Indy Transponder 19-February 1100z

Red Bull P-38 Definitely On Its Way Home by Kelly
Well, I’d say it’s safe to say that the Red Bull (Flying Bull) P-38 is on its way to its new home in Austria. Check out all the photos here. Safe journey, old friend. Thanks to Pat Carry.

BIG attractions at this year's air show! - KGNS, TX
The 11th annual WBCA Stars And Stripes Air Show Spectacular was held at the Laredo International Airport. "It's my 4th time here. 'so what's different this year?' Nothing--it's colder!" Hundreds braved the crisp temperatures to get their fix of ...

Air Fair at Buckeye airport - AZ Central.com, AZ
"This isn't an air show with tricks or anything," said Brian Guinn, recreation programmer for the town of Buckeye. "The planes will be on static display, and the show is much more focused on learning about the planes and appreciating them. ...

Charity t-shirt takes off - This is Scunthorpe, UK
THE Red Arrows team took to the skies with an unusual passenger on board as part of a fund-raising Comic Relief stunt. The acrobatic Red Arrows crew took a special t-shirt for the flight of its life as part of a national project which will see the ...

Air Show Wows Spectators in Bangalore - The Epoch Times
By Hitesh Devnani BANGALORE, India—The Aero India Show 2009, a biannual event touted to be the largest in Asia, thrilled spectators in Bangalore once again.

Halcones, Fuerza Aerea De Chile, History, Gallery from aerobaticteams.net
Halcones (Falcons) History - The first aerobatic display team in Chilean Air Force is formed in 1958 and flies with four Lockhead F-80 Shooting Star. This team named Condores de la Plata exists till 1965. Again tradition of aerobatic teams in Chile rising up in 1980, when Halcones aerobatic team is established equipped with five of a new arriving North American Pitts Special S2A airplanes. Officially the team is created on 14 January 1981 assigned to Air Force Base at El Bosgue. In 1989 Halcones visit England and Belgium. This is the last year, when the team uses Pitts. In 1990 Halcones start to use Extra 300 airplanes and later to Extra 300L. Since its creation, Halcones visited following foreign countries: United States, England, France, Israel, Belgium, Ecuador and Peru.

Vulcan XH558 "Turn and Burn" Event Feature Report from UK Airshow Review News and Updates
In October 2007, Avro Vulcan XH558 flew for the first time in 14 years. The restoration was hailed as a major triumph, the like of which has not been seen before or since in the world of historic aviation. Now, barely a year on; after a display season in which the aircraft had been seen by an estimated 1.5million spectators, the project lies on the brink of financial collapse, with a total of £1million needed to safeguard the aircraft's flying future - monies which need to be raised by the deadline of March 6…

Tales of the B-52 By Janice Wood
A presentation on the Boeing B-52 bomber is slated for Saturday, Feb. 21, at 2 p.m. at The Museum of Flight in Seattle. A panel of three B-52 pioneers will be at the museum, including Dick Taylor (pictured, in younger days), former chief of B-52 flight test; Brien Wygle, a B-52 engineering test pilot; and Air Force test pilot Brig. Gen. Guy Townsend (USAF Ret.), who was a pilot on the aircraft’s first flight. The Boeing Co. Historian Michael Lombardi will moderate the panel. For more information: 206-764-5720 or MuseumOfFlight.org.

Skydiving family ranges in age from 18 to 94 - CNN.com from http://www.cnn.com/
Last Saturday, four generations of Darcy Shepard's family went skydiving for her 18th birthday. The oldest jumper was Shepard's 94-year-old great-grandmother, Harriett Shepard. Skydiving is becoming a Shepard family rite of passage. Two members of the family had jumped before -- including family matriarch Harriett.

Grenade destroys police aircraft from Military Photos by T3ngu
Quote: COLOMBIA'S military and law enforcement agencies suffered two airplane mishaps today including a plane blown apart on the tarmac by a grenade in the luggage. The National Police plane was left cut in half on the tarmac of the Olaya Herrera airport in Medellin, Colombia's second largest city, and a notorious centre of the international drugs trade...

