Indy Transponder 19-MAY-2011 0930z

Angels invading Lynchburg airspace this weekend - Lynchburg News and Advance | It's been nearly 30 years since Lynchburg has hosted an air show. The schedule promises hours of entertainment of many stripes both Saturday and Sunday from 9 am to 5 pm at the Lynchburg Regional Airport. Organizers anticipate as many as 25000 ...

New River air show dazzles spectators - Camp Lejeune Globe | Members of the Canadian Forces Snowbirds fly in formation during the 2011 Sounds of Freedom Air Show aboard Marine Corps Air Station New River, May 14. Neal Darnell, driver of the Flash Fire Jet Truck, revs his engine before speeding down the flight ...

Red Arrows' bid to relocate to RAF Waddington facing six-month delay - This is Lincolnshire | DOUBT has been cast on plans to move the Red Arrows aerobatic display team to RAF Waddington. The team, currently based at RAF Scampton, near Lincoln, had been due to relocate to a custom-built home at RAF Waddington in July...

Red Arrow proud of his Warwickshire roots - Leamington Observer | Buy photos» Jon Egging, proud to be a member of the Red Arrows. In the formation on the right Jon flies as 'Red 4', to the far right of the diamond in the world famous display team. (s) THE WORLD FAMOUS RAF Red Arrows have a new member this year ...

Plane crash grounds RAAF Roulettes - Sydney Morning Herald | Two pilots remain in hospital after a crash which has grounded the Royal Australian Air Force's aerobatic display squadron, the Roulettes. The RAAF does not know what caused a PC-9A plane to crash at the East Sale base in Gippsland and has grounded its ...

Blues, Blue Ridge, and the Commercial Checkride Looms – Airspeed Online | I'm almost decompressed from the weekend. Saturday at Indy, I was invited to head over to Indianapolis International for an interview with CDR Dave Koss, Boss of the Blue Angels. They had lined up an F-4U Corsair, an FM-2 Wildcat, and an F/A-18D Hornet (Blue Angel jet No. 7) on the ramp as a backdrop highlighting the Centennial of Naval Aviation ("CONA" for short)…

Private Tanker Crashes In California  from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Three crew somehow escaped serious injury when their fully loaded Boeing 707 tanker crashed and burned on takeoff from NAS Point Mugu in California late Wednesday afternoon. The airframe is obviously a writeoff. The aircraft was one of two 707-300 passenger aircraft converted to tankers owned by Omega Air Refueling, which has been contracted to the Navy and the Marines for inflight refueling for seven years. The company also has a DC-10-40 converted to a flying filling station…

Omega Air 707 Tanker crashes at Point Mugu Navel Air Station from Aero Pacific Flightlines by Michael Carter - A Boeing 707 military tanker plane with three people onboard crashed and burst into flames at the Point Mugu naval air base in Ventura County on Wednesday, fire officials said. The three passengers escaped with minor injuries… 

Aviation Heritage Park has new Plane Coming to Bowling Green – WBKO | Aviation Heritage Park has a new plane coming to Bowling Green, to honor a local hero. The park has acquired a NASA T-38, in honor of Russellville native, Terry Wilcutt. Wilcutt is a NASA astronaut, commanding two space shuttle missions. ...

B-17 Bomber Lands In The Northstate - KRCRTV.COM | A World War Two B-17 Bomber flew into the Redding Airport as a Salute To Veterans everywhere. The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) is touring the country with the B-17 to give people the opportunity to tour it on the ground as well as fly in it. ...

Today in Aviation History – May 19  from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal

Indy Transponder 13-MAR-2011 1515z

Watching over the Blue Angels - Hattiesburg American | 4:32 pm Aviation Electronic Technician Second Class James Tangman, a Hattiesburg native, stands next to one of the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, F/A-18 Hornet jets. Tangman, a 2000 graduate of Hattiesburg High School, ...

