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...

Antique Airfield http://antiqueairfield.com/articles/show/1773-summer-2014-issue-of-antique-airfield-runway-coming-soon

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....

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