Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Indy Transponder 30-NOV-2011 0145z

Blue Angels Excited to Perform at Pease - Patch.com | US Navy Lt. Mark Tedrow and Lt. Cmdr. Todd Royles discuss Blue Angels role as headliners of the 2012 Service Credit Union Boston-Portsmouth Air Show. By Robert Cook The two pilots had planned to depart Pease shortly after their morning press conference ...

Blue Angels Returning To NH For Air Show - WMUR |World-Famous Flight Team To Be Featured At Summer Air Show | PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- The world-famous jet team the Blue Angels will be the featured attraction at the Service Credit Union Boston-Portsmouth Air Show this summer at the Portsmouth International Airport at Pease.  Blue Angel 7, with Lt Mark Tedrow, and Blue Angel 8, with Lt. Todd Royals, were at a news conference Tuesday morning to announce the return....

Living Legends of World War II are honored at the Stuart Air Show - TC Palm | STUART — A special highlight at this year’s Stuart Air Show on Nov. 13 and 14 were the speakers and displays at the Living Legends Tent sponsored by Crown Car Care. Volunteers of the Stuart Air Show, including Todd Harris and Mark Smith of Crown Car Care, coordinated the activities in the tent.  Since their involvement with the Stuart Air Show last year, Smith and Harris have been involved with the Road to Victory Military Museum, the non-profit organization....

Alden Rigby Selects The “Honor Flight” Winner – Warbird Radio LIVE! – Wednesday from WarbirdRadio.com by Matt | WEDNESDAY – WWII fighter ace Alden Rigby joins Matt Jolley to select the winner of the Honor Flight print by John Mollison on Warbird Radio LIVE....

Impressive video: behind the scenes of world’s largest aerobatic display team. Flying with the Frecce Tricolori 10-ship formation - The Aviationist | Even while most people like to attend air shows to see aerobatic display teams performances, they usually don’t know what happens inside the formation, which are the main roles of the team, which are the solo radio calls, and which flight instruments are used during the display.  Last week I was invited to attend the traditional dinner with the pilots of the Frecce Tricolori, the Italian Aerobatic Team, organized by the 1° Club Frecce Tricolori, the first of more than 120 fan clubs all around the world, that was....

Air Show Committee Asks for Loan - KMVT | Twin Falls (KMVT)-The Twin Falls Air Show committee is asking Twin Falls City for financial help. The money would go to next years show featuring the Blue Angels. It will act sort of like a loan and would be paid back after the show. ...

Historic control tower to be dedicated Dec. 7 from General Aviation News | The newly stabilized Ford Island Control Tower at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor will be dedicated in a ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 11 a.m., as part of the Pearl Harbor 70th Anniversary Ceremonies...

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Virtual Tour expanded to include Southeast Asia War Gallery from Air Force Link Top Stories | Experience the Southeast Asia War Gallery online on the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force's Virtual Tour, just in time for the 50th anniversary of the first U.S. Air Force campaign during that war.  The gallery is now fully embedded with audio and video hotspots and touch-screen devices located throughout the gallery ....

$14m museum expansion takes flight - The Press | Plans for a $14 million expansion of Christchurch's Air Force Museum, including a massive aircraft display gallery, will be launched today.  The museum plans to expand its Wigram base with a 4200-square-metre aircraft display gallery, which is estimated to cost $11m. A second stage would see the construction of a restoration facility.  Construction of the aircraft gallery is expected to take a year....

Air Museum to host educational program on Pearl Harbor - The Desert Sun | The Palm Springs Air Museum is scheduled to host an event that discusses how the United States changed as a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor, organizers announced. The event is set for 1 pm Saturday at the museum, 745 N. Gene Autry Trail. ...

November 29, 2011 The B-17 Flying Experience - Ely Air Lines | ...Over the East Texas landscape while deviating around, over and under clouds I studied the layout of the cockpit and the view out along the massive wings. The control inputs required a little heavy-handedness to roll the big airplane right and left but overall not too heavy. Just a little pressure to maintain or change altitude. Though this airplane never actually saw wartime service, I thought about the history of airplanes like it that had been so thick in the skies over Europe during WW II that they cast an Aluminum Overcast, the name of this Boeing B-17G I was given the privilege to fly....

The Best Podcasts For Student Pilots From Our Friends At MyTransponder.com - Aviation Queen | One of the great benefits of my new job is that I get flying lessons, which start tomorrow (weather permitting).  As a new student pilot with a longish commute to and from work, I wondered if there were podcasts I could listen to for tips, tricks and information.  At this year’s EAA AirVenture show, I got to meet the folks behind the great MyTransponder.com website, and they are now one of my favorite go-to spots for all things.  You can click here to see a guest post they did for me over at Aviation Week’s Business Aviation Now blog on Sept. 16 covering the top 10 iPad apps for aviation....

An Art Installation Sculpted by a Team of Swarming Autonomous Flying Robots from PopSci | Regular readers of PopSci are no strangers to robotic quadcopters, or even to quadcopters that work together to build things. But now, the quadcopters are out of the lab. A new art installation opening this weekend at the FRAC Centre in OrlĂ©ans, France, will be built entirely by quadcopter robots, marking the first time such an exhibition has been constructed by flying robots.  "Flight Assembled Architecture" aims to inspire new ways of thinking about architecture and the process of building things. It also aims to be very, very cool. The robots will swarm together to collaboratively assemble a....

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