Thursday, December 30, 2010

Indy Transponder 30-DEC-2010 2200z

Rare Twin Mustangs preparing for flight from Aviation Blogs 
Put EAA AirVenture 2013 on your calendar. That’s the year two North American Twin Mustangs are expected to be returned to flying condition by their owners, and go on display in ...
   
World-Famous Team Viper To Hit New Heights At Al Ain Aerobatic Show - Middle East Events 
Team Viper, the world's only Hawker Hunter fighter jet display squadron, has joined the impressive list of international aerobatic and display teams that ...

Bob Hoover in his Aero Commander Shrike - YouTube
Bob Hoover is a pilot who served in World War II, later becoming involved in aerobatics. He is credited for flying next to Chuck Yeager, who was flying the Bell X1 on the mission to break the sound barrier. This video here is very famous and widely distributed.
While doing research this week on some of the finest pilots ever behind a stick, The Tuskegee Airmen, I ran across some wonderful videos of an aviation legend, and personal friend, that was so inspiring that I just had to smile and share. I can hardly manage to think that humanity will ever know a more skilled aviator than the incomparable Bob A. Hoover! Amazing--Watch Bob do his touchdown, roll, touchdown, all done 

Classic Aero-TV: Best Seat in The House -- 'Inside' The AeroShell Aerobatic Team from Aero-News Network
Yeah.... This IS A Really Cool Job When ANN's Nathan Cremisino took over the lead of our Aero-TV teams, he knew he was in for some extra work and a lot of extra responsibility. Still... with all that, there ARE times when its good to be the top guy.... like when our friends at Aspen Avionics call over and ask if we want to put one of our Aero-TV videographers aboard a formation aerobatic flight with the world famous Aero-Shell Aerobatic Team. At such times, its good to be in a position to say... "Hey, I want to go..." and go. ...

Classic Aero-TV: Tsunami Air Racing -- Rebuilding A Legacy from Aero-News Network
A Tragic Loss May Someday Be Returned To Flight Status It was one of the most aggressive efforts to energize American air racing... an one of its greatest tragedies... Tsunami, the first original homebuilt unlimited racer built since 1939, was designed for speed record attempts and air racing until its loss on September 25th, 1991. Tsunami crashed while on final approach to Pierre Municipal Airport in Pierre, South Dakota killing pilot John R. Sandberg, due to a mechanical control failure that resulted in an irrecoverable flight condition. ...

2011 starts BIG for Airplanista with best issue yet from Av8rdan's World of Flying
As our fourth issue hits the streets, I find this wonderful project on a serious roll. Readership is exploding, interest is high, and great content is coming in all over the place.
Let's take a quick tour of the January issue, which can be viewed here on Saturday, 01.01.11: ...

Dick Audet from www.acesofww2.com
Dec. 29, 1944 - Audet gets 5 kills in under 5 minutes (an RCAF record), then, 3 weeks later, becomes the only RCAF pilot of the War to destroy 2 jet fighters ...

Pilot Officer John G. Magee Jr. from Air Force Link Top Stories 
"High Flight" has become an aviator's anthem, and an epitaph. Its author, Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee Jr., was an American serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Battle of Britain in 1941, when he reached out "and touched the face of God."
Magee was born in Shanghai, China, in 1922, the son of missionary parents. His father was an American and his mother was originally a British citizen. He came to the United States in 1939 and earned a scholarship to Yale, but in September 1940 he enlisted in the RCAF. He was only 18. He entered flight training and within a year was sent to England and posted to the newly formed No. 412 Fighter Squadron, RCAF at Digby, England. He was qualified on and flew the Supermarine Spitfire Mk1 fighter. ...

Lansing's 'Rosie' dies at age 86 - LSJ
Her face became the symbol of women's empowerment, and her death is the end of an era.
Geraldine Hoff Doyle of Lansing, the woman behind an iconic image of a bandana-clad, muscle-flexing Rosie the Riveter during WWII, has died, according to her family. ...

“Rosie The Riveter” 1941-1945 - pophistorydig.com
“Rosie the Riveter” is the name of a fictional character  who came to symbolize the millions of real women who  filled America’s factories, munitions plants, and shipyards during World War II.  In later years, Rosie also became an iconic American image in the fight to broaden women’s civil rights.
After the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor ...

A Promise Kept: The Eastern DC-7B Story - Source: nycaviation.com
In a world when a person’s word can be broken and a handshake is no longer binding, there are people you can still count on. Carlos Gomez and Marc Wolff, by keeping Joe Kocour’s dream alive, are examples of such people. Joe is not with us today, but his beloved Eastern DC-7B is once again flying abo
What a sight this will be at any air shows it might attend!!! Who could have ever known the treasure these things would become. ...

F-86 Sabre from FenceCheck Forums

Covering The Albatros DVa - The Vintage Aviator
"Applying the fabric to the Albatros DVa was a painstaking task, but it had to be done using authentic methods and authentic components."

Museum gains accreditation - Wapakoneta Daily News
The family traveled to the museum from Bluffton, Ind. Staff photo/ Jennifer Tangeman By WILLIAM LANEY The Armstrong Air & Space Museum, along with five ...

Deutsches Technik Museum Berlin. By Dietrich Bojko from Pixdaus: Popular Today Pics

These Are the 11 Prototypes of the Doomed Concorde [Imagecache] from Jalopnik
Here, decades ago, the Concorde stood in prototype form. The plane, even as a small model, was a a symbol of future travel—the way we'd all luxurious fly supersonic someday. Half a century later, that dream's dead forever. ...

December 30 - This Day In Aviation History - Planes, Flying and ...
December 30, 1905 - The Wright brothers sign a contract for one million francs with Frenchman Arnold Fordyce for the sale of a powered flying machine capable of flying a nonstop distance of 31 mi. ...

FREE Film! Flyabout - Chicago Area Aviation Meetup Group (Bensenville, IL) - Meetup
January 15th and 16th at 1pm Aviation World and the Village of Bensenville will present 2 FREE screenings of the documentary film Flyabout at the Bensenville Theater (9 South Center Street). Monika Petrillo, the filmmaker will be on hand to introduce the film and ...

Let’s Make 2011 an Exciting Year for Flying from John and Martha King
As you move through the first quarter of 2011, you are likely considering what you want to accomplish in aviation this year, and how you will keep your skills sharp. One proven and fun way to both advance your skills and stay current is to work on your next rating or certificate. ...

Ross Airfield and the Arcadia Balloon School
This exhibit delves into the period nearing the end of the Great War (World War I); 1918 in Arcadia. Our City was the home of Ross Airfield and the Arcadia Balloon School on the site of today’s Arcadia County Park. What did Arcadia look like in 1918? Who was at the balloon school? What was the purpose of these giant balloons that hung in our skies? Is there any trace left of the school and its brave men? Find the answers at the Museum. The ...

Boeing 747-8 undergoes extreme testing - Boeing   
It's been dragged, dropped, soaked, and forced to hover, shudder and flutter. VERY interesting video on the new Boeing 747 Freighter.

Roundup of 2010 Roundups; 2011 Predictions from Space Prizes 

11 Things Americans Will Be Doing in Space in 2011 from SPACE.com
From private spaceflights, to NASA missions to the moon, Mars and beyond, here's a preview of coming attractions in U.S. spaceflight for 2011. ...

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