Indy Transponder 26-SEP-2014 1500z

Aviation Legend Bob Hoover Honored With Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy * NAA | Washington, DC, September 25, 2014 – Robert L. “Bob” Hoover will receive the 2014 Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy from the National Aeronautic Association (NAA).  The trophy is awarded annually to a living American for "…significant public service of enduring value to aviation in the United States." One of the most important, historic, and visible aviation and aerospace awards in the world, the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy reflects a timeline of aviation and aerospace’s most innovative inventors, explorers, industrialists, and public servants....

Aerobatic pilot rescued from sea after crash - Stuff.co.nz | DRIFTING FOR HOURS: Jurgis Kairys had to parachute jump into the Aegean Sea after an engine failure in his personal plane. A favourite aerobatic pilot of Warbirds Over Wanaka has been rescued after his plane crashed in the Aegean Sea. Jurgis Kairys, 62, has been a star of the biennial show since 2004....

Blue Angels return for Hawaii's 'Wings over the Pacifc' air show - KITV Honolulu | The Blue Angels are back in Hawaii and are back flying over our skies this weekend. It's for the annual Wings over the Pacific air show. Thousands are expected to attend...

Thunderbirds arrive in Monterey for the California International Air Show Salinas - Monterey County Herald | MONTEREY >> Eight F-16 jets, each emblazoned in distinctive red, white and blue markings with stars on their tails, roared to a stop on the Monterey Regional Airport runway on Thursday afternoon. The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, a precision flying team, are in town for this weekend's California International Air Show to be held at the Salinas Municipal Airport...

PHOTOS: Brittany Nielsen flies with Air Force Thunderbirds * KSBW | The Thunderbirds landed at Monterey airport and picked up Reporter Brittany Nielsen

A wild ride over Redding in preparation of this weekend's Air Show - Record-Searchlight | REDDING, California - Don’t call them stunts. That’s one of the first things air show pilot Jacquie Warda will tell you. “They’re aerobatics,” Warda said of the barrel rolls, loops and other maneuvers she pulls in her nimble Extra 300 airplane. She is one of more than a dozen performers that will take the North State skies this weekend for the Exchange Club of Redding’s Air Show 2014...

Flying High: Leesburg Host Free Airshow Saturday * Leesburg Today | The fifth annual Leesburg Airshow will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27. Admission is free. There will be no general parking at the airport, but free satellite parking will be available at Tuscarora High School (825 North King St...

St. Louis Regional Aiport to host Annual Open House and Fly In * The Edwardsville Intelligencer | On Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., St. Louis Regional Airport will be celebrating the 20th Anniversary of their Annual Open House and Fly In. The event has grown phenomenally since it was re-started in 1994. Last year 100 airplanes and more than 300...

Annual fly-in draws larger crowd, more planes * Terrell Tribune | 1 British Flying Training School Museum's Flights of Our Fathers Fly-In on Saturday at Terrell Municipal Airport. The tarmac in front of the airport terminal was packed with planes, so many in fact, that others had to be located on the other side of...

Millville Army Air Field Museum holds annual air show Saturday - Press of Atlantic City | MILLVILLE — The Millville Army Air Field Museum’s annual air show will have a touch of the air, sea and land this Saturday...

Fly-In And Car Show This Weekend - Alton Daily News | The 20th Annual Open House, Fly In, and Car Show takes place Saturday at St. Louis Regional Airport in Bethalto. The event runs tomorrow from 10am to 4pm and will feature aircraft and classic cars from the area and a large display of antique firearms.  Admission and parking are free, with food and drink for sale on the grounds, or inside the airport restaurant...

Local aviator is national runner-up - Paso Robles Press |  RENO ? Templeton resident Sherman Smoot doesn't fit the stereotype of a senior citizen. At 66 years old, Smoot is still thrill seeking like he?s a young buck with a death wish. The U.S. Navy veteran is an experienced aviator, and even with his military service in the rear-view mirror, he still takes to the air to get an adrenaline rush for the ages. Smoot has been flying high for the better part of 45 years, and his most recent expedition ended with a national runner-up finish at the Reno Championship Air Races...

