Friday, October 11, 2013

Indy Transponder 11-OCT-2013 1600z

Catch an Air Show this weekend!  Calendar via Fencecheck:

10/12/13 |  Rotorfest 2013
10/12/13 |  CAF Airsho 2013
10/12/13 |  Amigo Airsho 2013
10/12/13 |  Culpeper Regional Airport Annual Air Fest 2013
10/12/13 |  NC Aviation Museum Fly-in 2013
10/12/13 |  Cancelled - Biplanes and Triplanes 2013
10/12/13 |  Wings Over North Georgia 2013
10/12/13 |  Cancelled - Fleet Week 2013
10/12/13 |  Canoas AFB Airshow 2013
10/12/13 |  Cervolix 2013
10/12/13 |  Apple Valley Air Show 2013
10/12/13 |  Mustang Days Nut Tree 2013
10/13/13 |  Duxford Autumn Airshow 2013
10/13/13 |  Porto Velho Airshow 2013

Great Georgia Air show prepares for 15th edition - Newnan Times-Herald | There are a few air shows in Georgia. Many provide an opportunity for attendees to walk around and admire the brightly-colored jets.  Sometimes those jets take to the sky, flying around for an hour of ground-level entertainment...

Meet Author Bruce Gamble For a Book Signing Session At The Great Gerogia Airshow · Warbirds News | We were just notified that noted author – and Commemorative Air Force: Dixie Wing member – Bruce Gamble – will be at the Dixie Wing tent at The Great Georgia Air Show this weekend! Bruce will be signing his books on the Black Sheep, VMF-214 and his newest books on the battles over and on Rabaul...

Gov't shutdown shuts down Sanford Biketoberfest air show - WFTV Orlando | SANFORD, Fla. — The sights and sounds of an airshow never get old for Sanford resident John Smith. I just like to see those jets rip overhead at 400 to 500 miles an hour that's pretty good, ya know," Smith said. This year, the government shutdown has left festival organizers high and dry. The popular attraction had been part of the city's Biketoberfest for years...

AIRSHOW NEWS: Canberra XH134 to fly in closing display of the year at IWM Duxford Autumn Air Show this weekend - Flightline UK | The Midair Squadron’s Canberra XH134 will perform its last public display of the season at the IWM Duxford Autumn Air Show on Sunday 13th October. Celebrating 40 years of air shows at IWM Duxford, XH134 will perform alongside other significant British aircraft including the Hawker Hurricane, a Gloster Gladiator and a variety of Spitfires...

160th takes historic flight - The Fort Campbell Courier | JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, WASH. – Aircraft from 4th Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment participated in a historic flyover with a B-25 Mitchell Bomber to celebrate the history and advancements in Army Aviation, Aug. 26. The historic flight formation...

Planeshots: Supermarine Swift featured today

More buried Spitfires? - Bayou Renaissance Man | The hunt for buried Spitfires in Burma appears to have been a bust, but now comes news from Australia that may rekindle hope in aircraft enthusiasts' hearts...

A Day at the Range - Photorecon.net | When I got the phone call in the middle of the day, I was sitting in a heat, that we Southern Californians do not normally get. Hot and humid, and it wasn’t going away anytime soon. On the other end of the telephone was a good friend of mine, who said “Hey man, I’ve got a connection with an Air Force fighter squadron, the 358th (The Lobos), from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AFB) in Tucson, AZ., and they want...

This Map Shows What It Was Like To Fly In The Roaring '20s - Co.Design | For all of our complaints about the agony of domestic air travel, if you jump on a plane in New York right now, you could be in San Francisco in less than six hours. Maybe you add a couple hours because you miss your connection in Chicago. Either way, you're done in eight hours...

This is by far the best video of Mig-29K operations aboard aircraft carrier ever - The Aviationist | The following video shows the Mig-29K naval Fulcrum operating aboard the new Indian aircraft carrier Vikramaditya. Actually, the “new” aircraft carrier dates back to 1987, when it operated under the name of Baku in the Soviet Navy. It was decommisioned in 1996 and the Indian Navy purchased it in 2004 at an aggregate price of $2,35 billion...

Missouri S&T Student Honored By Women In Aerospace - Aero-News Network | Erin M. Kirchmeier of Kansas City, MO, a senior aerospace engineering major at Missouri University of Science and Technology, is one of nine women who will be recognized later this month for their contributions to the advancement of women in the aerospace field. Kirchmeier and the other honorees will be recognized by the non-profit organization Women in Aerospace during the 28th annual Women in Aerospace Awards Dinner and Ceremony Oct. 29 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Arlington, VA....

EAA Declines FAA Exemption for Young Eagles, Eagle Flights Pilots - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | October 10, 2013 - EAA has notified the FAA that it is declining a partial grant of exemption that would have allowed Young Eagles and Eagle Flights pilots to obtain reimbursement for fuel costs and logging of flight time. While EAA welcomed the time the agency spent considering and formulating the partial exemption, its mandated record-keeping, coordination, and notification requirements would cause complete restructuring of the program with enormous time and expense burdens...

EAA HQ Welcomes Sean D. Tucker - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | October 10, 2013 - Two months ago, Sean D. Tucker was in Oshkosh doing what he does best: performing at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (his 21st in a row) in his Oracle Challenger III biplane. On Thursday he was back in Wisconsin, hard at work on what he calls his second full-time job: chairman of the EAA Young Eagles program...

Young Eagles taste flight, soar over Kingman - Kingman Daily Miner | Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 765 held a Young Eagles Flight Rally at the Kingman Airport Saturday. Kids ages 8-17 could fly in an aircraft for free thanks to EAA member volunteers. Top: Owen Duby, 8, prepares for a flight over Kingman ...

Video: JetBlue pilot inspires young aviator - NBC Nightly News | The sky’s the limit for one young man who has dreamed of a career in aviation ever since a chance meeting with a JetBlue pilot. Now, the two have reconnected and the pilot, Captain Eric Scott, is acting as his mentor. NBC’s Ron Mott reports.

NASA Astronaut Scott Carpenter - Beaumont Enterprise | Scott Carpenter looks into Aurora 7. He was one of the original seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in 1959. It was the first human spaceflight program of the United States.

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