Preview: Wings Over Houston Air Show * KPRC Houston | Adventure takes flight this weekend at Ellington Airport! The Navy Blue Angels will soar into town for the 30th Annual Wings Over Houston Air Show...
Air show draws record crowd * Florida Times-Union | According to Undersander a lot of effort was put into moving air show traffic off base in a timely manner. “I'm very proud of our base security force as well as the 11 state and local law enforcement agencies who supported this event. When you have...
ShrinersFest cancel Blue Angels, all future air shows * 14 News WFIE Evansville | Evansville Freedom Festival committee members announced Wednesday they have decided to cancel air shows altogether in conjunction with ShrinersFest because the economy over the past three years has increased challenges and caused a financial risk...
Willow Run plant to officially become new home of Yankee Air Museum today * Crain's Detroit Business | Yankee Air Museum Chairman Ray Hunter is to sign papers today making the aviation museum the official owner of a 144,000-square-foot slice of the former Willow Run Bomber Plant, where Rose Will Monroe and other workers built B-24 Liberator bombers...
Pilot Spotlight: CAF Red Tail Squadron Pilot Paul Stojkov * Red Tail Squadron | Flying the CAF Red Tail Squadron’s P-51C Mustang might be the BEST. JOB. EVER. Soaring amongst the clouds, feeling the purr of that engine and meeting people all over the country to share the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen is nothing short of an honor. In today’s final installment of our Pilot Spotlight series, learn how CAF Red Tail Squadron Pilot Paul Stojkov channeled his love of flight into a career in the skies...
Niki de Saint Phalle's 84th birthday marked with Google doodle * Telegraph.co.uk | A different doodle marking the 107th birthday of Egyptian aviatrix Lotfia El Nady appears on the North African and Middle Eastern versions of the search engine's home page. Meanwhile, the South Korean version of Google celebrates the 510th birthday of...
A vital clue to the unfathomable mystery of aviator Amelia Earhart * Capital Wired | Well the quest for her last whereabouts have kept researchers, filmmakers and many other followers pretty much occupied ever since the pioneer aviator vanished over the Pacific while attempting to cross the world. The finding of a three foot scrap of...
Italian WWII Fighter Pilot Found At Controls Of Crashed Airplane * Aero-News Network | Aircraft Went Down During A Battle Nearly 70 Years Ago The wreckage of an Italian Macchi C.205 fighter plane has been found outside Pauda in northern Italy buried 13 feet underground with its pilot still at the controls...
Northrop Nomad (A-17A) Recovered in Canada * Warbirds News | An ultra-rare Northrop Nomad is slowly emerging from the frigid waters of Lake Muskoka near Bracebridge, Ontario. The Nomad was an export version of a US Army Air Corps A-17A, a small number of which ended up with the Royal Canadian Air Force in WWII instead of their original customer in France, following that country’s seizure by Germany. None of the Canadian Nomads were known to...
Unmanned Antares rocket explodes after liftoff * Fox News | The owners of the unmanned 
commercial supply ship that exploded Tuesday over a launchpad in Virginia warned people to keep away from potentially hazardous debris and promised to figure out what destroyed the rocket that was supposed to ferry cargo to the International Space Station. No injuries were reported following the first catastrophic launch in NASA's commercial spaceflight effort...
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Thursday, October 30, 2014
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Fair St. Louis cancels annual air show - STLtoday.com | ST. LOUIS • Fair St. Louis is moving to Forest Park from downtown in July, but its air show isn’t tagging along. Fair organizers plan to announce today that the annual air show will be canceled, Julie Hauser, a spokeswoman for Fair St. Louis, confirmed late on Tuesday. The fair will be held in Forest Park from July 3 to 5 while the Gateway Arch grounds are in the midst of a multimillion-dollar makeover...
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Air show returns to DeKalb-Peachtree Airport - Atlanta Journal Constitution | The annual Good Neighbor Day air show returns May 17 to the skies over DeKalb-Peachtree Airport in Chamblee. This year’s show marks the 55th anniversary of PDK being a civilian airport after construction as a Naval Air Station...
Air show contract finalized with Fair Oaks Farms - Newsbug.info | NEWTON COUNTY — The contract to bring the South Shore Air Show to Newton County at Fair Oaks Farms was finalized on April 17, with South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority (CVA), Fair Oaks Farms and Newton County officials signing for the big three-day event to be held July 11-13...
Westmoreland air show tickets go on sale May 1 - Tribune-Review | Tickets for the 2014 Westmoreland County Air Show at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport go on sale May 1. All area Shop ‘n Save stores will carry tickets for the event on June 7 and 8 at the Unity airport, according to a news release...
Blackbird Airpark Open House 2014 Photos * Roadrunners Internationale | So those are the photos. Here's a press release about the event from last week.
Fly It Forward Challenge introduces women to general aviation · General Aviation News | During Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week 2014, March 3-9, entrants in the Fly It Forward Challenge organized activities that drew more than 26,000 attendees in 96 locations on four continents. Pilots flew approximately 1,000 hours to introduce 5,703 girls and women to flight in a small aircraft...
Photographer Takes a Ride in an F16 with the Thunderbirds as a Little 'Thank You' - PetaPixel | Very
few people ever have the honor of flying along with the Thunderbirds. However, Blair Bunting, a fairly new Nikon Ambassador, managed to do just that at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona after shooting one of the Thunderbirds’ newly-painted F-16 beauties...The People’s Mosquito is cutting wood! | We are very pleased to announce that the first wood is being cut for the fabrication of a complete set of wing ribs for The People’s Mosquito, RL249. Corin McCrae of Aerowood Ltd, will be cutting the ribs for RL249 at his workshops in Auckland, New Zealand in the coming weeks. There are various types of rib that make up the Mosquito’s wing, and these are fabricated from a variety of woods, both solids, such as Canadian Spruce, and plies. The Canadian Spruce that Aerowood will be cutting for RL249 is selected for aviation fabrication, and sourced and shipped to New Zealand from the same area on the west coast of Canada as that used by de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd during WW2. Before being cut, it has undergone a number of tests to conform with air safety regulations....
Yankee Air Museum: Purchase agreement in the works for bomber plant - The Ann Arbor News | Yankee Air Museum officials state a purchase agreement is being drafted for the former Willow Run Bomber plant in Ypsilanti Township. Dennis Norton, founder of the Yankee Air Museum and the president of the Michigan Aerospace Foundation, said Tuesday that the museum's massive fund-raising campaign has raised enough to make the approximately 150,000-square-foot space a functional building and to save it from demolition...
SA-10 walkaround — the other Catalina in Blue and Gold (Part II) by travelforaircraft | This is the second post of a walkaround photo essay with the first post published just two days prior, on Monday, along with a bit of information. This Consolidated Catalina served in the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) and was designated as an SA-10 (PBY-5A in the U.S. Navy). It is located in the...
