Sunday, April 25, 2010

Indy Transponder 25-APR-10 2000z


Clear skies, crowds greet BAFB air show - Shreveport Times [slideshow]
"It's just beautiful today," said Diane Ford, one of the thousands of spectators who came to the Barksdale Air Force Base Defenders of Liberty Air Show. ...
   
Competitors fly in for Texoma Air Race - KXII-TV
Racers came from as far as Mississippi and New Mexico to fly in the third Texoma Air Race. A group of hopeful aviators along with one very unique veteran ...

Dream Machines, Sunday at HMB Airport from coastsider.com
Pacific Coast Dream Machines Show, the Coastside's annual airshow/festival of internal combustion takes place on Sunday, April 25 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Half Moon Bay Airport. The show benefits the Coastside Adult Day Health Center.
Headline attractions include motocross demos; a B-25 Bomber from World War II, a highly modified P-51 Mustang "Strega"—8-time class champion at the Reno Air Races;  "Death Stalker"—the world's only M-551 Sheridan Tank from ...

2010 Dyess AFB Big Country Airshow schedule - Abilene Reporter-News
Visitors to the Big Country Appreciation Day airshow wave from the flight line at ...

Local air festival bigger in 2nd year - Opelousas Daily World
"It's got a huge runway and plenty of open spaces for the public to enjoy the terrific aerobatic acts. What will make our show unique is that we will have ...

Airshow highlights Rosecrans' military past - St. Joseph News-Press
Rosecrans Memorial Airport will be the center of attention next weekend with the Sound of Speed Airshow, featuring the US Navy Blue Angels, on Saturday and ...

Great Minnesota Air Show to bring 50000 a day to St. Cloud - St. Cloud Times
The Great Minnesota Air Show is coming June 26-27 to St. Cloud Regional Airport. Chapman, co-director of the event, promises that it will be one of the best ...

Anzac Day chopper crash victims named - Waikato Times
Sqn Ldr Cree was one of five members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Red Checkers aerobatic team practising a stunt, when he crashed.

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Scouts make pilgrimage to Galena - Dubuque Telegraph Herald
The weather stopped the US Army Golden Knights from descending into downtown Galena from the sky, but the parachuting team joined the parade. ...


Doolittle Raider Lt. Col. Richard "Dick" Cole Speaks To Cadets - Texas A&M University
The Doolittle Raiders attacked military and industrial targets in several Japanese cities and their surprise attack on the previously untouched home islands ...
   
WWII vets share history with fifth-graders - Jackson Sun
He showed them his World War II medals and pictures of bombers such as the B-17 and B-24 he flew in as a tailgunner during the war. ...

Flying Aboard a Fortress - Santa Barbara Independent
During his 17th and final mission as a B-17 tail gunner, World War II veteran Jon Kaiser was lucky the German artillery shell that ...
   
B-17 buzzing the neighborhood today - Seattle Central District News
It's a restored B-17 that's in town for the weekend, offering the public rides from Boeing field. Their low flight path has taken them over the neighborhood ...

A Gathering of Chinooks from The Unwanted Blog
Where I live out in the sticks, few aircraft are ever in evidence. The occasional high altitude jet; during summer a private plane sprays anti-skeeter chemicals, sometimes cropdusters, and some bastard who I hate with the fire of a thousand exploding suns often goes bopping around in a powered parafoil (damn you and your easy ability to go flying whenever the hell you feel like it!!!!). So imagine my surprise yesterday when I heard the thop-thop-thop of a low-altitude heavy helicopter. I grabbed the camera and dashed outside in time to catch a Chinook flying overhead. ...

Lessons from Amelia from Life on the Road as a Pilot
I recently got a lesson in life from a woman named Amelia. No, not THAT Amelia, though I do find it a remarkable coincidence that this muse had the same name as the first president of the International Organization of Women Pilots. I was attending a section meeting of the Ninety Nines at the time. This Amelia served me breakfast.
The Amelia you most likely are familiar with is undoubtedly the most famous aviatrix in our collective consciousness. Though her pilot skills have been accused of being overstated - especially in light of her failed round the world flight - her numerous accomplishments have had an overwhelmingly positive  ...

