solo displays by the Italian Air Force’s F-2000, Tornado IDS, AMX and C-27J, Roma International Air Show 2014, didn’t fail to meet the expectations of about 1 million spectators bringing in the skies over Ostia, on the coast to the west of Rome, Italy, some really interesting guests: the Dutch F-16 Demo Team, the Belgian Air Force F-16 demo team, the Swiss Air Force F-18 demo and the Polish Air Force Mig-29 demo....

Photos: The Patrouille de France and many other Sunday in Le Cannet-des-Maures - Var-Matin (translated) | http://www.nicematin.com/diaporama/laviation-legere-de-larmee-de-terre-fete-ses-60-ans-0.1802253.html?idx=22#top-diapoOn the occasion of 60 years of general aviation of the Army (Alat), School of Cannet Moorish hosts a spectacular airshow Sunday | Year after year, the airshow EALAT has become an appointment reference material. Since Friday, from all over France, dozens of "spotters", these enthusiasts aéronautisme weighted cameras and video planquent around the base Lejay, multiplying clichés As the aircraft (helicopters and aircraft, military and civilian, flaming or antique ...) arise Cannet...

Oklahoma Warbirds take off in Wolfe Field - Duncan Banner | DUNCAN — The breezy weekend didn’t take all of the fun out of the first Warbirds radio control air show held just south of Bray on Friday and Saturday.  Over 50 Pilots from Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas joined together from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days to put on a show that audiences wouldn’t forget...

History on the move - The Register-Guard | COTTAGE GROVE — At age 70, Doug Kindred says he’s the junior member of the Oregon Aviation Historical Society’s board of directors.  So it pleased him greatly to see youngsters roaming the grounds of Jim Wright Field at Cottage Grove State Airport on Saturday, checking out classic aircraft and automobiles during the historical society’s first-ever Wings & Wheels event...

Transportation Expo, B-17 serve as reminders of Sioux City history - Sioux City Journal | SIOUX CITY | For some, Saturday at the Mid America Museum of Transportation and Aviation’s Transportation Expo was an opportunity to see one of the last flight-capable World War II era B-17 bombers in existence. For others, it was a rare look into a piece of family history....

GALLAGHER: WWII co-pilot from Hawarden returns to sky in B-17 - Sioux City Journal | SERGEANT BLUFF | Thirty seconds after a B-17 bomber lifts from Sioux Gateway Airport on Thursday afternoon, one of its passengers lifts from his seat and steps into the cockpit. "I might have jumped the gun a bit," the passenger says with a smile, admitting he maybe hadn't yet gotten the all-clear from the flight director....

B-29 Super Fortress FiFi Cockpit B&W * Keith Breazeal Video Productions - Amador County Photographer | Cockpit view of the B-29 Super Fortress bomber "FiFi". This photo was taken 7 June 2014 at Mather Field, Ca. during her west coast tour. FiFi was there all weekend allowing for several flights and photo opportunities. I was on the official photo tour that started at 5 am and lasted into the afternoon. Sunrise photos were...

Veteran reunited with Vietnam-era jet at Palm Springs Air Museum - The Desert Sun | PALM SPRINGS – It was like seeing an old friend, Gordon Jenkins said, standing next to "Kombat Kathy," the very F-105D fighter jet he flew on 100 missions over North Vietnam nearly 50 years ago. The plane has been restored and is now one of 10 Vietnam era aircraft on exhibit at the Palm Springs Air Museum...

Women take flight - The Daily Progress  | When Meagan Maynard turned right out of Hollymead with her daughters and niece in tow Saturday, the girls thought they were going to run errands. Ten minutes later, they were on the tarmac at Landmark Aviation, face to face with a line of airplanes gassed up and ready for free flights. There was only one condition: no boys allowed...

NASA Launches 'Flying Saucer' to Test Mars Landing Tech - Space.com  | New NASA gear that could help humanity set up an outpost on Mars has gotten its first test flight.  The space agency launched its Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) test vehicle Saturday (June 28) from Hawaii. Although the first part of the test went well, the vehicle's huge parachute apparently failed to deploy properly — but LDSD engineers are pleased anyway...

Friday, June 27, 2014

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Weekend Calendar * Fencecheck | All your weekend shows are listed by our friends at the link. fencecheck.com

F-16s to carry out daring maneuvers during weekend air show - fox13now.com | HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah — The Air Force Thunderbirds will return to Utah skies this weekend for the first time in two years. It’s an opportunity to get up close and personal with some of the fastest jets in the military. It’s called the Warriors over the Wasatch open house and air show, and it’s a chance to see F-16s reach unthinkable speeds while doing what appear to be some pretty dangerous tricks....

A star spangled weekend to remember * Springfield News Sun | The final component of the four-day festivities is the 2014 Vectren Dayton Air Show Presented by Kroger and held at Dayton International Airport in Vandalia. This year's celebration welcomes back the Navy Blue Angels demonstration team. The Blues...

Stunt Pilot Sean D. Tucker Takes Reporter Wale Aliyu 3500 Feet In The Air - WKEF ABC 22 | ..."When we pull away from the Earth, all the blood is going to be leaving your head. The harder I pull, the faster it'll leave your head. We'll start out at 4 Gs," said Tucker, explaining the force of gravity. "If you like this stuff we'll give you 6 Gs. If you really like it, we'll give you 8."...