Blue Angels visit pediatrics ward at local hospital - Imperial Valley Press | Yet the longer the three Blue Angels team members stayed in the room Friday morning, the more Ulises' curiosity piqued, especially after flight surgeon Lt. Jason Smith stuck a sticker to his chest. Members of the Blue Angels medical team visited the ...

Air show brings out families, wows crowd - Imperial Valley Press | With their chairs set up near the orange plastic fence and a couple of Blue Angels umbrellas giving them shade, they eagerly watched with their great-grandchildren as planes flew by. However, the 76- and 80-year-old couple know the planes in the show a ...

Air Show a Hit - KYMA | The skies were thrilled with thrills and excitement at the NAF El Centro Air Show on Saturday. Audiences were able to view displays of old and new airplanes. Aerial demonstrations, parachuting and the famous Blue Angels took to the air. ...

Naval aviation history celebrated with flights, displays - Imperial Valley Press | With old-time big-band music playing, planes from the past took to the skies Saturday at Naval Air Facility El Centro to celebrate a century of naval aviation. The Navy officially began its aviation ...

Keesler anniversary coverage - SunHerald.com | The Sun Herald will have coverage this week of Keesler Air Force Base's 70th anniversary, ahead of next weekend's Angels Over the Bay air show when the base will celebrate the milestone. Wednesday: Details of the base's $1 billion recovery from Katrina ...

Show: behind the scenes of the military aerobatics  via Translator | The opportunity to go behind the scenes of what makes the prestige of the Air Force: the Patrouille de France display team. ...

Vintage Fly-In Day at Stow Maries Aerodrome – 8th May 2011 by Flightline UK | Stow Maries World War One Aerodrome is pleased to announce that it will hold its first vintage fly in day on Sunday 8th May 2011. Gates open at 9am and the event ends at 6pm the same day.  This is the historic aerodromes first event of this type and it is hoped it will draw attendance from wide and far as it has already seen great success at Maldon District Heritage events where it has been a sell out for the past two years. ...

Musings on Black History Month-Women’s History Month and the History of Aviation by The National Air and Space Museum | Eugene Bullard is the acknowledged first African American military pilot, although he flew for the French flying service not the US Air Service.  ...

Amelia Earhart, by Kathleen C. Winters from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | When Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 during an attempted around-the-world flight, she was at the height of her fame: Adored by the public, she counted celebrities and politicians among her many friends and was idolized by women across the globe. ...

Landing gear failure forces WW2-era craft to make belly landing - Neosho Daily News | Hugh Robinson Memorial Airport workers prepare to move an airplane belonging to Greg Shelton, of Collinsville, Okla. By Luke Taylor Greg Shelton was coming in for his last landing on Saturday with his World War II FM-2 Wildcat plane when it ...

Have We Forgotten? from J Clark | ... The old airman was a member of the Eighth Air Force. He was once a part of the largest fighting force the world ever witnessed. The Army formed the unit in the sleepy little coastal town of Savannah, Georgia in January, 1942. From there, the airmen and mechanics of the Eighth went to England to fight Hitler. By the end of the war, more than 350,000 Americans wore the patch of the Eighth. Twenty-eight thousand of those men became prisoners of the Germans and 26,000 died in battle. ...

The "Wings of Russia" Sukhoi Super Jumbo from Aviation Trivia of the Day | At the 2001 Paris Air Show, the Russian delegation created quite a stir by unveiling a four-engine, double-deck, long-haul airliner christened "Kryl'ya Rossii", or "Wings of Russia". The ambitious project had the Sukhoi OKB designation "KR-860"- KR for  ...

Teams Try To Pull A Boeing 737 At GSP Internatioal Airport - News Channel 7 | Saturday's big event, was the plane pull. Four teams took to turns, trying to pull a Boeing 737. The first southwest plane to officially land at GSP touched down at 3:10 Saturday afternoon. It's the same plane that will make the inaugural flight at ...

Where is my flying car? - Washington Post | In 2004, the Federal Aviation Administration created a new category of plane, light-sport aircraft. The small planes require only 20 hours of flight time for pilot certification, less time than it takes to get a beauticians' license in some states. ...

