Sunday, August 15, 2010

Indy Transponder 15-AUG-10 0230z

P-38 Notes - P38 assn
Glacier Girl is currently at the Planes of Fame in Chino, where she will remain until she has to go north for the big event in Sacramento, which takes place Sep 11-12.
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Unusual to receive two messages from us so close together, but this one is also time sensitive, and we wanted to give everyone a chance to attend this event if at all possible.
We just got word from Jeff Harris, the pilot usually at the helm of the Allied Fighters P-38, that both he and Steve Hinton will be flying up to the "Wings Over Camarillo" show next weekend (August 21-22). Jeff will be bringing the Allied Fighters P-38, and Steve will be in 23 Skidoo the Planes of Fame P-38.

Vince Vaughn and his Mom jump out of plane at Chicago Air and Water show - Chicago Tribune | Vince Vaughn soars during a tandem jump with the Golden Knights at the Chicago Air and Water Show Saturday, August 14, 2010. ...

Vaughn says jump from aircraft was 'a lot of fun'
cbs4qc.com | Vaughn performed a tandem jump with the US Army Parachute Team Golden Knights during the Chicago Air and Water Show on Saturday. Vaughn was clad in a bright ...

Chicago Air & Water Show 2010 - Chicago - 08/14/10
from FenceCheck Forums

Santa Paula Airshow continues today - Ventura County Star | Mary Lansden of Simi Valley attended the air show with her husband, Curtis Fay, and their sons Curtis, 8, and Michael, 4. “My dad owns a Yakovlev Yak-52 and ...
   
Dobbins plans to hold largest Air Show in the region - Duluth Weekly
Dobbins Air Reserve Base will host an Open House/Air Show on October 16 - 17, 2010. The event, “Wings Over Atlanta,” is free and open to ...

Aviation Day Fly-In - Press Pubs
Chapter 54 member Mark Holliday, a longtime Lake Elmo resident, flew the DR-1 at this year's AirVenture in Oshkosh and will be available to answer questions ...

Annual Abbotsford Airshow on this weekend - News1130
... Air Show for over three decades and loves every minute of it. The event runs through Sunday and
features the Snowbirds, F-18 Super Hornets and so much more.


Flight into history - Abbotsford News
The sight, noise and smell are all a part of the Avro Lancaster experience, says pilot Don Schofield as he gets ready for a flight on the Second World War bomber at the Abbotsford Airport, Thursday morning.
It’s one of only two Lancasters still flying. The other is owned by the Queen. ...

Rare 1945 Lancaster turns heads at airshow
Victoria Times Colonist | ... 2010 7:20 AM Province reporter Yolande Cole checks out cockpit of 1945 Lancaster Thursday prior to this weekend's annual Abbotsford Airshow. ...

Harvards Roaring to Mark Milestone - CD98.9
The show, called "Wings Over Ontario" , will feature the Canadian Harvard Aerobatic Team and a variety of other flying displays, including the legendary ...

GROUND THE RED ARROWS, SAYS JONATHAN EDWARDS MP - Express.co.uk
By Marco Glannangell, defence correspondent THE Red Arrows should be scrapped and the money diverted to frontline forces and the police, an MP said last ...

Matadors throw hats into the Bournemouth Air Festival ring - Bournemouth Echo
... pilots Paul Bonhomme – who won the Red Bull Air Race World Championship last weekend – and former Red Bull Air Race pilot Steve Jones at the controls. ...

The Patrouille de France in Toulon this August 14, 2010 - Come4News
Each year around 15 August, Toulon have missed an appointment with the Patrouille de France will enjoy a setting worthy of its ...

Israel to host international air show - Israel 21C | International Aerospace 2010, slated as the largest air show and conference ever to be held in Israel, will take place at an Israeli airport in November, ...

A Magical Extraordinary Dream from US Army Golden Knights 
SFC JD Berentis Gold Demonstration Team Leader flies in the Army Strong Parachute The Gold Demonstration Team, led by SFC JD Berentis headed out for Gary Airport in preparation for their practice show performance for the annual Chicago Air and Water Show. Mean while SFC Elliot conducted a Tandem Instruction class for some very important [...]

August 14th Proclaimed as Chicago’s Golden Knight Day! from US Army Golden Knights 
SFC Elliott accepted award from the Mayors Office The U S Army Parachute Team’s, Gold Demonstration Team , Tandem Section, Aviation Team members and Media Relations Department attended a social this evening that was hosted b y the City of Chicago, the Mayor’s Office, Rudy Malanati and the Schell Corporation . Members of the Blue [...]

How the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight keeps spitfires and Lancasters in ... - Daily Mail
It's just such a beautiful aeroplane to fly, and it's so easy to fly beautifully,' says Squadron Leader Ian Smith, commanding officer of the RAF's Battle of ...

Anniversary of disputed 1st flight takes wing in Fairfield - Ct Post
Lowell P. Weicker Jr. on Aug.13, 1976, states that the Wright Flyer on display in the Air & Space Museum in Washington is there only on the condition that ...

The Gosh of Oshkosh - Air and Space
Scenes from aviation's annual pilgrimage.
Overwhelming is the best word for it. I still think about my first trip in the mid-1990s to “Oshkosh,” shorthand for the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture fly-in held every summer in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. For the rookie it’s impossible to avoid being totally overwhelmed. Thousands of airplanes. Hundreds of thousands of people. There’s so much offered up simultaneously: lectures, forums, workshops galore on building, restoring, and flying every imaginable type of aircraft. Where to start? Where to go next? You dive in, and from the moment I did, I was hooked. ...

EAA AirVenture 2010 - Oshkosh - 07/26/10 from FenceCheck Forums
Video: How Germans Learn To Park a Tornado Jet by Av8tor
Hungary International Air Show & Military Display 2010 - Kecskemét from FenceCheck Forums

Aviation Expert Returns Home to RVC - Patch
If there's one thing Rockville Centre resident Michael Machat stressed during his lecture Thursday at the Cradle of Aviation Museum, it's that with determination and perseverance, anyone can soar and fly toward their dream.
In an hour-long presentation, the '65 South Side graduate spoke about his new book, "From Props to Jets," a detailed history of the aviation industry, from its beginnings with single-propeller planes to the giant commercial jets of today.  ...

Va Guard's longest serving aviator to retire - Daily Press
By AP Officials say Chief Warrant Officer Norman McIntosh will officially retire Wednesday after he takes off for the last time from the Army Aviation ...

August 14 from Cut and Paste Aviation 

World's First Electric Aircraft - Aeroelectric Flight
A Boeing 747 flying from San Francisco to New York emits an estimated 5,000 pounds of greenhouse gasses, it also consumes over 12,000 gallons of fuel in that flight. Although it will be a while before they can compete with the 747, new aircrafts are emerging with “zero-emission” flights. ...

Hundreds Kiss In NYC In Honor Of End Of WWII - NPR
by AP Enlarge AP Sophia Cinl and Oscar Mendez, left, Erin Calabrese and Stella Sensel, center, and Julia Maksimova Tai Odunsi watch the ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of VJ Day prior to the kiss in, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010 in New York's Times ...



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