RAF Tucano arrives as build up begins for Sunderland Airshow - Sunderland Echo | THIS year’s Sunderland International Airshow got off to a flying start as one of the main attractions arrived in style. The Royal Air Force Tucano Display team landed at Newcastle Airport yesterday for a special preview of next month’s Wearside spectacular...

Sunderland International Airshow launches with special memorial plane - ChronicleLive | This year’s Sunderland International Airshow was launched with a special aircraft paint-job to mark 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War. The Royal Air Force (RAF) Tucano display team got a makeover featuring a cloud of poppies around the plane’s nose and the words ‘lest we forget’....

NASA WB-57F Confirms Oshkosh Appearance * EAA | EAA http://www.eaa.org/en/airventure/eaa-airventure-news-and-multimedia/eaa-airventure-news/eaa-airventure-oshkosh/2014-06-25-nasa-wb-57f-confirms-oshkosh-appearancethis week confirmed that NASA will bring a Martin/General Dynamics WB-57F high-altitude aircraft to Oshkosh this year. Based at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, the WB-57F operates in NASA’s High Altitude Research Program. The aircraft provides unique, high-altitude (up to 70,000 feet MSL) airborne platforms to United States government agencies and other customers for scientific research, advanced technology development, and testing around the world. This will be the first appearance by a WB-57F at AirVenture...

Swiss F/A-18C Hornet Full Throttle Airshow 2014 * TakeOffTube.com

OK Warbirds set for takeoff - Duncan Banner | DUNCAN — The first Oklahoma Warbirds radio control air show will welcome over 100 pilots from seven states today and Saturday. The event will occur at Wolfe Field, a private airfield with a 40-acre campus located four miles south of Bray from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. This is the first radio control air show to be held at this site and in this part of Oklahoma, said Bill Holland, event director and Associate Vice President for Academy of Model Aeronautics...

Historic bomber in Medicine Hat today - Medicine Hat News  | Hatters will have an opportunity to view a piece of aviation history beginning today.  The Commemorative Air Force Airbase Arizona will be flying its B-25J “Maid in the Shade” bomber from the Second World War into the Medicine Hat airport at noon today, where it will be on display and available for flights until June 30....

Sgt. John Spatharos’ bomber called ‘Steak & Eggs’ crashed in Coral Sea in WW II · Don Moore, War http://donmooreswartales.com/2014/06/27/john-spatharos/Tales | ...When Sgt. John Spatharos of Tangerine Woods, Englewood, Fla. climbed aboard an A-20, twin-engine attack bomber dubbed “Steak and Eggs” at Kila Airstrip on the island of New Guinea during World War II he had no idea what fate had in store for him....

GALLAGHER: WWII co-pilot from Hawarden returns to sky in B-17 - Sioux City Journal  | SERGEANT BLUFF | Thirty seconds after a B-17 bomber lifts from Sioux Gateway Airport on Thursday afternoon, one of its passengers lifts from his seat and steps into the cockpit.  "I might have jumped the gun a bit," the passenger says with a smile, admitting he maybe hadn't yet gotten the all-clear from the flight director....

F-84F at the American Airpower Museum | This week the American Airpower museum also took delivery of the legendary F-84F to its collection. Acquired from the neighboring Cradle of aviation museum The F-84F rounds out one of the most complete collections of Republic Fighter Aircraft outside the USAF Museum. The F-84F, joins the P-47D, F-84E, RF-84F, F-105D, and A-10 in the American Airpower Museum collection.

Amelia Earhart Namesake Takes Off on Aviatrix's Route (Video) - Newsmax.com | A 31-year-old pilot named Amelia Earhart from Denver, Colorado, took off Thursday on an 18-day, 28,000-mile trip around the world following the same route that her namesake attempted in back in 1937. Earhart hopes to succeed where the original aviatrix didn't, and become the youngest woman to fly around the world in a single-engine aircraft,...Those interested in tracking her flight minute-by-minute can visit AmeliaEarhartProject.com or FlightAware.com.

Brendan O'Mara · Flight To Success Friday's Fabulous Flyer | ...Just as twilight approached it was clear there actually was someone on the airfield – no idea what their official capacity was but they had no interest in our excuse that it was dark soon or the weather approaching from the north, we were told clearly, and I quote... “I don’t care what you do with your plane – but you two….. both of you are going to be over THAT FENCE by Midnight”....

Fly-In to fun - Moose Lake Star-Gazette | Ten-year-old Evin Davis has his sights set on a future of http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNGvkuS27Zg8Sw_1DJkNL6teae1giQ&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=c36tU_j7HcnrgQfI6YGwBw&url=http://www.mlstargazette.com/story/2014/06/26/lifestyles/fly-in-to-fun/1133.htmlflying. It's not often that a 10-year-old boy has a clear vision of what he would like to do when he grows up. However, Evin Davis, son of Barnum residents Randy and Lacy Davis, is exactly that focused...

The tragic tale of Dusty the dog revealed as Red Arrows prepare for Royal ... - Gloucestershire Echo | ...Flying at Red 7 in the original line up Squadron Leader Henry Prince, An experienced aerobatic display pilot, he arrived in January 1965 for formation training. With him was his trusted golden Labrador; Dusty. Dusty had been the team mascot for the Yellowjacks and soon became Red Arrows official mascot. He could often be found at his master’s feet during briefings, although he did occasionally venture into the cockpit....