Great Tiger Moth Air Race to stop in Camden - Camden Advertiser | For the first time in 11 years 45 Tiger Moths, flown by 90 international and Australia pilots, include three WWII veterans, will fly from Lusktintyre on Saturday morning and over Sydney Harbour before making a refuelling stop at Camden Airport about 11am...

Army's Golden Knights Parachute Team Leaps Into South African Air Show - DVIDS | PRETORIA, South Africa — Add South Africa to the list of places members of the Army’s Golden Knight’s parachute team has jumped. The Golden Knights Black Demonstration Team performed here during the African Aerospace & Defence Exposition,Sep. 17-21, 2014 at the invitation of the South African Government...

Next Red Arrows Squadron Leader hopes for quick decision about team's future * Lincolnshire Echo | The man who will become Red Arrows Squadron Leader David Montenegro hopes a decision will be made soon about the future of the acrobatic team. He spoke to the Echo about the future of the team as he prepares to take on the role of Red 1 from current...
   
Aviator Richard Byrd Soared In Treks To Both Poles * Investor's Business Daily | Richard Byrd grew up in Virginia, became an officer through the U.S. Naval Academy and by 1918 was flying scouting missions in World War I. View Enlarged Image. Richard Byrd was the first to fly over the North and South Poles not because he was simply...

Dornier Do 17 Moves Into Next stage Of Conservation · WarbirdsNews | PRESS RELEASE- The world’s last surviving Dornier Do 17 has now moved into the second phase of its conservation at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford. It’s been a little over 15 months since the aircraft was lifted from the bottom of the Dover Straits and transported to the Museum’s Cosford site for ground breaking conservation work.  The process so far has seen the aircraft systematically sprayed with a low concentration citric acid based solution inside purpose built hydration tunnels.  This process has helped to remove marine accretions and subsequently the neutralised corrosion impurities in the aluminium aircraft structure...

Donation match * National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian | Double your impact! Make a donation to the Museum through October 31st, and it will be matched dollar for dollar...

B-25 Bomber Towed to Fargo 8 Years After Being Donated | Fargo, ND (WDAY TV)-Quite a sight for anyone driving on I-29 between Fargo and Wahpeton today. Kathy Dimmer/Wahpeton: "Just seeing a plane coming down an interstate is a pretty awesome thing." Kathy Dimmer of Wahpeton watched the pieces of the almost 70 year old aircraft slowly move down I-29...

Round-the-world solar flight gives wings to clean energy * Financial Times | However, he said, electric aircraft using the batteries developed in the Solar Impulse project could be in commercial use, perhaps for tourist flights, within five years. The solar panels on Solar Impulse's wings are expected to convert about 22-23 per...

Free plane rides for kids at Young Eagles Rally * Mansfield News Journal | Kids and teenagers with a budding interest in aviation, or who perhaps just want to see what their community looks like from the air, will get a chance to go up in a plane Oct. 4 when Chapter 148 of the Experimental Aircraft Association conducts a...

A Private Tour of the CIA's Incredible Museum * SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE | A chill wind whipped off the Warnow as a retired railroad worker shuffled through the streets of the port city of Rostock one winter night in 1956. He wore the drab clothes typical of East German residents. But when a second man appeared from the shadows, the elderly German revealed that he was wearing a pair of distinctive gold cuff links embossed with the helmet of the Greek goddess Athena and a small sword...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to Receive Aero Club of Southern Californias 2014 ... * MFRTech (press release) | LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elon Musk, Chief Executive and Chief Technology Officer of SpaceX , the Hawthorne-based company which makes and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, has been selected to receive the 2014 Howard Hughes...
   
The Making of SpaceShipTwo * Air & Space Magazine | Air & Space: Can you give us a progress report on WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo? Whitesides: The big shift was we took control of WhiteKnightTwo from Scaled [Composites] earlier in the year, and that was a big deal for us because that's part of our...

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