Indy Transponder 15-OCT-2013 1100z

Videos: 49 Homebuilt Aircraft Build World Record Formation Over Arrowhead Stadium! - AirPigz | The video above gives you some details about the prep for the massive 49 aircraft fly-over of Arrowhead Stadium yesterday... it's an incredible Van's overcast of RV's! It was performed by the KC Flight Formation Team and it shows that we sure don't need the government to put on an awesome stadium fly-over! The video below shows the amazing 'arrowhead' shaped formation from inside the stadium...

Wings Over North Georgia air show line-up thrills crowd, despite Thunderbirds ... - Rome News Tribune | Despite the federal budget sequestration that kept the U.S. Air Force's Thunderbirds from appearing this weekend, Richard B. Russell Regional Airport officials said the Wings Over North Georgia air show was a sky-high success. The aerial antics at the ...

EDITOR’S BLOG: 40 years of IWM Duxford Airshows – 2003 Archives Part 2 - UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | 2003 was certainly a memorable year for the IWM Duxford team. Thier September show celebrated 100 Years of Powered flights with an impressive display featuring a wide spectrum of aircraft including displays looking at the inspiration of flight. The stand out display of the show was the South African Boeing 747-100 “Springbok 100″ which gave a dramatic UK debut display.

Diest oldtimer fly-in: end - Apron 6 | Already the last post for this album. Below also a little teaser for the upcoming album that I’ve posted on our Facebook page yesterday. I thought I might post it here as well.

Antique Airfield:

• Flabob Fly-In by Dennis Hicklin
• Tim Linn's Stearman Flies
• Fly-in 2013 Photos by Jonathan Apfelbaum
• Luscombe at the Beach
• Fly-In Announcement: Chili Bowl Contest and Fly-In at Excelsior Springs October 26

Flying Tigers Historical Organization (FTHO) and Chennault Aviation & Military Museum (CAAM) Honored at a gala reception at the Embassy of the People's Republic of China, Washington D.C. - PR Newswire | WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The gala was held at the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Washington, DC. Also honored were American and Chinese veterans of the heroic Flying Tigers led by General Claire Lee Chennault. FTHO Chairman Major General James Whitehead, Larry Jobe, President of FTHO and Nell Calloway Director of CAAM presented special commemorative awards to Anna Chennault, the wife of General Chennault, and Catherine Stevens, the wife of former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens, a former  Flying Tiger pilot.  In addition, several Flying Tiger veterans received service awards, including Frank Losonsky, Paul Crawford and Jerry Yellin....

Save the Bomber Plant Campaign Update -Deadline Extended · Warbirds News | Save the Bomber Plant is getting a great response – 1,200+ contributors from across the US and Canada. More than $4.9 million already mobilized leaving a little more than $3 million still to be raised. Five Million Dollars Down, Three Million Dollars to Go! — By the time you read this, the Save the Bomber Plant Campaign will have mobilized a little more than $5 million, leaving less than $3 million more still to be raised in order to reach the $8 million needed to preserve a portion of the Bomber Plant...

Fort Wayne Air Museum moving, but where? - WANE | FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Officials gathered at the Fort Wayne International Airport on Tuesday to announce that the Fort Wayne Air Museum will be moving. The museum is currently located on the airport's second floor, but since the September 11 attacks ...

Goodyear Blimp retires, becomes a snow bird · General Aviation News Staff | AKRON, Ohio — Like many Ohioans, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s Akron-based blimp, the Spirit of Goodyear, has become a “snow bird” and is leaving northeast Ohio’s snow and cold for a retirement in the sunshine and warmth of Florida...

McDonnell XP-67 — gorgeous but unloved by travelforaircraft | The XP-67 design is manta ray-like in appearance with its flowing compound curves and broad wingspan. There is hardly a line to be seen and was, perhaps, almost unbelievably streamlined for the day which was mid 1941. Exhaust gases were manipulated to add to the total thrust and the intended armament would have been a fearsome set of 4 x 37mm cannon. This aircraft...

FlightTime Radio Show 299 | FlightTime Radio Crew was in the Mobile Renegade Light Sport studio at the Thomasville Fly-In, Thomasville, GA. Lots and Lots of aircraft flew in, some incredible aircraft included Dave Marco’s Generations in Aviation Lockheed Electra 12!! Dave joins us on the show… Tune in and hear his story...

Somewhere over the inevitable - Flight Image of the Day | A lazy headline writer’s dream, this picture, which comes via Lockheed Martin. It shows an F-35B landing on the USS Wasp and was released to celebrate the Joint Strike Fighter programme reaching 10,000 flight hours in September.

Howard 'Mike' Hunt: Life of a bush pilot, in his own words - Alaska Dispatch | They showed us how to start the P-39 engines and told us to join as a flight of five with a B-25 leading us to Fairbanks. “No need to waste fuel shooting landings around Great Falls. Just follow the B-25 and by the time you get to Fairbanks you'll be ...

Space Shuttle Endeavour Exclusive: A Timelapse of the Final Ride - CNN | Gene Cernan and Tom Stafford did not give a thought to a 12-year-old photographer named Scott Andrews in the early morning hours of June 3, 1966. The two astronauts had just strapped themselves into the cockpit of their Gemini 9 spacecraft — a tiny pod into which they were crammed shoulder-to-shoulder, nose-to-instrument panel, atop 109 ft. of Titan missile. Sometime that morning, massive tanks of aerozene 50 and nitrogen tetroxide would mix and explode in the belly of the Titan, producing an eruptive thrust of 430,000 lbs. and hurling the men into orbit. Two launch attempts had been scrubbed already, and...

SpaceX Grasshopper Sets New Test Record - Spaceports | On Monday, October 7th, Grasshopper completed its highest leap to date, rising to 744m altitude. The view above is taken from a single camera hexacopter, getting closer to the stage than in any previous flight...