Red Arrows dog mascot Dusty's grave transformed for anniversary * BBC News | The long-forgotten grave of the Red Arrows' first mascot, a dog called Dusty, has been transformed to mark the team's 50th display season. Dusty was killed by an aircraft on the eve of the Red Arrows' first display at RAF Fairford, in 1965. He was...

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Air show hoping attendance takes off * WDTN | But along with making memories, air show officials hope the Blue Angels will help them forget last year's low attendance. “It's always important to have good attendance at the show because it's the main aviation event we have in the area,” says Timothy...

Lucky Teen Gets Early Taste of Air Show Excitement * WRGT TV Fox 45 | DAYTON -- The U.S. Navy Blue Angels, one of America's premier military jet teams, will arrive in Dayton Thursday morning before flying on June 28-29th in the Vectren Dayton Air Show Presented by Kroger. The event will be held at the Dayton...

'Warriors Over The Wasatch' air show returns to Hill AFB * ksl.com | This year's air show "promises http://www.hill.af.mil/warriorsoverthewasatch/to be an event of excitement, thrills and breathtaking flying like you have never seen before," according to event organizers. The show also feature Red Bull pilot Kirby Chambliss, the Rob Holland Ultimate Airshow and the...

Kalispell air show to provide boost to local economy * KPAX-TV | The Kalispell Chamber of Commerce estimates the economic benefit of the air show will fall somewhere between $3.5 million and $4.7 million - and that's actually a conservative estimate. The Chamber expects at least 25% of that money will be spent in...

Relocated South Shore Air Show canceled over rain * Journal and Courier | FAIR OAKS, Ind. (AP) — An air show relocated from Gary to Newton County has been cancelled this year because viewing and parking areas are too soggy after at least 10 inches of rain in 30 days....

Support for 14th annual Kenai Peninsula Air Fair appreciated * Kenai Peninsula Online | Mike Hunt and the Alaska Wing Commemorative Air Force and our financial sponsors Crowley Fuel, Alaska Airmen's Association, Beacon Occupational Health & Safety, Peninsula Aero Tech, and Wince-Corthell-Bryson. Without you this event just would not...

Sunderland International Airshow launches with special memorial plane * ChronicleLive | This year's Sunderland International Airshow was launched with a special aircraft paint-job to mark 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War. The Royal Air Force (RAF) Tucano display team got a makeover featuring a cloud of poppies around...

French Navy Join Air Day Celebrations * UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | Rafale multirole fighters from the French Navy will represent the sharp end of ‘Carrier Aviation’ at RNAS Yeovilton International Air Day on 26 July. Two Rafale Ms will be part of the event’s static display, joined by a Falcon 10 transport and communications aircraft in the French Navy’s only UK airshow appearance of this year so far confirmed.

Spitfire and Vulcan among line-up for Navy RNAS Culdrose Air Day 2014 * West Briton | Commander Peter Munro-Lott, Commander Air at Culdrose – or 'Wings' as he is known at the base – said: “This year we have four aerobatic display teams, all competing to woo the crowds with their dazzling displays and death-defying manoeuvres. “Whether...

RED ARROWS AND THE BLADES FOR COWES WEEK * Island Echo | local letterbox, an exciting new business that is set to be the only dedicated network of parcel shops and parcelpods™ in the UK, stepped-in with support to safeguard the regatta's Red Arrows display last year. This year, the company that will soon be...

Carroll Co. Airport to host Fly-In Sat. * Carroll County News | The Carroll County Airport is hosting a Fly-In from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 28. The event is planned in honor of former airport managers Perry and Sheila Evans, who will soon relocate. The public is welcome to attend, and pilots, members of...

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EAA’s Young Eagles to receive ‘Spirit of Flight’ award · General Aviation News Staff  | Every year, the National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) presents the Milton Caniff “Spirit of Flight” Award to a group or organization in recognition for its exceptional contributions to the advancement of flight. Receiving the 2014 honor will be the Young Eagles Program of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA)....

Crossroads women win historic air race * Victoria Advocate | The Racing Aces flew away with the 38th annual Air Race Classic win last week by an unusually wide margin. "The spread was about two-and-a-half knots between first and second place," said Dianna Stanger, one of three women pilots on the team. "And it's...

Amelia Rose Earhart embarks on around-the-world flight from Oakland * San Jose Mercury News | "She was also about paving the way for women in aviation." Fifty girls are participating in the foundation now. She said many of the girls tell her that they were the type of kids who stared at the sky and watched planes. "We can fly just as well as...

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B-17 Flying Fortress on display at Toledo Express Airport * LimaOhio.com | Sentimental Journey is maintained and operated as a flying museum and veterans' memorial by the all-volunteer non-profit Commemorative Air Force. Built during 1943, this heavy bomber has been continuously flown, performing missions from military...

Timeless Voices - Bazil Perkins · eaavideo.org | Bazil Perkins (1922-2005) enlisted in the Air Corps in June 1941. Trained as an aircraft mechanic, he was sent to Goose Bay, Labrador to help establish an airbase for the Ferry Command. Once there, Bazil served as the line chief for two years.

Moose Peterson’s Air to Air Photoshoot With the CAF Dixie Wing · WarbirdsNews  | In April, WarbirdsNews had the opportunity to take part in a couple of photo missions with aviation photographer Moose Peterson and the CAF Dixie Wing. We thought you might enjoy this video filmed with a GoPro video camera attached to the side of the camera ship’s fuselage and another inside the cockpit looking back at Moose. For...

