Indy Transponder 05-APR-2011 2000z

Thunderbirds set to arrive 3 days before Air Expo - Live 5 News | The United States Air Force Thunderbirds are scheduled to arrive at Joint Base Charleston on Wednesday afternoon. The Thunderbirds are here to perform at the Air Expo, “Joint Forces in the Air” at Joint Base Charleston on Saturday, April 9. ...

USAF Thunderbirds Schedule 2011

Air Expo thunders back into town - Charleston Post Courier | ... with Japanese-style aircraft and a fire show; a Battle of Midway re-enactment; the US Army Special Ops Black Daggers Jump Team; GEICO's Skytypers; B-25 Bomber "Panchito"; A-10 Warthog demonstration; and an F-15 demonstration, among other displays. ...

Sun 'n Fun Made Use of Social Media This Year - The Ledger | LAKELAND | For some 36 years, the Sun 'n Fun Fly-In has run on aviation fuel, enthusiasm and wings — but another mode of operation played a stronger role than ever this year: Social media. The Sun 'n Fly-In used social media like ...

Air show organisers seek old programme - Clacton and Frinton Gazette | ORGANISERS of the Clacton Air Show are looking for a programme from the first event. As part of the preparations for the 20th air show they would like to find a copy of the 1991 programme. Sarah Daniells, Tendring Council's tourism and marketing ...

Gold Team performs at Puerto Rico Air Extravaganza from US Army Golden Knights | Sunny weather, an energetic crowd, and incredible show performances sums up in a few words the excitement of the Puerto Rico Air Extravaganza. Gold Team finishes up another great weekend in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. The Team arrived on Friday to setup and prepare for four shows over this gorgeous weekend. This year’s Puerto Rico [...]

The Last Flying Vulcan Touches Down at Her New Home: The Doncaster Airfield Where She Was Based in the 1960s from AMTOnline.com | The agreement to base XH558 at Doncaster for the summer could be the first stage in the development of a visitor centre that will eventually be linked to a facility to inspire the next generation of engineers and technicians.

The celebration of the "Russian Knights" - The Voice of Russia | Today, the legendary group of stunt flying Russian Vytyazi Russkie "(" Russian Knights ") equivalent to the" Tricolour Arrows "Italian celebrates its twentieth anniversary. The virtuoso performances of Russian pilots in the sky of many countries ...

Russian aerobatic pilots discuss their superstitions - RIA Novosti | The Russkiye Vityazi (Russian Knights) aerobatic team was formed April 5, 1991 and is based at the 237th Guards Proskurov Air Force Regiment, comprising the best pilots from the Kubinka Air Base near Moscow. The team includes Vladimir Basov, ...

Super Puma Air Display Team from Fanclub Patrouille Suisse

"Turbulate the Air" UCAP #231 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
Recorded on location from the 2011 Sun 'n Fun Fly-in. Guests: John Burton, Patty Wagstaff, Peggy Chabrian, Dan Johnson

Tyndall AFB 2011 - Warbirds and Airshows | Salute to Gulf Air Show Photo Review | Warbirds at Tyndall AFB, FL - March 26-27, 2011  | This was my first visit to the Tyndall AFB Air Show which this year included warbird aerobatics by the FG-1D, P-51D, T-33 and two T-6s along with the 17 minute long Tora Tora recreation of the Pearl Harbor attack with eight replica Japanese aircraft and a P-40.  Finishing out the warbird flying was B-25 and the Heritage Flight F-4 Phantom.  This is a great event to start the air show season and break out of the winter doldrums and has historically been known for having a fine selection of warbirds demonstrations.  This year was no exception. ...

Air Force jets perform first flyover using alternative fuel from Milcom Monitoring Post | WASHINGTON (AFNS) - Three F-15E Strike Eagle fighter aircraft performed the Air Force's first flyover using "green" biofuel over Citizen's Bank Park for the Philadelphia Phillies Opening Day activities April 1.  The jets, from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., flew using a 50 percent blend of traditional jet fuel and synthetic biofuel derived from plant oils grown in the northwestern U.S.  ...

A WWII memory touches down - Arizona Daily Sun | The airplane is housed at the EAA's Airventure Museum in Oshkosh, Wis. But the EAA wants more people to experience the plane, and the organization has launched a year-long "Salute to Veterans" tour around the country. The "Flying Fortress" bomber was ...

WASP SURVIVE A FLORIDA TORNADO at "SUN AND FUN!" from WINGS AND WASP |  Susan King and Bob Oehl of Wings of Dreams  have been hosting WASP at Sun N Fun  for a few years.  We  are always given the best VIP treatment.   Susan and Bob  were exceptionally gracious hosts and, this year,  made it possible for the following WASP to attend the annual Sun N Fun Air Show in Lakeland, Florida: ...

Convair B-58 Ejection Capsule from The Original Rocket Dungeon 

VIDEO: Flight Douglas DC-4 & Curtiss-Wright C-46 Buffalo Airways from CavokBlog | An interesting video of staff JustPlanes.com , World Air Routes series, which shows details of the operations of Buffalo Airways , an airline canandense, based in Yellowknife, and is famous for operating aircraft during the Second World War to transport cargo and passengers today for northwestern Canada. Who did not know, it's worth knowing more about this company that has international recognition. ...

Aerospace Museum receives Atlas Impala that was a Brazilian Air Force from CavokBlog | The Aerospace Museum of Afonsos Field in Rio de Janeiro received more than a relic of the aviation world, the AT-26A aircraft Atlas MB-326KC Impala Mk.II (FAB 4634). To see more pictures, click here.  The aircraft was acquired by the FAB in excellent condition. Initially FAB prentedia use them as a source of parts for their AT-26 Xavante, however, after careful analysis came to the conclusion that they were in perfect condition, even better than the ...

