Saturday, December 17, 2011

Indy Transponder 17-DEC-2011 1715z

Thunderbirds to thrill at 2012 air show - Daily Reporter | Temperatures might still be hovering

around freezing, but it’s not too soon to start thinking about busting out the sunblock and staking out a spot for your folding chair in the grass at the Indianapolis Air Show....

Army Parachute Team to Join Air Show - Times-News Magic Valley | The U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team will join the Navy Blue Angels among the performers at the Air Magic Valley Air Show, held July 28-29 in Twin Falls.  The team’s appearance will be its first at the show held at Joslin Field, Magic Valley Regional Airport. Team member Sgt. Paul Sachs was with the team that performed in Twin Falls while the Olympic Torch passed through to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.... 

The airshow will take place in September but is already talking about him ... Poland! - Translated | Appointment is given to Sunday, September 16 Bénifontaine. The airshow will take Polish accents in the name of friendship between our two countries in the region. A central theme that floated in recent years in the minds of the organizers Grébent Regis, already on a war footing to make the day and those that precede a great popular success. The ABC of the 2012 edition.....

Red Bull Air Race entertains Friday crowds - Minivan News | Hundreds gathered on Male' yesterday to watch Red Bull Air Race champion Péter Besenyei perform air stunts in a specially-designed plane over the Ekuevni Stadium area. The event was organised by Euro Marketing Pvt Ltd, the sole distributor of energy ...

Wings & Wheels 2011 Air Show from Latest Vlog | So this time last week Wings & Wheels 2011 was in the final stages of it's two day event. If you didn't make the...

Museum of Aviation Honors Tuskegee Airmen - 13 WMAZ | People came out to the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins on Friday for a ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating their new Tuskegee Airman exhibit.  Leroy Eley was a member of the trailblazing group. He says he wished the new exhibit came sooner.  "The thing that saddens me is that it comes at such a late time, when so many Tuskegee Airmen are deceased," said Eley....

108th Celebration of Powered Flight Set for Kill Devil Hills, NC - Spaceports | video: Wright Brothers First Flight, 1903 - A Day That Shook The World [HD]. Orville and Wilbur Wright's first recorded flight caught exclusively by British Pathé in 1903. On December 17, news came...

History of pioneer N.C. aviator revealed in photos - Charlotte Observer | For 30 years, a daughter had wanted to gather threads of her father's adventures. 

Hero fighter pilot’s tale holds group spellbound  - Daily Mail | A FIGHTER pilot who helped defeat the Luftwaffe in the skies above Britain during the Second World War paid a visit to his old school. Tony Pickering, who was 19 when he was was strapped into the cockpit of a Hurricane and sent off to battle German Messerschmitts in the Battle of Britain, grew up in Foxton and went to Market Harborough Grammar School....

Video: Vietnam Vet Saves Helicopter to Fly Once Again - Fox8 | ASHTABULA, Ohio—Army veteran Nate Shaffer, of Spencerville, returned home from the Vietnam War nearly 40 years ago.  Now, he has a new homecoming to celebrate.  "I started looking for pilots and crew members back in 1994, I started looking for 990 also," he said.  In the 1990's, Shaffer started searching for the ZIT 990, a helicopter he flew every day in Vietnam. Shaffer was a gunner, and the unit had a vital life--even beyond his military tour....

Going Back in Time at Paul Allen’s Flying Heritage Collection - Patch | Learn about Paul Allen’s WWI and WWII aircraft collection at Paine Field, find out where to view the planes, and when to watch them fly.

Boeing B-29 Superfortress - Warbirds & Classics | The only flying B-29 left in the world captured at sunset at Deer Valley Airport outside Phoenix, Arizona.

The Curtis P-40 - The Historical Marker Database | Inscription. This aircraft is dedicated to all Past, Present, and Future "Flying Tigers" those who blazed a path of glory in the China Skies in World War II, and those who blaze a path of glory into space.  The Curtis P-40 saw action on every front...

The Massive Curtiss XP-71 Fighter - Tails through Time | Before the entry of the United States into the Second World War, news stories were splashing headlines about the massed bomber attacks the Luftwaffe was conducting against British cities during the Blitz and in the run up to 1941, a concern about the... 

Freefly Eurorecord in Empuria, picture by Tom Naef, Babylon team. - Bonjour Bluesky

Managing the difficoult Landing of the U2 from TAKEOFF TUBE

All We Want for Christmas… - Flight Monkeys | Real jet prop engines you say? Sign us up for one of those babies!... 

A4H Webinar on Astronaut Selection - Astronauts for Hire | The fundamental purpose of Astronauts4Hire is to provide for the needs of aspiring astronauts. While we are focused primarily on commercial spaceflight opportunities, a number of our members are also keenly interested in becoming NASA astronauts. With NASA's ...

NASA Backs Commercial Space Projects - AVweb | NASA may be dependent on Russia until at least 2017 to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station but the agency hopes to develop commercial alternatives soon. The agency is seeking to maintain development of at least two competing space taxi designs to fill the void left by the now-retired Space Shuttle. Today, NASA is funding four firms: Boeing; Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX); Sierra Nevada Corp.; and Blue Origin, which is a start-up owned by Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com. That group notably does not include Stratolaunch Systems, a recently announced venture by Paul Allen and Burt Rutan that could create the world's largest aircraft as part of its own independent space program....

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