Happy Birthday To The Grumman F6F Hellcat · WarbirdsNews

6/28, 7/28: Kid night at Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson * azcentral.com | Bring the kids to Pima Air & Space Museum's summer-evening programs, which includes aviation-related activity stations that will engage children as they learn about flight. Some offer small prizes. Highlights of the June program include a scavenger...

Another update from Lisa, GWW Private Pilot Scholarship Winner! The Girls With Wings Blog | This is the second journal entry provided to us by Lisa Kienholz, who was selected for a Private Pilot Scholarship from Girls With Wings. The Girls With Wings 2014 Scholarship Program includes the Private Pilot Scholarship, to help defray the cost of flight training lessons in pursuit of a private pilot certificate. This...

Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor: Upcoming Events

July ~ December 2014

(For more information on all Museum Events listed below: 808-441-1007. Purchase general admission tickets for all events. Tickets are available at PacificAviationMuseum.org)

July 4th – Sing the 4th of July! Celebrating Independence Day with performances by choral groups Melemai Kapu’uwaimai, and from China, Liao Qiyu Opera Troupe, 12:00pm to 1:30pm, Hangar 37. Free with Museum admission and free to Museum members.

July 15th- 17th – Aviation Adventure. A cross-cultural experience for young people as students from China will join our local students as they explore the history of aviation in Hawaii and the science, technology, engineering and math principles of flight. Three full days and two nights of adventure. Overnight accommodations provided on the Battleship Missouri. $300 for the 3-day/2-night program includes all materials, meals, snacks, overnight accommodations, and an Aviation Adventure logo tee shirt. Discounts available for Museum Members. This program is open to those who have completed the Museum’s basic Flight School program or who are at least 13 years of age. Aviation Adventure repeats: July 22nd-24th. Visit www.PacificAviationMuseum.org/Education/AviationAdventure or email Education@PacificAviationMuseum.org for more information.

August 16th & 17th – Biggest Little Airshow in Hawaii, 10am to 4pm. This year is the Museum’s 6th Remote-Control Airshow. Visitors will be able to drive on to Ford Island or take the free shuttle from the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center and experience remote control 1/5th scale warbirds, jets, and helicopters performing aerial combat, stunts, aerobatics, and candy bombings for the keiki. Other activities include: music, actual aircraft flyovers, full size aircraft static displays, hangar tours, enter to win prize drawings, food, drink, retail and entertainment booths and exhibits, and a free showing of Disney’s new film Planes: Fire and Rescue, at 5pm. (Bring your chairs and mats.) This is a Hawaii Tourism Authority sponsored event. Sponsored in part by Clear Channel Media + Entertainment, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Yelp, Pearlridge Center, Mokulele Airlines, Pizza Hut, Aqua Hospitality, and Hawaii Gas. For more information including sponsorship and booth opportunities, call 808-441-1013 or visit PacificAviationMuseum.org.Tickets for the Airshow only and tickets for the entire Museum visit that day are available online at PacificAviationMuseum.org

September 27 – Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Live! Free admission to Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor for anyone presenting a Museum Day Live! Ticket. Download free tickets at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/. This is an annual national celebration of culture & learning between the two museums. Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor is a Smithsonian Affiliate Museum.

October 4th – Hangar Talk & Book Signing with Stacey Hayashi, author of Journey of Heroes. Hangar Talk is at 2pm followed by book signing and meet the author at 3pm. Free with Museum admission and free to Museum Members.

October 18th – Open Cockpit Day, 10am to 4pm in both Hangars. Climb into the cockpit of one of several of our historic aircraft and talk story with pilots. Flight suits, helmets, and fun provided. Bring your camera! Free with Museum admission and free to Museum Members.

December 6 - 8th Anniversary Dinner Gala - “Destinations & Dreams” 5:30 to 9:30PM. The annual fundraiser for Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor. Cocktails, dinner, entertainment, and prize opportunities to help support the Museum’s Restoration and Education programs. Tickets are $250 for the gala event in the battlefield hangars of Ford Island, on the night before the December 7th attack occurred in 1941. Information, sponsor tables & ticket sales at PacificAviationMuseum.org or call 441-1006 for more.

The Museum Store and Laniakea Café restaurant are unique in their offerings and their 1940s ambiance. Phone (808) 441-1000 or visit www.PacificAviationMuseum.org for tickets and more information.

Tickets and a free Flight Simulator coupon are available online.

Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization, which depends on membership and donations for its support. A Smithsonian Affiliate Museum, it is also rated one of the top 10 aviation attractions nationally by TripAdvisor®. It is located at 319 Lexington Boulevard, Historic Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Honolulu, Hawaii 96818.

Thursday, June 26, 2014

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Blue Angels to fly over Cincinnati Thurs. * WKRC TV Cincinnati | The Blue Angels will fly the squadron's six-jet F/A-18 Hornet Delta Formation over the city with smoke on at approximately 9:30 a.m. while in route to the Vectren Dayton Air Show. The Vectren Dayton Air Show runs from June 28-29 at the Dayton...

Would you climb in this plane for a ride? * WDTN | Centerville sophomore Alberta Dempsey got to ride along with Sean D. Tucker, one of the air show's major attractions. Alberta won an essay contest for the Experimental Aircraft Association's Young Eagles program. The group's goal is to connect young...

