Airshow community honors its own - General Aviation News | The International Council of Air Shows (ICAS) and the ICAS Foundation recently honored several members of the airshow community for their contributions....
US Army Golden Knights - new photos 
Airshow one of the best yet - SunLive | Threatening weather has failed to put a damper on the Classics of the Sky Tauranga City Airshow with organisers calling the weekend’s event one of the best yet...
Bahamas Habitat slates 14th fly-in - General Aviation News | Bahamas Habitat has slated its 14th Fly-In to Serve Others Feb. 20-23. “This is a great adventure,” says John Fielding of Virginia, a participant of four fly-ins. “That’s what first attracted me to it. It’s always fun, rewarding and challenging. It’s what you expect but in an unexpected way.”...
Hamilton Air Show featured on Ice Pilots episode - Hamilton Spectator | For fans of the Hamilton Air Show and History Channel's hit reality TV series Ice Pilots, the long awaited segment filmed over Father's Day weekend last June is finally here. Highlights of the episode that...
Airbus to fly A350 XWB at Singapore Air Show - ATWOnline | Airbus has confirmed it will take the A350 XWB to February’s Singapore Air Show, giving the new aircraft its first full display at an international air show. The flight test aircraft MSN3 will be at the show for the first two days, Feb. 11 and 13, when it will take part in the flying display on both days as well as be in the static display...
Wichita Aero Club gala brought some quotable moments - Kansas.com | Wichita Aero Club gala brought some quotable moments. Saturday's Wichita Aero Club gala drew a packed house as it honored Cessna Aircraft chairman emeritus Russ Meyer for Meyer's contributions to aviation. It also had a number of quotable moments.
Missing Man Flyover Arlington National Cemetery as seen from an F-15E Strike Eagle - The Aviationist | Four F-15E Strike Eagle attack planes from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base conducted a missing man formation flyover during a funeral in honor of retired pilot...
Mechanic helped keep Pacific war effort aloft - The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines | History’s spotlight usually misses the mechanics. Sure, there are reels of footage and stacks of photos of B-29 Superfortresses rumbling in formation across the Pacific sky, bombs dropping, fire and smoke rising in their wake. Books have been written and movies made about the heroic men who flew them into battle, who took the war to Japan.
Wyo. woman recovers class ring lost in WWII B-17 crash in South Pacific - Standard-Examiner | LANDER, Wyo. -- Betty McAleenan held her high school class ring last week for the first time in 71 years. It was returned to her in a small ceremony held at the American Legion Hall in Lander. Betty, "94 and a half" years old, last saw the ring when she gave it to her first husband, Army Staff Sgt. Robert "Bob" Greibel, before he deployed to the South Pacific in 1943...
Happy Birthday To The Lockheed P-38 Lightning - Warbirds News | By Aviation Enthusiasts LLC | The Lockheed P-38 Lightning flew for the first time seventy-five years ago today. The twin-boomed P-38 was fast, heavily armed and extremely versatile. The P-38 was the first American fighter capable of flying faster than 400 miles per hour. Turbo-supercharged engines with boom-mounted radiators gave the Lightning superb high-altitude performance and the tricycle landing gear made engine maintenance easier for maintainers and helped to reduce accidents during take-off and landing. P-38 pilots...
Museum's restored shark-nosed fighter plane salutes exploits of Flying Tigers ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune | Adding to the P-40's scarcity is that after the war, enthusiasts snapped up surplus high-performance aircraft for air racing and private piloting. But the P-40 found little demand. Gutierrez estimated fewer than three dozen remain. The museum's P-40 ...
The Rathmines PBY 5A Catalina “Our Girl” – From Ebay to Australia · Warbirds News | So your wanting a PBY Catalina for a memorial display, do you just pop down to the local airport and hopefully find one on sale? No. You try Ebay and find one over 16,000km away to buy….. This is how the Australian based Rathmines Catalina Memorial Park Assoc Inc ended up with a static PBY-5A Catalina in early 2013 for its future museum where it intends to honor and recognize the heroism of the RAAF Catalina crews in WW2....
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Doc Restoration Nearing Completion - Aero-News Network | Its been a long time coming... but volunteers report that they have made significant progress restoring the Boeing B-29 Superfortress named Doc since work resumed on the project in 2013...
U-2 spyplane pilot wannabe? Be prepared to drive sport cars at top speeds - The Aviationist | The TU-2S is the two-seater version of the legendary U-2 Dragon Lady used to train pilots destined to fly the legendary spyplane. The U.S. Air Force operates five such planes, based at Beale Air Force Base, California, home of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing...
Inspiring Children... - Flight To Success | Friday I spent the day at Nelson Middle School...
Monday, January 27, 2014
Indy Transponder 27-JAN-2014 2230z
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