Spitfire Ribbon Cutting from Seymour Johnson AFB Photos | SEYMOUR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. -- Members of the 4th Fighter Wing and Gateguards United Kingdom company pose in front of the newly established Spitfire display following the ribbon cutting ceremony to the new Spitfire Grill inside Heritage Hall April 1, 2011. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Gino Reyes)(RELEASED)

"Archangel" - YouTube | A historical video detailing the development and deployment of the A-12 photo reconnaissance aircraft -- the world's highest and fastest flying manned aircraft -- in the 1960s.
   
Edmond J. 'Ed' Gauthier - Escanaba Daily Press | He was a navigator on a B-17 while in Northern Appennines, PO Valley, Rhineland and Central Europe earning his AIE Medal, EAME Theater Medal with four Bronze Stars, American Theater Medal and Victory Medal. Ed was honorably discharged on Aug. 31, 1946. ...

George "Wheaties" Welch - P-38 National Association | Ed "Porky Cragg and George "Wheaties" Welch of the 80th FS/8th FG, November 1943. Welch got airborne at Pearl Harbor and shot down 4 Japanese aircraft. The next time he fired his guns at the Japanese, he shot down 3 flying a P-39D flying with the 36th FS of the 8th FG.  ...

Spirit soars in airshow volunteer - Bundaberg NewsMail | WITH a pilot for a mother, it was inevitable that Matthew Griffith would have a love for flying – something that has drawn him to volunteer at the Wide Bay Australia International Airshow. “The old days of airshows were a lot different – there weren't ...

Sharp chasing lifetime dreams - Shelby County Reporter | As his “hero dad” talked of Pearl Harbor, joining the Navy at 17 and described the seven major and 11 minor battles he fought in the Pacific, it whetted Sharp’s adventurous appetite.  “I always dreamed of being a fighter pilot in the Air Force,” Sharp said. “So I headed for Lackland Air Force Base two days after graduating from Woodlawn High School in 1965.”  Sharp was ready for adventure, but the Air Force was uneventful until the winter of ’68.  Sharp was sent to Seoul, Korea, following an incident with the Pueblo, an American spy ship.

STOVL F-35 Makes Headway Towards Sea Trials from Ares | In numbers terms, the F-35B STOVL variant of the Joint Strike Fighter has made rapid flight-test progress since the beginning of the year, racking up 61 vertical landings compared with just 10 in 2010. Improving mechanical reliability and adding aircraft to STOVL-mode flight testing appears to be paying off. ...

Children soar in university's aviation club – Daytona Beach News | Children soar in university's aviation club. Daytona Beach News-Journal (NJ | David Massey) The flight simulator center is where aspiring pilots and students learn to fly at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach. ...

April 5, 2011 Young Eagles Day at Pearland from Ely Air Lines by Linda Street-Ely
Mike: As we approach the downwind leg of the traffic pattern at Pearland Regional Airport, the two boys in the airplane with me harmoniously burst into singing “Eye of the Tiger” (Survivor, 1982). In the co-pilot seat was eleven-year-old Owen Merrell of Kenefick following me through on the controls, totally enthralled with his very first foray aloft. His friend, twelve-year-old Logan Stinnett of Hardin sat in the back seat, having experienced ...

Unbridled Student Excitement for Flying from J Clark | Nothing is better than sitting in the office and having a student drop by to talk about flying their first aerobatic flight. When they become so excited they have a hard time containing their enthusiasm, it truly is an amazing event to witness. ...

Indy Transponder 31-MAR-2011 1030z

Maverick Flying Car Grabs Spotlight at Sun 'n Fun Fly-In - The Ledger | MIKE REINERT, from left, Scott Campbell, Rodney McIntosh, Janelle Deker and Chase Bodenhausen, the flight crew of the C-130, walk down the display line during the 37th Sun 'n Fun International Fly-In & Expo at the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in ...

Sun ‘n Fun Warbird Gallery | Warbird Wednesday from Leaving Terra Firma by Matt | I apologize for the late hour of this post, but in case you didn’t know, Sun ‘n Fun started Tuesday. The event runs from 29th March until 3rd April at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport (KLAL) in Florida. Unfortunately, I won’t be enjoying the sun nor the fun as I am unable to make my way to Florida this week. That won’t stop me from enjoying what I can of the event via third parties and as a Leaving Terra Firma tradition, I will compile a list of resources in this post that will allow those other poor souls that are unable to have the firsthand experience to get some second-hand experiences…

Warbirds on the wing for RAAF's 90th birthday - ABC Online | The Royal Australian Air Force has celebrated its 90th birthday with a ceremony in Canberra and a display of historic planes at the service's birthplace in Victoria. The RAAF was formed on March 31, 1921, with Point Cook its sole base. ...

Was there any such WWII Flying Tiger air mission? - Straight Dope ...  by Boyo Jim | There is a four-part segment, not yet aired, about the Flying Tigers. I'm personally not aware that they flew any missions which changed the course of the war, unless you consider that improving the morale of the American public in the ...

Wings of Freedom: Living History Tour schedule of events - Victoria Advocate | Victoria chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association offering free flights to Young Eagles (18 and younger). Email membership@eaa340.org for advance reservations. 9 am to noon - WWII Heroes: Glenn McDuffie (Kissing Sailor), ...

History takes flight - Victoria Advocate | One of the highlights is the B-17 Flying Fortress, made famous by its bombing runs during World War II. The plane now serves on the living history tour to more than 130 cities annually. The bomber gives WWII veterans a backdrop to talk about their ...