Iowa City air show returns after more than a decade * The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines | Airplanes will set the skies of Iowa City abuzz this weekend as a statewide air show returns to town for the first time in over a decade. Acrobatic acts, children's activities and optional rides in historic aircraft are all part of The Fly Iowa Airshow...

Soggy June forces Fair Oaks air show cancellation * nwitimes.com | The show would have featured the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, the U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team and other acrobatic air events. Although Wednesday's announcement was made under sunny skies, the National Weather Service has recorded 2...

Video: 2014 EAA Warbirds in Review · WarbirdsNews | For the past 12 years, one of the most http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/2014-eaa-warbirds-review.htmlinteresting and talked about programs presented at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh has been Warbirds in Review. Monday through Saturday of AirVenture week, at 10:00am and 1:00pm, veterans who actually flew in harm’s way are re-united with living, flying examples of the aircraft they flew and the owners/restorers/pilots who have “Kept’em Flying.”The result is a...

Biggest Little Air Show in Hawaii  · WarbirdsNews | The Pacific Aviation Museum in historic Pearl Harbor, Honolulu is hosting the Biggest Little Airshow in Hawaii over the weekend of August 16th/17th from 10am to 4pm each day. The popular remote-control aircraft show will be the biggest it’s ever been. Guests will be able to drive on to Ford Island for this event, or take the free shuttle from the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center. There will be...

Radio Control Club holds Fun-Fly air show * bcrnews.com | PERU — The Illinois Valley Radio Control Club will hold its annual Fun-Fly air show from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 28 at Flaherty Field airport in Peru. Many airplane models with wing spans ranging from 18 inches to more than 10 feet will be on display.

Vero Beach Air Show raises $100K for local veterans and abused children * TCPalm | The 2014 Vero Beach Air Show was the biggest and best event ever on the Treasure Coast, thanks to generous sponsors, hundreds of volunteers, and the thousands of people who attended. The next show is already being planned for 2016. According to...

Video: Fascinating Historical Account Of The 1965 Reno Air Races (Progress In The Air) * AirPigz | This recently uploaded gem of a video is an old-school professionally produced film that chronicled the wide variety of aviation related activities taking place during the 1965 Reno Air Races. It's 21 minutes long but very well worth your time if you have any interest in the era that defined so much of what modern aviation is all about today....

WWII vet reminisces during B-17 flight tour of Kansas City * Sedalia Democrat | For the first time http://www.sedaliademocrat.com/news/home_top-news/5111425/WWII-vet-reminisces-during-B-17-flight-tour-of-Kansas-Citysince World War II, a local veteran flew in the same type of plane he navigated over the hostile skies of Europe in 1944 as he boarded the famous Memphis Belle B-17 Flying Fortress on display in Kansas City. The plane, which is...

Stickman Enjoys His B-17 Ride * The Spokesman Review (blog) | Stickman: It took off around 5:15 and headed towards Post Falls. It's the pilot's discretion where to fly, mostly because there was a very big dark cloud over us that looked like a thunderstorm. Someone mentioned he might go north towards Rathdrum and...

Amelia Earhart to fly around the world, 77 years after namesake * The Denver Post | People invariably asked her if she had plans to become a pilot like the legendary aviatrix for whom she was named. Teachers in school spent extra time discussing the original Amelia Earhart. It only got worse when her family moved to Oberlin Park, Kan...

Air museum presentation sheds light on Earhart disappearance * Hartford Courant | Ric Gillespie talked about the research and theories regarding Earhart at two recent presentations, entitled "The Search for Amelia Earhart," held on June 15, at the New England Air Museum. The presentations were made in front of the museum's Lockheed...

Video clip shows A-7K Corsair jet’s strafing passes on Michigan Range 24 years ago * The Aviationist

South Carolina 23rd state to include aviation in recreation law · General Aviation News | COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s legislature voted June 6 to amend the State Recreational Use Statue (RUS) to include aviation activities. Governor Nikki Haley signed the law that will now provide South Carolina landowners a level of liability protection when allowing pilots to fly onto their property....

Nine governors recognize general aviation in June · General Aviation News | Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, Delaware Governor Jack Markell, Idaho Governor C. L. “Butch” Otter, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard, Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Wyoming Governor Matt Mead all issued proclamations during the month of June, recognizing the value of general aviation in their states....

SWAG Alert: Wear Your '1,000,000 Pilots' Shirt at #Oshbash to be Eligible for Door Prizes  * Airplanista Aviation Blog | ...On the years that I host an Airplanista #Oshbash event (this year it's Tuesday, July 29th, 5:30PM - 7:30PM in the Press Tent), June is the month that everything begins to come together. One of those tasks that has now been completed is to find some great aviation companies willing to support what I do by donating some awesome SWAG for door prizes....

Young Eagle takes flight * Piqua Daily Call | One area teen got to find out, courtesy of the Vectren Dayton Air Show and Sean D. Tucker, national chairman of the Experimental Aircraft Association's Young Eagles Program. Tucker, an enshrinee in the National Aviation Hall of Fame, is in Dayton as...

Effort under way to return long-retired unmanned spacecraft to Earth * Bangor Daily News | Ultimately the hope is to place it in the National Air & Space Museum. The problems are monumental. NASA abandoned the project so long ago the original command manuals have been lost, the project command post scrapped, and scientists involved...

