Indy Transponder 13-JUN-2014 1615z

This weekend's list of shows - provided by Fencecheck | Your weekend list of air shows around the world. Support your local air show!

Canadian Snowbirds to Perform at Tillsonburg Regional Airport This Weekend * Am980 London News | The world famous Canadian Snowbirds will perform on Saturday and Sunday with gates opening at 12 p.m., and shows starting at 3 p.m. both days. In addition to the Snowbirds, CF-18 demo teams will also be on hand. Tickets and parking passes must be...

Historic WW2 bomber FIFI arrives for the 2014 Olympic Air Show * The Olympian | Historic WW2 bomber FIFI arrives for the 2014 Olympic Air Show. Facebook Twitter Google Plus Reddit E-mail Print. <. Dave Lehnis retires · B-29 FIFI arrives in Olympia. > Photo 1 of 8. <. > With a career in education spanning over 30 years Timberline ...

Experimental Aircraft Association to hold Father's Day Fly-in/Drive-in Breakfast * Quincy Journal | Experimental Aircraft Association #488 will hold their annual Fly-in/Drive-in Pancake and Sausage Breakfast on Sunday, June 15th. The fundraiser will take place from 7 - 11 am at the Great River Aviation Hanger at Quincy Regional Airport. Breakfast is ...

Father's Day fly-in, breakfast Sunday at Beach City Airport * Canton Repository | The Beach City Airport Pilots Association will sponsor its 30th annual Beach City Airport Father's Day fly-in and breakfast Sunday at the airport, state Route 212, just west of the state Route 21 intersection. This is one of Ohio's longest-running...

Air fair ready for takeoff * Kenai Peninsula Online | The fair is not limited to pilots, Food, live music, vendors and five Alaska Wing Commemorative Air Force aircrafts will be on display and offer rides, said Kenai Municipal Airport Manager Mary Bondurant. “It is an opportunity for people to show off...

Strother Field fly-in will be Saturday * Arkansas City Traveler | ... administrators have planned another stellar fly-in event for Saturday, but this year, a unique contest for teens has been incorporated into the deal. The seventh annual Melvin Current Wings and Wheels Fly-In is scheduled for this morning at ...

The International Council of Air Shows · Check out this "rough cut" for a new video with Skip Stewart Airshows and Kyle Franklin - Franklin's Flying Circus.

US Army Golden Knights * Brinn Black, song writer and country music singer from Nashville, TN joined the Golden Knights at Fort Knox KY, for a tandem skydive. Watch as she falls from...

HIGHEST AIR SHOW IN THE WORLD – DILLON CO By Ralph | Density altitude at six-thousand feet can be deadly for anyone, try performing an air show with ground level near 10,000 msl and density altitude at 13,000 feet msl. FLY-LOW attended the yearly air event and will share photos at this time....

The Patrouille de France welcomes the Mirage F1 Friday afternoon in the sky ... * South West (translated) | ...e Friday afternoon, the 118 Air Base Mont-de-Marsan honors the Mirage F1. After 40 years of career, single-engine Dassault left the Air Force. The last copies of this plane, still active in the squadron...

Hellenic Airforce returns to airshow with Phantom * Times of Malta | The Hellenic Air Force has confirmed its participation at the Malta International Airshow with an F-4 PI 2000 Phantom from Andravida Air Force Base in Greece. This will be the second time Greece will be participating at the airshow after having...

Airplanista to Host the GA Power Collective at AirVenture 2014 #Oshbash Meetup * PR.com | ... Chancellor, Prescott Campus Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Dick Knapinski, Senior Communications Advisor, Experimental Aircraft Association; Dr. Peggy Chabrian, President, Women in Aviation International; Brittney Miculka, Director of ...

Reading World War II Weekend – Airshow Report · Warbirds News Article and pictures Tom Pawlesh. The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s 24th Annual World War II Weekend and “Gathering of Warbirds” is one of the largest events of its type in the world. The show, held between June 6th and 8th, hosted dozens of historic vehicles and aircraft as well as hundreds of re-enactors. The perfect summer weather brought out large crowds of winter-weary spectators....

B-17 brings back memories * Lincoln Journal Star | “Yeah,” said Dick Miller through a mouthful of pastry, already ducking his head into the small door at the back of the 65,000-pound Boeing B-17. Then the 94-year-old hiked up his shorts, revealing the scar from knee replacement surgery in December, and ...

Bob Burdick flew as top turret gunner on Ventura patrol plane in Pacific during WW II · War Tales, Don Moore | Bob Burdick was a top turret gunner on a PV-1 Ventura patrol plane in the Pacific during World War II. The 88-year-old former gunner who now lives in Port Charlotte, Fla. with his wife, Maryan, saw combat at Tannin Island in the South Pacific, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and the Japanese home islands before war’s end. […]

Extraordinary aviator Jim Hazelton passes away * The Macleay Argus  | A modest person, James David Hazelton was one of the greatest aviators and gifted pilots this country has seen. There are few people in the aviation community that have not known of him and the many achievements and contributions he made to general...

[Photo] U.S. B-2 stealth bomber suffers bird strike while landing at UK base · The Aviationist | B-2 involved in a mission launched from the UK hit a bird on landing at RAF Fairford ...Interestingly, while landing at the end of the mission flown the morning ahead of the 20 hr sortie, one of the B-2, AV-4 – 82-1069 “Spirit of Indiana” suffered a birdstrike, as the images taken by photographer Matthew Morris show (before and after the hit): fortunately, the “close encounter” did not cause any serious problem to the B-2, but it proved stealth bombers are invisible to radars…and birds.

YOUNG EAGLES: Kids 8-17 can fly free on Saturday at Reese Airport * Muncie Star Press | Saturday, though, he'll be doing far more sedate but fun flying in his Cub when Reese Airport hosts the Young Eagles Rally, a program sponsored by the Experimental Aircraft Association, in which kids get to fly for free. Coordinating the event is Bob ...