Space Fest features multitude of activities, adds third astronaut appearance by Sarah Swan National Museum of the U.S. Air Force | 4/29/2014 - DAYTON, Ohio -- You never know what you may come across in the galleries at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force! Out-of-this-world activities - and perhaps even some "extra-terrestrials" - await visitors to the museum during Space Fest on May 16-17 when the museum and more than 20 other participating organizations offer a multitude of space-related activities for visitors of all ages. All activities are free, unless otherwise noted...
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Indy Transponder 26-OCT-2013 1530z
LSA Pylon Races Planned Beginning In January - Aero-News Network | Single-Type Aircraft Will 
Compete Around A Closed Course The company that builds a line of high-performance LSA compliant aircraft has established the Sport Pilot Air Races (SPAR), which is set to debut in January of next year...
Tuskegee Airman Charles C. I. Williams has died - Dayton Daily News | DAYTON — Tuskegee Airman Lt. Col. Charles C. I. Williams, one of the oldest remaining members of the historic squadron, has died. He was 96. His death was confirmed Monday evening by Edward Morast, Ohio Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen president. Morast said Williams was a true American hero who deserved every honor he received....
TF-51D Galveston Gal Lost · Mark Hrutkay, Photorecon | About noon on October 23, 2013, TF-51D N4151D Serial 44-73458 of the Lone Star Flight Museum crashed into a bay near Houston Texas. It had been on a pleasure flight taking a British tourist for a ride. Both the pilot and passenger were lost. This Mustang had been operated by the Canadians as RCAF 9294 until 1959 when it was...
World War II aircraft roar into Shelby County for the weekend (gallery, video) - The Birmingham News - al.com | "They had a little bit of everything," he said, listing aircraft including the P-38, P-51, B-24, B-25 and C-47 that he flew. His time in the South Pacific included eight combat missions. Sitting in the Shelby County Airport terminal, Cruse said his ...
Pilots train for Red Bull Air Race - Olney Enterprise | That's all because aerobatic pilots from around the world have converged on the Olney Municipal Airport for a week-long training camp for the 2014 Red Bull Air Race. The pilots will be moving out over the weekend, but you can get the full scoop in next ...
National Championship Air Races 2013 - Photorecon | The period beginning in the early 1930′s and culminating in the late 1940′s saw the most dramatic advancement of the aircraft in history. At the hands of designers and engineers such as Dutch Kindelberger, Lee Atwood, Don Berlin, Howard Hughes, Kelly Johnson and Willie Messerschmitt, aircraft matured from wire and strut braced designs to streamlined performance machines. Early in this...
Rosie the Riveter on the Liberator Line - www.youtube.com | Henry Ford's historic WWII plant, home of Rosie the Riveter and the B-24 Liberator bomber, and later GM's Powertrain powerhouse, is an important piece of our...
Women Take Flight at New England museum · General Aviation News Staff | WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. — The New England Air Museum will host its ninth annual Women Take Flight event on Sunday, Nov. 3. The program features women who have pioneered new careers for women in aviation and aerospace engineering...
A revisit on All Things Aero of the F-117 Silver Stealth Celebration. Good times! · TVR Photography.com | A revisit on All Things Aero of the F-117 Silver Stealth Celebration. Good times!
Finding History on eBay by The National Air and Space Museum | One question I’m often asked as a curator is, “do you ever find anything interesting for the museum on eBay?” The answer is yes. This is the story of a particularly interesting find. When developing the aviation component of the museum’s “Time and Navigation” exhibit, I wanted to showcase the role of navigational radar in World War II. The use of radar as a navigational aid affected people as no other navigational technology had done previously. The way the radar operator saw the world through his scope had enormous consequences...
The First World War Uncovered Special Interest Day at IWM Duxford - UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | The First World War Uncovered looks at different aspects of the Great War with three authoritative speakers. Dr Geoff Hales looks at the career of Captain W E Johns, a bomber pilot in the Royal Flying Corps who was most famous for his fictional aviation character, Major James Bigglesworth, known to many childhood fans as Biggles...
Connie III · Apron 6 | It’s Friday, so here some more pictures from the Connie flight. The first one shows the Connie flying above the...
Wreckage of American WWII bomber found in Yangtze River - CCTV | ... inscribed with the bomber's serial number and date of manufacture --- February 15, 1943. A US scholar says the plane was a B-25 bomber from the "Flying Tiger" squadron, a special unit of US military pilots tasked with training Chinese pilots in air ...
The Jet Age Museum Opened Its Doors · Warbirds News | The Jet Age Museum in Gloucestershire,UK opened to the public in late August 2013,Warbirds News contributor Geoff Jones sent us an update on the new hangar built for the museum. In the the above picture the cockpit of the AVRO VULCAN B2 XM569 looks like is noticeably sticking out of the building. In reality...
Happy Birthday To The P-51 Mustang · Warbirds News By Aviation Enthusiasts LLC | The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang flew for the first time seventy-three years ago today. One of the truly great fighters of World War II, the P-51 was...
Frosting for Flight winners named · General Aviation News Staff | The Oshkosh Women in Aviation Chapter has named the top three winners for its Frosting for Flight cupcake competition. First place went to “Team Sweet Treats,” Laura Redeker and Tiffany Schmidt. Their Feed the Animals/Zookeeper theme and Double Chocolate Panda Bear cupcakes with cream cheese frosting were a hit with the judges and the attendees. They also won the crowd favorite judging....
Friday, October 18, 2013
Indy Transponder 17-OCT-2013 2100z
High-Flyin' Stunts At The Alliance Air Show - CBS Local | FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - The 
Alliance Air Show kicks off Saturday at Alliance Airport in Fort Worth. Thousands of people are expected to attend the annual show, which will feature some of the best pilots this country has to offer. It is a event that can make your head spin!...
Vintage, private planes will head to Casa Grande for fun - TriValley Central | For residents living near Casa Grande Municipal Airport, a look up to the sky could be a look back to an era of 70 years ago. With the 41st annual Copperstate Fly-In begins Thursday, people can expect to see some World War II era aircraft making their descent into the airport....
Copperstate Fly-in - Official Site
Millville Airport hosts B-17 Flying Fortress for weekend tours, flights - nj.com | MILLVILLE — It’s loud, bumpy and cramped... and that’s before take-off. Factor in enemy anti-aircraft shells exploding all around and fighter planes trying to shoot you down and maybe — just maybe — you can grasp what being aboard a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was like during World War II....
Want to fly in a World War II aircraft? Visit Shelby County Airport Oct. 25-27 - al.com (blog) | SHELBY COUNTY, Alabama - A Massachusetts nonprofit group that is bringing World War II era aircraft for a display at the Shelby County Airport hopes to deliver a history lesson and a salute to veterans. The Stow, Mass.-based Collings Foundation "Wings of Freedom Tour" will be landing at the airport with a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress "Nine O Nine" heavy bomber, a Consolidated B-24 Liberator "Witchcraft" heavy bomber and a P-51 Mustang fighter from Oct. 25-27...
Always dreamed of flying an F-16? · General Aviation News Staff | LOS ANGELES — Always wanted to fly an F-16? Now you can, sort of. Fly The Dream has opened a new facility that’s bringing authentic F-16 flight simulation to the public, with no flying experience necessary. Fly the Dream is home to seven hi-fidelity cockpit simulators, each one having more than 100 functions found in the actual US Air Force jetfighter...
