Saturday, March 1, 2014

Indy Transponder 01-MAR-2014 2345z

Bonhomme takes the win - Red Bull Air Races | Britain's Paul Bonhomme won the 2014 Red Bull http://www.redbullairrace.com/en_US/article/bonhomme-takes-winAir Race World Championship season opener in Abu Dhabi today ahead of his perennial rival Hannes Arch, and Canada's Pete McLeod. Bonhomme, who has been flying smoothly and cleanly this week, gave a perfect illustration of his skill in a pressure-packed finale....

DHL to deliver 2014 Red Bull Air Race - SportsPro Media | Deutsche Post DHL's air and ocean freight branch DHL Global Forwarding has returned as the official logistics partner of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship. The Red Bull Air Race is a high-octane event in which the world's top race pilots fly...

Onboard footage from Michael Goulian

CJ Wilson Went On Aerobatic Flight And Nearly Threw Up (VIDEO) - Huffington Post | Los Angeles Angels pitcher C.J. Wilson went on an aerobatic flight recently with two-time Red Bull Air Race world champion Kirby Chambliss. While Chambliss performed some insane stunts in the air, he told Wilson that he was going to ask him five trivia...

Air Force prepares for Centenary of Military Aviation Airshow - Australian Aviation | The Royal Australian Air Force is preparing to celebrate the Centenary of Military Aviation in Australia with an airshow to be held at its birthplace, Point Cook near Melbourne over this coming weekend. The airshow will mark the March 1 1914...

Point Cook Air Show: Special place for aviator Murray Wallace - Wyndham Weekly | Aviator Murray Wallace will be at the Centenary of Military Aviation Air Show at Point Cook. Photo: Mark Smith. Murray Wallace learned to fly the military way at Point Cook as a 20-year-old cadet in 1961. “I'd already learned to fly before I joined...

Cactus Fly-in underway - TriValley Central | Two vintage aircraft perform a flyby Friday during the 56th annual Cactus Fly-In at Casa Grande Municipal Airport. The fly-in continues through today. The...

Cullman airport could host mini Airshow Veteran's Day weekend - Cullman Times Online | VINEMONT — A Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) representative met with the Cullman Airport board this week requesting permission to use the facility for a mini air show that will take place on Veteran’s Day weekend of this year...

Tuskeegee Airmen vet lands in Escondido for history lesson - U-T San Diego | Orange Glen High School students who usually learn about the Tuskegee Airmen through films and lectures had a more personal lesson Friday. “They didn’t think blacks could fly and they didn’t think blacks could work on airplanes,” said Nelson Robinson, who served as a mechanic in the segregated World War II aviation group...

Men connect in Red Bluff over tale of B-17 joy ride - Red Bluff Daily News (blog) | Records show the US Army Air Force's B-17 Flying Fortress My Baby was shot down over occupied France Sept. 5, 1944 during a bombing run on a German chemical plant. However history is made up of more than just records and while My Baby crashed in Piermont, France that day, the story of the aircraft continues through the memories of the 91st Bomb Group and those who know them....

Ohio museum volunteers building vintage war plane - Montana Standard | URBANA, Ohio (AP) — Inside a small Ohio air museum, dozens of volunteers are building a vintage World War II B-17 bomber one piece at a time. When they're finished, they'll roll out a better-than-new, airworthy version of the iconic aircraft that was celebrated in Hollywood movies like "Twelve O'Clock High" and "Memphis Belle."...

Tora! Tora! Tora! Special Feature – Trailer by John Conway | We have been hard at work behind the scenes on our upcoming special feature, Tora! Tora! Tora!, that we filmed at EAA Airventure Oshkosh 2013. We wanted to go ahead and give you a taste of the episode with this short trailer since we just can’t keep footage this awesome to ourselves.

The Search For A-12 “Article 125″ (60-6928) - Photorecon.net | This is the story about the Hunt for http://photorecon.net/a-12-60-6928/928. Precisely known as a/c 60-6928 or labeled by the CIA as Article 125. Workers at Groom Lake referred to her as Ship 28. She was lost on January 5th, 1967 while returning to Groom Lake better known today as Area 51. You...

How Things Work: Thrust Vectoring - Air & Space Magazine | Remember the scene in the movie Top Gun when Navy pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell gets the upper hand on his instructors by slowing down, pulling up the nose of his F-14 Tomcat, and watching his opponent fly right by? The idea was to get a quick, unexpected position behind the bad guy, putting Maverick (played by Tom Cruise) and his trusty sidekick Goose into place to win the Engagement...

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AirplaneGeeks 288 – Society of Aviation and Flight Educators | Society of Aviation and Flight Educators - Doug Stewart is a Master Certified Flight Instructor, a Gold Seal Instructor, and a Designated Pilot Examiner. He’s a Founding and Charter member of the Society of Aviation and Flight Educators and is the current Executive Director of SAFE...

A Love of Aviation - Flight To Success | Friday's Fabulous Flyer | Three years ago we hosted the first Fly It Forward Event at Renton Airport and held an essay contest. Do you want to know why we do this? Because that first flight can change a life. Abby Jarve is one such a life. She joined our excitement, entered and essay contest... (You can read her first essay HERE). She won, took a flight lesson and the rest is history. While finances are tough, she still needed money for college. And she won yet another essay contest. This time for $3500!...

United Honors EAA KidVenture Volunteer - EAA - The Experimental Aircraft Association | James White, EAA Lifetime 641417, of Carol Stream, Illinois, was presented with a 2013 United Airlines Volunteer Impact Grant in honor of his volunteer work at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh's KidVenture.

Video: Watch Astronaut Charlie Duke drop a hammer… on the moon - General Aviation News | Astronaut Charlie Duke, while driving a core tube into the lunar surface, drops a hammer he is using. I know I’ve dropped a tool from time-to-time, but this puts my… oops, in perspective.

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