Bomb will be explosive addition to air museum - Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph | Aviation enthusiasts have marked the beginning of a new project to expand their museum by receiving a 500kg German bomb. Trustees of the Sywell Aviation Museum took delivery of the device, which could be the centrepiece of a planned section about the ...

Take Me Out to the Ball Game!  from AirSpace by Elizabeth Borja | The 2011 Major League Baseball season starts today at 1:05pm, when the National Air and Space Museum’s hometown Washington Nationals host the Atlanta Braves at Nationals Park. This afternoon the red and white uniforms of the Nationals will stand out against the bright green of the field.  In the late 1950s, players took to the field of the U.S. Naval Air Material Center in Philadelphia wearing a different uniform—B.F. Goodrich Mark IV spacesuits.  Photographs of this event were found in the Archives Division’s Frederick Clark Durant Collection (Acc. No. XXXX-0084)…

NASA Astronaut Doug Wheelock Wins Social Media Shorty Award  from Aero-News Network | Wheelock Photo "Moon From Space" Chosen For Real-Time Photo Of The Year NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock was honored with a Shorty Award for an image of the moon he took and posted to his Twitter account, @Astro_Wheels, while living aboard the International Space Station last year…

Spirits soar during 49th Yuma Air Show - Desert Warrior | A panoramic view of the 49th annual Yuma Air Show is seen on the station flight line, March 26, 2011. The event drew more than 40000 spectators who flocked to see the more than 30 aircraft and other displays provided by both military units and private ...

Indy Transponder 30-MAR-2011 1030z

Support the Franklins from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Concern and support for Amanda and Kyle Franklin are profound at this year’s Sun ‘n Fun. The two air show performers were critically injured during a performance in Brownsville, Texas, on March 12, when an engine malfunction caused an inflight fire.  Aircraft Specialties Services, Inc., of Tulsa, Okla., has been a prominent sponsor of the Franklin act since its inception four years ago. The company is supporting the Franklins by collecting donations and messages for the couple during this year’s event.  Read more...

Mark Woods: Clay officer earning yellow bricks with the Blues - Florida Times-Union | If all goes as planned, this morning a 56-year-old major with the Clay County Sheriff's Office will climb into an F/A-18 and fly with the Blue Angels in a Lakeland air show. When he does, Mike Hardee will fulfill a dream. And not just his dream. ...

The Harrier  from Latest Vlog by hilton@shortfinal.tv (Hilton)  Today's video has some awesome in cockpit camera views and includes excerpts from the final UK Harrier GR9/T12 flight on 15 December 2010, during which a 16 ship formation was flown.  Enjoy!

69 years ago this week, Doolittle raiders practiced at Willows airfield - Enterprise-Record | On April 18, 1942, 16 B-25 medium bombers did what most believed was impossible: launching from the deck of the aircraft carrier Hornet in the first US bombing raid to hit the Japanese islands. The raid, which inflicted only minimal physical damage, ...

Future of South St. Paul flying museum is up in the air - Pioneer Press | "This B-25 was donated to us in 1985, and it took us two years to make it airworthy enough to fly it from Rice Lake, Wis., back to Fleming," said member Joel Ludwigson of Cottage Grove. On any given Wednesday and Saturday, aviation enthusiasts, ...

Museum of Flight schedules space fest for April 12  from Aerospace News by Aubrey Cohen | Seattle’s Museum of Flight has scheduled a celebration of spaceflight for April 12, which is the 50th anniversary of Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becoming the first man in space, the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle flight and the day NASA is scheduled to announce who gets the retiring space shuttle orbiters. Visitors can [...]

Vintage war planes put on show for Bendigo - Bendigo Advertiser | Echuca Air Show spokesman and Echuca Aero Club president Murray Lanyon said the planes were on their way to Point Cook for the RAAF's 90th anniversary celebrations. He said the planes would return for the Echuca Air Show on Sunday. ...

New Aerospace Academy Opens At Sun 'n Fun  from AVweb Top News | The Central Florida Aerospace Academy now has a new home on the Sun 'n Fun campus, which was formally dedicated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday morning. The 58,000-square-foot building features classrooms, a media center, a cafeteria and an engineering lab, and can serve up to 500 students. The school aims to help students prepare for careers in aviation and aerospace…

Max Holste MH.1521 Broussard walkaround  from Travel for Aircraft by travelforaircraft | Max Holste MH.1521 Broussard walkaround - One day, after a visit to an aircraft museum, I dropped by a small nearby airfield called the Alfred Dunn Airpark because one never knows when an odd or unusual aircraft might be spotted. On this day I saw one of my favorite aircraft, a de Havilland Beaver — but no? This aircraft had twin tails and, as in nature, DH Beavers have only a single tail apiece!...

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Indy Transponder 29-MAR-2011 1030z

37th-Annual Sun 'n Fun Takes Flight Today - The Ledger | (LR) Frank Moss, pilot, and Carlos Gomez, a founder of the Historical Flight Foundation Inc.the owner of the aircraft, stand in front of the recently restored 1958 Eastern Airlines DC 7B at the Sun 'n Fun International Fly In & Expo on Lakeland Linder ...

City to explore U.S. navy plans - Windsor Star | The city will move ahead with efforts to bring US warships to the 2012 edition of the Windsor International Air Show. Capt. Patrick Burns of the US navy gave a presentation at city hall Monday night, providing details on the navy's plans to have ...