Today Is The 6th Anniversary Of Vulcan XH558 First Post-Restoration Flight - Warbirds News | Thursday 18th October 2007 was the date when aviation history was made, the first successful return to flight project of a complex ex-military aircraft under civilian regulations, supported fully by a willing public, so keen to see this air-show favorite in the air once again. It had been a gap of almost 14 years....
A Blue Angel has arrived - Idaho State Journal | REXBURG — A small U.S. Navy fighter plane has 
had a circuitous journey to get to its new home at the Legacy Flight Museum at the Rexburg-Madison County Airport. The McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk II went from the Navy's flying roster to the so-called “boneyard” at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base to Ontario, Ore....
Video: Remember The Blue Angels? A-4 Skyhawks From The Mid 80's - AirPigz | The video above does a great job of showcasing the Blue Angels from back in the mid 80's when they were not far from the end of the A-4 Skyhawk era. Seeing the A-4 again reminds me of how much I liked that airplane as an airshow performer. Looking past the Skyhawk, it's hard to believe that they've been flying the F/A-18 since 1986! That's 27 years with the Hornet, and it still looks like a perfect aircraft after all these years... well, it would if you'd have had the chance to see it this year. Only the first two shows of the 2013 season were performed, the remaining 33 shows were cancelled as part of the sequestration...
National Geographic to feature Bomber Plant as Yankee Air Museum inches closer to goal - mlive.com | The former Willow Run Bomber Plant in Ypsilanti Township will be featured in a 
National Geographic special Friday night, as the fundraising campaign by the Yankee Air Museum to save the plant pushes forward. Yankee Air Museum's unofficial historian Randy Hotton and WWII Willow Run Rosie the Riveter Helen Slater were interviewed for the special that will air Friday at 9 p.m...
Indiana's first female aviator reflects on 31-year career - DVIDS | SHELBYVILLE, Ind. - The Indiana National Guard's first female aviator returned to her first unit Monday, Sept. 23, 2013, to reflect on her career of 31 years in the military. Mindy Barbe accepted a commission as an officer after graduating from Ball State University with an degree in criminal justice in 1982....
Presidential Plane At Castle Air Museum - Fox26 | ATWATER, Calif. (KMPH) -Wednesday was the final flight of the C–170 plan that once flew every president from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush. The plane is now on display at Castle Air Museum in Atwater...
National Museum of the Air Force reopens - General Aviation News | DAYTON, Ohio — The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force reopened at 9 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 17. “We greatly appreciate the ability to reopen the museum and apologize for the inconvenience the closure caused our national and international visitors,” said Museum Director Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jack Hudson...
Museum of Flight Library Book Sale Saturday - General Aviation News | SEATTLE — The annual Museum of Flight Library book sale will be on Saturday, Oct. 19, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Museum’s library is the largest of its kind in the western United States, so its inventory of duplicates and other extras for sale is huge, museum officials note...
Reaching the sky - bdtruth.com | The Broken Hill Airport will host a double birthday celebration for two local aviation institutions this weekend....
Sad End to a World War II Plane - ...While writing his book, Washburne says, he found that one of the planes the Thirsty 13th flew in World War II was still in use as a cargo plane in Puerto Rico. "The plane originally was a model C-47, the military version of the popular DC-3," the complaint states. "In the Thirsty 13th squadron, the plane's nickname was 'Billie.'...
Pre flight preparations - Apron 6 | Besides the air to air photo’s from the Connie I’d also like to share some pictures from before and after the flight. First some pictures showing our videographer, Maxim, who had already proven his talent with the video of the Turkish F-16 demo...
B-17 Sentimental Journey - 360 by Air & Space Magazine | Rolling off the Douglas assembly line in late 1944, the B-17 Sentimental Journey participated in nuclear tests in 1951 and became a staple on the airshow circuit after being restored. The view here is from the ball turret under the fuselage.
P-51 Mustang Voodoo - Air & Space Magazine | Since 1998, this highly modified P-51 has nibbled at the edges of a win at the National Championship Air Races in Reno. But not until 2013 did Voodoo, owned by Bob Button and raced by the young phenom Steven Hinton, break the 500 mph barrier and take home the trophy.
Russia’s most advanced fighter jet’s troublesome childhood - The Aviationist | During this year’s MAKS expo in Moscow, PAK-FA, Sukhoi’s 5th Generation stealth fighter jet, also known as T-50, has shown a full-scope high aspect display, including the notorious Pugachev’s Cobra. However, footage shows that, whilst still being impressive, the display was less dynamic than those of some other super-maneuverable previous generation jets...
Video: Young Eagles Program Gives Kids An Opportunity To Fly - CBS News | FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - When the Alliance Air Show is in town this weekend, the National Chairman of the Experimental Aircraft Associations Young Eagles Program will be among the performers. For Sean D. Tucker and the EAA, the mission is simple — inspire the next generation of aircraft pilots....
Girls with Wings Dreams Take Flight: Second Posts for - Caitlin, Yeni, Diana, Kimberly - scholarship recipients.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
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Videos: 49 Homebuilt Aircraft Build World Record Formation Over Arrowhead Stadium! - AirPigz | 
The video above gives you some details about the prep for the massive 49 aircraft fly-over of Arrowhead Stadium yesterday... it's an incredible Van's overcast of RV's! It was performed by the KC Flight Formation Team and it shows that we sure don't need the government to put on an awesome stadium fly-over! The video below shows the amazing 'arrowhead' shaped formation from inside the stadium...
Wings Over North Georgia air show line-up thrills crowd, despite Thunderbirds ... - Rome News Tribune | Despite the federal budget sequestration that kept the U.S. Air Force's Thunderbirds from appearing this weekend, Richard B. Russell Regional Airport officials said the Wings Over North Georgia air show was a sky-high success. The aerial antics at the ...
EDITOR’S BLOG: 40 years of IWM Duxford Airshows – 2003 Archives Part 2 - UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | 2003 was certainly a memorable year for the IWM Duxford team. Thier September show celebrated 100 Years of Powered flights with an impressive display featuring a wide spectrum of aircraft including displays looking at the inspiration of flight. The stand out display of the show was the South African Boeing 747-100 “Springbok 100″ which gave a dramatic UK debut display.
Diest oldtimer fly-in: end - Apron 6 | Already the last post for this album. Below also a little teaser for the upcoming album that I’ve posted on our Facebook page yesterday. I thought I might post it here as well.
