Indy Transponder 18-NOV-2013 2345z

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SAND STORM COULD LEAD TO MORE CANCELLED AIRSHOW PERFORMANCES - Dubai 92 | Much anticipated performances at this year’s Dubai Airshow could be cancelled if bad weather persists. On day one of the event, the flying display programme had to be cut short after a sand storm hit the emirate. Visitors were not able to see one of the stars of the show, the Red Arrows, dominate the skies due to poor visibility and strong winds...

OC Air Show locked in for June - The News Journal | The OC Air Show has locked into a performance date of June 14-15, 2014, event officials announced. Air Show producer Bryan Lilley said he anticipates a groundswell of support for military aircraft performers going into 2014, after six months of no military aircraft performances at all, the result of what came to be known as sequestration at the federal level...

Dates confirmed for the 25th RAFA Shoreham Airshow - UK Airshow News - Flightline UK | August 30th and 31st will be the days that the organisers will be celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Airshow which to date has raised almost 1.9 million pounds for RAFA funds. From humble beginnings, the show has now become one of the ‘highlights’ of the aviation flying display calendar. The organising team are all volunteers, and it is one of the pilot’s favourite Airshow venues!..

Video: Doolittle Raiders Final Toast - DoD Live | ...On the 9th of November, the remaining Doolittle Raiders came together at the National Museum of the Air Force to partake in one final wreath-laying ceremony, and to toast towards the lives lost for one last time...

Ohio Air News 254 - Charles Johnson | Doolittle Raiders Final Toast - November 9, 2013
   
Performer brings Kansas aviatrix to life - Fort Scott Tribune | Johnson learned about Thaden from racing in the Air Race Classic. "Louise won the 1929 Power Puff Derby and the 1936 Bendix," Johnson said. "She was also very much a part of promoting Travel Air and Beechcraft for Walter and Olive Ann Beech as their ...

Inside Airshows – Part 2: With a Mic in My Hand – Audio Episode Show Notes *  Airspeed Online | A narrator can make or break an airshow act.  Especially for an audience that doesn’t understand what it’s seeing. You’ve heard me say it before.  John Mohr, Greg Koontz, Kent Pietsch, and others cast pearls before swine.  I don’t mean to sound rude or elitist.  It’s just true.  Most of the audience has no idea how difficult some of those maneuvers are.  You and I know that it’s very often not how fast but how slow, and not how high but how low, that is the really amazing thing about an airshow performance...

Shooting the Airshow Book 2013 - Justin de Reuck - Aviation Photographer | This is the second year I’ve been contracted to shoot the annual Air Show Book, “Smoke On…Go!”, a publication brought out every year by Creative Space Media. Not only is it an honour and a privilege but what an experience. I get to work with the best airshow and aerobatic pilots in the business and get the most awesome opportunities to photograph these guys in action.

Air & space legends honored in San Diego: 14 tapped to be inducted into the Air & Space Hall of Fame - 10 News | SAN DIEGO - The pilot responsible for the "Miracle on the Hudson" talked about the incredible ordeal as he was honored in Balboa Park on Saturday evening. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger was one of more than a dozen aviation all-stars who were inducted into the International Air and Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air and Space Museum. He and the other inductees were in San Diego being honored for their feats of flight...

Powerhouse Speakers Luncheon not to be missed! - Silver Wings Over Washington Fraternity | "Rear AdmiralEdward Lewis "Whitey" Feightneris a retiredUnited States Navyofficer who fought in a number of significant battles in theWorld War IIPacific Theater of Operations. During two combat tours, he shot down nine enemy aircraft to become a flying ace. He was an early member of theBlue Angelsflight demonstration squadron and...

Orlando Center Unveiled Tuskegee Airmen Monument - Warbirds News | The Orlando Science Center organized an event on Veteran’s Day to unveil a new monument to the Tuskegee Airmen. The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II. Formally, they formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces...

Japan’s jet to intercept B-29s — Nakajima Kikka (?? ?? Orange Blossom) by travelforaircraft | Nakajima's Kikka ?? ?? (Orange Blossom) came at the very end of World War II and was obviously based upon the Messeschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe (Sparrow) — the world's first operational jet fighter. The Kikka did not see operational service and differed from the Me 262 in these significant ways:...

Timeless Voices - Jimmy Mitton · eaavideo.org | Jimmy Mitton worked as a flight engineer for South African Airways in a 43-year career that took him from from props to jets.

Visit Kennedy’s historic Air Force One at Air Force museum · General Aviation News Staff | DAYTON, Ohio — On Nov. 22, the world will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. One of the most historic artifacts associated with that fateful day is on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Special Air Mission (SAM) 26000, Kennedy’s Air Force One, is exhibited in the museum’s Presidential Gallery. He flew aboard SAM 26000 to Dallas, where he was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963 — and it was on this airplane that Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the new president. SAM 26000 then carried Kennedy’s body and Johnson back to Washington, D.C...