Alameda Naval Air Museum — you have got to see it! from blog.seattlepi.com
This is an unusual museum for me to like so much as it has no aircraft. Lacking aircraft the staff has devoted its time to displaying an immense collection of artifacts and relics which relate to both aviation and military history. Using both floors the museum is chock full of items I've not seen before — like an ancient torpedo, an ingenious diorama giving the visitor a bird's eye view of a WW II carrier battle and more. The second floor's area is devoted primarily to models, ...

Robert Grimes dies - wounded pilot evaded Nazis - San Francisco Chronicle
Robert Grimes, an Army Air Forces pilot who evaded capture in World War II when his B-17 bomber was shot down over Nazi territory, died April 21 at his home ...

Gentleman flier was last of his kind - MailTribune.com
...The Depression ended the flying school, but Aubrey continued to fly until he could fly no more.
During World War II, he taught "a bunch of green kids" to be Army Air Corps pilots as an assistant flight commander for the Southeast Flight Training Command in Florida. ...

In the Museum: A Wright Relic Surfaces - Air & Space Magazine
In late August 1902, Wilbur and Orville Wright traveled from Dayton, Ohio, to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, to test and develop one of their gliders on the windy dunes of the Outer Banks. Encamped in a rustic shed, they loved to tell their sister, Katharine, about their domestic ingenuity. In a letter dated August 31, Wilbur describes the brothers' kitchen: "We also set up our table and covered the top with white oil cloth…."

Santa Maria Valley Timeline - Santa Maria Times
May 1, 1942: Santa Maria Army Air Field was activated as a B-25 bomber base on 3600 acres. The airfield is now the site of the Santa Maria Public Airport. ...

April 25 from Cut and Paste Aviation
... 1945 -- Eighth Air Force made its last attack on an industrial target in WW II, when 274 bombers dropped 500 tons of bombs on Skoda Works at Plyen, Czechoslovakia. ...

Another Armless Pilot! - Redefine The Experience
Brian Tagalog, a 26 year old resident of Tuscon born without arms, has a few accomplishments under his feet. His day job? A tattoo artist! Nice!Brian became interested in learning to fly after he heard of Jessica's story earlier this year.  Hopefully Jessica will get her instructor rating soon and she can be the one that helps him learn. ...

Flying pancakes mark decade of flight education - Battle Creek Enquirer
For 10 years, Western Michigan University's College of Aviation in Battle Creek has offered people that chance, a fact celebrated with a "Fly-In Pancake ...

Applications for Aviation Scholarships available - Kingston Reporter
By Anonymous The Plymouth Aero Club is accepting applications for this year's Aviation Scholarships. The scholarships are to be used toward post-secondary ...

Kalamazoo Promise scholarship beneifts city, its kids - Detroit Free Press
Without the Promise, Kyle Quakenbush wouldn't be close to earning a bachelor's degree in aviation. Torian Johnson wouldn't have studied in Australia for ...

G-Force One To Bring Sky High Adventure To South Florida from AvStop
On May 8, Zero Gravity Corporation's (ZERO-G), G-FORCE ONE will blast off from Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International airport offering a once in a lifetime opportunity, introducing flyers to new heights and to defy the law of gravity. Guests will have the unique opportunity to float freely and lighten up in complete weightlessness onboard ZERO-G's weightless flight. ZERO-G is the first and only FAA-approved provider of commercial weightless flights. ...

Private space tourism taking off without us - San Francisco Chronicle
At the maiden flights, the spacecraft's financier, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and its visionary designer, Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites, ...

Japan May Withdraw from Space Station from Spaceports
The Japanese government may consider withdrawal from the International Space Station, according to a post on SpacePolicyOnline today. A Japanese panel of experts has recommended that the Japanese government reexamine the benefits from the space program and

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Changing Planes In Midair from I Love Planes


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