Weekend of events planned to mark 70th anniversary of the Blitz in Liverpool - Liverpool Echo | A World War II Spitfire plane will perform an aerobatic flying display over the Mersey and veterans of all ages from all conflicts will parade through the streets during the Bank Holiday weekend of April 30 to May 2. There will be a climbing wall in ...

Female high flyers at show - Cambridge News | Daring female pilots will show off their talents in celebration of the role played by women in the development of flight at Duxford's Spring Air Show. The Imperial War Museum Duxford has created a formidable line-up of talented female aviators for the ...

Historic military aircraft find new life at Tucson's 'Boneyard' - TucsonSentinel.com | At Tucson's "Boneyard," row upon row of B-52s, F-4 Phantoms, A-10 Warthogs and some of the rarest military aircraft dating back to World War II provide a panoramic vision of aviation history. But there is more to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and ...

88 YEARS OF ITALIAN AIR FORCE - It was celebrated yesterday the anniversary Ottantottesimo Italian Air Force...

Museums vying for NASA shuttles to meet in Dayton - Dayton Daily News | “On the day of the shuttle announcement, Dayton will be the center of the universe with respect to the museums who want, and may get, a shuttle,” said Tony Sculimbrene, executive director of the National Aviation Heritage Alliance, a Dayton-based ...

Shuttle hopefulls to gather as winners named (Dayton Daily News)  Seattle Post Intelligencer | “On the day of the shuttle announcement, Dayton will be the center of the universe with respect to the museums who want, and may get, a shuttle,” Tony Sculimbrene, executive director of the National Aviation Heritage Alliance, which is promoting the ...

Internet poll wouldn't give Seattle a shuttle, so far - Seattle Post Intelligencer ... Adler Planetarium, in Chicago (6 percent), the National Museum of the United States Air Force, in Dayton, Ohio (4 percent), Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, in McMinnville, Ore. (2 percent), March Field Air Museum, in Riverside, Calif. ...

The Mojave Launch Lab  from Air & Space Magazine 

Meanwhile, at Stately Ward Manor..."  - Last year, I was made aware of a cool web site for the geek in all of us, The Sci Fi Air Show. A passion project of Hollywood visual effects supervisor Bill George, the site is played straight and presented in a "real world" style, offering up air show-type pics of some of the coolest space vehicles from science fiction film and television. In addition to providing "histories" for the vehicles in question, pictures show visitors walking in and around such craft as the Eagle from Space: 1999, climbing up to check the cockpit of a Battlestar Galactica Colonial Viper, touring the Orion space plane from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and even checking out the "Flying Sub" from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea…

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Geico Skytypers to appear at MCAS Beaufort Air Show - Bluffton Today | The Geico Skytypers, the only civilian flying unit in the world to use World War II-era planes to “type” their messages in the sky, are performing April 30 and May 1 at the MCAS Beaufort Air Show 2011. The Geico Skytypers use six of the remaining 11 World War II North American SNJ-2 planes left in the world to create messages at an altitude of 10,000 feet, forming letters in a dot-matrix-like pattern. Each plane has been restored and is specially equipped and modified with...

Thousands Attend Tyndall’s 2011 Gulf Coast Salute Air Show - WMBB News | Tyndall AFB, Fla: With earplugs in and cameras out more than 75,000 people watched the jaw dropping, gravity defying tricks presented at the 2011 Gulf Coast Salute Open House and Air Show. “Everybody loves an air show, air power is great and...

Win a family ticket for Duxford’s flying legends - Dunmow Broadcast | The Fighter Collection and Imperial War Museum Duxford have announced that The Horsemen, the world’s only P-51 Mustang formation aerobatic team, will be performing at Flying Legends on July 9 and 10 – complete with their own aircraft shipped over from the USA...

Evansville Freedom Festival 2011 - AirshowMedia.net | FORUM DISCUSSION - Freedom Festival Air Show 2011 - Downtown Evansville, IN - June 11 & 12, 2011 - Announcer: Danny Clisham | Performers: Military - US Navy Blue Angels | F-15E Strike Eagle Demo Team | KC-135 Flyover | Civilian - Billy Werth...

Fantastic female pilots are the stars of Duxford’s Spring Air Show - Airshows.org.uk | Launching the 2011 air show season, Imperial War Museum Duxford’s Spring Air Show, on Sunday 22 May, celebrates the integral role played by women in the development of aviation. From technological advancement to daring aerial aptitude, in military and civil aviation; aerial adventure and aerobatics; engineering and mechanical endeavour, the achievements of women...

Video: Inspiring kids to take to the sky - wistv.com | Jeff Skiles was the co-pilot of the "Miracle on the Hudson," and he was in town to inspire children toward aviation. He is part of a program called "Young Eagles". The group is making stops on their way from Wisconsin to Florida. At each stop, young children get to take a ride in the sky for free. "Kids don't have access to aviation now like they did when I was young," said Skiles, "With security procedures, you just don't...

Aviation enthusiasts enjoy air show - Herald-Tribune | PUNTA GORDA - Since moving to Punta Gorda 30 years ago, Harry Kelly has never missed the air show, and he says watching the planes never gets old. "I'm fascinated by the power, the speed. It's just incredible," Kelly said. "It makes you proud. There's something...

Air Race Classic June 21-24 - Saratoga Resort & Spa | The Air Race Classic will be flying over Carbon County this year!  The Air Race Classic (ARC) is an annual cross country women’s air race that carries on a tradition that began in 1929 with the first Women’s Air Derby and continued with the All-Women...