Today In Aviation:The Grumman C-2 Greyhound · WarbirdsNews By Aviation Enthusiasts LLC | On November 18, 1964, the Grumman C-2 Greyhound took flight for the first time. The Greyhound was derived from the E-2 Hawkeye and replaced the piston-engined C-1 Trader in the Carrier Onboard Delivery (COD) role. The Greyhound retains the Hawkeye’s powerplants and wing but features a wider fuselage with a rear-loading cargo ramp...

Museum’s Next Living History Day Scheduled for February 1, 2014 at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor · Warbirds News | PRESS RELEASE Honolulu, HI—History comes alive at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor, Saturday, February 1, 2014, 9am to 4pm when visitors of all ages can experience the people, the aircraft, and the stories of Pacific aviation “stars” — from the early years of flight to today’s space age. The event is free to Museum members and free with Museum admission. For those who become a Museum member that day, the event is also free...

Lufthansa Ju-52 - Apron 6 | Besides the great looking Ju-52 I managed to capture air to air, there were 5 in total. Below some pictures from the Lufthansa Ju-52. The first one...

C-45 airplane flies again at Harrison County Airport - marshallnewsmessenger.com | Three years ago the Lone Star Wing of the Commemorative Air Force acquired an old US Air Force C-45 airplane. The plane had been in storage for several years, and to some extent, had been a parts donor for other flying C-45’s. The C-45 became a Wing project, not to restore it to flying condition, but to turn it into a static display at the Wing’s hanger located at the Harrison County Airport...

Hamilton to be inducted into Colorado Women's Hall of Fame - Sky Hi Daily News | Hamilton has authored two books aimed at encouraging and training women in aviation and flight instruction. In 1994, the FAA named a new holding intersection in Colorado at an altitude of 15,500 feet above sea level after her as part of the U.S ...

Aviation summit brings together women from all over the country - Herald Sun | WHEN helicopter pilot Kyhala Miller broke through the glass ceiling she kept on going up. The Moorabbin Airport-based pilot is one of 150 women who will be descending on Melbourne today for the Women in Aviation/Aerospace Australia National Summit. She hopes to meet other women in the industry and share her knowledge and experience with them at the inaugural summit. She developed a taste for flying while living in Papua New Guinea as a child, where she spent a lot of time flying in and out of remote villages in smaller aircraft with her dad...

WAI Mourns Passing of Dorothy "Dot" Swain Lewis - WAI Connect Blog | Women in Aviation, International was saddened to learn of the passing of Dot Swain Lewis on September 9, 2013. A 2004 inductee into the WAI Pioneer Hall of Fame, Dot was one of 10 female pilots taught to be...

EAA Staff Mourns Passing of Katrina Bradshaw - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association

Skydiving Auster V Aeroclub of Normandy in 1965 - Xavier Cotton | Thank you to David Lebloas who shares his memories of the Aeroclub paratrooper in Normandy in the early 60s. After witnessing the use of Caudron Moth...

Campaign To Salvage The P-38 Lightning “Maid Of Harlech,” By Warbirds News | The nephew of a pilot who crashed his Second World War fighter plane near Harlech is campaigning for the wreckage to be salvaged and placed in a museum. The rare United States Army Air Force (USAAF) fighter, now known as the Maid of Harlech, was discovered in July 2007 after 65 years under the sands...

Topgun in the Mid-1980s: Building on the Legacy – Part One * Photorecon.net · Dave "Bio" Baranek | PART 1: The Need for Topgun | More than forty years ago, the US Navy did something unusual for a large organization that revered its traditions. The Navy admitted that it had a serious problem and took dramatic action to remedy the situation. The actions quickly proved to be effective and formed the basis for a program that has lasted decades – yet with clear lineage to a program set up in the time of Apollo space missions and Elvis Presley’s first comeback tour. That program is known as Topgun. I was a Topgun instructor from 1984 to 1987, and will present my opinions on how decisions made during my tenure built on Topgun’s legacy and strengthened the organization for the future....

Airshow introduces about 50 students to Young Eagles program - Opelousas Daily World | About 50 students got to see their hometowns from an entirely new perspective this weekend during the Third Annual Gumbo Fly-in at Ahart Field in Opelousas...

Videos: Uh Oh... Foxbat Lands On CIVILIAN Aircraft Carrier! (The End Is Near) - AirPigz | As is so often the case these days, things aren't always what they first appear to be. With that in mind, no, I'm not talking about the Russian MiG-25 Foxbat, and the ship in the video technically isn't a 'civilian aircraft carrier'... however, what takes place in this video is almost as hard to believe as a MiG-25 on a civilian aircraft carrier...