Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Indy Transponder 29-DEC-2010 2000z

Aviation buffs to rebuild RAF plane - Belfast Telegraph
An old RAF reconnaissance plane is being rebuilt on the site of a former top security jail in Northern Ireland where it was once called in to help check for IRA escape tunnels.
Volunteers from the Ulster Aviation Society are reassembling the aircraft at the former Maze Prison at Long Kesh, near Lisburn, Co Antrim.
After nearly 50 years ...

Centennial of Air Mail service salute will honor early aviation pioneers at EAA AirVenture 2011
Vintage aircraft and attractions, along with special programming, will honor early aviation pioneers through a commemoration of centennial of air mail service during EAA AirVenture 2011. The 59th annual edition of “The World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration” will be held July 25-31 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh. ...

Watching Your New Best Friends Having the Time of Their Lives from Let's Go Flying 
... I’m having a great time re-living some of those experiences as I edit footage from Acro Camp, a movie that I and some friends in the general aviation community shot in May.  We brought in four pilots from around the country.  Two men and two women.  Each had between 300 hours and 12,000 hours total time.  But none ...

This Jet-Powered Outhouse Makes Poop Fly [Video] from Jalopnik  | An Indianapolis-based company with too much time on its hands attached a 750-pound Boeing jet engine to a portable toilet, making it capable of reaching speeds up to 70 miles per hour. ...

DH Hornet & Sea Hornet from Let Let Let - Warplanes 
The De Havilland DH.103 Hornet was a Spec. F.12/43 long-range day  fighter capable of reaching a top speed of at least 480 mph (772.5 km/h). Although it arrived too late to participate in the Second World War, it was ordered both by the RAF and by the Royal Navy. For the Royal Navy it was intended to operate from aircraft carriers, fitted with an arrester hook and foldable wings. Royal Navy also used a two-seat version  as ...
   
Images of 2010: News - Hickory Daily Record
87, served on as navigator on board a Boeing B-17 G. Parker flew on 30 missions over the European Theater. ....

The year 2010 in pictures (500th blog post) by David Cenciotti
As of tradition, the annual debrief can’t be introduced with different words from those I used last year: “It’s only when you get to the end of the year that you get the full picture of what has happened in the previous 12 months. Images collected during worlwide travels, flights and base visits, used to illustrate the most different stories dealing with the World of Aviation, provide a means to get a snapshop on the most important topics discussed on this site [...]“. So, once again after 2008 and 2009 editions, pictures taken by me and by the site’s official photographer Giovanni Maduli during the last year will guide us along some of the most important things we have happened in the world of Aviation. ...

Top Ten PICTURE stories of 2010 - Flight Global
Top ten VIDEO stories 2010 - Flight Global

ZWRRWWWBRZR from Air & Space Magazine
That's the sound of the prop-driven XF-84H, and it brought grown men to their knees. It didn't fly all that great either. ...

Zephyr solar-powered UAV breaks three more world records from Engadget 
The Zephyr is a winning machine. Last we reported, QinetiQ's solar-powered drone had just completed 7-days in the air, and counting. Now, the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) has confirmed that Zephyr completed that record-breaking flight with a solid 2-weeks in the air (336 hours). If that wasn't enough to put other drones to shame, FAI found that Zephyr also destroyed records for flight duration for a UAV of its ...

December 29 from Cut and Paste Aviation 

The World's Smallest Airport - Flagpole Magazine
... recognition in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was the innovative and outrageous 1940s air show known as The Thrasher Brothers' Aerial Circus. ...

New Chengdu J-20 photos from Black Horizon 
More photos of the Chinese J-20 stealth fighter are popping up on the internet.
It remains to be seen if the West will view it as a threat. Althiough there are indications it hasn't flown yet, the J-20 is already being compared to the F-22.  ...
   
First human-like robot to fly in space - SiliconValley.com
3 aboard the space shuttle Discovery on a flight to its permanent home on the International Space Station, will be the first humanoidlike robot to fly in ...

"The Big A's" UCAP #219 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
Happy New Year to all from the entire UCAP Gang.



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