New Media Camping at Sun ‘n Fun 2011 - DaveFlys.com | For the third year in a row, I will be camping on the field at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport for the annual Sun ‘n Fun Fly-In. I camped in the same spot for the last two years, and it seems to have worked out well. So this year I am hoping that my friends, old and new, will decide to pitch their tents near me. Some of you have already said you would. So where am I camping? Right here:

Women in Aviation Hall of Fame Inductees - AINonline | WAI honored five new inductees in its Pioneer Hall of Fame at the Women in Aviation conference: L. Tammy Duckworth, Black Hawk pilot and current assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs for the Department of Veterans Affairs | Major General Susan Helms, director of...

Women in Aviation - AINonline | There are few venues in aviation today where you will find the chief of naval operations, the COO of Signature Flight Support Worldwide, a retired SR-71 pilot with a talent for air-to-air photography and aviation training legends Rod Machado and...

DAV Brings Message to Sun n Fun International Fly-in & Expo

Lakeland, FL – Disabled American Veterans (DAV) brings its message of service and volunteerism in support of our nation’s combat-wounded men and women to the Sun n Fun International Fly-in and Expo – March 29 through April 3.

More than sixty-five years ago, sixteen B-25 Mitchell bombers launched off an aircraft carrier to conduct the famed Doolittle Raid over Japan. The mission proved to be one of the most galvanizing events of the Second World War – establishing the B-25 as a symbol of American military strength and determination. Today, in its modern-day mission with the Disabled American Veterans Flight Team, the B-25 serves as a reminder of the sacrifices veterans make for freedom. In the company of this historic bomber, the DAV Flight Team travels to airshows throughout the country increasing public awareness of disabled veterans and providing information about DAV programs and benefits.

“The DAV is thrilled to bring our message of volunteerism and support to our nation’s sick and disabled veterans to this air show. We believe the men, women and children who will visit this air show are the patriotic, military-friendly citizens that have helped make this nation so great,” said DAV National Commander Wallace Tyson. “The DAV is proud to be among this crowd, and meet those who want to know more about our service to veterans.”

Disabled American Veterans, representing more than 1.2 million disabled veterans, is a non-profit organization founded in 1920 and chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1932. It is dedicated to one, single purpose: building better lives for our nation’s disabled veterans and their families.

For more information about Disabled American Veterans go to http://www.dav.org/ or follow the DAV Flight Team at www.facebook.com/davflightteam.

Indy Transponder 24-MAR-2011 1030z

Riding with the Blue Angels - WTOK | Three civilians were chosen by the Blue Angels to ride aboard Blue Angel number seven Wednesday afternoon, including one media member, plus a teacher from Choctaw Central High School and the director of the Choctaw Area Council of the Boys Scouts of ...

Ethanol-Powered Plane Takes Us Up Before Airshow Performance - WJHG | Panama City - If you've seen a few unusual-looking aircraft in the skies, there's a good chance they're here for this weekend's Tyndall Gulf Coast Salute to freedom airshow. One of those here for the show is Greg Poe and his Fagen MX2 aerobatics plane. ...

Gulf Coast Salute: Airmen show off flying acrobatics at Tyndall Air Show - The News Herald | Tyndall Air Force Base will host the Gulf Coast Salute 2011 Air Show and Open House on Saturday and Sunday. This year's event will feature the US Air Force Thunderbirds in their 57th season since their creation in 1953. The two-day event also will ...

Sun 'n Fun Opens Next Week from AVwebFlash Current Issue
The Sun 'n Fun International Fly-In & Expo launches next week in Lakeland, Fla., with a robust schedule of forums, news events, and flight demos. The show, in its 37th year, runs from Tuesday through Sunday, with a celebration of the 100th anniversary of naval aviation, recognition for mission aviation, and the return of the  ...

Carrefour de l'Air at Le Bourget and Fly'in: 26 and 27 March 2011 from Passion pour l'aviation | The next weekend, 26 and 27 March will be held at Le Bourget Air 1st cross, this is the first gathering of aviation museums, a unique event in the heritage: museums, associations, collectors ... Enjoy these two days to find places that put the aircraft in France, and to share with many passionate. Each institution will present its activities, its collections and treasures (artifacts, documents, archives, models ...).  This meeting will be held in the  ...

Acro Paragliding from Latest Vlog | Phew, I'm not sure about this…Felix Rodriguez is an acro paraglider and this fella pushes the envelope to the very end! This clip is sure to get your juices going before the weekend kicks in.
Enjoy!

Black Team Opens the 2011 Season from US Army Golden Knights | Every year brings a new show season. It is the culmination of the months spent in Golden Knights Assessment and Selection, hundreds of training jumps and hours of endless training in Homestead, Florida. After every winter training, the team always has to answer the question, “Was it enough?” This year, Black Team can respond with [...]

Kentucky National Guard Aviator honored at Kentucky Aviation Museum from kentuckyguard | ... Fleming, already the namesake of the Kentucky Army Aviation Support Facility, is being honored today at the Aviation Museum of Kentucky, at Bluegrass Field in Lexington. According to ceremony officials, Fleming, a master aviator and descendant of John Fleming for whom Fleming County was named, enlisted in the Kentucky Army National Guard in 1949, retired in 1988 and died in 1999. ...
    
Decorated Air Force pilot dies at 91 - Knoxville News Sentinel | Mr. Needham, a pilot who flew 35 combat missions in a B-17 Flying Fortress - 10 more than required to rotate home - died Tuesday at age 91. He was a longtime and well-known Fountain City businessman and civic leader. Mr. Needham was recalled into ...

