Friday, October 25, 2013

Indy Transponder 25-OCT-2013 1115z

Let's catch an air show! Season is almost over.  Calendar via Fencecheck.

10/26/13 |  AAAA Chipmunk Rally 2013
10/26/13 |  Catalina Air Show 2013
10/26/13 |  First in Flight Festival 2013
10/26/13 |  Wings Over Houston 2013
10/26/13 |  Jacaranda Festival Muster 2013
10/26/13 |  Gloucester Aero Club Fly In and Bonfire 2013
10/26/13 |  Cancelled - NAS Jax Air Show 2013
10/26/13 |  Guaratingueta Airshow 2013
10/26/13 |  Seoul ADEX 2013
10/26/13 |  Great Smoky Mountain Operation Welcome Home 2013
10/27/13 |  Wings Wheels & Rotors Expo 2013
10/27/13 |  JASDF Tsuiki Airshow 2013
 
Copperstate Fly-In starts today - TriValley Central | Admission to the fly-in is $25 for all three days or $15 a day on Friday and Saturday. today's admission is discounted to $5 a person. This year, youths 15 and younger are admitted free. In the past the cutoff age for free admission was 12. Organizers ...

The Great Georgia Airshow Flew High · Warbirds News | For 15 years the Great Georgia Airshow (GGAS) maintained a reputation in the air show circuit as one of the best shows in the southeast and a favorite for aviation aficionados seeking a fan friendly experience.  The 2013 edition, held Oct. 11th-13th at Atlanta Regional Airport-Falcon Field, began a new chapter as organizers reinvented the program, creating a festival weekend with many firsts, including a night show, fireworks, concerts, and expanded activities for kids and adrenaline seekers...

Largest aviation convention in world wrapping up in Las Vegas - Las Vegas Blog (blog) | Other legends attending included aviation legend & former astronaut Bonnie Dubar, former NASA flight director Gene Kranz, famed aerobatic performer Sean D. Tucker & the last guy on the moon — astronaut Eugene “Gene” Cernan. The annual yearly ...

Investigation into vintage plane crash begins - Your Houston News | ...The plane, a P-51 Mustang named “Galveston Gal”, was based at Galveston’s Lone Star Flight Museum. The Museum has a “Flight Experiences” program with a number of their planes....

EAA AirVenture 2014 Advance Purchase Ticketing Now Online - Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Camping credentials, auto parking, flight experiences and merchandise also available- EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wis.- Advance purchase admission tickets and camping are now available for the 62nd annual edition of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, providing greater convenience for those travelling to "The World's Greatest Aviation Celebration." The week-long 2014 event will be held July 28-August 3 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh...

Pelton piloting EAA in Uncertain Times - Aviation International News | “When we looked at AirVenture last summer, we wanted to make sure we had a good event, that it was safe and had the right features,” he told AIN at NBAA 2013. Because of sequestration, active military aircraft could not participate at Oshkosh, he said ...

B-17 ride was a trip back in time - The Albany Herald | THOMASVILLE — As the lumbering B-17 Flying Fortress banked on its final approach into Thomasville Regional Airport on Monday, it was hard not to imagine what it was like during World War II when these behemoths of the sky helped win the war in Europe ...

B-17 crewman to speak at Veterans History Project - Allentown Morning Call | An 88-year-old Salisbury Township man who flew 34 missions in a B-17 bomber during World War II will be the speaker Thursday at the Lehigh Valley Veterans History Project meeting. Francis J. McCullough, a technical sergeant in the Army Air Forces, was ...

PIMA AIR & SPACE RE-INTRODUCES RARE WWII PLANE WITH 2 DIFFERENT FINISHES, CAPTURING A “POINT IN TIME” - AZ Weekly | The Pima Air & Space Museum recently re-introduced a WWII aircraft that was submerged in Lake Michigan for almost 50 years with a unique two-tone paint scheme. Lost at the end of WWII, the Grumman FM-2 Wildcat sat in a watery grave until it was ...