Antique Airfield:
- Flabob Fly-In by Dennis Hicklin
- Tim Linn's Stearman Flies
- Fly-in 2013 Photos by Jonathan Apfelbaum
- Luscombe at the Beach
- Fly-In Announcement: Chili Bowl Contest and Fly-In at Excelsior Springs October 26
Save the Bomber Plant Campaign Update -Deadline Extended · Warbirds News | Save the Bomber
Plant is getting a great response – 1,200+ contributors from across the US and Canada. More than $4.9 million already mobilized leaving a little more than $3 million still to be raised. Five Million Dollars Down, Three Million Dollars to Go! — By the time you read this, the Save the Bomber Plant Campaign will have mobilized a little more than $5 million, leaving less than $3 million more still to be raised in order to reach the $8 million needed to preserve a portion of the Bomber Plant...Fort Wayne Air Museum moving, but where? - WANE | FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Officials gathered at the Fort Wayne International Airport on Tuesday to announce that the Fort Wayne Air Museum will be moving. The museum is currently located on the airport's second floor, but since the September 11 attacks ...
Goodyear Blimp retires, becomes a snow bird · General Aviation News Staff | AKRON, Ohio — Like many Ohioans, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s Akron-based blimp, the Spirit of Goodyear, has become a “snow bird” and is leaving northeast Ohio’s snow and cold for a retirement in the sunshine and warmth of Florida...
McDonnell XP-67 — gorgeous but unloved by travelforaircraft | The XP-67 design is manta ray-like in appearance with its flowing compound curves and broad wingspan. There is hardly a line to be seen and was, perhaps, almost unbelievably streamlined for the day which was mid 1941. Exhaust gases were manipulated to add to the total thrust and the intended armament would have been a fearsome set of 4 x 37mm cannon. This aircraft...
FlightTime Radio Show 299 | FlightTime Radio Crew was in the Mobile Renegade Light Sport studio at the Thomasville Fly-In, Thomasville, GA. Lots and Lots of aircraft flew in, some incredible aircraft included Dave Marco’s Generations in Aviation Lockheed Electra 12!! Dave joins us on the show… Tune in and hear his story...
Somewhere over the inevitable - Flight Image of the Day | A lazy headline writer’s dream, this
picture, which comes via Lockheed Martin. It shows an F-35B landing on the USS Wasp and was released to celebrate the Joint Strike Fighter programme reaching 10,000 flight hours in September.Howard 'Mike' Hunt: Life of a bush pilot, in his own words - Alaska Dispatch | They showed us how to start the P-39 engines and told us to join as a flight of five with a B-25 leading us to Fairbanks. “No need to waste fuel shooting landings around Great Falls. Just follow the B-25 and by the time you get to Fairbanks you'll be ...
Space Shuttle Endeavour Exclusive: A Timelapse of the Final Ride - CNN | Gene Cernan and Tom Stafford did not give a thought to a 12-year-old photographer named Scott Andrews in the early morning hours of June 3, 1966. The two astronauts had just strapped themselves into the cockpit of their Gemini 9 spacecraft — a tiny pod into which they were crammed shoulder-to-shoulder, nose-to-instrument panel, atop 109 ft. of Titan missile. Sometime that morning, massive tanks of aerozene 50 and nitrogen tetroxide would mix and explode in the belly of the Titan, producing an eruptive thrust of 430,000 lbs. and hurling the men into orbit. Two launch attempts had been scrubbed already, and...
SpaceX Grasshopper Sets New Test Record - Spaceports | On Monday, October 7th, Grasshopper completed its highest leap to date, rising to 744m altitude. The view above is taken from a single camera hexacopter, getting closer to the stage than in any previous flight...
Monday, October 7, 2013
Indy Transponder 07-OCT-2013 0100z
Canadian Snowbirds Take The Skies At Annual California Capital Airshow - CBS Local | MATHER (CBS13) – The federal shutdown is grounding the Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbird pilots 
from performing, but that didn't stop the California Capital Airshow from continuing with the Canadian Snowbirds. “It will be my boys' first airshow ...
[Photos] The tarmac is ready for the California Capital Airshow - The Sacramento Press | [Photos] The tarmac is ready for the California Capital Airshow. by Robert Hunt, published on October 4, 2013 at 9:16 PM. Storyline: Sacramento Street RSS Feed. Community Tags california capitol airshow fox 40 robert hunt sacramento press safe credit ...
Air show, Autumn in the Park offers something for everyone this weekend in... - TCPalm | ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS The GEICO Skytypers fly their World War II North American ANJ-2 aircraft in formation during their performance in the Vero Beach Air Show 2013 at the Vero Beach Municipal Airport on Saturday. The event ...
Newton fly-in features trip back in time - Kansas.com | Braving the cooler weather, aviation enthusiasts turned out for the Experimental Aircraft Association's Local Chapter 88 50th annual fly-in at the Newton City/County Airport on Saturday. The goal is to bring aviation to the community and raise money ...
Airshow starts Friday in PTC - The Citizen.com | After a year’s hiatus, the Great Georgia Airshow will be back at Falcon Field (aka Atlanta Regional Airport) Oct. 11-13 with extra pizazz, including a new Friday night-only fireworks show featuring airborne pyrotechnics, strobes and spotlights...
Al Ain Aerobatic Show on track - Travel Daily Media | The Al Ain Aerobatic show is set to take off from 30 November – 2 December 2013. The event will witness four elite military teams, seven daredevil pilots, gravity-defying wingwalkers, parachutists and a new-to-the-region aircraft line-up on its 10th ...
“Women Can’t Fly”, A Video Interview with WASP Florence “Shutsy” Reynolds · Warbirds News | ...The WASP flew every type of plane for the Army Air Corps from fighters to bombers. They transported planes, towed targets for live ammunition training, they were test pilots, and even did top secret transport for the atomic bomb project. All without having military benefits. When a WASP was killed, there was no insurance money for the family, and the other WASP would take up a collection to pay for the body to be shipped home. They are amazing women who had to fight to receive the same benefits as men did, and I could write about their spirited personalities all day...
Save the Bomber Plant! · Warbirds News | The former Willow Run bomber plant in Ypsilanti
Township — built by Henry Ford to make planes for the U.S. military during World War II and later used as a powertrain plant by General Motors — is likely to be razed later this year to make way for new development...CAF wing: Changes necessary to survive - Brownsville Herald | The Commemorative Air Force Rio Grande Valley Wing, which puts on Air Fiesta every year, uses the proceeds to put on the following year's show, maintain its museum and keep its fleet of World War II-era aircraft flying. For instance, a seven-year ...
Young Eagles take flight at Henry County airport - The Paris Post ... | Local pilot Tom Bailey (right) of the local Experimental Aircraft Association chapter, lowers the canopy as Kolby Searcy (second from right) prepares to take his first airplane ride as part of Young Eagles program.
Young Eagles Rally to feature free flights - MercerSpace.com | The Experimental Aircraft Association is set to offer free flights at the Young Eagles Rally. The Young Eagles flight rally is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 12 at Trenton-Mercer Airport's Ronson Aviation facility, 18 W. Piper ...
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Indy Transponder 06-OCT-2013 0130z
Air Show goes on in Spite of Government Shutdown - KTXL | With planes in the sky it may look like show time around Mather Airport, but it's really one of the last practice runs for one of the golden state's biggest parties—the California Capital Air Show. “The Horsemen…we fly close formations and we fly ...
