Indy Transponder 20-JAN-2012 1145z

Protesters try to disrupt showpiece Bahrain Air show - Reuters | Anti-government protesters tried to disrupt the Bahrain airshow on Thursday, burning tyres which sent up columns of smoke as the authorities attempt to show life is returning to normal in the troubled Gulf kingdom....

Reno Air Race CEO optimistic about permits - San Francisco Examiner | The head of the Reno Air Races Association said Thursday he expects to secure the required $100 million in insurance and all the permits needed to run the 50th annual national championships in September, despite a deadly plane crash at the event last year....

Tuskegee Airmen commemorative group has local 'Red Tails' event - Pioneer Press | In conjunction with the new movie "Red Tails," the Commemorative Air Force Red Tail Squadron is hosting a fundraiser. The CAF Red Tail Squadron is dedicated to restoring airplanes and telling the story of the Tuskegee Airmen and Red Tails, who were African- American pilots in World War II. Their trail-blazing efforts are memorialized in "Red Tails," which opens today and stars Terrence Howard....

Pittsburgh area's Tuskegee Airmen praise film's attention - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | Dr. Harry Lanauze's office in McKeesport office resembles a shrine to aviation. A picture of a bomber hangs from the wall behind his desk, just a few feet from a slightly tattered copy of the private pilot's license, received in 1985. The nose of a tiny model Cessna peers out from a bookcase across the room. But it's the image in the waiting room, a P-51 fighter, that sparks the most memories....

Portland veteran, 91, sees George Lucas' WWII movie 'Red Tails,' one of few survivors of era - Oregon Live | Carl Deiz munched through a tub of buttered popcorn this week at a private screening of George Lucas' blockbuster "Red Tails." At 91, he was the oldest person in the downtown Portland theater. He was also the only one who knew something firsthand about those elite black pilots who overcame racial barriers to become one of the finest U.S. fighter groups in World War II. ...

Mustang on Ice - Vintage Wings of Canada | The 442 Squadron Mustang delivers an icy and granular blast to the face of photographer Dave O'Malley | You call your self a warbird mechanic? Really? You short pants wearing, candy-assed, sun-block covered, flip-flop shod, sunny weather warbird mechanics from Kissimmee, Florida, Mojave, California, or sunny Jindalee, Queensland have nothing on the grease-covered, snowsuit-wearing, frozen-to-the-core, toque-capped and smiling Merlin Wizards at Vintage Wings of Canada. If you work with the hangar doors open in Florida, the breeze is lovely. If you do that in Canada... it's deadly. If you bash your knuckles in a Canadian winter, no need to get a bandage... the blood freezes in a few seconds and God help you if you lick a wing....

Volunteers fuel love of aviation - Sun Live | A passion for planes is what fuels the volunteers at Classic Flyers to lend a helping hand at the museum. Tauranga resident Garret Horwitz has been volunteering at Classic Flyers museum in Mount Maunganui for the last two and half years....

The Greater Fort Wayne Aviation Museum - Visit Fort Wayne | In 1984, a handful of concerned citizens founded The Greater Fort Wayne Aviation Museum. Believing that the people of Allen County deserved to know their local aviation history, the group gathered pertinent material about Fort Wayne’s history from aviation enthusiasts. They placed the items in a prominent location for travelers — display windows located on the secured side of the Lt. Paul Baer terminal of Fort Wayne International Airport (FWA)....

WWII bomb found near site of Winter Youth Olympics - Sports Illustrated | An aerial bomb from World War II was found at a construction site Thursday, forcing the postponement of the daily medals ceremony at the Winter Youth Olympics....

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Aviation: It’s ALWAYS About The Passengers - JetWhine | Last Saturday was not a good day for transportation, but for once the bad news was not about aviation. An immense cruise ship — the Costa Concordia — capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the west coast of Italy where rocks near the shore sliced open the ship’s hull with Titanic-like fury. Most of the 4,200 people are accounted for and while nearly a dozen people lost their lives, any losses were needless and simply compounded by some actions of the crew....

Indy Transponder 28-DEC-09 1130z

A New Pilot Shares Aviation with Millions from Jetwhine by Scott Spangler | Flipping through the channels the other day I paused on Ellen DeGeneres' talk show because the guest, Zach Braff of Scrubs fame, said a word that caught my ear, "Cirrus." It seems he's a new pilot, and to appear on the show, which is taped in California, he flew himself across the nation from his home in New York, and the audience cheered and applauded this announcement…

Reaching for the skies... Gulf Daily News - Tom Hanratty | BAHRAIN is all geared up to host the country's first international air show, being held later next ...