Wing Over Wendys - Ask a Flight Instructor | The project is “Wing over Wendys” and it is a book about a group of veteran combat war pilots and aircrew men and women from WW2, Korea, and Vietnam who meet every Monday morning at a Southern California Wendy’s restaurant to honor their service and honor those that never returned from war – Wing’s Over Wendy’s is their story of life, love, sorrow, hope, and love of country. We all need hero’s – and – they are, all our hero’s. Their stories need to be told before their time runs out. These men and women sacrificed for our freedom and this book is for them, their children, and for all of us.

When America stood still for women aviators - Daily Sun | In the first quarter of each year, thousands of women as well as some male aviation professionals from around the globe usually gather at a specific city for the annual Women in Aviation International (WAI) ...

Women of Aviation Week in the April AOPA from Toriaflies | The world’s first licensed female pilot, a French socialite named Raymonde de Laroche, declared in 1910 that flying was ideal for women because it didn’t rely on strength as much as on physical and mental coordination.  No doubt Laroche and ...

Great Bend, Kansas: The center of the aviation universe - General Aviation News | ... The airport was built during World War II and saw service as a training base for B-29 crews. Testament to this is a memorial plaza to honor the B-29, as well as the men and women who kept them flying. ...

Back from Daytona - Lock the Welder | ... For starters, my friend Leo and I found an awsome aircraft museum near Orlando. My other friend Eric, who is a pilot ... told me about it. Anyway we roll down there and find this place; its called “Fantasy of Flight”- a strangly gay name for a place that is anything but. I am going to do a few posts on this place because there is way too much to cover in one. Heres the deal- it is a private museum. The guy who ownes it, and everything inside, is named Kermit. I dont remember his last name, but he is a certified badass. While we were there he flew in from some other airshow in his p-40 Warhawk! ...

Aviation exhibit Saturday at mall - Ithaca Journal | 12:06 pm Three aviation groups will put on a joint exhibit of models, full scale aircraft and hands-on model simulators from 10 am to 5 pm Saturdayat the Shops at Ithaca Mall. As part of the exhibit, the Ithaca Aviation Heritage Foundation will display ...

The number of licenced Disabled Pilots is growing - NewsMaker | (18th to 20th March) Wheelchair bound paraplegic David McPherson, a pilot who is a member of the Deniliquin Aero Club, organised the event. The get together was also supported by charity Wheelies With Wings. 8 aircraft flew in which were all modified ...

Video:  For you radial engine fanatics.... from Jetcareers forums

British Female Typhoon Pilot Takes to Skies to Keep up The Pressure on Gaddafi. from Planenews Aviation News | With a relaxed air that conceals her steely resolve, this is the lone female RAF pilot flying combat missions over Libya. The woman, who has not been named, is one of ten Typhoon pilots deployed to enforce the no- fly zone by North Africa and blast Colonel Gaddafi's aircraft from the skies.

US Bombs F-15 wreckage...was it a Silent Eagle? from Black Horizon | US fighter planes returned to bomb the crash site of the F-15E Strike Eagle that crash-landed Monday night outside the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi, a senior US defense official confirmed Wednesday to FOX News Channel.  Tuesday night's mission was to ensure that none of the sensitive avionics or parts ended up in enemy hands. It was ...

Reagan National Tower Goes Quiet from AVwebFlash Current Issue | A Boeing 737 out of Miami and an Airbus A320 from Chicago landed at Reagan National Airport very early Wednesday morning, without contacting anyone in the tower but wasn't for lack of trying, the Washington Post reported. The inbound flights were handed off from Potomac TRACON to the tower at Reagan National shortly after midnight. When the tower failed to respond, at least one flight requested assistance from Potomac TRACON. Controllers there used a shout line to ...

Photos: Heliports from PPRuNe Forums | An opportunity to showcase the best (and worst) heliports, helipads and helidecks; past, present and future (designs), from around the world.  ...

IMAGES: Track how was the day that the Boeing 747-8I flew for the first time from CavokBlog

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Sun ‘n Fun commemorates 9/11 anniversary from General Aviation News | Sun ‘n Fun will commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11 during this year’s  International Fly-In & Expo, which will be held March 29–April 3 at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport (LAL) in Lakeland, Florida.

Milwaukee Air & Water Show schedule unveiled for 2011 - FOX6Now.com Milwaukee | This year’s headliner act will be the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds Jet Demonstration Team. Other performers include the U.S. Army Special Operations Command Parachute Team, Air Force A-10 Warthog Demo Team, Air Force Viper East F-16 Demo Team ...

Marcus to sponsor air and water show - Milwaukee Business Journal | 6 and 7 with a headline performance from the US Air Force Thunderbirds, according to a news release issued by the organization Tuesday. Marcus Hotels & Resorts is the title sponsor of this year's show, which will again take place on Milwaukee's ...

Joint Base Charleston prepares for Air Expo 2011 with a major disaster ... - WCBD | The exercise is designed to help military and community first responders be ready for any possible disaster related to an air show... (more) By Raymond Owens Joint Base Charleston prepares for Air Expo 2011 with a major disaster response exercise. ...

Golden Wings Over Meridian This Friday, Saturday - WTOK | The Golden Wings Over Meridian Air Show, featuring the Navy's Blue Angels, will be Friday and Saturday at Meridian Naval Air Station. The event marks the 100th anniversary of naval aviation and the 50th anniversary of NAS Meridian. ...

Warplane Exposition set for Saturday - Tbo.com | Several vintage airplanes like this Navy T-28 will be on display for a very limited time when the Sebring Airport Authority will host a "Warbirds Exposition" at Sebring International Airport, at the end of Haywood Taylor Boulevard, from 5 pm to 7 pm, ...