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Indy Transponder 25-JUN-2014 1200z

USAF Gen. Wolfenbarger to help open Vectren Dayton Air Show Presented by ... * TippNews DAILY | Dayton, Ohio—Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger, commander of the Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and one of the Air Force's top officers, will take part in opening ceremonies at the Vectren Dayton Air Show Presented by Kroger at...

A full roster of air show acts begin to arrive * WDTN | Look for the U.S. Navy Blue Angels to fly into town Thursday morning around 9:00 a.m. The team is the headline act at Saturday and Sunday's Vectren Dayton Air Show. Other aerial acts to perform include: Marine Corps C-130 “Fat Albert”; Marine Corps...

Black Diamond Jet Team plans return to Lehigh Valley Airshow * WFMZ Allentown | A fan favorite is making a return appearance at the Lehigh Valley Airshow later this summer. The Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority announced on Monday the Black Diamond Jet Team will perform for the second year in a row. Based in Lakeland, Florida,...

Fly Iowa Airshow activities set to kick off this weekend * kwwl.com | For the first time in 13 years, the Iowa City Airport will host a free air show. The weekend event will kick off Saturday, June 28 at the Iowa City Municipal Airport featuring high-intensity aerobatic performers, aerial demonstrations, various...

The third editon of the Rome International Air Show takes place along the ... * Wanted in Rome | The event is billed as among the biggest of its kind in Europe and the highlights include aerial displays from the English Red Arrows, the Patrouille de France, the Patrulla Aguila and ASPA from Spain, the Patrouille Suisse from Switzerland and Team 60...

Flypast Planned for Armed Forces Day Guests · WarbirdsNews  | On Saturday 28th June, events across the country will celebrate the contributions made by those who serve and have served in Her Majesty’s Armed Forces. The annual Armed Forces Day is an opportunity to reflect and pay tribute to our heroes past and present, including current serving personnel, service families, veterans and cadets.The Royal Air Force Museum Cosford will once again participate in this annual event by hosting veterans young and old from all three services. During this...

Surprise aircraft announced for the Flying Legends Air Show * Flightline UK | Saturday 12 and http://www.airshows.org.uk/news/2014/06/airshow-news-surprise-aircraft-announced-for-the-flying-legends-air-show/Sunday 13 July 2014 | The Fighter Collection is delighted to announce a surprise addition to the flying participation for the Flying Legends Air Show 2014.  The Planes of Fame Boeing P-26 Peashooter will cross the Atlantic to display at the Flying Legends Air Show; the only opportunity to see this unique aircraft in action in 2014. You can see the aircraft up-close on the flight line walk before watching it perform a stunning solo display during the afternoon’s flying programme...

Three more flight displays confirmed for Clacton Air Show 2014 * Flightline UK | The line-up for this year’s Clacton Air Show is really beginning to take-off with three more flight displays confirmed as part of the two day programme. The Sea King Helicopter, The Tutor and the Autogyro will take to the skies on both August 21 and 22 to thrill fans...

Apache’s Explosive Display Confirmed at Wings & Wheels * Flightline UK | The Apache Attack Helicopter Display Team will be exploding onto the aerodrome this August Bank Holiday when they join the Wings & Wheels line-up on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th August at Dunsfold Aerodrome in, Guildford, Surrey.

WWII bomber open for tours, flights at airport * Toledo Blade | The B-17 Flying Fortress “Sentimental Journey,” operated by the Arizona Airbase of the Commemorative Air Force in Mesa, Ariz., is at the Grand Aire ramp, 11777 W. Airport Service Rd. Ground viewing and photography opportunities are open to the public...

Morgan Air Racing Team Part 2 * Kingstree News | It was a pleasing sight. A shiny blue T-6 was cranking up. Just a few little checks and we would be headed to Reno. The engine started and seemed to run smoothly. Nothing sounded amiss. Chad shut down the engine and said the idle wasn't set exactly right.

Fly-in offered vintage aircraft * Fort Morgan Times | Aircraft enthusiasts thrilled to the sound and sight of a P-51 Mustang buzzing Fort Morgan Airport at the annual fly-in on Saturday. It did not stop at the airport as about 50 other aircraft did, but it was an amazing sight that harkened back to World...

Vero Air Show a big hit * TCPalm | VERO BEACH — The 2014 Vero Beach Air Show was the biggest event ever on the Treasure Coast, event organizers said in a news release. According to Todd Howder, Vero Beach Air Show board president, the two-day event that ran through May 11 raised ...

Evansville, IN D-Day re-enactment, June 14, 2014 * David Jackson | Here is my report on my trip to http://www.warbirdsandairshows.com/Airshows%202014/evansville-2014.htmEvansville, IN last Saturday to watch the Normandy Invasion Re-enactment along the Ohio River Waterfront that included Evansville built P-47s, LST-325, a Normandy veteran herself, and the landing of troops by LCVP...

Online Air News #10 * Charles Johnson | Ocean City, MD Air Show

Ohio Air News #260 * Charles Johnson | F-105 Project Photo’s, Discover Aviation Days, CAF Dixie Wing @ Cincinnati, OH; Metlife Blimp @ Zanesville, OH; III CAF Dixie Wing @ Dayton, OH

ONtario Air News #9 * Charles Johnson | Every year we feature Ontario in a couple of Issues, Kem Mist Keeps us updated on all the activities in the Toronto area.