AirFest to feature Thunderbirds - - BusinessRockford.com by Thomas V. Bona | "I don't want people to think they've seen the Thunderbirds before and they don't have to come," said Bob O'Brien, executive director of Chicago Rockford International Airport. "It will be different in a very exciting and quantifiable ...

Michigan Hellcat raised from Aeroplane Monthly News | Combat-veteran Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat was raised from the bed of Lake Michigan on November 30, nearly 65 years after it was lost during a training flight.

Confiscated Skyraider Still In Limbo After 6 Months from Aero-News Network | Baffled Warbird Owner Feels Targeted By Customs A Douglas AD-4N Skyraider was seized in May of 2009 on charges that the owner failed to file appropriate paperwork.

Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum Opens New Exhibt from Aviation News by Aviation_News_Expert_Adam_Badger | The Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum "Air Zoo" in Protage, Michigan (6151 Portage Road) opens a new art exhibit called "The Spirit of Flight: The History of Aviation through Art" that showcases aircraft and aircraft carriers from the early beginnings to the modern airplanes of today. The exhibit, is located in the Main Campus' Traveling Exhibit Hall that features more than 50 prints and posters. Official Site: http://www.airzoo.org/

Aero-TV: Doorway to Aviation – Academy of Model Aeronautics at AOPA from Aero-News Network | The AMA Joins the AOPA for the Promotion of General Aviation During the "Golden Age of Aviation," the nation's youth idolized such industry leaders as Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. As enthusiasm for aviation grew, small-scale aircraft building boomed in popularity, becoming both a fashionable hobby as well as an educational tool for the expanding career field.

This Week In Military/Aviation History 28 - 31 December from Warbirds Online by Tom Kwiatkowski Sr. | Hello Folks, the magic seven have passed and like usual here I am. Christmas has passed also and a brand new year is just around the corner. I hope you Folks got what you wanted from jolly ol' St. Nick. I got a nice WWI flight sim to spend the new year with. This time next year I hope to be an experienced pilot who can fly over "No-man's land" without getting his butt shot out of the sky in a heartbeat. We'll see, won't we? On behalf of the 1941 Historical Aircraft Museum and myself, may you all have a safe and Happy New Year. In the meantime shall we  delve into some serious history? Yes, I think we shall. Tom K.

On This Day in Aviation History: December 28th by Phil Derner Jr. | United Airlines Flight 173 crashes in Oregon in 1978, Airborne Transport DC-3 disappears enroute to Miami in 1948 and Israeli commandos launch a surprise attack on Beirut Airport in 1968…

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Indy Transponder 13-JUL-09 1030z

'One of the best years' for Prairie Air Show - Peoria Journal Star
This year's show featured the US Air Force Thunderbirds among many other acts. The show also included the first Peoria appearance by an AV-8B Harrier, ...

Air show gets sizeable crowd - Peoria Journal Star
This year's show featured the US Air Force Thunderbirds flying team. About 59000 people attended last year, and they are estimating attendance this year ...

Thousands flock to see old planes at annual AirFest - The Union of Grass Valley
Spectators use the shade of the wings of an Albatross plane at the AirFest Saturday. Thousands of people swarmed the Nevada County Airport on ...

Up in the sky! It's a pricey hobby! - Albany Times Union
This weekend, more than 300 people from five states and Canada came to the Capital Region for the fifth annual Capital Jets Airshow at South Albany Airport. ...

Dbn airshow a hit - East Coast Radio
Durban's pulled off another successful annual airshow. The weekend spectacle brought together some 15 000 people, a record figure last seen in 2002. ...

Air show dazzles crowd - Iowa City Press Citizen
With flying lawn mowers, dive bombs, rolls, loops and raining candy, it was hard not to keep your eyes to the sky at a radio-controlled model airplane air show on Sunday in Iowa City. "It is something we put on every year to promote the hobby and give ...

Dunkirk Rotary Club holds its 46th Fly-In Breakfast - Evening Observer
The Dunkirk Rotary Club held its 46th annual "Fly-In-Breakfast" Sunday. The Chautauqua County/Dunkirk Airport was full of all you can ...

