Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Indy Transponder 04-JUL-2011 2345z

No better way to say Happy Birthday America than with the demo teams! Photos via Planeshots (and they have a lot more Here!)
   
Organizers calling Wings Over Tyler a success - KLTV | Even with weather in the triple digits, thousands of East Texans still made it out to the Wings Over Tyler Air Show.  The Wings Over Tyler Committee says they had over 20,000 people in attendance.  The most talked about parts of the event were the Pearl Harbor re-enactment, which they said they hope to do again, and the parachutist who waved an American flag all the way to the ground. ... ...

Air show provides Monday's thunder for Fair St. Louis - STLtoday.com | There was thunder in the air at Fair St. Louis on Monday, but it came from an air show, not a storm. It was "a GREAT air show," organizers tweeted in the late afternoon. Thunderstorms on Sunday caused Fair St. Louis to call off an afternoon air show, ...

In pictures: Waddington International Airshow 2011 - BBC News | The Waddington Airshow took place at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire. Among the aircraft on display was the Avro Vulcan XH558 - the last flying Vulcan. Close to 150000 aviation enthusiasts attended the event which featured a flying display by the Red ...

Air Power 2011: Best Photos & Pictures from Aerial Sports Feed
    
'Flying Fortress' bomber to visit the QC - Quad City Times | This World War II-era B-17 bomber, called the “Aluminum Overcast,” will be at the Davenport Municipal Airport Friday through Sunday. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO If you've ever wondered what it was like to fly in a B-17 “Flying Fortress” — the legendary bomber ...

Thomas Scott Baldwin - Information 2 Share | Thomas Scott Baldwin (June 30, 1854 – May 17, 1923) was a pioneer balloonist and U.S. Army major during World War I. He was the first American to descend from a balloon by parachute. ...

Our Opinion — Dennison Depot is an Ohio treasure - New Philadelphia Times Reporter | ... Canton; birthplace of inventor Thomas A. Edison, Milan; and the Wright Flyer III, the third powered aircraft built by Orville and Wilbur Wright and the first to take flight in 1905, displayed at Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. ...

Robert Widmer, Supersonics Pioneer, Dead At 95 from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Aeronautical engineer Robert Widmer, a pioneer in the development of supersonic aircraft and fly-by-wire computerized flight control, died on June 20 in Fort Worth, Texas, the New York Times reported on Sunday. Inspired by Chuck Yeager's supersonic flight in 1947, Widmer was determined to design the first  ...

Meet some of the aircraft in Transformers 3 from Warplanes Online Community | After opening last June 29, the movie franchise Transformers has again successfully brought many people to stand in long lines, reserve movie seats, and get their mind blown once again with Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon. ...

Astronauts at Kennedy for Countdown and TFR for Final Shuttle Launch Issued from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | -from NASA- On the Fourth of July, the four STS-135 crew members arrived in two T-38 jets at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility at approximately 2:30 p.m. EDT.  Space shuttle Atlantis is set to liftoff on the final flight of the shuttle program, STS-135, a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. Launch is currently targeted for July 8. Atlantis will carry a crew of four: Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, and Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim. ...

Reaching the End: Atlantis and the Fight Against Retirement from NASASpaceFlight.com | For Atlantis, the last decade of her career would be marked with many more triumphs as she joined her sisters in the most ambitious project in space to date: construction of the International Space Station. This would mean dodging the order for retirement a whooping two times to become the only Space Shuttle orbiter with three penultimate flights and two “final” flights. ...

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