Midwest Aero Restorations Recreates Warbird Legends - The Aero Experience | On a recent trip to Muncie, Indiana, I saw an opportunity to travel in a different direction so that I could stop by Vermillion Regional Airport (KDNV), located just a few miles north of Danville, Illinois, to visit Midwest Aero Restorations and see what warbirds they were in the process of restoring.  I called a few days beforehand to confirm I could stop in and was given a friendly "Stop on by!"...

Sigman and Wheeler receive FAA recognition - General Aviation News | MANITOWOC, Wis. — Leon Sigman and Jim Wheeler were recently honored by the FAA for 50 years of flying safety and contributions made to general aviation...

A Hellcat Pilot's Longest Day - National Naval Aviation Museum | ...As Shirley and his fellow aviators climbed to altitude, they received word of radar contact being made with a large group of bogeys approaching from Luzon, which prompted the launch of more squadron aircraft, eventually bringing the total number of VF-27 Hellcats in the air to twenty. In a wide-ranging action that included intercepts of enemy bombers and fighters, the VF-27 planes were credited with shooting down thirty-six enemy aircraft against the loss of one of their squadronmates. Shirley was credited with five of the enemy planes, and described the air-to-air combat...

Time Running Out for WASP ROSE PARADE Float - Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | "Against amazing odds, in a conflicted economy, we have come a long way," writes Albert Lewis, President of the WINGTIP-to-WINGTIP Association ROSE PARADE PROJECT, "We have paid for and gained approval of our application to be in the Rose Parade in this most appropriate year, the 125th Anniversary of the Tournament of Roses, this 70th Anniversary of the conclusion of the WASP program, and this 1st Year that women are now recognized as limited, not by gender, but only by individual skill, a point proudly established by the WASP those 70 years ago....

Yankee Air Museum Highlights The Role Of Detroit Manufacturing In WWII - CBS Local | WWJ's Ron Dewey says a fundraising campaign to preserve a part of the plant as the new home of the Yankee Air Museum is moving closer to its $8 million dollar goal. Dennis Norton of the Yankee Air Museum says the Willow Run Bomber plant, and Detroit's ...

Today The Grumman Memorial Park Needs Your Help · WarbirdsNews | The Grumman Memorial Park is a volunteer effort paying tribute to the incredible advances in aviation and aerospace that took place on Long Island, thanks to the teamwork of the employees of Grumman Corporation.Today a group of volunteers from the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City with the requisite knowledge will be coming out to do the work. The town is supplying the paint and power washer, bucket truck and other materials needed to make the U.S. Navy aircraft — they are technically on loan to Riverhead — shipshape again.

Miss Demeanour owner Jonathon Whaley puts Hunter Jet up for sale - Bournemouth Echo | Jonathon, who wrote the foreword to the Daily Echo's celebratory book about Bournemouth Air Festival, said that the upcoming Al Ain air show in Abu Dhabi at the end of November would be his last planned display. He added: “What the future really holds ...

Aviation Puts the Awesome in Sixth Grade Science - Airspeed Online | ...On that Tuesday, the skies were clear and visibility was unlimited.  I met him at the doors of his school as classes let out in the afternoon.  I wore my flight suit...

Aviation Cadet World Reflects All Things EAA - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | Errol D. Severe, EAA 450054, is on a dual mission to spread knowledge of his fellow aviation cadets from World War II and boost interest in EAA's mission of growing participation in aviation.

Young Eagles rally a success despite winds - Killeen Daily Herald | Young Eagles Rally. Private pilot Dick Williams, left, gives a quick flying lesson to Denise Pacheco, 10, center, and twins Matix and Makenna Karcher, 8, during the Young Eagles Rally on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013, at the Lampasas Airport...

Boeing Finalizes Agreement For Kennedy Space Center Facility - Aero-News Network | CST-100 Spacecraft Will Be Built In Former NASA Shuttle Hangar Boeing has finalized an agreement with Space Florida to use a processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to build the Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft, an important step toward restoring the United States’ ability to launch humans into space...

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