ANALYSIS: How to organise an air display * Flightglobal | 24 July 1993, Royal International Air Tattoo, RAF Fairford, two Russian AF Mig Mi29s collided and crashed. The pilots ejected, no casualties. 20 August 2011, Bournemouth, BAE Systems Hawk T1 crashed at the end of an air display by the RAF aerobatic...

Spitfire Glider Tugs · Dave, Vintage Wings of Canada | Today, June 25th 2:21am A seemingly desperate scheme to fly an entire fighter wing to Normandy in gliders proves to be practicable... though luckily for the author and his fellow Spitfire pilots of 401 Squadron it was never put to the test on operations. Many innovative and ingenious ideas were conceived in the months prior to the invasion of Europe, some major in scope others relatively minor. Best known were probably the...

An electric record * AOPA Pilot | Davis said that solving the technical challenges of electric aviation through innovation will, in turn, propel advances in electric automobiles. On June 21, with an official observer from the National Aeronautic Association looking on (and a...

Air museum to host 'Welcome Home Weekend' * Iosco County News Herald | OSCODA – A Welcome Home Weekend for former members of Wurtsmith Air Force Base and all other veterans will be held on Friday through Sunday, June 27-29, hosted by Wurtsmith Air Museum. Planned activities include reenactment of a World War II U.S....

RAF Museum Wins PR Award for Dornier Campaign · WarbirdsNews | The Chartered Institute of Public Relations has awarded the RAF Museum an Excellence Award for its ‘Raising the Dornier’ campaign.The Awards Night, at London’s Old Billingsgate on Tuesday 17th June, saw approximately 800 guests gather to celebrate over 150 leading Public Relations consultancies, teams and individuals competing to win 30 prestigious CIPR Excellence Awards.The Museum won its award in the ‘Not-For-Profit’ category for the ‘Raising the Dornier’ campaign. Headed up by...

The Mighty 8th at Planes of Fame · The Pylon Place | This year’s Planes of Fame Air Show focused around The Mighty 8th Air force. The 8AF was established in February 1944 by re-designation of the 8th Bomber Command. Considered to be the Greatest Air Armada in History under the leadership of the likes of Jimmy Doolittle, at the height of WW2, there were more than 200,000 people assigned to the 8th with the ability to launch more than 2000 four engine bombers and over 1000 fighters on a single mission. To honor this fine organization, Planes of Fame focused on their accomplishments....

USAF: F-35 Fire Will Not Ground Fleet * DefenseNews.com | Perhaps most importantly for the program, plans appear on track to bring a pair of F-35B “jump jet” variants to the UK for the Royal International Air Tattoo and Farnborough air shows. Both Pentagon and Lockheed Martin officials view that appearance...

SOFIA — the 747SP with the big eye by travelforaircraft | NASA operates a Boeing B-747SP (see the previous post for a description of this unique 747 variant) so that a big eye can be carried aloft for SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) — the big eye is, as you likely infer, a telescope which senses within the infrared portion of the light spectrum. This telescope is quite large and...

Aviatrix named as honorary marshal for city's parade * ThisWeekNews | Jerrie Mock, the first woman to fly around the world solo and a former Bexley resident, will serve as the honorary grand marshal for this year's Fourth of July parade in Bexley. The parade will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the intersection of Maryland Avenue...

Team flying Cirrus SR22 wins Air Race Classic * AOPA Pilot | A past winner was among the three members of a team that flew a Cirrus SR22 to victory in the 2014 Air Race Classic, the all-women's annual cross-country air race held from June 16 to 19. Dianna Stanger, Joyce Wilson, and Erin Cude finished first of 47...

Liberty Belles flight teams soar to third, fifth in Air Race Classic * Liberty News | It was a whirlwind week and the adventure of a lifetime for the four female pilots and navigators who represented Liberty University School of Aeronautics (SOA) in last week's 38th annual Air Race Classic. The team of Melody Dowlearn and Alicia Isacson...

Amelia Rose Earhart takes off Thursday · The International Council of Air Shows | Amelia Rose Earhart takes off Thursday take re-create her namesake's journey. Watch this short video to learn more.

Another update from Deborah, An Advanced Rating Scholarship Winner! * The Girls With Wings Blog | This is the third journal entry provided to us by Deborah Katvala, who was selected for an Advanced Training Scholarship within The Girls With Wings 2014 Scholarship Program to help defray the cost of flight training lessons in pursuit of an Advanced Rating or Certificate such as instrument rating, commercial pilot certificate, flight instructor certificate, instrument flight instructor certificate, multi-engine rating or multi-engine flight instructor certificate. This new scholarship award is in the amount of $1000, funded by the generous donations from supporters of Girls With Wings, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Deborah's application essay is published here and her first essay here and second essay here....

Young Eagles * The Edwardsville Intelligencer | Boy Scouts Trevor Welsh and Joshua Stallard, of Troop 216 in Glen Carbon, did a pre-flight check and then took a free plane ride with pilot Rich Sommer, as part of the Young Eagles Flight Day at St. Louis Regional Airport in Bethalto. Volunteer pilots...