Air show boss: jets alone don't tell the story of aviation - Sacramento Bee | Darcy Brewer, the woman 
at the helm of the California Capital Airshow, admits she's conflicted: jets sell tickets, but she'd rather talk about her love affair with the P-51 Mustang, the Berlin Airlift, or Charles Lindbergh's 1927 visit to Sacramento ...
Flight up memory skies: WWII veterans take to the air in historic planes - scntx.com | Lester Harper flew nearly 80 missions during World War II as a B-24 pilot with the Air Force. He spent another 28 years as “Dad Harper” piloting for Frontier Airlines. Now 97, more than four decades after he retired, he returned to the skies as a passenger Thursday at the Commemorative Air Force’s AirPower Expo Tour, a flying WWII history museum. He and dozens of other WWII veterans took to the skies from Collin County Regional Airport in McKinney....
Start to finish: Wings & Wheels links World War II history channel - newszap.com | GEORGETOWN -- Historically speaking, Wings & Wheels’ VIP reception Friday afternoon had World War II covered -- practically from start to finish. A WWII heroes’ handshake at the reception linked Lt. Richard “Dick” Cole -- Jimmy Doolittle’s co-pilot in the daring B-25 bombing raid on Japan in April 1942 that marked America’s first air raid offensive in the Pacific Theater -- with retired Col. Newt Tyndall, the navigator who led the flyover of some 500 B-29 bombers over Tokyo Bay as the Japanese delegation below on the battleship USS Missouri signed the documents of unconditional surrender in September 1945, bringing World War II to an end....
Warbirds Over Paso Robles continues despite budget cuts - KSBY San Luis Obispo News | Air shows around the country have been cancelled because of the Sequester Cuts, but the Warbirds Over Paso Robles Air Show flies on. The show kicked off Saturday morning at the Paso Robles Municipal Airport. Guests could check out vintage fighters, bombers, and trainers from WWII....
CAL FIRE showcases vintage air craft at Warbirds Air Show - KSBY San Luis Obispo News | CAL FIRE firefighters were out at the air show Saturday showing off vintage fire air craft. CAL FIRE has an entire fleet of air craft designed specifically to help combat fires, like the fire that burned Saturday along the Cuesta Grade. In that fire, they used three air tankers, one plane, and a helicopter to bring the fire under control....
Photos: Central Jersey air show raises money for military, veterans - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com | HILLSBOROUGH — An air show in the township on Saturday raised funds for the military and veterans while providing outreach for officers and their families. Visitors gathered at Central Jersey Regional Airport Saturday afternoon for Military and Veterans Appreciation Day to help Rotary District 7510 raise funds that would be donated to various charities and foundations...
Aéropuces 19 and October 20, 2013 - Passion for Aviation | For the 7th consecutive year, the Museum of Air and Space organizes its large aircraft flea market. Collectors, individuals and professionals find themselves under the wings of two Concorde Museum for two days of "treasure hunt" in a festive atmosphere. More than 60 exhibitors are expected at 300m linear exposure. Admission is free....
Queen's Cup Balloon Race takes off from Bristol - BBC News | The winner will be awarded the Queen's Air Race Challenge Cup, which dates back to 1719. A thirteenth team was forced to take off three hours after the start from the Ashton Court estate after experiencing technical difficulties with the balloon canopy...
13 hot air balloon teams in Queen's Cup air race - ITV News | Balloon pilots and their crews have taken to the skies for this years' Queen's Cup Air Race. They set off from Queens Square, Bristol, this morning at dawn (Saturday 5 October). It is the oldest sporting trophy in the UK, dating from 1719. This year is ...
The “Save The Bomber Plant” Campaign · WarbirdsNews | The Yankee Air Museum and the Michigan Aerospace Foundation are partnering with Ypsilanti Township, the RACER Trust and Wayne County Airport Authority to create a new campus home for the Museum on the west side of Willow Run Airport. This is a great opportunity to both obtain an exciting new home for the Yankee Air Museum and preserve a significant portion of the historic World War II Willow Run Bomber Plant. A conceptual drawing appears at right....
CBS obtains unique footage of the famous Black Hawk going down in Mogadishu 20 years ago - The Aviationist | CBS has obtained an incredible footage showing the “Super 61″, one of the helicopters downed during the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, taken by one of the Special Forces operators aboard Little Bird helicopter. The Battle of Mogadishu was a part of the infamous Operation Gothic Serpent that aimed at capturing the Mogadishu Warlord, Mohammed Farrah Aidid...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Indy Transponder 31-JUL-2013 1630z
Amelia Rose Earhart Takes Flight; Announces Plans to Retrace Namesake's ... - MarketWatch | OSHKOSH, WI, Jul 31, 2013 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- Pilot Amelia Rose Earhart will 
announce today her intention to circumnavigate the globe in a Pilatus PC-12 NG single-engine aircraft. Departure from Oakland, California is scheduled for June 2014. "My passion for flight and adventure has driven me to explore new experiences I never would have imagined possible as a child," said Amelia. "Hard work, persistence and great role models have enabled me to fly outside the lines and achieve my dreams. Aviation plays an integral role in my life and I hope to share some of that joy with others through this adventure."...
Flying with Amelia - Blog | ...In December of 2011, I retraced her namesake’s transcontinental flight
across the US in the Cirrus. It was a life changing event that inspired
me to continue to retrace the flights of Amelia Earhart. Up next, a
Trans-Atlantic flight to Paris, then a circumnavigation around the globe
to recreate and complete the flight that Amelia herself never got to
finish...
'Jetman' Yves Rossy Shows Us How to Fly His Carbon Fiber Jet Wing · Jason Paur | OSHKOSH, Wisconsin – There’s a moment in every flight where gravity cedes control to Yves Rossy and for a few minutes he flies as birds do, with only a wing on his back and the wind at his face. Sure, there are jet engines, but he hears mostly the wind. It’s perhaps the greatest feeling of freedom one can experience, and after all these years, it never gets old....
3,000 Images and Counting: First Look at @PilotIan24's Oshkosh Galleries - Airplanista Aviation Blog | Here is Ian Hoyt's photography from his first few days at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, or #OSH13 to those in the Twitterverse. It sounds like his first day at the show was memorable, and generated over 3,000 images...
OSH13: Tuesday Airshow Action - CoolPix Triple Play! - AirPigz | You'll notice that my OSH13
coverage this year is scaled back from previous years... 18 hour days for a week straight just doesn't fit my life at the moment. So I'm sharing thinner slices of the activities taking place at the world's greatest aviation event, but hopefully they are still quite compelling. Today I've got three hi-res CoolPix images that come from the airshow on Tuesday....
BD-5 at #OSH13 - You like airplanes, too? | Folks were wondering what the biggest aircraft in Aeroshell Sq… *ahem* Phillips 66 Plaza was going to be this year. I’m not sure, but I certainly know that this little BD-5 is in the running for the smallest! Photo by Ian Petchenik. More #OSH13 photos
CAF Announces Eight Finalists for New CAF National Airbase Location ... - DigitalJournal.com | Midland, Texas (PRWEB) July 31, 2013 The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) is pleased to announce the eight final locations under consideration for the home of the new CAF National Airbase. The search for a new headquarters began in May of 2013 with more than 25 interested and viable locations. After careful consideration of each potential location, the CAF Board of Directors has narrowed the list to...
