Indy Transponder 09-AUG-2013 1230z

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

YPSILANTI: Mission group to dedicate plane at air show - Heritage Newspapers | YPSILANTI – Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF)’s newest missionary airplane will make an appearance at this weekend’s Thunder Over Michigan | Air Show in Ypsilanti. It will be dedicated for service in a special public ceremony on Saturday, Aug.10, at 4 p.m. This exciting new aircraft will join the MAF fleet in Indonesia, where it will serve the people who live and work in isolated mountain villages. It will carry missionaries, medical teams, relief workers, Bible translators, and the sick or injured....

Air show bringing days of 'Thunder' to Metro Detroit - The Detroit News | Ypsilanti - Death-defying aerobatics and American aeronautic history will soar together during the Thunder Over Michigan air show this weekend at Willow Run Airport. War birds such as Fairchild C-123K Provider, affectionately called "Thunder Pig," and the North American Aviation P-51B Mustang named "Old Crow" will wow spectators along with two of the world's top civilian aerobatic performers, Michael Goulian and Sean Tucker....

Warbirds and Legends Airshow Takes Off - Flying Magazine | A whole new airshow concept made its debut this weekend with the inaugural Gathering of Warbirds and Legends in Topeka, Kansas. Sixty-one airplanes of various types and sizes were on display and flew over Forbes Field. But none of these flights included what airshow attendees have become accustomed to: aerobatics, inverted flight or wingwalkers. “This was an airshow that was not an airshow,” said Dan Gryder, one of the main organizers of the event. “We flew our airplanes but that’s all we did. We just flew around in circles and the public seemed to enjoy it.”...

Olympic Air Show focuses on heritage aircraft - The Olympian | Return to golden age The 15th annual Olympic Air Show takes to the skies Saturday, no small feat after sequestration grounded the Blue Angels and other military aerial demonstration teams. The show, traditionally held on Father’s Day weekend, was delayed to accommodate the schedules of the civilian pilots who’ll be the main attractions this year...

Abbotsford Airshow taking off without US involvement - CTV News | Families heading out to the annual Abbotsford International Airshow this weekend may want to keep their expectations a little grounded. That’s because so-called sequestration cuts in the U.S., which is struggling to control a $16-trillion federal debt, have forced the American military to cancel all airshow appearances across North America. As a result, the 51st Abbotsford Airshow will be missing fan favourites like the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and Navy Blue Angels performance teams....

CF-18 Hornet demo team roars in for Abbotsford International Airshow - Abbotsford Times | Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 Hornet demonstration pilot Capt. Patrick "Flocho" Pollen is ready and raring to go for the Abbotsford International Airshow this weekend - literally. "I'm strapped into the cockpit as we speak," said the fighter pilot during an interview over the phone with the Times on Wednesday. "I'm making a quick stop in Cold Lake this afternoon . . . then zipping down to Abbotsford right after."...

Portrush Airshow set to welcome biggest array of jets - Coleraine Times | Coleraine Borough Council’s NI International Airshow sponsored by RSA Insurance will feature FIVE jet displays, including the world famous Red Arrows. Council also announces that the free event at Portrush will host displays in the sky never seen in Ireland before during both days (Saturday 31st August and Sunday 1st September). “The NI International Airshow is Council’s flagship event held annually in Portrush”, said Mayor of Coleraine Councillor David Harding, “this year will be a very different show as the majority of our aircraft will already be in the country ensuring that we have an event, no matter what the weather!..

Tortoli prepares Air Show Sunday, the Frecce Tricolori in Ogliastra - Translated | Next Sunday, August 11th many fans from all over the island will find themselves in the stretch of coast from San Gemiliano comes up to Cea to admire the extraordinary spectacle of the Frecce Tricolori, who make thrilling performances over the sky of Tortoli....

The Aero Experience at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013: Airshow Performers - The Aero Experience | Producing an airshow this year without military participation is always a challenge, even for such a huge event as EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013. Whatever the odds, there were four-hour airshows daily, with two night airshows, featuring top-tier airshow performers from all over the country...

Flight Test Summary Video - Wasabi Air Racing | Here is the video we unveiled the airplane with at Oshkosh.

Rare World War 2 fighter planes at Fargo Air Museum - WDAY | Fargo, ND (WDAY TV)-- Two of the rarest World War 2 fighter planes still roaming the skies, touched down in Fargo today. This is "fifi", the only remaining flying B-29 bomber in the world. The B-29 will forever go down in history as the bomber that ended the second world war, as it dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Along with the B-29, a plane equally as rare, the B-24, also flew into Fargo today. Both aircrafts will be on display today through Sunday at the Fargo Air Museum.

Presidential Lockheed Constellation “Columbine II” Seeks New Owner - Warbird News | The internet has lit up over the past couple of weeks, abuzz over the “discovery” of one of President Eisenhower’s Lockheed Constellations, reputed to have dodged the scrapper and presently languishing at the Marana Airport near Tucson, Arizona. Features on the plane have been popping up everywhere from NPR to Fox News, Local Arizona papers to the New York Daily News, all presenting the same “lost plane” narrative. Far from being a “lost,” this Connie last flew about ten years ago and has been for sale for quite a while....

Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress Swamp Ghost - Pacific Aviation Museum | United States Army Air Forces aircraft 41-2446 has made an immense journey. Seventy-two years and thousands of miles back and forth across the Pacific have finally brought her to her new and final home, Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor. She started operational life as a Boeing B-17E heavy bomber, delivered to the USAAF on December 6, 1941, just one day before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. She became one of the planes striking back at the Japanese in one of America’s first heavy-bomber combat missions of World War II...

World War II in Color: American Bombers and Their Crews, 1942 - LIFE | Within weeks of the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s official entry into the Second World War, Allied forces in Europe activated the now-legendary VIII Bomber Command (often referred to as the Eighth Air Force) to serve as the principal American force to attack Germany from the air. Often in tandem with planes from the Royal Air Force, American B-24s and B-17s — or Flying Fortresses — from the “The Mighty 8th” would spend the next several years bombing strategic towns and cities in Nazi-held Europe...

WWII program set at McRitchie-Hollis Museum - Newnan Times-Herald 'Victory At All Costs,' a World War II-themed program, will be held by the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society at the new McRitchie-Hollis Museum in Newnan on Aug. 17....Arrieta said she is especially excited about the involvement of the CAF Dixie Wing at this special event. As the Georgia chapter of the Commemorative Air Force, the CAF Dixie Wing is a non-profit, all-volunteer organization dedicated to preserving WWII aircraft and teaching WWII history....

Real-Life Cropdusters Keep Northern Illinois Crops Healthy - The Aero Experience | This past weekend we took a family trip up to Northern Illinois to see family and attend a wedding. On the way North up I-55 on Friday, we saw a number of crop dusters on the ramp at the Pontiac Municipal Airport (PNT) so hopes were up that they would be there on our homebound trip on Sunday. As we headed home Sunday, we found the ramp at PNT loaded with 9 crop dusters and the airport staff kindly allowed us to walk the ramp and take photos. With the cool and somewhat damp conditions prevalent during July through mid-Illinois, the crop dusters were in the area spraying the area cornfields with fungicides to combat an emerging fungus problem....