Airman, 91, recalls the role of Tuskegee - DetNews.com, MI
World War II aviator talks about breaking racial barriers in the military during Black History Month event. PONTIAC -- First Lt. Lorenzo Holloway Jr. always wanted to be a pilot. He didn't expect to become a part of history. He was one of the hundreds ...

Mammoth Endeavor - Fredericksburg Standard, TXFor example, film clips, such as footage of B-25 bombers taking off from the deck of the USS Hornet aircraft carrier will be integrated with gallery architecture to give visitors a unique look at historical events. With this same sort of design ...

Uncontrolled Airspace #121 "Just A Crooked Rudder" from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
Will Hawkins and Rico Sharqawi of the forthcoming movie, "A Pilots Story" visit the hangar this week. A Florida deadstick landing, the ongoing bizjet mess, continuing the fight against the LASP, and Jack's aviation adventures. All this and more on Uncontrolled Airspace, Episode #121 "Just A Crooked Rudder"

The Thrill of Invention from Air & Space Magazine

KGKY Arlington Texas from Fence Check - Caught these two T-34A and T-34B flying at Arlington last week.

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Indy Transponder 18-February 2255z

Barksdale confirms international flavor for air show - Shreveport Times
Barksdale Air Force Base will have a decidedly international and diverse flavor this year, with headline air shows from two allied nations, a third headline flying act from a sister service and a top Nashville star providing musical entertainment.
Officially added to the lineup now are the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, making a rare second-year-in-a-row showing at such an event, and the Chilean Halcones Demonstration team joining the previously announced Canadian Snowbirds for the May 9-10 free event at Barksdale. ...

A Pilot's Story-A Documentary Capturing the Passion of Flight on Film
from Let's Go Flying by A Pilot's Story movie
Wilco Films is producing the next big aviation documentary film called "A Pilot's Story". The film will feature Aviation Icons, Hollywood pilots, Astronauts, Aerobatic Champions, Commercial and Corporate pilots and a select number of General Aviation pilots.
The film will give back to the aviation community by featuring the following organizations and donating some of the proceeds of the sale of the film to them. Organizations such as: Able Flight, Angel Flight, Young Eagles, Aviation High School, Build-A-Plane. ...

The Frecce Tricolori at BIT 2009 - ilVolo.it (translated by Google)
From February 19-22 the Frecce Tricolori will be present at the BIT Fair Milan Rho Hall 1, stand in the Friuli Venezia Giulia. Friday 20th at 10:45 at the World Cup women's ski in Tarvisio you can watch the spectacular flight over the mountains between 9 aircraft of Patrol National Acrobatics. Overflying will be projected on the big screen this at the stand during the press conference to present of the tourism initiatives of the Region Friuli. ...

Aero India 2009 Surpasses All Past Records from Planenews Aviation News Portal
As dusk settled over Yelahanka Air Force base on Sunday evening bringing down curtains on the five-day Aero India 2009, excitement and thrill continued to resonate in the hearts and minds of the thousands who witnessed the grand air display on its last day. If presence at the air show was any indicator of the enthusiasm for aviation in the country, the surging crowds during the air show proved that citizens of the metropolis, dubbed as the aviation-hub of India, remain as enthusiastic as ever, since its inaugural fare in 1996...

German Air Force Successfully Completes Participation at Aero India 2009 from Air-Attack.com - News Feed
The German Air Force delegation safely landed at their respective home bases late Tuesday 17th February, thus successfully complet...

Red Bull P-38 to Europe (by boat) from AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points by Dave Hirschman
Ezell Aviation's latest work of art, a magnificently restored P-38 "Lightning," is headed to Europe.

San Diego Air & Space Museum Launches Online Store - AMT online
San Diego Air & Space Museum (SDASM) announces that they have officially launched their online e-commerce store at www.airandspacestore.com.
The goal of the online store is to give aviation enthusiasts a place to find unique and collectible aviation related products. ...