Yankee Air Museum gets extension on bid to acquire Willow Run bomber plant - Detroit Free Press | A group trying to save the Yankee Air Museum won a two-month extension to raise enough money to buy a portion of the former Willow Run bomber plant in Ypsilanti, which otherwise will be demolished within months. The 5 million-square-foot plant, which was a General Motors powertrain manufacturing plant for a half century, has been closed since December 2010. The bankruptcy trust that controls GM properties left behind in the 2009 restructuring plans to tear it down to make way for new development opportunities....
Bill Thompson's 1938 N3N Floatplane - adventuresinmikeslife | I was invited to help a friend take 
two boats from Vancouver to Garden Bay, BC. He drove his 1957 Grenfell "Heaven"....and I took his 24 ft 550hp "Hellfire"...
Ho Chi Minh’s Helo by travelforaircraft | The Vietnam Military History Museum (Bảo tàng Lịch sử Quân sự Việt Na) in Hanoi has on display a fixed wing personal transport of Ho Ch Mihn, an Ilyushin Il 14 "Crate" — but there is a rotary wing personal transport which flew President Ho Chi Mihn in another Hanoi museum, the Vietnam Air Defense – Air Force Museum Air Defense (Bảo tàng Phòng không– Không quân). This is where a Mil Mi 4 (NATO reporting name "Hound") which flew President Minh sits atop a...
Bittersweet 50th anniversary for Canada's patched-up Sea King helicopters - CBC.ca | Canadian Armed Forces pilots have been flying Sea King helicopters for 50 years, with the anniversary celebrations taking place today and tomorrow. That these aging beasts are still flying at all is testament to both the talents of those who have been operating and maintaining the old aircraft, and to the failings of a series of governments that have been unable to replace the tired, often grounded Sea Kings since at least 1986....
1st Marine F-35B to land at MCAS Miramar · Douglas Aguillard, Photorecon.net | It was around noon on July 30, 2013, and several F/A-18′s from Marine squadrons, VMFA 314 “The Black Knights” and VMFA(AW) 225 “The Vikings” were taking off from the runways at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, just northeast of San Diego and heading out over the Pacific Ocean, when word came from the Base’s Control Tower, “She’s 65 miles out”...
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Indy Transponder 18-JUL-2013 1045z
Prosser Fly-In to yield planes, trains, cars - Yakima Herald-Republic | PROSSER, Wash. — Planes of all sorts will literally descend on the Prosser airport Saturday. The fourth annual Fly-In, hosted by the Port of Benton and the Experimental Aircraft Association, involves displays of up to 100 aircraft, a military display, a model train display and antique and vintage cars. Also, the Civil Air Patrol Air Force Auxiliary from Yakima will display aircraft....
Balsa Bees plan fly-in Saturday - The-review | The Alliance Balsa Bees will present its 24th annual Big Plane Fly-In from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Barber Airport. The fly-in will feature an extensive variety of large aircraft, ranging from biplanes to jets. Children 10 years old and younger will receive a small glider.
Airdrie Air Show resounding success - Airdrie Echo | Spectators at the Airdrie Regional Air Show were treated to incredible feats of air acrobatics, entertainment, and educational demonstrations. Air Show chair and Mayor Peter Brown estimates more than 20,000 people attended the event, making this year’s show the biggest one yet...
Kokomo, Indiana’s Fifth Annual Wings and Wheels Air and Car Show By Mike Heilman & Ed Wells | Cliff Robinson races a motorcycle down the runway in his modified PT-17 Stearman. Robinson, an airshow veteran, has appeared in more than 300 airshows during his career. (Mike Heilman)It was the little show that could. The 5th annual Wings and Wheels Air and Car show was held June 8 at the Kokomo Indiana Municipal Airport (OKK). The one-day event was billed as the largest airshow in the state of Indiana in 2013. Kokomo can make that claim since the Indianapolis and Gary airshows cancelled due the Congressional sequester. The event drew an estimated 4,000 people....
World War II Weekend – A Step Back in Time By A. Kevin Grantham and Stan Piet | ...The Liberty Air Museum’s beautiful North American Aviation B-25J Georgie’s Gal made an appearance at the show. This aircraft in its current livery is a relative newcomer to the airshow circuit. (A. Kevin Grantham)Army Air Forces 509th Composite Group. He was the navigator of Necessary Evil, the B-29 camera plane that photographed the atomic bomb explosion at Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. In talking with Mr. Gackenbach, we learned that he was also the navigator on a B-29 named UP an’ Atom....
Ready for RIAT? · Craig Hoyle, The DEW Line | It's Royal International Air Tattoo time, folks, and for once the weather forecast is showing that we're in for a scorcher for the duration of the show. That's good news for those of us who got a soaking at RAF Fairford in 2012, and probably every year 
before it in living memory.
de Havilland DH.83 Fox Moth - Planeshots | “This aircraft was sold to the Prince of Wales and registered as G-ACAJ in November 1932, re-registered as G-ACDD in December and operated by the Royal Flight…."
Race of Champions set for take-off | IT-Online · Allan Davison | It is now less than a month before the fourth Race of Champions air race will take off in the heart of Zululand to find the pilot who flies the fastest and smartest across the province. The popular air race continues to establish itself as the ultimate event for pilots to come and fly their planes to the limit in order to be crowned champion pilot. To add to the excitement around this year’s air race, Ulundi’s Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi Airport will play host for the first time to such an event....
WWII-era B-17 bomber to visit Kentucky Aviation Museum this weekend - Richmond Register | LEXINGTON — One of the very few flying B-17 bombers still in existence is scheduled to visit the Aviation Museum of Kentucky from Friday through Sunday. This is the only scheduled stop for this aircraft in Kentucky and adjoining areas during 2013, according to an announcement by the museum....
Jim Heskett of Punta Gorda was a multi-faceted airman and ‘Cold War’ warrior · Don Moore, War Tales | ...He took basic at Lackland Air Force Base, near San Antonio, Texas. Then Heskett was trained at Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida panhandle as a crash-rescue specialist. When Air Force planes crashed it was his unit that raced in to pull downed pilots and crew members from the twisted, fiery wreckage. Korea was his first destination after qualifying as a crash-rescue guy. He was based in Osan in 1960 to begin with....
Time running out for Yankee Air Museum to raise $5M to renovate Willow Run ... - The Detroit News | Ypsilanti - The great warplane relics of America's past are treasures to Ray Hunter, who would like to see the Yankee Air Force Museum find a new home in a historic airport hangar. The 76-year-old Air Force veteran, who flew rescue helicopter missions in Vietnam, is one of the many former service members who hope the museum can raise nearly $5 million to save and renovate part of the former Willow Run bomber plant building into its new home on the grounds of the Willow Run Airport....
