Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Indy Transponder 22-DEC-09 2300z


Air Force Thunderbirds will highlight air show - Crookston Daily Times
The Air Force Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team will highlight next spring's Grand Forks Air Expo. ...

Patrouille Suisse Axalp Shooting Range 2009 from OneRiot.com
The Patrouille Suisse performance in the Bernese Alps during the Axalp Airshow 2009. Beautiful choregraphy with the Brienz Lake in the background.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Windsor International Air Show
I'd like to wish all of our volunteers a Merry Christmas and thank you for your support.
A special Christmas Wish goes out to all of our Veterans, past, present and to those who choose to defend our Freedom and quality of life on this day.
Without them we would not be able to enjoy this season as it was meant to be.
Peace and Prosperity.
See you next year for Sounds of Freedom II.

Air Race stars thrill crowd with Warbird display From www.redbullairrace.com via Air Race News Watch
They are used to thrilling massive crowds along picturesque shorelines all over the globe in the Red Bull Air Race World Championships by flying the newest and slickest planes on the planet, but lately pilots Matt Hall and Nigel Lamb have been stealing the show in warbirds built for battle in decades past.
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Flying in formation to a brief put together by both Air Race competitors, the four pilots put on a performance to behold and one that legendary Australian aviator and the museum's President and Founder David Lowy AM described as the best he had seen. ...

Fly a pylon race with Mary Haizlip from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
Just found this at Youtube. It's a recreation of a 1932 pylon air race, with Mary "Mae" Haizlip winning in her Wedell-Williams #92.
Here's the explanatory text from ...

Snoopy Crowned Canine King Of Pop Culture - Goodnewsforpets.com
... and AOL's PawNation.com today during a press conference in front of a special Snoopy exhibit at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City. ...

Long journey to a dream for pilot by TheKathrynReport
He was the seven-year old who thought pilots were right up there with HeMan and G.I.Joe and other super-human heroes.
He was the boy who went with his dad to every air show and took every chance to explore the air museum and Hill Air Force Base.
He was the young man who stopped a pick-up game of football to watch the planes fly overhead.
He was the newlywed who kept dreaming of flying for the military even after others said it was not possible.
He was the enlisted man who trained to work with F-16 munitions and thrilled when working on the flight line and watching the F-17s take off.
And now, he is the pilot.
He, is Erik Christensen, son of Gordon and Karin Christensen of Kaysville and a pilot in the Nevada Air National Guard. ( Read more... )

Airpark set for take-off - Lismore Northern Star
Other team members include Red Bull air race pilot Matt Hall, accountant Duncan Cornish, environmental professional Mark Imber, communications firm director ...

Armstrong-Whitworth A.W. 52 from Warbirds Online
Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft proposed a jet-powered six or four-engine flying wing airliner design, utilizing a laminar flow wing, during the Second World War. This had to be a large aircraft in order to provide passenger head-room within the wing. The low-speed characteristics of the design were tested on a 53 ft 10 in (16.41 m) span wooden glider known as the A.W.52G; the glider was designed to be ...

Cool or Just Crazy Kiwis? from Ares
Who lands a 757 on ice just for fun?
Well, maybe more than fun, but the answer is the Royal New Zealand Air Force. ...

'America's AOC' tracks Santa this Christmas Eve from Air Force Link Top Stories
Members of the 601st Air and Space Operations Center here will once again track Santa Claus on part of his journey around the world this Christmas Eve, and media interested in tracking Santa are invited to visit "America's AOC" Christmas Eve.
In conjunction with the "NORAD Tracks Santa" program, the AOC staff will monitor jolly ol' St. Nick as he makes his stops around the world.
"Tracking Santa has been a proud NORAD tradition for more than 50 years," said Col. Scott Barberides, the 101st Air Operations Group commander. "It's our job here at the AOC to monitor Santa as he makes his way through the U.S. delivering his very important cargo."
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Everybody knows that Santa is a paratrooper from Air Force Link Top Stories
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen. But on Dec. 6 at Pope Air Force Base, it was not a team of reindeer, but Maj. Jeff Dasher, a navigator in the 95th Airlift Squadron who guided the mission for the 440th Airlift Wing's C-130 Hercules that flew a group of Soldier Santas across the morning sky.
One might say he was born for this mission.
"It's the name," Major Dasher chuckled. "I had to be on this flight."
His flight was part of the 12th annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop, a program sponsored by Fort Bragg, N.C., and Pope AFB officials providing toys to needy children in the Fayetteville, N.C. area. The toys, donated by the participating servicemembers, are delivered to children in time for Christmas.
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Middletown provides divers soft landing - Fastrax to get city funds for move from Lebanon from The Kathryn Report
Start Skydiving and Team Fastrax, a professional skydiving team based at the Warren County Airport outside Lebanon, are moving to Middletown Regional Airport as part of a deal that includes a city-funded $350,000 expansion.The move is expected to provide a $13 million annual boost to Middletown's economy, based on 2008 attendance data. The group expects to bring 70 full-time and part-time jobs with it. It attracted 40,000 out-of-town visitors, who booked some 2,600 hotel rooms, in 2008, said Mike Robinette, Middletown's economic development director. ( Read more... )

Students build replica of Lindbergh's plane from The Kathryn Report
If you build it, they will come.
And strangers, educators and parents do come to Diane
Stensrud's third-grade classroom at Eisenhower School, Davenport.
What they find there —wonder of all wonders — is a big, sturdy airplane, 16 feet long. The students built it, and now that it's finished, they don't know what to do with it. ( Read more... )

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