Indy Transponder 29-JUN-2013 1045z

This Weekend: Find the air show closest to you on the Fencecheck calendar!

Celebration of Life planned for Wicker - WDTN | BEALETON, Va. (WDTN) - A celebration of life for wing walker Jane Wicker will be held in her home state of Virginia, but you can still get involved. Friends will take flight Tuesday, July 9 at the Flying Circus Aerodrome in Bealeton. That's where Wicker and pilot Charlie Schwenker often performed....

Crowds turn out for first night of air show By Keith Lewis ~ Southeast Missourian | The line of people waiting to see the 2013 Cape Regional Air Festival on Friday was already a long one even before the gates opened at 5 p.m. While the number of people attending Friday's portion of the air festival has yet to be determined, there were some who came to the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport from outside the local area to witness the spectacle....

Pilots bring 'smash and swagger' to aerobatic competition - Lincoln Journal Star | Straight lines and
round curves. Positive and negative G forces. Pilots grunt to prevent a vision blackout, the result of too much blood draining from the heads and eyes. They relax to ensure their vision doesn’t turn red, which can happen with a surge of blood. While competing at the Midwest Aerobatic Championships at the Seward Municipal Airport, pilots must deal with these forces, all while keeping their biplanes and monoplanes inside a 3,281-square-foot cube in the sky....

Warbirds will take to Daytona's skies for Coke Zero 400 By Deborah Circelli | DAYTONA BEACH — Coke Zero 400 fans won't hear the roar of high-powered military jets over the Speedway at the end of the national anthem, but they will be entertained with vintage warbirds. As the sequester budget cuts continue to keep military jets grounded, Daytona International Speedway has secured a group of eight World War II-type aircraft to perform the pre-race flyover at the July 6 race...

Airshow grounded due to loss of money By Loretta George | Because the Fort Scott Airport lost money from last year's airshow, the Airport Advisory Board voted during its April 4 meeting to not hold the event this year....

Red Arrows fly in for Meppershall Summer Fair today - Comet 24 | THE famous Red Arrows will be flying in for a summer fair today. Meppershall Summer Fair promises to be an exceptional one with not only the Red Arrows closing the show at 5.08pm but also a Battle of Britain Memorial Hurricane flypast at 2.05pm...

Lewis Hamilton has Literal Flying Lap with RAF Red Arrows - BenzInsider | Who says you can’t mix business with pleasure? Sometimes, though, F1 drivers have way better perks than most of us. Take Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 driver Lewis Hamilton, for instance. He just spent time with David Coulthard and the RAF Red Arrows last Friday, a side event leading up to this weekend’s British GP....

State of Indiana Proclaims August 17 As Model Aviation Day - Aero News Network | Celebration Planned For Academy of Model Aeronautics National Headquarters In Muncie, IN | The Academy of Model Aeronautics is pleased to announce that the state of Indiana, led by Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, has declared August 17, 2013, as Model Aviation Day....

Fort Worth Aviation Museum Taking on the Restoration of A-12 Avenger II By WarbirdsUpdate | It undoubtedly took some wangling, but the Veterans Memorial Air Park of Fort Worth has taken possession of the mockup of the McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II and intends to restore it for static display. The plane was to be an all-weather, carrier-based stealth bomber replacement for the Grumman A-6 Intruder for the US Navy and Marine Corps. Its Avenger II name was a homage to the Grumman TBF Avenger of World War II....

UK’s Historic Filton Aerodrome to Host A New Aviation Museum By WarbirdsUpdate | With an aviation history that stretches back over 100 years and only ended six months ago, The Filton Aeordrome, located just a couple of miles north of Bristol, UK, is planned to be the site of an impressive new museum, the Bristol Aerospace Centre, that will showcase the role this center of aircraft manufacture (and RAF Airbase) played in the history of aviation, dating back to 1910, when Sir George White, the owner of Bristol Tramways, established the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, later known as Bristol Aeroplane Company in one of the maintenance sheds of Bristol Tramways....

Slideshow: Remembering Neil Armstrong & Apollo | WASHINGTON – It’s been a momentous year for space exploration. The Mars Curiosity rover continues to astound with its desert southwest-like vistas of Gale Crater. The most complex machine ever sent to explore another planet is gearing up for its first drive into the Martian highlands to an area with promising geological features dubbed Glenelg. The sustained excitement over Curiosity’s mission has of course been tempered by the untimely death on Aug. 25 of the first man on the Moon, Neil Alden Armstrong....

Astronaut Stories: The World’s First Spaceplane - AirSpaceMag.com | Shuttle crews from the 1980s recall how their new vehicle took some getting used to.

Shuttle Atlantis ready for public display - CBS News | The space shuttle Atlantis, the last of NASA's winged orbiters to fly in space, goes on public display at the Kennedy Space Center visitors complex Saturday, the centerpiece of a $100 million facility designed to show off the spaceship as it appeared in orbit, with its payload bay doors open and robot arm extended....