Yankee Air Museum Takes to Skies to Raise Awareness of Bomber Plant ... - WEMU | The Yankee Air Museum has until August 1st to raise just under $5 million to buy a section of the Willow Run bomber plant for its new home. As WEMU's Bob Eccles reports, the museum on Wednesday gave donors and members of the media flights on its B-17 bomber to raise awareness of the campaign....
Super Constellation · apron6 | I finally saw another plane from my bucketlist: the Breitling Super 
Constellation. From the local field of Wevelgem over the Belgian coastline, the North Sea and the white cliffs of Dover. It was a bit uncomfortable to sit at the edge of the open ramp again since it’s been a year since my last Skyvan flight. But I forgot about that when the Connie closed in on us.A truly wonderful sight....
Morane Saulnier M.S. 406 - Let Let Let - Warplanes | No matter that it is not one of the top performers, the Morane Saulnier MS 406 was without doubt a most important French fighter at the outbreak of WW2 and most the numerous fighter type in WW2. It was the very first to fly faster then 400 km/h and was built in great numbers...
Vintage: Jack Cope the daredevil - Chicago Tribune | Jack Cope, daredevil pilot and parachute jumper from Forest Park, Ill., began his parachute jumping career training with the famous aviatrix Ruth Bancroft Law in 1917. Newspaper accounts say that Cope was a regular at county fairs and air races performing everything from wing walking stunts to his "comical jumping balloon" act....
Trim the cost of learning to fly · Meg Godlewski | It has been said that copper wire was invented when two pilots found the same penny. We are a notoriously frugal bunch, due in part, no doubt, to the cost of our passion. But it is possible to cut costs when learning how to fly....
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Indy Transponder 10-JUL-2013 1045z
Celebrating the life of Jane Wicker - WDTN | Wicker and her pilot Charles Schwenker were killed in a plane crash at the Vectren Dayton Air Show in June. Wicker joined the Flying Circus after responding to an ad for a wing walker in 1990. Her fiance Rock Skowbo spoke at the memorial and wrote a ...
City asks Pentagon to save Miramar Air Show - fox5sandiego.com | SAN DIEGO — The San Diego
City Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday calling on the Defense Department to support the Miramar Air Show this fall. Dozens of air shows have been scrubbed around the country this year, the result of automatic federal spending cuts from sequestration....Air & Space show gets Melbourne's green light - Florida Today | The inaugural Melbourne Air & Space Show has been cleared for takeoff.Tuesday night, the Melbourne City Council unanimously endorsed the Nov. 2-3 free-admission air show, which drew hundreds of thousands of spectators to Cocoa Beach the past four years....
Westmoreland County Air Show planners eye 2014 edition - Tribune-Review | As the summer passes without a Westmoreland County Air Show this year, officials are beginning the preliminary planning to stage the two-day event at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in 2014. “Of course, we have to look at our finances, if we can afford ...
Timeless Voices - Paul Poberezny Part 2 - eaavideo.org
Spitfire Hunter to Continue Search for Buried Planes on Two Fronts · Warbirds News | After coming up empty last year, Spitfire hunter David Cundall claims that he is now 90% certain he has located the buried Spitfires for which he has been searching, and now partnered with new investors will return to unearth the planes in January 2014. This latest dig will take place a year after a failed excavation attempt last January which was halted by the Burmese Government after the discovery of underground infrastructure connected to Yangon International Airport, the former site of the Royal Air Force’s Mingaladon airfield....
To Remember... - Fairfield Sun Times | ...Thunderheads could build to forty thousand feet over the range with winds that could “tear the wings off a P-47 Thunderbolt Fighter.” On an April 1944 bombing mission over Hollandia twenty-two planes returning to base hit a massive storm front they could not penetrate and dispersed widely to get around it. Sixteen landed safely at three different air fields and six others crashed or collided with other planes trying to land. The 38th lost thirty-seven planes to weather during all its operations....
Yankee Air Museum fights to save Willow Run Bomber Plant - AOPA Pilot | The plant, home to the original Rosie The Riveter, built nearly 9,000 B-24 Liberator bombers during World War II, said Ray Hunter, chairman of the Yankee Air Museum. “At the peak of production, the plant had more than 40,000 workers making one bomber ...
Midland releases statement on CAF - Odessa American | After a number of questions flew about regarding the announced move of the Commemorative Air Force headquarters, the city of Midland has responded with some doubt. The Odessa American requested comment on June 25 from the city of Midland regarding the contract between the CAF and Midland and received an official statement
Tuesday....Disney’s ‘Planes’ Ready for Takeoff in New Posters - DisneyMoviesList.com | The late takeoff film Disney is planning to release to theaters, Planes, is set to hit the big screen in just a few more weeks....
D23 Expo Attendees to Be Among the First to See the Film in 3D with Special Appearances from Select Filmmakers and Stars - Daily Finance | D23 Expo attendees will be among the first to see Disney's Planes on its opening day. An action-packed 3D animated comedy adventure from Disneytoon Studios, Disney's Planes will take flight in theaters nationwide August 9, but D23 Expo guests will see this special 3D presentation featuring an introduction by some very special guests....
For your viewing pleasure… · General Aviation News Staff | Blogger Ben Visser forwards this link to “a great collection” of aviation-related videos. Beware — there are a lot of videos and you could find yourself whiling away more than a few hours …
WARPLANES: Why Pilots Prefer The F-35 - Strategy Page | July 10, 2013: American fighter pilots (air force, navy and marine) are largely in agreement that, while the F-22 is a superior air-to-air fighter, the new F-35 is a better, if still flawed, all-round combat aircraft. A lot of this has to do with technology. The F-35 is a more recent aircraft, entering service a dozen years later than the F-22. Fighter pilots, who tend to be keen connoisseurs of aviation technology (many being university trained in aviation tech) note that the F-35 is actually using a new generation of tech as much of the F-22 stuff dates back to the 1980s and 1990s. This accounts for some of the tech updates the F-22 has received since it entered service in 2005. But the basic design and composition of the F-35 is a generation ahead of the F-22. As a result the F-35 is cheaper, more effective (in terms of tech), easier to maintain and designed as a fighter-bomber...
Aviator to Become Commander of Camp Pendleton, MCI-West - Patch.com | A Marine aviator with combat and humanitarian relief experience will take the reigns on Camp Pendleton and Marine Corps installations in the West. Brig Gen. John W. Bullard, Jr. will replace Brig. Gen. Vincent A. Coglianese as the commander of Marine ...
Space Shuttle Enterprises re-enters public sphere - amNY | The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum will reopen the Space Shuttle Enterprise to the public Wednesday, eight months after its home was damaged by Superstorm Sandy. The museum, at Pier 86, lets visitors view the Enterprise, NASA's first space shuttle,...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Indy Transponder 15-SEP-09 2230z
Willow Run faces turbulent outlook - The Detroit News
Van Buren Township -- Willow Run airport is facing severe financial problems and officials are considering a number of cost-saving options, from leasing the facility to possibly closing it.
The airport's future essentially depends on how quickly the economy rebounds and whether Willow Run can hang on until then.
The air field, which caters to private charters and cargo operations, "continues to be a financial disaster," said Thomas Naughton, chief financial officer of the Wayne County Airport Authority. The agency operates Willow Run and the much larger Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus. more....
