Indy Transponder 19-NOV-2013 2345z

Al Ain Aerobatic Show | Breitling Wing Walkers Prepare for Al Ain - www.youtube.com | We caught up with Danielle Hughes, a Breitling Wing Walker who's getting ready for the Al Ain Aerobatic Show. She reveals what to expect from her team this y...

Blue Angels in St. Louis for air show planning meeting - fox2now.com | ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) – Two members of the Navy’s famous Blue Angels jet squadron will be in St. Louis on Tuesday. They’ll fly their St. Louis made Boeing FA-18 jets into Spirit of St. Louis Airport Tuesday afternoon...

Longer Air Tattoo to mark Red Arrows’ birthday - Swindon Advertiser |  NEXT year’s Royal International Air Tattoo will be more than a sky-high family day out as the Red Arrows celebrate a birthday milestone by expanding the event to three days. As part of the Red Arrow’s 50th display season in aid of the RAF Charitable Trust, 10,000 spectators will be able to apply for a special Pit Day ticket, where they...

Russia to have new aerobatic team on Yak-130 - Pravda.Ru | The Air Force of the Russian Federation are forming a new, extra class aerobatic team on state-of-the-art combat training aircraft Yak-130. The administration of the Russian Air Force leadership will have to have the new team ready for its major task: to demonstrate their aerobatic skills over Red Square during the Victory Day parade May 9, 2014...

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Doolittle Raiders tagged for 2013 Indy Bowl award - KTAL | AdvoCare V100 Bowl officials are pleased to announce The Doolittle Raiders as the recipient of the 2013 Omar N. Bradley “Spirit of Independence Award.” Accepting the award on behalf the Doolittle Raiders will be Lt. Col.  Richard E. Cole. Cole, 98, was the co-pilot with Doolittle in the first plane to take off from the USS Hornet....

Thunderbirds honor fallen pilot with dedication of restored F-105 replica - ACC | ...The display bears the name of Capt. Gene Devlin, a Thunderbirds pilot who lost his life in 1964, when his F-105 exploded in the skies over Hamilton AFB, Calif. About 10 years later, the red, white and blue Thunderchief model was placed on a matching, diagonal 17-foot post at Nellis' front gate...

Jerri Truhill, Famed Female Test Pilot Who Almost Became an Astronaut, Died in Irving on Monday - Dallas Observer | "She's like the Dale Earnhardt of the female air-racing world," he says. "She was an intimidator," tailing her opponents at the at the distance of a dining room table before zooming past in her signature pink plane at 400 mph. "All they saw was a pink...

TEMECULA: Pilot competes in cross-country race - Press-Enterprise | Pilot Mary McMahon, of Temecula, recently competed in the Air Race Classic, the difficult cross-country competition for women pilots. Although she and her racing partner didn’t place in the timed competition, McMahon said the experience of participating in the race was worth every airborne minute...

Redlingfield B-17 Flying Fortress crash marked by US relatives - BBC | A B-17 Flying Fortress fell out of the sky at Redlingfield on 19 November 1943, killing the ten men on board. A memorial was built in 2010 and it is the first time relatives have come over from the US for the annual service. The 95th Bomb Group plane had taken off from the base at nearby Horham heading for Germany. It was never discovered why it crashed....

CASIS and Wings Over Rockies Unveil ISS Exhibit - Space Ref | The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the nonprofit organization promoting and managing research onboard the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory, in association with Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, unveiled an exhibit dedicated to the ISS at the "Spreading Wings" gala featuring former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin and renowned astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson in Denver, CO over the weekend...

Congressional Budget Office mulls ending NASA human space flight to cut deficit - Examiner.com | For example, NASA has been using remotely piloted vehicles to track hurricanes over the Atlantic Ocean at much longer distances than those for which tracking aircraft are conventionally piloted.” The argument has been widely debunked by a number of...