Princeton Air Show featured acts confirmed - BCLocalNews | Featured, and new to the air show, will be several aerobatics teams including: Team Rocket, Blender Airshows and John Mrazek Airshows. Each of these aerobatic groups brings a unique and exciting routine ‐ from the highly modified Rocket aerobatic ...

At the 2011 Paris Air Show, a Coming-Out Party for Green Aviation Technology - National Defense Magazine | So it's only fitting that at the upcoming Paris Air Show, there will be a lot of talk about what the industry is doing to cope with the sky-rising cost of fuel. Fuel is the aviation industry's second largest expense, after labor. ...

Other Airshow Participants at Avalon 2011 from MRC Aviation | ... Kent Pietsch was back with his 1942 Interstate Cadet performing twice on the Saturday of Avalon 2011, and ...

Take a Ride in a B-25 - Air & Space Magazine | “Don’t touch anything painted red,” ...

Historic barnstorming biplane giving rides - Rockport Pilot | Nostalgic Warbird & Biplane Rides is currently offering the public a chance to re-live aviation history by taking an authentic barnstorming ride in this rare biplane. Rides will be offered at the Aransas County Airport from March 23-27. ...
   
Hall of Famer Clay Lacy Wichita Aero Club speaker - The Wichita Eagle | Lacy spoke of his experiences at the Wichita Aero Club meeting Tuesday. Today, he owns a charter company in Van Nuys, Calif. He also does “photo flying” for Hollywood movies and commercials. He has flown more than 300 aircraft. ...

100 Years of Naval Aviation: Why diversity matters in flight - LTJG Stephanie Young | ... As an aviator, one of my favorite examples of why diversity matters comes from the once male-dominated field of mathematics. For hundreds of years mathematicians theorized that Euclid’s parallel postulate – that only one straight line can pass thorough a point without intersecting another – was wrong, but they couldn’t find a way to model it. In 1997, a Latvian mathematician named Daina Taimina created an  ...

EAA 32 Young Eagles Event Gathers Diverse Aircraft At St. Charles County Airport from The Aero Experience

Museum receives rare Zeppelin and Hindenburg artifacts from General Aviation News | Clara Adams, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, was a passenger on many first flights in early aviation history, including the transatlantic flight of the Graf Zeppelin in 1928 and the inaugural flight of the Hindenburg. A number of artifacts documenting her travels were recently donated to the International Women’s Air & Space Museum in Cleveland. Donated items include a Hindenburg passenger booklet from the inaugural flight, a ...

Boeing 307 Stratoliner - YouTube | The Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner was the first fully pressurized airliner to enter service anywhere in the world. Being able to fly 20,000 feet higher than the 5,000 to 10,000 foot-altitude unpressurized airplanes a that time, it was said that it could "fly above the weather." It carried five crew members and 33 passengers and had a nearly 12-foot wide cabin for overnight berths. The Stratoliner was also the first land-based airplane to have a flight engineer as a member of the crew. ...

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Heavy Lifter - First CH-53K Taking Shape from Ares | Sikorsky has opened the assembly facility in West Palm Beach, Florida, where it will build five prototypes for the CH-53K heavylift helicopter development program. The building, formerly home to Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, is adjacent to Sikorsky's development flight center, where the CH-53Ks will be tested. ...

World's Biggest Space Party Set To Rock Downtown Hampton - Centre Daily Times | Hampton Roads residents will have the chance to celebrate that and another historic space anniversary during "Yuri's Night" at the Virginia Air & Space Center on April 16, 2011, from 7 pm to midnight. On April 12, 1961, Gagarin became the first human ...

FAA Updates "Through-The-Fence" Policy from AVweb Top News | Federally funded airports that now allow "through-the-fence" access for owners of hangar homes on adjacent private property may continue to do so, the FAA said in an interim policy published on Friday. The FAA had moved to stop all such access in 2009, citing economic and security concerns. The interim policy,  ...

Video: 100-Year-Old Skydiver Takes Ultimate Leap Of Faith - dig triad | ... On his 100th birthday, he suited up to jump 13,000 feet from the sky. His slight hesitation and slow steady walk didn't stop him from taking the plunge of a lifetime. ...

NASA to Launch the First Satellites Built by High School Students from PopularMechanics.com - Science: Air & Space | Starting this fall, as part of their CubeSat Launch Initiative, NASA will allow teams of student engineers to send their projects into space by piggybacking them on larger launches. ...

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Blue Angels soar in advance of air show - WLOX | The Keesler Air Force Base will host the Angels Over the Bay Air Show and Open House on Saturday and Sunday, March 19 and 20. Admission is free and gates will open at 9 am Entrances into the base are located at designated areas. ...

Blue Angels return to Pensacola skies - Gulf Breeze News | The Blue Angels are back for the 2011 season. Practices begin at 8:30 am and last about an hour. Viewing area is located on the Museum Flight Line behind the National Naval Aviation Museum. Admission to these practices is FREE and open to the public. ...

USN Blue Angels 2011 Schedule

Seymour Johnson Air Show Salutes NC's "Unwavering Support" April 16-17 - The Lincoln Tribune | This rare assembly of aerial and ground attractions includes the Air Force Thunderbirds, Seymour Johnson's F15-E Strike Eagle Team, the US ARMY Golden Knights Parachute Team, the F-22 Raptor, Tora Tora Tora WWII reenactment, the MIG 17, F-4, A-10, ...

Luke Days 70 Years of Thunder rolls in this weekend - YourWestValley.com | The public will get to experience more than two dozen military aircraft, including the elite Air Force unit the Thunderbirds and the Army's acrobatic parachute team, the Golden Knights. Not all of the activities will be in the air as numerous ground ...