Reno National Championship *Air* Races and *Air Show*
If you like speed and big, powerful machines, the Reno National Championship Air Races and Air Show is for you. And even if you aren't particularly turned on by these things, there is still plenty to enjoy by attending this fun and ...
Thunderbirds will soar over Hickam - Honolulu Star-Bulletin
The red, white and blue F-16s of the Air Force's aerial demonstration team, the Thunderbirds, will soar over Hickam Air Force Base this ...
Pilots to host Fall Fly-in - Southwest Virginia Today
The Mountain Empire Pilots Association's fifth annual Fall Fly-in at the airport is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 19, 9 am to 5 pm Featured aircraft ...
Kroger to continue as Dayton Air Show presenting sponsor - Dayton Daily News
The Kroger Co. will continue as presenting sponsor of the Vectren Dayton Air Show, the show said today, Aug. 19. "The Dayton Air Show is a premier event in ...
Vintage warplanes coming to Paine Field - Bellevue Reporter
The Cascade Warbirds will participate in a Vintage Aircraft Weekend at Paine Field at the end of September. The event will include approximately 60 antique ...
CANADIAN FORCES SNOWBIRDS AND CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY ASTRONAUT ... - Aviation.ca
Mr. Chris Hadfield will fly "Hawk One" an F-86 Sabre in a Centennial Heritage Flight that will follow the Snowbirds' nine-plane formation. ...
Warbirds put history on - Auckland stuff.co.nz
The New Zealand Warbirds Association will commemorate the Battle of Britain with a flypast over the Auckland War Memorial ...
High winds on the east coast stop the 'Battle of Britain' - Lancashire Evening Post
A battle of Britain flypast in Morecambe had to be cancelled due to high winds. A Lancaster Bomber, Spitfire and Hurricane were expected at Sunday's 'We do ...
Commemoration of the Battle of Britain via Aviation.ca News
Once again this year, members of 16 Wing, CFB Borden, 441 (Huronia) Wing of the Air Force Association of Canada (AFAC) and the people of the City of Barrie and its surroundings will join efforts to commemorate the anniversary...
Airshow parking 'education' call - BBC News
Motorists need to be "educated" to use park and ride sites as well as trains ahead of next year's Leuchars Airshow, according to organisers. ...
"Patrouille de France" to perform in Buenos Aires - Momento 24
On this day, the famous French Aerobatics Squadron "Patrouille de France" for the first time visiting our country, will be performingt in the sky of the ...
French Patrol to perform aerobatic demonstration on 9 de Julio AvenueBuenos Aires Herald
This afternoon, the sky planes drawn from the Obelisk - InfoBAE.com
At 12:45, the French squad, "Patrouille de France" will paint the flags of our country and yours on the Avenida 9 de Julio. ...
Vicki Cruse memorial scholarship announced via AOPA News
The legacy of Vicki Cruse, the aerobatic pilot who died Aug. 22 while representing the United States at an international aerobatic competition, will be celebrated through a memorial scholarship.
Skies will be Overcast - Joliet Herald News
"EAA is dedicated to preserving aviation's magnificent heritage and our B-17 tours are a major part of that. This year we also take great pride in saluting ...
World War II-era B-17 bomber at Visalia airport for public viewing ... - Visalia Times-Delta
Once a Flying Fortress and now a flying museum, the shiny "Sentimental Journey" — a B-17 ...
The Royal Air Force Presentational Sword delivered in ( B-25D ) style by PlaneTalking
The Royal Air Force Officer's Sword was commissioned by the Royal Air Force Museum American Foundation and kindly donated by one of its board members, Tim Manna of Kennet Aviation.
In from the wild blue yonder - TheDay
Flights on the B-17 or B-24 are $425 per person. P-51 flights are $2200 for a half hour and $3200 for an hour. Call (800) 568-8924. ...
Free Museum Day: September 26 - BlackBook Magazine
... the National Museum of the United States Navy in DC, the San Diego Air & Space Museum in San Diego, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. ...
Vulcan Factory to close ? via PPRuNe Forums
Latest news reports today say that Woodford aircraft factory, the birthplace of the Avro Vulcan is to close in 2012.
Mark Allan - CapeGazette.com
... Watching fighter jets vault off the carrier deck in great clouds of steam, Allan applied to the U.S. Naval Academy for the next four years.
He didn't get in.
Instead, he took classes whenever he could, attending night and weekend courses in his various ports of call. Meanwhile, he shot up the ladder, reaching the stratosphere of noncommissioned officer ranks. While stationed at Naval Air Station Patuxent in Maryland, he joined the flying club and got his private pilot's license.
He would be abandoning a promising career in naval surface warfare – "I was actually pretty good at the whole driving ships thing," he said – but he wanted to fly. He applied to Aviation Officer's Candidate School.
While serving aboard the USS Stark, Allan's commanding officer handed him an envelope. It was his acceptance to flight school at Pensacola, Fla.
He arrived in Florida on Super Bowl Sunday, 1985. Flight school breezed by. He graduated first in his class and was selected for an A-6 Intruder squadron in Oceana.
"I thought going fast and blowing things up would be pretty cool," Allan says in a wry deadpan.
Allan said the A-6 was like a muscle car – big, mean and straightforward. Like most aircraft of its generation, the A-6 was meant to penetrate deep into Soviet airspace and deliver a nuclear bomb via the "high loft" method – the pilot enters into a steep angle of attack, pulls up dramatically and then releases the bomb, sending it on a parabolic arc towards its target.
The adventures of Chopper Chick!: Received my Mission Flag from CW2 Steve Bennett via Blogging Pilots
I don't know how many of you are familiar with "mission flags" so I will explain just incase. I became friends with CW2 Steve Bennett on facebook. He offered up a mission flag as it is somethi -
Birthday boy, 80, relives his youth with small skydive - Portsmouth News
Mr Wild, who trekked across The Andes for his 70th birthday, is still wondering what to do for his 90th birthday and is considering a wing walk or abseil. ...
John Carmack's Armadillo Finally Wins Lunar Landing Challenge [Space] via Gizmodo
After crashing the last time, Armadillo Aerospace won the $1,000,000 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge this Saturday. Needless to say, Doom-creator, Armadillo's head, and überspacenerd John Carmack was veehee happy:
Since the Lunar Lander Challenge is quite demanding in terms of performance, with a few tweaks our Scorpius vehicle actually has the capability to travel all the way to space. We'll be moving quickly to do higher-altitude tests, and we can go up to about 6000 feet here at our home base in Texas before we'll have to head to New Mexico where we can really push the envelope. We already have scientific payloads from universities lined up to fly as well, so this will be an exciting next few months for commercial spaceflight.
Scorpius was able to complete the challenge, flying the 180 seconds required to escape from the Moon's surface and reach lunar orbit. [Space.com]
Battle of Britain Day........ via Theo Spark
Waukegan Air Show - Facebook via OneRiot.com
Tiger Meet via Ares by Nicholas Fiorenza
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