Thursday, October 16, 2008

Indy Transponder 16-October 0039z

Come Roll on the Grass from Pilots of America Message Board by OtisAir
“Come Roll on the Grass” Eastern Shore of Virginia
FLY-IN / CAMP-IN
Campbell Field Airport (9VG)
75th Anniversary Fly-In & Campout
“Kellam Day”
(In honor of airport founder, D.W. Kellam)
Weirwood, Virginia-Eastern Shore of Virginia
October 18th & 19th, 2008 (Saturday&Sunday)

'Honor Flight' for World War II Vets Takes off October 22
from PR Newswire: Airlines/Aviation

Family Day Draws More Than 17,000 to Sikorsky Aircraft’s Main Campus
from Vertical Online RSS Feeds - News Page
More than 17,000 employees, relatives, retirees and special guests toured Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today, viewed a display of Sikorsky-produced aircraft, and enjoyed table-top exhibits, live music, and food as...

World's Only Civilian Harrier Debuts at Virginia Air Show
from EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association
The world's first - and only - civilian-owned Harrier jump jet made a flawless debut performance on Saturday, October 11, at the 9th annual Culpeper Air Fest in Virginia.

World Class Vintage Motorcycle Festival Includes Airshow this Weekend
from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News
... The Aeroshell Aerobatic Team will be flying again at the Barber Vintage Festival! This time we will have the full team! Four North American T-6 Texans boring through the skies over Barber Motorsports Park. The Aeroshell Teams' precision formation aerobatics demonstration will amaze you with loops, rolls, downward bomb bursts, and other dazzling maneuvers, all performed in tight formation, sometimes less than 3 feet apart! ...

Date set for 2009 air show at SJAFB - Goldsboro News Argus
By Kenneth Fine Air Force officials have set a date for the latest installment of Wings Over Wayne, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base's typically annual air show. But they would still not confirm the lineup for the event, scheduled for the weekend of ...

Colman to appear at Boshears from metrospirit.com The Firebirds use three aerobatic monoplanes to perform gyroscopic maneuvers in a team format. The Army Aviation team uses four Huey gunships to demonstrate the nation’s military legacy.

Vintage airplanes part of ‘flying museum’ - Tidewater News
The Commemorative Air Force is a “flying museum.” The CAF airplanes are assigned and maintained by 74 CAF units across the country.

The last gunfighter - Metro Spirit, GA
Phil Colman, who went up in P-40s and shot down five enemy fighters BY ALAN TANNER AUGUSTA, GA - A buddy of mine took me to the air museum in Savannah to ...

Veterans Day Open House at the Commemorative Air Force Aviation Museum
EVLiving
Join the Commemorative Air Force Aviation Museum on Tuesday, November 11 for ‘A Gathering of Legends’ Veterans Day Open House, as we remember and say, ...

P-38 Crash - Part Posted on eBay from (P38Assn blog) by Kelly
If any of you have a spare US$700 (to start), I see an eBay seller has a couple of parts up for bids from the April, 1944, crash of Wing Commander Adrian Warburton, who was shot down over Germany during the war. He has some photos of the parts, as well as some photo documentation [...]

Longest supersonic flight fof the B-58 from Air Force Link Top Stories
During Operation Greased Lightning on Oct. 16, 1963, Maj. Sidney J. Kubesch flew a B-58 Hustler belonging to the 305th Bombardment Wing at Bunker Hill Air Force Base, Ind., on the longest super­sonic flight to date. He flew 8,028 miles from Tokyo to London in eight hours, 35 minutes. The B-58 used five inflight refuelings and flew at an average speed of 938 mph. He set two other records in this effort: speed from Tokyo to Anchorage, three hours, nine minutes, 42 seconds at 1,093.4 mph; and speed from Anchorage to London, five hours, 24 minutes, 54 seconds at 826.9 mph.

The Plane With No Name from Air & Space Magazine

Base will welcome all to big air show - Arkansas Leader, AR
Also in this year’s lineup will be the Viper West F-16 demonstration team; the Air Force’s Air Combat Command Heritage Flight; the C-17, ...

Amelia Earhart: Jungle Princess - ChicagoPride.com, United States
Interest in the fate of the pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 while attempting to circumnavigate the globe, ...

Aviation history treasure trove from www.aafo.com
I stumbled across this site, which features entire articles scanned from the pages of Modern Mechanix magazine.
Flying stuff from oddball barrel-wing tranports of the 30's to the coming of the 747.... 22 pages worth of text and graphics just on aviation alone!

Free ride in VooDoo from www.aafo.com
... Sorry we didn't let everyone know about this video. We are getting together with Bob and Will this week for a 2008 Race Wrap up video and we were going to put some of the video in with the interview. Anyway enjoy this is our new camera and mounting which we were real happy with. I promise we will do better with the posting of our next videos. ...

It appears the Red Bull guys found Twitter! While monitoring Twitter today, we found these articles via Red Bulls Twitter account ... and lots more - Mike

Peter Besenyei / Legend of the Red Bull Air Race
by redbullairrace (Red Bull Air Race)
Listen to Red Bull Air Race webclip songs! Tyler, Incorporated, Jenny Jazz...
by redbullairrace (Red Bull Air Race)
There's a flickr group where you can post your air race pix
by redbullairrace (Red Bull Air Race)
Air show begins in style - Hindu
HYDERABAD: The first-ever civilian air show in India got off to a cracking start here on Wednesday reflecting the optimism of the aviation and allied industries in spite of the downturn in airline operations.

14 countries to participate in Persian Gulf Air Show - Payvand
Tehran, Oct 15, IRNA - Some 14 countries will participate in the 4th Persian Gulf Air Show on Kish Island. Announcing this, chairman of Iran's Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) underlined that the event will be held from October 28-31.

RotorFest 2008 at the American Helicopter Museum from Technorati
Bridget, Siobhán and I went to RotorFest 2008 at the American Helicopter Museum this weekend. It is an airshow dedicated to helicopters, right in West Chester at the airport and museum. It was a fun event, since it was really neat to see the helicopters up close and in action, and it wasn’t too crowded at all. The only downside is we didn’t get to see any military helicopters in action this year. We saw many different models of helicopters on the ground: And a few more in action ...

A day with the monster truck, an awesome Shockwave truck and a few fighter planes ... from Technorati
Yupp you just heard it right . This thread is all about the beautiful time i spend in Battle creek, MI couple of months back in July during my vacation when i did get a chance to see and ride a monster truck, watch a shock wave truck in action and sit in the cockpit of an A-10A Thunderbolt II (Warthog). The Place :- Battle Creek, MI Battle Creek is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, in northwest Calhoun County, at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek Rivers. Battle Creek

Can you pull a 155000-pound plane? - Pensacola News Journal, FL
Find out at the Ronald McDonald House Plane Pull Nov. 1. Teams of 20 will compete for the trophy by pulling the aircraft 12 feet in the least amount of time ...

Just Started Sorting...from www.aafo.com -
San Francisco Fleet Week 2008 from FenceCheck Forums
More 2008 Reno from www.aafo.com
Chengdu J-10S from Flight Image of the Day by Paul Gladman
2008 Prairie Air Show: Highlights of the 2008 Prairie Air Show. by asterpix168
Miramar Airshow shots now available by nkstav

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