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Indy Transponder 24-JUN-2014 1600z

'Super cool, awesome' - Grand Falls-Windsor Advertiser * “Super cool” were the two words that A.J. Gale of Codroy Valley used to quickly sum up an air show demonstration by Capt. Adam “Manik” Runge in his CF-18 Hornet jet on Saturday.  Runge is a member of the 409 “Nighthawks” Tactical Fighter Squadron at 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alta. The seven-year-old said it was the Hornet was loud, but was willing to put up with the noise for what he saw. He also liked the music that was being played during the show...

Snowbirds Aerobatic Team perform * Western Star | The finale of the Snowbirds Aerobatic Team performance on Saturday in Stephenville featured a mishmash of flying moves with lots of audience members grabbing photos and video.

Ohio air show takes caution year after fatal crash * Washington Times | A third fire truck will be added to the two smaller trucks traditionally stationed at the annual Vectren Air Show, being held this weekend, the Dayton Daily News (http://bit.ly/1nxc44r) reported. Bruce Bales, fire rescue chief at Dayton International...

Black Team Rocking Rockford * U.S. Army Parachute Team "Golden Knights" | The Black http://armygk.armylive.dodlive.mil/2014/06/23/black-team-rocking-rockford/Demonstration Team led by SFC Kevin Presgraves traveled north this past weekend to Rockford, Illinois for the Rockford Airfest. The team arrived on Friday and attended the event sponsored social where we were welcomed back to the airshow circuit along with several other phenomenal civilian and military acts including the US Airforce Thunderbirds and the Canadian Snowbirds. The...

Shoot Out for Soldiers Lacrosse * U.S. Army Parachute Team "Golden Knights" | The Black Demonstration Team opened the 24 hour Shootout for Soldiers Lacrosse Tournament in Owens Mills, Maryland this week. There were close to 80 high school teams that participated in the tournament over the 24 hour period....

Red Arrows and Avro Vulcan bomber bring huge crowds to Weston-super-Mare * Bristol Post | RED arrows, helicopters and Flying Fortresses filled the sunny skies above Weston-super- Mare this weekend. While the spectators below basked in the heat, admiring the daring acrobatics above them, the weekend's two-day international air show went off...

Fylde's pride in Red Arrows - Blackpool Gazette | The world-famous RAF Red Arrows aerobatics team has today hailed the Fylde-built aircraft which they have used to wow the crowds for more than three decades. The Hawk T1 was built for the team by BAE Systems and the company still works alongside them to provide engineering support and spares to the team....

Breitling celebrates 50th year of the Red Arrows * WatchPro.com | Aviation orientated watch manufacturer Breitling is celebrating the 50th display season of the Red Arrows with a limited edition watch. An exclusive version of the Transocean Chronograph will be produced in just 50 retail pieces. An additional 15...

Little wing: Remote-control plane club holding miniature stunt show - Brooklyn Paper  | Call them model citizens. The Radio Control Society of Marine Park is launching the second Warbirds over Gerritsen Beach, a high-flying model plane stunt show that will benefit the Gerritsen Beach Volunteer Fire Department, on June 29. The show began in 2013 as a glorified block party, but it garnered a lot more attention than organizers anticipated, a club member said....

Sgt. Bob Herres bailed out of his B-24 bomber over Ploesti in WW II · Don Moore, War Tales | It was dark and eerie when he climbed out of the sack at 4 a.m, shaved and ate a breakfast of powdered eggs, Spam and coffee. Then he and the rest of the 10-man crew of “Shack Happy,” a B-24 bomber, headed to the briefing room with scores of other B-24 crews to get the...

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70 years later, men honored for bomber crash rescue  * Headline News - Civil Air Patrol  | VERMONT -- The two remaining rescuers of a man stranded by the 1944 crash of an Army bomber on Camels Hump reconnected Friday in Montpelier with the children of the man whose life they saved in a ceremony at the Statehouse....

Horten Flying Wing Heading to NASM’s Udvar-Hazy Center · WarbirdsNews has some welcome news coming from the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum. The center section for their unique Horten H IX V3 is being prepared for transport to their Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. This radical-looking, flying wing is the prototype for what would have been the formidable Horten Ho-229 jet fighter with the Luftwaffe had WWII lasted much longer. Only one...

Grissom museum calls for memories - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette | PERU, Ind. – It’s difficult to fit 60 years of history into a single building, but Jim Price is determined to make the Grissom Air Museum entirely for the people who have shaped it over the years. That is why Price, the museum’s executive director, is hoping the community will respond by submitting photos and memories of the Bunker Hill Air Force Base, which is embedded in nearly every part of the culture of Bunker Hill...

VP-BLK — the sporty 747, the B-747SP · joseph_may, Travel for Aircraft | VP-BLK — the sporty 747, the B-747SP 26° 04′ 24″ N / 80° 09′ 28″ W [temporary position] This Boeing 747 was recently at the Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport and it was eye-catching with its name-free livery and somewhat squat appearance. It looks shorter in length with an enlarged tail — almost a caricature. What was...

Mig-29 Fulcrum jets releasing flares over Armenia from the GoPro camera point of view · The Aviationist

Wichita Aero Club awards scholarship · General Aviation News | WICHITA — For the second year in a row, the Wichita Aero Club awarded its Edward W. Stimpson scholarship to a Kansas State University-Salina student, Elias Peterson of Lindsborg, Kansas. Peterson follows fellow Wildcat Bert Hutchinson of Wichita, who received the award last year....