Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Indy Transponder 02-FEB-2011 0345z

Sandstorm delays Al Ain Aerobatic Show - The National | AL AIN // The opening of the widely anticipated Al Ain Aerobatic Show tomorrow will not proceed as planned, due to the sand clouds shrouding the UAE and ...

China, Pakistan, Iran blocked from Indian airshow - Emirates 24/7 | India, which hosts South Asia's biggest airshow next week, has not invited arch-rival Pakistan, China or Iran to the biennial event, organisers said on ...
   
New Delhi Russian MiG-35 to skip Bangalore airshow - Hindustan Times | The biennial airshow, to be held from February 9-13, offers international exhibitors a prestigious platform to showcase newest aerospace equipment and ...

AeroIndia show to be the largest ever - Sify
... apart from the Advanced Light Helicopter 'Dhruv' that will be flown by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited's Sarang chopper display team. ...
   
Master disaster plan ready for airshow - Times of India | There will also be 295 domestic companies, as opposed to 289 in 2009, during the five-day airshow. The organizers expect 50000-75000 visitors in a single ...

Wings of Freedom Tour flies into Page Field - Cape Coral Daily Breeze | Participating in the Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress "Nine O Nine" World War II Heavy Bomber, Consolidated B-24 ...

The lady loves taildraggers - AOPA Pilot | The first fly-in of Ladies Love Taildraggers drew a small but enthusiastic group to Moraine Airpark in Dayton, Ohio. ...

Golf legend Arnold Palmer retires license from General Aviation News   | Long-time pilot Arnold Palmer, who started flying in 1956, made his last flight as PIC Jan. 31, according to report at Golf Digest magazine, which notes that when Palmer, 81, flew his Cessna Citation 10 jet from Palm Springs to Orlando that morning, it was his last flight as pilot. His license expired that day, and Palmer elected not to have it renewed. The blog quotes Palmer: “I’ll still be flying in my plane as much as always, just not in the cockpit. Flying has been one of the great things in my life. It’s taken me to the far corners of the world. I met thousands of people I otherwise wouldn’t have met. And I even got to play a little golf along the way.”   ...

The Luscombe Silvaire Survives for 74 Years With a Life of its Own by Alan Smith | A 1928 Velie Monocoupe by Clayton Folkerts and Don Luscomb. (Jeremy Drey)We all know the famous names that mark the history of the light plane industry. Most of them, like Bill Piper, Clyde Cessna, or Walter Beech are names that are still with us today along with the aircraft being produced by the companies they started. ...

PHOTOS: History flies into Marco Executive Airport - Marco Eagle
The B-17 was the companion of the B-24 in thousands of wartime, bombing and reconnaissance missions. Together they were the backbone of the daylight ...

B-57, C-7 Go Back on Display in Dayton from www.airforce-magazine.com | Crews at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, have finished restoring a Vietnam War-era Martin B-57B Canberra bomber and a De Havilland C-7A Caribou transport aircraft and returned them to the museum's Southeast Asia War exhibit area. The restoration work began last fall. Museum staff ...


MNCAF News

Aviation In The Antarctic from Aviation Earth | The first person to ascend from the continent of Antarctica was Captain Robert Scott. His balloon rose 800ft in 1902, thus beginning a journey that still continues today. Scott’s ascent (closely followed by that of Ernest Shackleton) clearly demonstrated man’s battle to overcome nature’s obstacles. But true Antarctic aviation would have to wait until after [...]

Door gunner saved life of Polish soldier from Military Photos | Polish soldiers were conducting operation against man making IEDs in one of villages. Suddenly they got into crossfire from enemy. Patrol commander called air support. Mi-17s used part of field to land and take soldiers on board. Captain have noticed that last soldiers in formation is loosing strengh and falls. He left  ...

When Hornets Growl from Air & Space Magazine | The new, supersonic face of e-warfare.
When Pigs Could Fly from Air & Space Magazine | The F-111, beloved by pilots in America and Australia, takes to the air for the last time.

Moving the Buran from High Power Rocketry 
From what I understand, this orbiter was on display in Gorky park for a while. Sadly, it appears as if the orbiter and an Energiya booster were both crushed in a hangar collapse in 2002: ...

Challenger ended shuttle program at Vandenberg from RLV and Space Transport News | Trent Waddington points me to this JP Aerospace blog entry with the following video of a news report about how the plan to launch shuttles from Vandenberg was canceled after the Challenger accident. The video includes comments from John Powell.

New Museum Spotlights Columbia Shuttle Disaster from SPACE.com | A new Texas museum opens today (Feb. 1) to honor the space shuttle Columbia and its seven-astronaut crew on the eighth anniversary of the fatal disaster that ended the orbiter's final mission.

Florida Space Industry Sets March 16, 2011 from RLV and Space Transport News | Florida Space Industry Sets March 16, 2011 for Florida Space Day in Tallahassee | Joining Together to Preserve Florida’s Role in our Nation’s Space Program ...

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