Saturday, January 8, 2011

Indy Transponder 08-JAN-2011 1730z

Planning begins for Bournemouth Air Festival 2011 - LateRooms.com 
The Bournemouth Air Festival will return to the resort between August 8th and 12th and is set to offer airborne displays and a chance to catch a wide range ...

Airport Day turns profit - Fort Scott Tribune
The board decided they would limit the amount spent on aerobatic acts to $5000 in hopes the cost of reducing the cost of the show. With the event's balance ...
   
It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's parachute jumpers lighting up the ... - Los Angeles Times
Sheriff's deputies heard the skydivers were members of the US Army Parachute Team, more commonly known as the Golden Knights, she said. ...

Airshow plans from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings 
Looks like my next trip will be to Masterton on 23/ 24 January for the biennial Wings Over Wairarapa airshow. This will be my 3rd visit to this airshow, and the mixture of reproduction World War I era aircraft from the Vintage Aviator stable, through to fighter jets and other more modern aircraft makes this airshow well worth attending. ...

T-39N Centennial Sabreliner Walkaround - The Sharpest Looking Sabreliner Anywhere! from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo

First Acro Camp Trailer is in Final Form from Airspeed by Stephen Force 
The first trailer for Acro Camp is pretty much final! I'm going to start showing it to the aviating public tomorrow at the Great Lakes International Aviation Conference at Easter Michigan University's student center in Ypsilanti, Michigan. ...

Great Lakes Aviation Conference & Expo from greatlakesaviationconference.com
Whether you are a seasoned professional pilot with thousands of hours or a student pilot working on your first solo flight, the GLIAC has something for you. If you have not experienced the conference yet, you only need to attend once to realize all that you have been missing. ...

Wings Of Gold: Events, Town Changed History - Mission Times Courier
Many of the artifacts and compelling photographs are from the CHA archives, but other pieces are on loan from the San Diego Air & Space Museum, ...

The “Potato” Plane from J Clark
If you look at the Piper Apache head on, it looks a bit like a potato. A potato with wings and smaller spuds on the wings that house Lycoming engines of different sizes.
Originally, the Piper PA-23 came out with 150 horsepower engines, hence, the designation of PA-23-150. Piper built more than 2000 of the airplanes with 150 hp engines. By the time the airplane reached the “E” ...

A Guy Named Joe from J Clark 
Here in the area of Central Florida, there once was a guy named Joe. Joe was a fairly well known aviator, antiquer, and homebuilder.
His day job was flying Lears and DH-125s for a bank; his passion was flying antiques and homebuilts.
Timing and geography was not quite right for Joe and me to become good friends. We remained good acquaintances throughout the time we occasionally bumped into one another. I believe we ...

Vultee V-1A modified to be an attack bomber for use in the... from Planeshots
More Vultee V-1 images here


Politics in Aviation from Nordo News by Rich Davidson
Subject: Fairchild Legal Battle Article -- The Tale of a Tail.
The tale of the tail of a 1936 Fairchild – 15 years, all the way to the Supreme Court and still going!
For those interested in the preservation of vintage aircraft and the work that goes into trying to save them, this is the story of a monumental 15 year legal effort. It took the quest for the drawings of the tail of a 1936 Fairchild F45 from Wyoming to the Supreme Court of the United States – and it’s still going on. ...

Today in Aviation History – January 8 from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club 
   
Canada's top guns: The Ice Pilots NWT are back with another high-flying season - Canada.com
Buffalo Joe, Mikey, Blue and others from the show took a DC-3 into Oshkosh in Wisconsin for its renowned air show. They spent hours talking to fans. ...

From Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club 

Aviator and Lift Off Contests At IIT Techfest - OnlyGizmos 
The Aviator completion involves makers of RC aircraft competing against each other. Not one do you have to make an excellent aircraft, you should also be ...

THE INTERCEPTORS CLUB and the Secret of the Black Manta - via Black Horizon
Somewhere in the wilds of New Mexico, at a secret air base, they have built the ultimate unmanned stealth warplane.
It embodies artificial intelligence.
It is invisible on radar.
It can fly rings around any fighter jet.
It can fly above Mach 6.
It is armed with exotic pulse-weaponry...
... and it has just been stolen by a 15 year-old boy.
That's the premise behind my novel, The Interceptors Club and the Secret of The Black Manta, a work of fiction, loosely based on my many years of actual experience "stealth chasing" for publications such as Aviation Week & Space Technology Magazine, Popular Science and Aircraft Illustrated. ...

Spend Taxpayer Money Wisely on Spaceport America, Says New Mexico Gov. Martinez from Spaceports 
New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez said her administration supports Spaceport America and explained her administration wants to see Spaceport America succeed but feels taxpayer money should be spent wisely in helping the multi-million dollar project. ...

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