Friday, June 11, 2010

Indy Transponder 11-JUN-10 1545z

Families Make Rare Air Show Memories  - The Dispatch
Tens of thousands of spectators were treated to aerial brilliance last weekend as the US Air Force Thunderbirds closed out what is being widely considered ...

Indianapolis Air Show has action on the ground, too - Indianapolis Star
Klatt will be flying in 18 shows this year, including this weekend's Indianapolis Air Show at Mount Comfort Airport, 12 miles east of Indianapolis. ...
Photo from John Klatt Air Shows website

Indy 2010: Arrival from Airspeed
... Thursday before a show is one of my favorite times. The ramp is relatively bare. But the energy is building. A fleet of golf carts awaits volunteers and staff. The rows of vendor tents are going up. Indy Aero, the FBO, is starting to buzz with activity (red shirts everywhere!). People like Billy Werth who were new friends last year greet you with familiarity that far exceeds the time that life has thus far let you spend together. ...
Flyovers with a twist - Indianapolis Star
Klatt will put on a 10-minute aerobatic show both days. The event typically attracts 50000 to 100000 spectators, depending on the weather and participation ...
Air Show Returns To Milwaukee Starting Friday - WCCO
The Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds are returning to Milwaukee this weekend. Milwaukee was selected as one of only a few ...

Aerial act attracts thousands - Ocean City Today
The skytypers and the Air Force Thunderbirds were highlights of the show, which took place Saturday and Sunday. This was the third year for the air show and ...

GOLDEN WEST REGIONAL FLYIN & AIRSHOW | We Shall Never Forget! by Marine Corps Events
Location: Olivehurst, CA...The Golden West Aviation Association has a mission of enhancing aviation education and safety with general aviation pilots, amateur-built aviation enthusiasts, and the public. This event is similar to Air ...

Swift Aerobatic Display Team's Photos - Heart of Scotland Airshow

Navy Gives Boost To Maine Air Show In Brunswick - WBZ
The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority previously announced that the Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team would headline the event next year. ...
   
Golden Knights to highlight SC outdoor festival - Myrtle Beach Sun News
It features an appearance on Saturday by the Golden Knights, the Army jump team from the 82nd Airborne Division. The festival at Myrtle Beach Mall also ...
   
AirShow China expecting robots, acrobatics - UPI.com
Also set for AirShow China is a demonstration by Pakistani acrobatic team, the Sherdils, flying their recently acquired K-8 advanced trainers, ...

Dimanche, la Patrouille de France - La Voix du Nord
... la patrouille acrobatique officielle de l'Armée de l'air française plus ... communément appelée Patrouille de France survolera l'aérodrome dimanche. ...

Sunday at St. Peter the Tricolour Arrows Vernotico - Oria.info News
Entertainment must for lovers of flight Sunday, June 13 on the coast of San Pietro Vernotico, to perform the Tricolour Arrows. ...

Sean D. Tucker, Legendary Airshow Performer - from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast
Air show pilot Sean D. Tucker is now flying a brand-new custom-designed biplane, the Challenger III. He talked with AVweb's Mary Grady about its design and capabilities.

This Weekend's Events - Fencecheck
6/12/10 |  Indianapolis Air Show 2010
6/12/10 |  Spectacular Arien Airshow 2010
6/12/10 |  Eagle Mountain Airshow 2010
6/12/10 |  Festival of Flight Air & Car Show 2010
6/12/10 |  MARPAC Fleet Review 2010
6/12/10 |  40 Years Midden-Zeeland 2010
6/12/10 |  Tomato Fest Fly In And Cull Drop 2010
6/12/10 |  Tiger Moth Airshow 2010
6/12/10 |  Jimmy Stewart Airport Festival 2010
6/12/10 |  Góraszka international Air Picnic 2010
6/12/10 |  Meeting Aérien d`Albert 2010
6/12/10 |  Portland International Jetport Aviation Exposition 2010
6/12/10 |  Great Northwest Air Race 2010
6/13/10 |  RAF Cosford Air Show 2010
6/13/10 |  Bentwaters Cold War Museum Open Day 2010
6/13/10 |  BAN Hyères Open House 2010
6/13/10 |  Malmen AB Airshow 2010
6/13/10 |  Bi Plane Fly-in 2010
6/13/10 |  Valencia Airshow 2010
6/13/10 |  Throckmorton Airshow 2010
6/13/10 |  San Pietro Vernotico Airshow 2010

Air Show's Fiscal Impact Difficult To Quantify For All - The Dispatch
OCEAN CITY — The Air Show has quickly become a signature annual event in Ocean City, but it hasn't quite yet reached the top ...

What's on Red Bull Web TV - Red Bull (International)
Throughout the week we'll be catching up with the Red Bull Air Race pilots and crew as we look back on the previous round in the big Canadian skies over ...

Red Bull Air Race - myfoxny.com
The Red Bull Air Race takes daring and talented pilots to nine cities including Abu Dhabi and Lisbon, to name a few. Kirby Chambliss, a former world ...

‘Swamp Ghost’ returns home 68 years after takeoff from General Aviation News 
More than 68 years since a group of young U.S. servicemen in a B- 17E Flying Fortress crash-landed in a New Guinea swamp, the air crew’s surviving relatives, aircraft salvage team leaders and aviation historians will welcome home the fallen aircraft June 11, complete with a P-51 Mustang and P-40 Warhawk formation flyover above the Long Beach Harbor in California. ...
 
B-17 flight reminds us of perils past - Edmond Sun
A sleek, silver four-engine B-17: the bomber that was the workhorse of the US Army Air Corps in World War II. One was overhead and I couldn't take my eyes ...

