Indy Transponder 24-SEP-2014 1700z

The Canadian Snowbirds are back * KRCRTV.COM | The show is funded by donations. For the past 35 years the event has returned around one million dollars back to the community. The show's chairman, Bill Wagner, says you won't get many chances to check out the Snowbirds. Redding is one of four US...

Melbourne Air & Space Show Hosts First Aviation & Aerospace Career Day * Space Ref | Officials with the National Air, Sea & Space Foundation, organizers of the 2014 Melbourne Air & Space Show, today announced that the Foundation will host its inaugural Aerospace & Aviation Career Day on Oct. 3 at the Melbourne International Airport...

2014 NCAR Review – Part 1 · Marilyn Dash | The 2014 National Championship Air Races (NCAR) will be remembered for record breaking moments, many infractions and one terrible loss. Let’s get started in Part 1 of our two part review...

Great Tiger Moth Air Race out of pages of yesteryear * Port Stephens Examiner | IT WILL be a sight to behold when 45 World War II-era planes fly in tandem past Sydney Harbour Bridge next month as part of the Great Tiger Moth Air Race. Not since 2003 has there been a Tiger Moth air race: this year's is expected to be bigger and...

New team leader for Red Arrows announced * Lincolnshire Echo | Squadron Leader David Montenegro will succeed Squadron Leader Jim Turner, whose three-year tour as Team Leader finishes at the end of the current season – with the Red Arrows' final 2014 display taking place on Sunday, September 28, in Malta...

In pictures: Red Arrows share Southport air show selfies * Liverpool Echo | The Red Arrows wowed the crowds at Southport Air Show at the weekend - and now these remarkable photos give their display a whole new perspective. As thousands of people watched from below, Flight Lieutenant Martin Pert - aka Red 8 or...

Stunt planes, flying lawn mower highlights windy Air Show * Vinton County Courier | The flying lawn mower, “piloted” by Roger Barnes, was the ultimate show stopper at the 44th annual Vinton County Air Show. Once the lawnmower landed, high winds forced a premature end to the air show on Sunday, Sept. 21. The hundreds of visitors still...

AOPA Hosts Successful Chino Fly-In * Flying Magazine | AOPA's regional fly-in in Chino, California, took place over the weekend and it was, by all accounts, a successful day. Despite low cloud conditions slowing the fly-in traffic in the morning 329 airplanes flew in for the event and a minimum of 2,300...

Swiss Air Force Centenary Air Show Report * Warbirds News | The Swiss Air Force held a spectacular air show to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of their founding. They held the show at Payerne Air Base, in Switzerland’s Vaud Canton. A number of European nations contributed to the festivities by sending along representative military aircraft, including several aerial demonstration teams. The Canadians even contributed a brace of CF-18 Hornets. A number of European based warbirds turned up as well....

The 3rd Athens Flying Week – Airshow 2014 * Greek Reporter | The 2014 Athens Flying Week airshow will be held for the third consecutive year in Athens, Greece, from September 25 to 28 in the areas of Faliro and Tatoi. The AFW events started on Monday, September 22, with the “Aviation Development Conference III”...

Additional Red Arrows show to replace Turkish Stars * Times of Malta | The aerobatic team Turkish Stars will not be participating in the Airshow, the organisers said. The Malta Aviation Society, organisers of the airX Malta International Airshow, said the committee however managed to secure the RAF Red Arrows for both...

Warbirds Over Tehachapi * Tehachapi News | For the second year, the City of Tehachapi, Tehachapi Municipal Airport and Friends of the Airport have teamed up to present the 2nd annual Tehachapi Airport Warbird Fly-In. It will take place on Saturday, Sept. 27. The sponsors for this year's event...

Pilot Kelley takes Wings & Wheels into wild blue yonder * Delmarva Daily Times | Dick Cole, one of the last four survivors of the Doolittle Raiders and local veteran heroes. Kelley is proud that admission to the festival is free. “Where else can you go to actually see and hear the planes that won World War II, hear the roar of the...

Timeless Voices - Larry Price · eaavideo.org | Larry Price is Lockheed Martin's Deputy Program Manager for the Orion multi-purpose crew vehicle (MPVC), a spacecraft that will be used by NASA for crewed missions to the Moon, asteroids, and eventually Mars.

B-29 “Doc” Restoring History · eaavideo.org | A project update on the volunteer-driven effort to restore a Boeing B-29 Superfortress to flying condition. When completed, "Doc" will be only the second flying B-29 in the world. (excerpt from August 2014 Chapter Video Magazine)

Video: Fascinating Documentary On The British 1960's Era (Mach 2) BAC TSR-2 · AirPigz | My usual goal for an AirPigz post is to give you a 3 to 5 minute avgeek experience that either thoroughly entertains or educates (or both)... but today you're gonna have to carve out at least 55 minutes if you're gonna take it all in. I found this documentary on the early 1960's British TSR-2...

Wright B Flyer project receives challenge grant · General Aviation News | DAYTON, Ohio — Wright “B” Flyer Inc. has received another major gift to fund a new flying lookalike of the Wright brothers’ first production airplane. The new Wright Model B lookalike will replace Wright “B” Flyer No. 1, also known as the “Brown Bird” or “Iron Bird,” which has been flying since 1982. The new airplane will be easier to transport to distant events and easier for the all-volunteer organization to maintain....

Sweetwater WASP Museum expansion approved * KTXS | The museum's mission statement is "seeking to educate and inform all generations with the story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots - the first women to America's military aircraft - who forever changed the role of women in aviation." According to the...

Zulu Cobra — the Bell AH-1Z Viper is most revolutionary * Travel for Aircraft | The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) has evolved their Bell AH-W SuperCobra (highly capable twin engine Cobra) significantly into the Z-variant with the new designation AH-1Z Viper. Similarly with their advancement of the Huey to the Bell UH-1Y Venom the Vipers are more than an improvement as...

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