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WWII Fighter Aces

Sunday Nov 9, 12 PM-4 PM

Meet WWII Navy Fighter Aces who accounted for over 41 aerial victories during WWII. The day provides you the opportunity to talk with and hear the Aces share their experiences flying against enemy fighter pilots.
Aces on the panel:

CAPT Bob Coats – 9.33 victory Hellcat Ace
CDR J. Ted Crosby – 5.25 victory Hellcat Ace
CDR Bill Hardy – 6.5 victory Hellcat Ace
LT Jim Pearce – 5.25 victory Hellcat Ace
LT Tillman Pool – 6 victory Hellcat Ace
LT CDR Bill y Watts – 8.75 victory Hellcat Ace

This event is presented by The Northern California Friends (NCF) and is associated with the American Fighter Aces Association , a not-for-profit, all volunteer organization. Their mission is to present the history and preserve the legacy of the American Fighter Pilot and Fighter Ace. Pre-registration is not required but recommended. To register please visit: http://www.hiller.org/files/docs/aces.pdf .

A rare Grumman/General Motors FM-2 Wildcat fighter will visit the Hiller Aviation Museum for this event. Come to hear the aces recount their aviation stories and see one of the legendary "fighting cats" of World War II naval aviation up close and in person.


Where's my Jetpack?
Tuesday Evening Nov. 11 7:30 PM

"Where's my jetpack?" This simple question from a friend started Mac Montandon on a quest for his own jetpack and for the promised new millennium that never quite arrived, a quest for a world where any person, at any time, could strap on a rocket and take flight. In Jetpack Dreams: One Man's Up and Down (but Mostly Down) Search for the Greatest Invention That Never Was, Montandon discovers the history of this most elusive form of personal transportationfrom its earliest popular appearance (in a science fiction story published in 1928) to the modern engineers, pilots, and other hopefuls still determined to realize the dream. Along the way, he stumbles upon Internet forums for jetpack enthusiasts, attends the first ever "International Rocketbelt Convention," and unearths the true story behind a bizarre mid-1990s case of kidnapping, imprisonment, and murderall for the sake of a jetpack.

Presentation included with museum admission. No charge for museum members.

Flight Explorers
Hands-on Programs for Kids

November 8th: Airplane Adventures
November 11th: Whirlybirds Away
1 PM to 4 PM

Flight Explorers programs are half day explorations into the science and wonder of aviation. Each session includes:

Special Gallery Tour
Hands-On Project With a Flying Aircraft Model
Exclusive Flight Simulation Mission in the Flight Sim Zone

Airplane Adventure participants will build and fly a rubber-powered airplane and master aircraft control in the Flight Sim Zone. Whirlybirds Away pilots discover the helicopter's special place in aviation with a rubber-powered helicopter before taking the controls of one in the Flight Sim Zone.

Other dates and topics are available. Visit our website at http://www.hiller.org/flight-explorers.shtml for a complete list of dates, times, topics and program fees. Advanced registration is required for all Flight Explorers sessions, download the registration form from http://www.hiller.org/files/docs/PublicProgramRegistrationFormFall08.pdf and return by mail, fax or in person to secure your child's spot today.


Learn To Fly Using Flight Simulators!
November 10
6 PM to 9 PM

Aviation Adventure: Single Session Course for Adults Only
(November 10 , 6-9pm).

Discover flying using state-of-the-art desktop flight simulators in our Flight Sim Zone with instruction from real-world pilots. This 3-hour mini-course has the intensity of real flight training with an emphasis on fun. From learning to read instrument panels to navigating local Bay Area airspace, you will experience the challenge of piloting with our superb computer simulators featuring multiple-monitor displays, yokes, throttles and rudder pedals. For pricing and registration details, visit www.hiller.org/flightsim.shtml

For more information on these or other events at the museum visit http://www.hiller.org/ or call (650) 654-0200