Showing posts with label Thunder Over the Blue Ridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thunder Over the Blue Ridge. Show all posts

Monday, September 6, 2010

Indy Transponder 06-SEP-10 1400z


Maria Weybrecht soars with Kids in Flight charity - Plain Dealer | On a hot summer day, when you're doing a few barrels and loops and other aerobatic maneuvers, I haven't felt too great. I have lots of favorites, ...

'The sort of flying flying that gives you goosebumps' - Cambridge News | Saturday started with a stunning performance by the Red Arrows, the RAF's display team, followed by four Hurricanes and the incredible sight of 16 Spitfires ...

Organizers pleased with air show - The Herald-Mail | Besides the high-performance planes zooming past in a deafening roar, the two-day Thunder Over the Blue Ridge Air Show at the Eastern West Virginia Regional ...

GALLERY: Airshow presses on despite low cloud - Belfast Newsletter | The families really love the Red Arrows but the aircraft enthusiasts really like the Eurofighter." One spectator who attended the event told the News Letter ...

The Few honoured at Battle of Britain 70th Anniversary Day commemoration at ...- The Press, York | More than 450 current and former members of the Armed Forces took part in a parade at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, which was also the biggest event ...

Heavenly skies: Fans say farewell to air show - Seacoastonline.com "That's what really gets me," he said, as he prepared to watch the US Navy Blue Angels take off for their final flight demonstration for the weekend. ...

Air show honors Sedalia firefighter | firefighter, air, volk ... by Matthew Steingraber | News: Air show honors Sedalia firefighter | firefighter, air, volk, sedalia, fellow, new, community, including, hero, service…

Widower of WWII-era WASP pilot to receive Congressional Gold Medal at Billings ... - Billings Gazette | Dick Logan introduced Marjorie to every famous aviator, including Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart, who flew through Billings. "He'd call me at school, ...

Fly-in soars in Watsonville: Every plane and pilot has a tale to tell - San Jose Mercury News | He spends his time flying from air show to air show. He had his 1942 PF-19 on display at the 46th Annual Watsonville Fly-In and Air Show Saturday. ...

The Aviators TV - We would like to thank you all for your very enthusiastic response to The Aviators during the Canadian premiere. There's much more to come... Stay tuned! For our American fans, your chance to catch the show starts in many cities THIS WEEK! Contact your local PBS station for further info (emails get more accurate airing details than onl...ine schedules)… http://www.pbs.org/stationfinder/stationfinder_relocalize.html

Win family tickets to Southport Airshow - Liverpool Echo | The Southport Air Show welcomes back the Red Arrows on the Saturday, ready to wow visitors with their famous aerobatic manoeuvres. ...

Fiorito: It's time we killed the air show - Toronto Star | Maybe you like the air show. I understand that some people prefer vicarious thrills; even I am not immune to the naked charms of roaring, throbbing, ...

Families' disappointment after being turned away from air show - Cambridge News | Museum bosses apologised after ticket holders were turned away from an air show which brought roads south of Cambridge to a standstill. ...

Pease air show was all about the money - Seacoastonline.com | You need to separate the air show into the performers and the people who ran it. A few weekends ago the fighter wing in Westfield, Mass., had an air show ...

Fantastic Farnborough from Pacific Wings Magazine by Rob | Once again, Pacific Wings was right in the action at Farnborough International 2010. Peter Cooper was there all week not only as Pacific Wings' UK correspondent, but also as Farnborough Airport's semi-official historian and photographer. Farnborough is unquestionably the cradle of British aviation. One hundred and two years ago, it was the site of the first powered flight in the UK. Today, it is a thriving business airport and, once every two years, the site of the world-renowned Farnborough International Air Show. From 19–26 July, it was home to Farnborough International Air Show 2010—the 39th international display on this hallowed ground…

United States - Washington - Vintage Aircraft Weekend - 09/04-05/2010 from FenceCheck Forums:

AirVenture Night Show Spectacular from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News - A spectacular finale at AirVenture on Saturday evening was almost worth the entire trip to Oshkosh. The first EAA night air show in decades packed the house. Under a star filled sky the audience was thrilled by amazing aerobatics and pyrotechnics extraordinaire…

Jumbos coming out of bone yard from Radar Vector - Civil Aviation News by radar vector | Airlines around the world are bringing back to life their Boeing 747s from storage in the desert. Statistics from aviation consultant Ascend Worldwide Ltd. shows the number of 747s recalled in June exceeded those mothballed for the first time since January 2009.

The Rest of the King Story from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast | Santa Barbara Police have taken some heat for their handling of the detention of John and Martha King on Aug. 28. AVweb's Russ Niles spoke with Lt. Paul McCaffrey of the SBPD, who says that, based on the information they had, the officers did a proper and professional job of bringing the situation to a safe conclusion. (Note this podcast is longer than usual at 16 minutes.)

