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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Indy Transponder 12-MAR-2013 0100z

US Air Force cancels major air show in Germany - Stars and Stripes | Participation by USAFE-AFAFRICA aircraft, however, at two popular international aircraft shows this spring is still under review, Agnew said. Those are the Royal International Air Tattoo in Britain and the Paris Air Show.

Air Show Cancelled Due to Sequestration - Patch.com | Joint Base Charleston officials have cancelled this year's Air Expo due to the mandatory and drastic cuts to defense spending known as sequestration, according to a press release issued Monday. The Air Expo was originally scheduled for early June.

A Final Tribute to SSG Eric Holman from US Army Golden Knights by wfallin | As the Golden Knight Demonstration and Tandem sections arrive at Homestead, FL, we begin to prepare for the new season to represent America’s Army. However, before we begin, we recognize one last tribute from 2012. As most followers know, Staff Sergeant Eric Holman, a 4 year member of the Gold Demonstration Team, was killed this past August, by an enemy improvised explosive device in Afghanistan....

Last flying B-29 Superfortress lands in San Diego - fox5sandiego.com | The Commemorative Air Force AirPower History Tour is open until 6:30 p.m. on Monday and from 9:30 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday. Admission is $10 per person or $20 per family. Plane cockpit tours are free with admission and flights ...

Leuchars set to keep its airshow - The Courier | A spokesman for RAF Leuchars said: “I can confirm we are having an airshow this year. “No decisions have been taken on its future.” However, it is thought there could have been a rethink after Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced that runways at ...

Treasure trove unveiled at Fantasy of Flight from General Aviation News | POLK CITY, Fla. — Everyone likes to go behind the scenes and get a glimpse of what happens “behind the curtain”… Now, at Fantasy of Flight, the curtains have been thrown open and guests can see what was previously off limits — an additional 20,000 square feet filled with more rare and vintage aircraft, aircraft parts and flight artifacts....

First AF woman 4-star comes full circle from Air Force Link Top Stories | ...Commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1980, she has spent most of her career in the acquisition field, leaving her imprint on the purchase, testing and implementation of the F-22 Raptor, the B-2 Spirit and the C-17 Globemaster III programs. She went on to earn a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in aeronautics and astronautics....

Canadian Warplane Heritage unveils exhibit dedicated to Canadian women pilots - Canadian Skies | The Women of Aviation Worldwide week wrapped up on Sunday, March 10, at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ont., with the unveiling of an exhibit dedicated to Canadian women in aviation. Guest speaker at the event was Canadian ...

Notable women in aviation history - San Jose Mercury News | Here are some notable women in aviation history: 1906: E. Lillian Todd of the United States becomes the first woman to design and build an aircraft. 1908: Therese Peltier of France becomes the first woman to pilot an aircraft. 1910: Raymonde de Laroche...

Ginny Wood dies at 95 - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner | FAIRBANKS — Virginia “Ginny” Hill Wood led a life of adventure beginning at a young age leading horseback trips in her native Washington state, bicycling through pre-war Europe in 1938, serving as a WASP pilot during World War II, building Camp Denali and leading wilderness treks....

Girls take flight in free Women in Aviation Week program - San Jose Mercury News | Dozens of East Bay teenage girls took to the skies Sunday in small personal aircrafts, flying thousands of feet above the Earth to experience aviation firsthand during Women of Aviation Worldwide Week. "It was fun -- it looked like a big giant board ...

Fred Nelson reflects on World War II - Newton Daily News | His training allowed him to travel across the county, and he eventually became a ball turret gunner on a B-17 aircraft. “I went to Sheppard Field, Texas, for basic training,” Nelson said. “I went to College Training Detachment in Johnsburg, Ark., and ...

Tiger Five from Apron 6 | A Belgian tiger today. One of the best tiger paints on our F-16′s that I have seen so far. I’m quite lucky with this picture as the pilot is making a tiger move while taxiing. I tried to edit it with a HDR touch, but the paint scheme was ruined so I sticked to the [...]

Record Holding Albatross Retires to Hiller Aviation Museum from Featured by Herb Foreman | The Grumman Albatross on the runway at the Hiller Aviation Museum. (Hiller Aviation Museum)Reid Dennis, venture capitalist and charter jet operator has donated his beautiful Grumman Albatross to the Hiller Aviation Museum at the San Carlos (Calif.) Airport. The Albatross will...

Round Engines in Rolla: Ramp Walk With the Radial Warbirds from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | ...On the ramp were a 1954 Grumman S2F-1 Tracker and a 1944 Douglas C-47 Skytrain, both locally owned. On the other side of the runway, though were the sad remains of three more DC-3/C-47 aircraft practically destroyed by severe storms several years ago....

Earl Adkisson's Atwood Hangar Partially Disassembled from Antique Airfield News | Progress was made in Atwood Illinois on moving Earl Adkisson's hangar to Blakesburg this past weekend. Aaron Klugherz and Ben Taylor left AAA/APM headquarters midday Friday and drove to Atwood. Saturday morning dawned with...

US Air Force accidently releases pic of Area 51 from Flight Image of the Day by Dominic Perry | Top spot from my US colleague Stephen Trimble here. On the face of it, the photo - very nice though it is - shows a Lockheed Martin F-22 flying over the Nevada desert on Exercise Red Flag. So much, so what. But as Trimble points out,...

Mystery drone emerges from the sea in the Gulf of Oman. American, Israeli or …. Iranian? from David Cenciotti's weblog | The following image shows a drone reportedly recovered by the...

