Indy Transponder 30-OCT-2014 1130z

Preview: Wings Over Houston Air Show * KPRC Houston | Adventure takes flight this weekend at Ellington Airport! The Navy Blue Angels will soar into town for the 30th Annual Wings Over Houston Air Show...

Air show draws record crowd * Florida Times-Union | According to Undersander a lot of effort was put into moving air show traffic off base in a timely manner. “I'm very proud of our base security force as well as the 11 state and local law enforcement agencies who supported this event. When you have...

ShrinersFest cancel Blue Angels, all future air shows * 14 News WFIE Evansville | Evansville Freedom Festival committee members announced Wednesday they have decided to cancel air shows altogether in conjunction with ShrinersFest because the economy over the past three years has increased challenges and caused a financial risk...

Willow Run plant to officially become new home of Yankee Air Museum today * Crain's Detroit Business | Yankee Air Museum Chairman Ray Hunter is to sign papers today making the aviation museum the official owner of a 144,000-square-foot slice of the former Willow Run Bomber Plant, where Rose Will Monroe and other workers built B-24 Liberator bombers...

Pilot Spotlight: CAF Red Tail Squadron Pilot Paul Stojkov * Red Tail Squadron | Flying the CAF Red Tail Squadron’s P-51C Mustang might be the BEST. JOB. EVER. Soaring amongst the clouds, feeling the purr of that engine and meeting people all over the country to share the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen is nothing short of an honor. In today’s final installment of our Pilot Spotlight series, learn how CAF Red Tail Squadron Pilot Paul Stojkov channeled his love of flight into a career in the skies...

Niki de Saint Phalle's 84th birthday marked with Google doodle * Telegraph.co.uk | A different doodle marking the 107th birthday of Egyptian aviatrix Lotfia El Nady appears on the North African and Middle Eastern versions of the search engine's home page. Meanwhile, the South Korean version of Google celebrates the 510th birthday of...

A vital clue to the unfathomable mystery of aviator Amelia Earhart * Capital Wired | Well the quest for her last whereabouts have kept researchers, filmmakers and many other followers pretty much occupied ever since the pioneer aviator vanished over the Pacific while attempting to cross the world. The finding of a three foot scrap of...

Italian WWII Fighter Pilot Found At Controls Of Crashed Airplane * Aero-News Network | Aircraft Went Down During A Battle Nearly 70 Years Ago The wreckage of an Italian Macchi C.205 fighter plane has been found outside Pauda in northern Italy buried 13 feet underground with its pilot still at the controls...

Northrop Nomad (A-17A) Recovered in Canada * Warbirds News | An ultra-rare Northrop Nomad is slowly emerging from the frigid waters of Lake Muskoka near Bracebridge, Ontario. The Nomad was an export version of a US Army Air Corps A-17A, a small number of which ended up with the Royal Canadian Air Force in WWII instead of their original customer in France, following that country’s seizure by Germany. None of the Canadian Nomads were known to...

Unmanned Antares rocket explodes after liftoff * Fox News | The owners of the unmanned commercial supply ship that exploded Tuesday over a launchpad in Virginia warned people to keep away from potentially hazardous debris and promised to figure out what destroyed the rocket that was supposed to ferry cargo to the International Space Station. No injuries were reported following the first catastrophic launch in NASA's commercial spaceflight effort...

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