Crowdsourcing A Piece of the Music from AcroCamp by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper) Check out the current episode of Airspeed for information about how we're crowdsourcing some of the music for Acro Camp! Listen to the episode, download the guide tracks, play or sing, and you might find yourself in the soundtrack of an independent film!...

This Week in Space - Setp. 5, 2010 from RLV and Space Transport News | Here is the latest episode of Spaceflight Now's This Week in Space. Topics include: A massive booster roars to life in Utah test, taking out the trash space station style, planning an asteroid mission and NASA mixes up fake vomit in the lab!...

Space Access Society: "Time Running Out for NASA Reform" from RLV and Space Transport News | The latest message from Henry Vanderbilt at the Space Access Society: Time Running Out for NASA Reform - The proposed new NASA space exploration policy looks as promising as anything we've seen come from those quarters for a long time. These reforms pass responsibility for basic space access to the US commercial sector, while refocusing NASA away from their ruinously inefficient in-house rocket development bureaucracy and back toward developing new technologies for future transportation and deep-space exploration…

C-130 Heliplane from The Unwanted Blog | An idea out of Lockheed-California, circa March 1963 for a VTOL C-130. Featuring fore and aft rotors like the Chinook, but with only two blades per rotor, and the ability to align them for minimum drag during forward flight. However, the illustration seems to show a dearth of actual powerplants. The normal C-130's four turboprops are here reduced to two… with no means of powering the props shown. No further data on this…

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Indy Transponder 05-SEP-10 1200z


Educators, reporter fight gravity, nausea as they fly with the US Navy Blue ... - Plain Dealer | Thomas Ondrey/The Plain DealerPlain Dealer reporter Michael Scott waves as he takes off Wednesday afternoon in a Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet. ...

Aviation thunder rolls over air show crowd - The Herald-Mail | The 25-year-old Westernport, Md., native was treated to a flight aboard one of the US Air Force Thunderbirds, which are headlining the Thunder Over the Blue ...

Air show awes crowd - Martinsburg Journal | Thunder Over the Blue Ridge open house and air show was hosted by the West Virginia National Guard 167th Airlift Wing, the Airport Authority and United Way ...

Outreach program flies into town - Martinsburg Journal | May and several DAV volunteers were at the air show as part of its outreach program to veterans, featuring Panchito, a reconstructed World War II B-25 ...

Saturday Afternoon Planes at Blakesburg from Antique Airfield News | Saturday was a stunningly good day for flying at Blakesburg: smooth air, 70 degree temperatures, light breeze, and unlimited visibility. Lots of people took advantage of the conditions, and over 350 planes were on the field. Here are plane photos. Lest there be doubt, there are lots of people at Blakesburg too - which I've separated into the next post for those who like their hardware pure, without the squishy bits…

Wings Over Halls air show returns - State Gazette | The occasion will be the "Wings Over Halls" air show at the Veterans' Museum in Halls, which will take place Saturday, Sept. 11, and Sunday, Sept. 12. ...

Classic planes, WWII tales, draw people to AirFest at Cape May Airport - Press of Atlantic City | A B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator and P-51 Mustang sat side by side on the runway and served as the stars of the 14th Annual AirFest hosted by the ... restored planes are part of the Wings of Freedom Tour presented by the Collings Foundation and fly across the country to promote aviation history. ...

'Flying Babe' to be part of air festival - Great Bend Tribune ... of aircraft will be on display — on the ground and in the air — at Great Bend Municipal Airport in the Airport Air Festival and Fly-In, set for Sept. ...

Ride the wind - Altoona Mirror | The Altoona native, who works as a full-time team leader of the US Army Golden Knights skydiving team, helped his team win a silver medal on Aug. ...

United States - Texas - Warbirds on Parade 2010 - Lancaster - 09/04/10 from FenceCheck Forums:

People at Blakesburg from Antique Airfield News | Often people initially come to Blakesburg for the hardware - there are antique and classic planes that you will never see anywhere else in such variety and quantity. But I think what keeps people coming back is the people. Blakesburg is grassroots aviation at its finest in aircraft, flying, and community. Here's a selection of the community of people who make Blakesburg what it is. Photos by Tam Williams…

The fourth edition of the flea AĆ©ropuces Aviation 2010 will be held at the Museum of Air and Space in Le Bourget 02 and October 3, 2010, from 10 to 18 hours. This is an opportunity for you to take the air to your collection ... Meet in the lobby to buy Concord, exchange and meet fans. More than sixty exhibitors are expected…

Grants to benefit county air show, scholarship fund - Northern Virginia Daily | Dominion also presented $2000 to the Front Royal-Warren County Airport to advertise and promote the third-annual Virginia Air Show, which will be held from ...

Boron-based High Energy Jet Fuels from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | In 1910, German chemist Alfred Stock began to experiment with taking hydrocarbon-based compounds (all fossil-fuels are hydrocarbon-based) and using boron as a substitute for carbon. Given that boron's nearest neighbor on the periodic table of the elements is carbon, Stock was intrigued by the possibility of using boron-based compounds…

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