Indy Transponder 03-JUN-2014 1500z

The International Council of Air Shows: Canadian Forces Snowbirds | Thanks to Match Productions for sharing this video of the The Canadian Forces Snowbirds at the Salute to Veterans Air Show.

Dylan Dreyer takes to the skies with the U.S. Marine Corps * www.today.com | I’ve been in a pretty cool aircraft before. After all, my brother is a Master Sergeant who works on...

AIRSHOW NEWS: Carol Vorderman returns to Cosford Air Show * UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | For the second year running TV presenter Carol Vorderman will be visiting the RAF Cosford Air Show to help promote the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) exhibition which will be one of over 100 trade and exhibition attractions at the Show this year....

Wing of Freedom Tour returns to Skagit Regional Airport · General Aviation News | BURLINGTON, Wash. — The Port of Skagit is hosting a return visit of three restored World War II-era combat aircraft when the Wings of Freedom Tour touches down at Skagit Regional Airport (KBVS) June 16-18.  The warbirds, a B-17G Flying Fortress named “Nine-O-Nine,” [pictured] a B-24J Liberator, “Witchcraft,” and a TP-51C Mustang, “Betty Jane,” also visited the airport last June....

The World's Silliest Plane Takes Off for a 'Once-in-a-Lifetime' Stunt - Wired  | The coolest planes in all of France have flown in formation together, and we couldn’t be happier about it. On Friday May 30, fighter jets with the country’s top (only?) aerobatic flying team took to the skies over Toulouse alongside the Airbus Beluga, the funky cargo plane we love more every time we see it....

Remembering the WASPs: Women who were aviation trailblazers * www.cbsnews.com | Until recently, the contributions and sacrifices made by Women Airforce Service Pilots during WWII w...

Five World War II pilots to speak in commemoration of D-Day · General Aviation News | At a Living History Flying Day event Saturday, June 7, at Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, Calif., a panel of aviation experts, historians and veterans will be featured to commemorate D-Day. The P-47 Thunderbolt will be on display and perform a flight demonstration....

Off Beat: Doolittle Raiders honor touches home - The Columbian  | Commemorative events during Memorial Day weekend included a White House nod to a World War II airman from Vancouver. President Barack Obama signed a bill on May 23 awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to the Doolittle Raiders. Vancouver’s Wayne Bissell was one of 80 Doolittle Raiders who bombed Japan on April 18, 1942; only four are still alive. Bissell, who died in 1997, was a bombardier on the B-25 bomber “Whirling Dervish.”...

First successful flight for solar plane "Solar Impulse 2" · Xavier Cotton (translated) | The Swiss Solar Impulse airplane 2, powered only by solar energy, began early Monday its first test flight on Air Force Base Payerne, in the center of Switzerland. German test pilot Markus Scherdel being in control, Solar Impulse 2 lunged on the track, powered by four electric motors powered by 17,200 solar cells. . Markus Scherdel had also conducted the first flight of the previous version of the aircraft in June 2009 After a few hundred meters, Solar Impulse took two slow air carried by its huge wing span of 72 m: so that Airbus A380, but with a weight of 2300 kg, 150 times less than the giant Airbus aircraft .. this first flight lasted 2 h 17, a half-hour longer than what was originally planned...

CAF Air Group One Stinson L-5 Sentinel’s Restoration · Warbirds News  | Based on an article by Bailey Burkhartsmeier:Each spring the skies of San Diego fill with airplanes of days gone by due to help from Air Group One, San Diego’s local wing of the Commemorative Air Force. From 1930′s era Stearman biplanes to the magnificent P-51 Mustang WWII fighter plane, there is something for everyone to enjoy at “AirShow San Diego” held each year at Gillespie Field in El Cajon. While many of the aircraft whizzing above the airfield visit from nearby CAF squadrons or private collectors, there are a handful of these vintage flying machines that Air Group One is proud to have collected, restored and maintained...

Museum official: Construction at Rosie the Riveter's old Michigan plant could ... - WDIV Detroit | DETROIT - The signing of a purchase agreement is imminent but construction on a museum won't get underway until autumn at the earliest, said an aviation enthusiast leading an effort to save from demolition a portion of the Detroit-area plant where the original Rosie the Riveter worked 70 years ago. Yankee Air Museum founder Dennis Norton said he and the Willow Run facility's owner will sign the purchase deal soon and expect to formally close on the sale next month....

The Inside Scoop on Marine One * Air & Space Magazine | In the early 1990s, during the administrations of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Colonel Ray “Frenchy” L'Heureux was a young officer in Marine Helicopter Squadron One, the Quantico, Virginia-based unit that ferries U.S. presidents around the world.