Indy Transponder 04-JAN-2014 0430z

Whitianga abuzz for Warbirds - Manawatu Standard | All eyes will be on the skies above Whitianga today - and not just because of the threat of forecast bad weather. The inaugural Warbirds and Wheels event, a joint venture between the Mercury Bay Aero Club and the New Zealand Warbirds Association, will ...

Sports-car racer Max 'The Ax' Angelelli flies high in a MiG-29 - Auto Week | Defending Daytona Prototype champion travels to Russia for the thrill of a lifetime | Please allow me to introduce myself: I am Max Angelelli, and I race in the Tudor United SportsCar Championship for Velocity Worldwide Wayne Taylor Racing behind the wheel of the No. 10 Chevrolet Corvette Daytona Prototype. Last season my co-driver Jordan Taylor and I won the class championship. In October, I traveled to Russia and took flight in a MiG-29 -- and had the experience of a lifetime!...

Havasu Balloon Festival and Fair - Arizona Republic | Up, up and away, in a beautiful balloon over London Bridge and Lake Havasu. The Havasu Balloon Festival and Fair has been designated one of the Top 100 events in North America by national tourism-industry leaders. Mass ascensions each morning and afternoon and night glows set to music are just the beginning. There will be more than 150 vendors, entertainment and activities for visitors of all ages...

Wichita Aero Club taking reservations for annual gala - Wichita Business Journal | The event features the presentation of the Aero Club Trophy, which will be awarded to Russ Meyer, chairman emeritus of Cessna Aircraft Co. Meyer led Cessna for more that 25 years as its CEO and is one of the most recognizable figures in Wichita's ...

General Goddard (USAF RET) Working To Restore “His” Vietnam F-100 - Warbird Radio | As a young fighter pilot, Goddard completed 226 combat missions in F-100s, 180 of them in this exact aircraft (#56-2995) from September 1968 to October 1969 while assigned to the 309th Tactical Fighter Squadron in Vietnam.  The aircraft was eventually retired from active service in 1978 and put on display at Otis AFB, Massachusetts.  The General found out about it from a web site and notified the Museum of Aviation...

How two F-14 Tomcats shot down two Gaddafi’s MiG-23s, 25 years ago today - The Aviationist | After two F-14 Tomcats from the VF-41 Black Aces shot down two Su-22 Fitters on Aug. 19, 1981 and, above all, after Operation El Dorado Canyon, the air strike launched on Apr. 15 1986 against Libya, Colonel Gaddafi and its regime went off the U.S. high priority agenda...

Topgun in the Mid-1980s: Building on the Legacy – Part Five · Dave "Bio" Baranek, Photorecon.net | PART 5: Supplemental Notes | By the mid-1960s, the dogfight was considered a dying art due to the advent of air-to-air missiles, and was not emphasized in training American fighter aircrews. In the real world, however, factors such as rules of engagement that required US aircrews to visually identify targets meant that...

A Full Retaliatory Response - Air & Space Magazine | STANDING ON A STEPLADDER IN THE GLOOM of the B-52’s cavernous bomb bay, I squeezed between the lower pair of torpedo-shaped nukes—B28FI thermonuclear weapons— and aimed an inspection mirror and flashlight at the circular viewports on each: “safe” indicators visible, yield settings correct. Satisfied that our bomb load was dormant, the navigator and I connected the mechanical bomb door actuators and backed carefully out of the bay. With the pilot and gunner, we shouldered the heavy doors, sticky with hydraulic fluid, and slammed the latches home with a solid thunk...

Evergreen air museum may lose planes, despite claims it is unaffected - Portland Tribune | The annual payments amounted to $500,000, but Aero Club is still due a percentage of the museum's earnings, amounting to at least $50,000, as per the sales agreement. The statement also said the museum is in no danger of losing its displays and has ...

Alaska's Era Aviation announces new corporate idenity - Aero Pacific Flightlines | The three air carriers currently flying as Era Alaska announced a major rebranding effort Thursday. According to a statement from the regional air group, which says it’s the largest such concern in Alaska, the entities now operating under the Era Alaska name -- Era Aviation, Hageland Aviation Services and Frontier Flying Service -- will collectively be known as Ravn Alaska. The shift in names is expected to take several months...