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2009, A Displays Extravaganza from AVwebFlash Current Issue
The collection of aircraft set for display at this year's (July 27 to August 2) EAA AirVenture Oshkosh airshow does not scream recession or depression and could prove to be among the best gatherings the group has put together. Aside from the roughly 2,500 showplanes expected annually, the 2009 collection will include the space-tourist-launching Virgin Galactic VMS Mothership "Eve"; Airbus' A380 -- the world's largest airliner; an Avro Lancaster WWII bomber; a 1909 Wright B Flyer replica; a rare Japanese "Zero" and Messerschmitt ME109 will add to more familiar flock of warbirds; and possible appearances from the dawn of a new age -- electric flight -- are hoped for, if not expected. The show will celebrate anniversaries of the Cessna 150 (50th), the T-28 (60th) and the Pietenpol homebuilt (80th) among others…

Aero-News Update: Brutal Airshow Weekend Costs Two Airshow Pilots Their Lives from Aero-News Network
Tragedy Strikes Two Pilots, Gary Miller and Chandy Clanton, Practicing For Same Airshow Hazards can come at all times and in all forms -- and few people know that better than those who fly in airshows -- if not thorough their own occasional moments of peril... then from the diminishing ranks of their friends who have gone west. The week, we lost two outstanding members of the airshow community, oddly though, while practicing for the very same airshow.

Weddings Taking Off at CAF Commemorative Center - NewsWest9.com
... near the Midland International Airport runway on the Commemorative Air Force Headquarters and Museum grounds is seeing more requests for nuptials. ...

P-38 Lightning - Latest News on the P-38 Lightning WWII Fighter Plane from p38assn.org
Well, it's not very often that you have a panel of P‑38 pilots and crew chiefs at your fingertips for a Q&A, but that's just what happened at the P‑38 Symposium we held during our annual Membership meeting. It was a big hit with the folks who attended the meeting as well as visitors to the Planes of Fame Fly-in. And boy did the audience have questions for these guys!

Museum supporters acquire a site - Kansas City Star
Supporters of a museum dedicated to central Kansas' role in training B-29 bombers during World War II are celebrating another step in making the museum a reality. Organizers recently acquired a parachute building in Pratt, Kan., on a former B-29 air ...

Charles Cooke, a World War II bomber pilot from Michigan Center ... - The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com
The aircraft was flown into the Jackson Airport on Saturday from the Yankee Air Museum in Ypsilanti. Maurer organized a birthday surprise for her father, ...

An Apollo Anthology from Air & Space Magazine

Cute as a Button for AirVenture 2009 from Jetwhine by Robert Mark
Some folks really believe that the hit of this month’s AirVenture is going to be the arrival of the Airbus A380 at AeroShell Square. And no, the big deal this year is not going to be EAA’s director of public relations Dick Knapinski dancing the Macarena at Theatre in the Woods … at least I don’t think so…

Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome - Geoff Fox - My Permanent Record from http://www.geofffox.com/
I don't know how I knew the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome was there. I just knew there was a grass strip airport over-the-border in New York State that featured classic airplanes. That's all I knew when I asked my friend Harvey Kliman if he wanted to go?...

Neb. museum rocket camp challenges kids - Beatrice Daily Sun, NE
He also threw in some mathematical information on the side, hoping to pique campers' interest in the scientific aspects of rocketry. "It's not a physics class," he said. "Hopefully we try to inspire them into learning more about it. ...

Warbirds DVD Trailer from Military Photos by livingwarbirds

Movie Monday - July 13 - Air Transat 236 from FlightBlogger - Aviation News, Commentary and Analysis by Jon Ostrower
This week's Movie Monday explores Air Transat Flight 236. The flight, a transatlantic A330-200 crossing from Toronto to Lisbon, took place on August 24, 2001. The cause of the accident, which resulted in 18 minor injuries and no fatalities amongst the 306 on board, was traced to a fuel leak on the right hand side of the aircraft, resulting from improper maintenance conducted five days prior to the flight. Once the aircraft ran out fuel over the Atlantic Ocean, the A330 was forced to make a dead stick landing with 200 knot approach speed into the Azores…

Today's Video - Massive Speed: Messerschmitt 109 Versus Spitfire from HowStuffWorks Daily Feed
Host Mark Williams explains the conflict between Britain and Germany's evenly matched fighters. Check out this clip from Discovery UK's "Massive Speed" series to learn more.

United Kingdom - Duxford Flying Legends Air Show 2009 - Duxford - 07/11/09 from FenceCheck Forums

United States - Illinois - Prairie Air Show 2009 - Peoria - 07/10/09 from FenceCheck Forums
United States - Illinois - Prairie Air Show 2009 - Peoria - 07/10/09 from FenceCheck Forums

United States - California - Nevada County Airfest - Grass Valley - 07/10/09 from FenceCheck Forums

United States - Texas - Great Texas Balloon Race 2009 - Longview - 07/10/09 from FenceCheck Forums

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