World War II vet takes a trip back in time on B-17 at Addison Airport - Dallas Morning News
ADDISON — The B-17 touched down so softly that you could barely tell it was back on the ground. ...

"Sentimental Journey" returns to MVN Airport - Mt. Vernon Register-News
The Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress landed Thursday morning for its third visit in the King City. ...
   
Rare, husband-and-wife WWII duo share stories of courage - High Springs Heralds
Newman got his pilot wings in Pennsylvania and trained with a 2-engine B-17 bomber in Arkansas. In 1944, Newman picked out his own B-17 in Savannah, Ga. ...


WW II’s First Double Ace Dies from Pacific Flyer
He was the Army Air Forces' first double ace in Europe during World War II, earned a Silver Star, was shot down by ground fire several times and went on to serve in the Pacific.
He began shooting down enemy planes in a P-47, later a P-51 Mustang and ended up in an F-86 Sabrejet in Korea, where he bagged his last kill but was shot down and tortured.
Walker "Bud" Mahurin, a retired Air force colonel who had suffered a stroke in October, died last month at his home in Newport Beach, according to his stepdaughter, Valerie Miller. He was 91. ...

Three added to Arizona Hall of Fame from General Aviation News
The Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame, located inside the Dorothy Finley Space Gallery at the Pima Air & Space Museum, has three new members: Tucsonan Barbara Lee Harper, Phoenix area resident Maj. Gen. Donald L. Owens (AANG.Ret.), and, in memoriam, Phoenix resident Clifford M. Sterrenberg. ...

WWII re-enactment is booming - Mankato Free Press
The WWII battle will include six period fighter planes and a B-25 bomber, as well as an assortment of German and American tanks, half-tracks and field ...

Solar Flight Pioneer Bertrand Piccard - 'We Have The Technology To End Our ... 
Free Internet Press | He wrote aviation history in 1999 when, together with the Briton Brian Jones, he circumnavigated the Earth in a balloon, taking 19 days, 21 hours and 47 ...

Aviation art soars into museum from General Aviation News
Seventy paintings, jury-selected from the finest aviation master artists in the world, will hang on the walls of the San Diego Air & Space Museum (SDASM) until Sept. 10. ...

Gyro-copter speed record attempt of Ken Wallis, 94 - Metro.co.uk
Ken Wallis, 94, may have to travel abroad for the stunt as Civil Aviation Authority rules in Britain limit his rotorcraft to just 70mph.
The former James Bond stuntman is hoping to reach speeds of 140mph in his hand-built twin-propeller machine.
Mr Wallis, an MBE, said he may have travel to France or the US.
He keeps 20 autogyros in a mini hangar at his home in Norfolk. ...

One of Australia's oldest pilots takes off again - ABC Online
"I enjoy it because I got very interested in navigation and I was more interested in where the aeroplane took me," he said. It has taken him around the ...
   
Aviation legends mentor Air Command and Staff College students - Maxwell Gunter Dispatch
The GOE program is an aviation event that traces its origin back to 1980 when retired Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets was invited to share some of his experiences ...

International Young Eagles Day is June 12 from www.youngeagles.org
There’s no better time to take to the skies than on International Young Eagles Day.
For the past 17 years, EAA sets aside one day to encourage all EAA chapters and members to participate in the program. This year’s event will be held on Saturday, June 12, when EAA members and chapters throughout the United States and the world will volunteer their time and airplanes to give youth ages 8-18 a free ride. Nearly 150 events are planned by EAA Chapters during this weekend, not counting the many individual EAA mebers who will fly Young Eagles independently. This annual event is the largest single-day activity for flying Young Eagles, with an average more than 8,000 Young Eagles flown. ...

Pilots' group invites children to take a flight at airport from www.telegram.com
Young people will take flight this weekend as the Fitchburg Pilots Association hosts a Young Eagles Flight Rally at Fitchburg Municipal Airport.
The program will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. tomorrow at the airport, off Airport Road. Registrations begin at 8:30 a.m. and flights begin at 9 a.m. The flights are free to youths ages 8 to 17.
As part of the event, the Young Eagles will get a chance to discover how airplanes work, learn about flight safety and go through a preflight check and condensed ground school before their flights.  ...

16-year-old Greg is a real high flyer - Bournemouth Echo
His passion for flying started watching the first Bournemouth Air Festival in 2008 – especially the Eurofighter Typhoon. He saved up his pocket money for ...

Young Eagles Take Flight from www.discoverfoothills.com
Pilots at the regional airport will be taking kids between the ages of 8 and 17 up for a 20 minute flight around the town, and it's all free. Lionel St. Allaire says they may get some future flyers out of it.
He says "we want to promote general aviation, get kids interested and hopefully they'll pursue that and learn how to fly".  He says his son is 17 and is going to learn how to fly starting in July and St. Allaire says he'd like to see more kids brought into the program. ...

Aviation  Campers Get Advice From Astronaut - WBOY-TV
West Virginia University's second annual aviation camp kicked off Thursday morning with a presentation by astronaut Jon McBride. ...

Primary pupils fly high with a look into history at air museum event - Yorkshire Post
... pupils learned about the Dunkirk Spirit yesterday during an action-packed day of Second World War and aviation events at the Yorkshire Air Museum. ...

'Legends Of Flight': Aviation's Hits And Misses - NPR
Aviation has come a long way since the Wright Brothers made their first flight in 1903. From gliders to biplanes and commercial airliners, new aircraft ...



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