Singapore celebrates 100 years of flight - Aviation Record | Singapore Airshow 2012, Asia's largest and one of the world's top three aerospace and defence exhibitions. The show, providing a marketplace and networking platform, will be the finale of the SACC. More details and updates can be found at ...

Hill Air Force Base defers popular air show to 2012 - Deseret News | HILL AIR FORCE BASE — A recent warning that budget priorities might prompt base commanders to cancel the air show this year are now official. "Given our current budgetary environment, I don't believe it would be fiscally responsible for Hill Air Force ...

Sun n Fun Educational Forums - Time Well Spent from DylanAviation | Please click link to view this month’s featured Hangar Talk Video:  The Sun n Fun International Fly-In and Exposition in Lakeland Florida will begin this year on Tuesday 29 March and continue thru Sunday 3 April. If you will be attending Sun n Fun this year, you might be interested in the Educational Forums. If you can attend one or more presentations at the Sun n Fun Forums, it will be time well spent. All of the speakers are experienced professionals offering valuable information and in insight into the art of flying. ...

Jeff Skiles' Skycatcher Checkout from eaavideo.org | Jeff Skiles gets checked out in EAA's Cessna Skycatcher and talks about the importance of a thorough checkout in a LSA regardless of pilot experience. Follow his flight to SNF 2011 in the Skycatcher at: http://www.facebook.com/EAASkycatcherTour

Aerobatic Champ Goulian to speak at Wisconsin Aviation-Madison from General Aviation News | World-renowned aerobatic champion and Red Bull Air Race Pilot Michael Goulian will speak Monday, March 21, from 6-7 p.m., at Wisconsin Aviation’s general aviation facility on the east side of the Dane County Regional Airport (MSN) in Madison. ...

Taylor Texas race in two weeks from VAF Forums | The first race of the season is at Taylor Texas (down by Austin - home of the LBJ Museum - another good reason to visit) on April 2. Check www.sportairrace.org calendar of events for course and details. The RV Red Class (320) is wide open. ...

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Larger than life – the Sikorsky VS-44 flying boat - Shortfinals's Blog | Here is one of the landmarks of air transport, the Sikorsky VS-44, one of the last flowerings of that giant of the skies, the flying boat. During the 1920s and 1930s two major centres of aviation activity, the U.K. and the U.S.A. had a need to link far-flung possessions, one across the Pacific and the other across the Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and the Timor Sea. Yes, the U.S.A. wanted to link San Francisco and Shanghai in China (via Honolulu, Wake Island, Guam, Manilla and Hong Kong) and Great Britain needed to reach Australia – and, ultimately, New Zealand (via Genoa, Alexandria, Basra, Karachi, and Singapore to Darwin, Australia). With the volume to carry passengers and the ...

Ricky De Agrela – Flying Round The World and Other Adventures by Ash Bhardwaj | Over the past few months I’ve begun writing for a magazine, Beyond Limits. The concept of the magazine is ordinary people doing extraordinary things. We cover topics of Adventure, Challenge and Inspiration and the best part of it is that I get to meet and interview some incredible and inspirational people. Last month I had the pleasure of interviewing Ricky De Agrela, who flew around the world in a microlight. So, courtesy of Beyond Limits magazine, here is that feature again in full. ...

Optical bar camera from AF.mil Photos | A U.S. Air Force U-2 high-altitude, all-weather surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft departs from Osan Air Base, South Korea, March 13, 2011, to capture imagery of the earthquake- and tsunami-affected areas of Japan. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Paul Holcomb)

Local kids experience thrill of flight - Farmerville Gazette | In November 2010, these children participated in the EAA Young Eagles Rally at the Farmerville Airport. The EAA Young Eagles program was launched in 1992 to give interested youth an opportunity to go flying in a general aviation airplane free of charge ...

X-51A Waverider flies on B-52 from AF.mil Photos | An Air Force Flight Test Center B-52 Stratofortress from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., carries an X-51A Waverider prior to the scramjet’s first hypersonic flight test on March 26, 2010. Air Force engineers have made design modifications to the three remaining X-51A demonstrators and plan to resume the hypersonic flight test program in early spring of 2011.

‘Smiles for miles’: Maryland event takes 185 women aloft - AOPA Online | March weather can be capricious in the Mid-Atlantic, but on March 12 the seasonal gusty winds and low clouds gave way so that 185 girls and women could enjoy free flights at Frederick Municipal Airport in Frederick, Md.

NASA Celebrates Trailblazers During Women's History Month Event from NASA Breaking News | NASA's women took the spotlight Wednesday in a Women's History Month event showcasing their achievements in aeronautics and space exploration initiatives.

Aerospace Educators Sought For Crossfield Award from AVwebFlash Current Issue
The National Aviation Hall of Fameis seeking nominations for the 25th annual A. Scott Crossfield Aerospace Education Teacher of the Year Award, which includes a $1,500 cash stipend and an expenses-paid trip for two to the Hall of Fame's annual enshrinement event in Dayton, Ohio. The award recognizes public-school  ...

Video: ISS Crew Given Heroes' Welcome to Earth from Spaceports | Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineers Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka are honored in post-landing festivities in Kazakhstan before making their return to Star City, Russia. Included is a post-landing interview with Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly.

A Time of Mixed Emotions at Kennedy Space Center from How I Am Becoming An Astronaut | Discovery landed last week ending not only a 13-day mission, but a 27-year spaceflight career. Preparations are now in work to retire the orbiter which will eventually be placed on public display in a museum.  Endeavour now sits on the launch pad awaiting a launch for April 19.  ...

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