Sunday, June 13, 2010

Indy Transponder 13-JUN-10 1200z

Indianapolis Air Show set for Sunday - WTHR
"We can't fly in the clouds. There's just so high we can fly. We can't go into it. There's a law against that for air shows and there really is no reason ...
  
Aerobatic pilot turns reporter's world upside down - Greenfield Daily Reporter
Klatt, a headlining act at the Mt. Comfort Air Show this weekend, treated me to toned-down versions of his aerobatic feats this week for a ride I won't soon ... 

Cancellation of 1st day of air show was a first - Indianapolis Star
Greenfield Indianapolis Air Show officials are hopeful that weather conditions will allow a full show today after they endured their first cancellation in ... 

Annual Fly-In at Jerome County Airport - KMVT
The Jerome County Airport held their annual community appreciation day fly-in this morning. Jerome County Airport officials say this ...
   
Air Show in Yuba County ends today - Appeal-Democrat
The Golden West Regional Fly-in & Air Show concludes its three-day event — "Higher, ever higher" — today at the Yuba County Airport. ...

Balloonists take flight in Midlothian - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Bryant, of Houston, was one of 32 balloonists taking flight at the DFW Summer Balloon Classic and Airfest, which began Friday and ends today at Mid-Way ...
   
Balloon Classic continues today - Waxahachie Daily Light
Patrons of the DFW Summer Balloon Classic and AirFest at Mid-Way Airport were greeted with partly overcast skies and strong winds out of the ...

Southend Air Festival thrills - Southend Standard
More staggering sky stunts will come from the Royal Navy Black Cats helicopters, the Blades Aerobatic Team, and Typhoon, Hawk and Tucano aircraft. ...
  
Salute to a sea of splendour - Vancouver Sun
Further forward on the ship, a small port-side deck lay calm and all but empty until a voice crackled over the ship's PA: The Snowbirds aerial team was ...

Tunisia takes part in 2010 Berlin Air Show - Tunisia Online News
... Tunisia for the first time, is taking part in the “Internationale Luftfahrt-Ausstellung” (ILA) Air Show, the leading international trade show and ...

Tandem begins a weekend journey from armygoldenknights's
Thursday evening two members of the Tandem Team headed out on a road trip to Cincinnati, OH. SSG Joe Abeln and SSG Jon Ewald hauled the tandem equipment for the second Cincinnati Tandem camp. Since all Golden Knight aircraft was in use for the busy weekend of demonstrations, the only way to get the equipment to Cincinnati was to drive it. The two arrived in Cincinnati just hours before the rest of the Team on Friday.  ...

Texas women become first to compete in Aerobatic Racing Challenge Series at ... - Dallas Morning News
Their debut came during the DFW Summer Balloon Classic & AirFest, which concludes today at Midlothian's MidWay Regional Airport. ...

New Perrin Air Force Base Historical museum building currently under construction - North Texas e-News
This photo shows the new Perrin Air Force Base Historical museum building currently under construction. The building can be seen from the entrance to Perrin ...

Cape's aviation history, Part 1: From balloons to Blue Angels - Southeast Missourian
The US Navy's Blue Angels will soar over the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport on Saturday, more than 103 years after the first recorded flight here. ...

Timeline: Cape Girardeau aviation, 2006-presentSoutheast Missourian
Timeline: Cape Girardeau aviation, 1948-1973Southeast Missourian
Timeline: Cape Girardeau aviation, 1990-2005Southeast Missourian
Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago
For a better part of the 1950s and 1960s Israel relied on France as its main combat aircraft supplier with the IDF/AF having flown the Dassault Ouragan, Mystere, Super Mystere and Mirage III as well as the Sud-Aviation Vautour in the strike role. But reliance on a single nation for arms worried Israel's government and by the late-1950s increasingly advanced Soviet designs were being purchased by Arab client states and the general perception in the world market was that French designs were falling behind the designs coming from the Americans and Russians. American concerns about growing Soviet influence in the Middle East created an opportunity for Israel to finally get access to American combat aircraft that had previous proven elusive due to diplomatic concerns.  ...

General Dynamics “AWARE” from The Unwanted Blog
The last of the poorly described 1977 General Dynamics concepts, this time the Advanced Weapon/Airframe Requirements Evaluation (AWARE) design. This, to me, looks a whole lot like the British BAe Kingston P.1216 of 1982-83. In fact, the only obvious difference is that AWARE seems to have 2-D vectorable nozzles, whie the P.1216 had an advanced Pegasus-type three-poster VTOL engine.

EAA: Pilots offer up flights to kids on Young Eagles Day by Kathryn
For most of the day Saturday, children and their parents were coming and going from a hangar on the west side of Abilene Regional Airport.
On the way in, they may have felt a little uncertain about what was to happen. Coming out an hour or so later, most were all smiles, and many were talking excitedly. ...

Free flights put Butte County kids in high spirits
- Enterprise-Record
Weston Soudan, 11, enjoys the view as he gets a free flight in Gene Kemper's plane during the Young Eagles Rally on Saturday. ...

Waco Fly-In Held - A Step Back In Time from The Aero Experience
St. Charles County Airport/EAA 32 Fly-In Brings Variety of Aircraft from The Aero Experience
F-104 and Klingon Battle Cruiser from LDRS from The Original Rocket Dungeon
B17 Boeing Bee from FenceCheck Forums

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