On this day in 1981... Jack Northrop dies from Flight International by Barbara Cockburn
Flight recorded the death at age 85 of aviation engineer and industrial designer John Knudsen "Jack" Northrop (pictured).
Flight said at the time that the aviation world had lost its second pioneer in a month with the death of "Jack" Northrop.
The aviation career of John Knudsen Northrop began in 1916 when he worked for the Loughead (later Lockheed) brothers designing seaplane wings.
The operation folded and in 1923 Northrop joined the Douglas company, his first assignment being to work on the World Cruiser.
The first death Flight referred to was that of Donald Douglas, who died earlier in the month as Flight reported in its 14 February issue...
His 'DC-3 became a legend, setting standards which earned Donald Douglas both the Collier Trophy and the Daniel Guggenheim Medal in 1936 "for outstanding contributions to the design and construction of military and transport airliners".'

With air races, airliners, airshows offered real thrills during ... - The-News-Leader, OH
Today's picture was taken at such an airshow I attended in the 1950s. It's a United Airlines passenger plane. In those days very few people had ever been ...

Selma couple's love story has many twists, bends - Montgomery Advertiser, AL
In 1943, Bob joined the Army Air Corps, became a top turret gunner on a B-17 and began to fly missions over Germany. Phyllis, meanwhile, enrolled at a ...

AIR-SEA JETLINER from blog.modernmechanix.com
AFTER months of top-secret tests, the Navy has partially lifted the wraps on its XF2Y-1 Sea-Dart, world's first delta-wing seaplane, which uses retractable hydro-skis for take-off and landing.
MI's cover and the Convair drawing above show what this sensational development may mean to commercial air travel of the future. Imagine a supersonic jetliner, too large to be handled efficiently at even our largest airports but perfectly capable of squatting at any of our innumerable seaports and being nuzzled to its dock by tugs! In addition to passenger convenience and greater capacity is the extra safety factor in trans-oceanic hops. ...

Fighter Pilot Trivia 6 from Fighter Pilot University
Taking everything into account, worldwide, who's the most famous fighter pilot of all time? Erich Hartmann? Chuck Yeager? Probably Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron. He set up and recruited the flyers to establish one of the first, dedicated, fighter squadrons. He influenced an entire generation of fighter pilots on both sides of The Great War. ...

Henley College pupils help restore vintage plane - Coventry Telegraph, UK
TEENAGERS are swapping the classroom for the Midland Air Museum to help restore a vintage aeroplane. A group of eight 14 and 15-year-olds are visiting the ...

Cardozo Students Receive Aviation Education - Washington Informer, Washington DC
Now, he makes it his mission to educate students about careers in aviation. Courtesy Photo by Juan Rivera Barrington Irving, the "Aviation Hero," paid a ...

Reaching for the sky - Times Online - Auckland, New Zealand
The Ross Macpherson Memorial Flying Scholarships are awarded to members of the Flying New Zealand Young Eagles group aged 15-18 from aero clubs. ...

High flying principal - Wickenburg Sun, AZ
Wickenburg High School Principal Jacquelyn Jacobson was invited to tandem jump with the US Army Golden Knights, the elite parachuting unit from the Army, ...

Aftermath of C-17 Gear-Up Landing at Bagram Air Field from AVwebFlash Current Issue
Click for more photos (and video)According to the Department of Defense's Pentagon Channel military information service, it took more than two days to remove a damaged C-17 from the runway at Bagram Air Field outside of Kabul, Afghanistan. The DOD has video of the recovery, and we have photos of the crippled aircraft.

Jet-powered shopping carts and flying cars from AOPA Pilot Blog: Reporting Points by Al Marsh
Here are examples that have emerged over the years of jet-powered Beetles, toilets, arm chairs, and even a shopping cart. While this next one isn't jet-powered, it qualifies as the first flying car.

Photoz by Liza from Fence Check
Keep track of your airshow season! (click on photo to go to the site)

Nevada - National Championship Air Races & Airshow 2008 - Reno - 09/10/08 from Fence Check

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