EAA 1358 on a Roll from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | DOTHAN AL- "We had a successful Young Eagle Rally last Saturday that included our usual fare of "Flying, Food, and Fellowship" says EAA member Bill Castlen, "Our ground support team is growing in numbers and experience." We were very pleased to recruit Rick Rehm, a Cairns Approach Control Supervisor and Marius Heersink, a 17 year old newly minted Private Pilot. Heersink has volunteered to advocate the Young Eagle Program to other High School students.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Indy Transponder 04-JUL-2012 0200z

Air show organizers prep for heat, humidity - WHIO Dayton | The 2012 Vectren Dayton Air Show will take to the skies this weekend, and with temperatures heading toward 100 degrees again, spectators are going to have to take precautions.

Fair St. Louis air show to feature world record attempt - KSDK | St. Louis, MO (KSDK) - Retired Air Force Major Brian Kissinger is planning a flight for the record books. "Fourth of July, we're going to set a world record for speed over a recognized course from St. Joseph to St. Louis. It will be the third world ...

Gary's South Shore Air Show - nwitimes.com | Jul 6-8. Gary's South Shore Air Show. noon-4pm. Marquette Park and Beach, Gary. garyairshow.com. Air show performers will return to the skies of Lake Michigan to wow and amaze the public in the 13th year of this show.

S. Idaho gears up for air show - StandardNet | TWIN FALLS . Organizers of the 2012 Air Magic Valley air show are ticking off items on their checklists as they plan for the upcoming show on July 28...

F-22 Raptor to make rare appearance at Tacoma's Freedom Fair - TheNewsTribune.com | Get the lowdown on the planes, fireworks and festivities at this year's Fourth of July festivities around the region.

Fly-in, breakfast back on track for Peach Festival - Shelby Township Source Newspapers | Advisor and Source Newspapers is your source for all Macomb County 24-hour breaking news, local news, sports, opinion, entertainment and more. View weather updates, watch videos and photos. Keep up with News and local Sports. Find restaurants ...

Air show draws 65000 to tradeport - Seacoastonline.com | PORTSMOUTH — Approximately 65000 people attended last weekend's Service Credit Union Boston-Portsmouth Air Show, according to a preliminary estimate of attendance released by organizers.

Aircraft arrive for world's largest military airshow - ITV News | The first two aircraft are due to arrive for this weekend's Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. It's the world's largest military airshow and up to 200000 people are expected to turn up over the two days of the event. The ...

IN FOCUS: A400M to get new name as first delivery draws near - Flightglobal | Backed by partner nations Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Turkey and the UK, the formal acceptance of the new name is due to be formalised at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire during a ceremony on ...

C-27J to turn "Spooky" at Farnborough from The DEW Line by Craig Hoyle | You didn't hear this from me, but something "Spooky" is going to happen to Alenia Aermacchi's normally innocent-looking C-27J transport at next week's Farnborough air show.  Sharp-eyed readers of Flight International's new and largest issue of the year (which we affectionately nickname the "Fattie") might have spotted this intriguing advert nestled amid the satisfying variety of feature articles. It heralds the arrival of the MC-27J - an armed version of the "Spartan", to be offered by Alenia Aermacchi and ATK....

Ohio Air News #191 - Charles Johnson | Indy Air Show - B-17 @ Columbus and Marine Week Cleveland and weather @ The Museum...

Tante Ju from Apron 6 | I had a great day yesterday at Wevelgem Airport. It was nice to see some people I hadn’t seen for a while. Besides that it’s always fun to see the Bronco of the Bronco Demoteam up close. Although the actual reason for my visit was the mighty Ju-52. Coming from Duxford Flying Legends it made a fuel stop at my...

Karnataka opposes shifting air show out of Bangalore - New York Daily News | Bangalore, July 3 — The Karnataka government has opposed shifting the biennial mega air show Aero India hosted at the Indian Air Force (IAF) base on Bangalore's outskirts out of the state.

'Memphis Belle' takes off for nostalgia - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | By Matthew Santoni — Like the veterans who flew them through flak and enemy fighter planes during World War II, the enormous B-17 “Flying Fortresses” are a disappearing breed. A surviving crewman boarded one of the few remaining B-17s on Monday at ...

B-25 flight brings back old memories for WWII veterans - Powell Tribune | Grumpy is like the planes Jimmy Doolittle's Raiders flew to bomb Japan 70 years ago during World War II. The B-25 is the only airplane that flew in every theater of war in World War II, said pilot John Sessions of Historic Flight Foundation, Everett, Wash.

Sherpa: If you must fly, try a B-17 - STLtoday.com | I have simply got to get me a B-17. If you want to beat the heat, try cruising with the windows open, at about 150 mph at 2500 feet, on a "Flying Fortress," the legendary workhorse bomber of World War II. One of these iconic birds will be in St. Louis ...

Ride in B-17 bomber was a flight to remember - ThisWeekNews | Having flown on military aircraft in the past, I had an idea what to expect when I climbed aboard a World War II-era Boeing B-17 bomber, known as the Flying Fortress.

Peter Jackson built Albatros D. Va flies in Florida - AAFO | Kermit Weeks takes his newly-acquired Albatros D.Va for its first flight since arriving in Florida. Built by Peter Jackson's The Vintage Aviator, Ltd. in New Zealand, this was its first flight in the US - and very likely the first flight of any Albatros in the US in a very long time! The engine is an authentic Mercedes 200hp straight six-cylinder engine. Awesome sound! Video.

An Albatros of a Different Color from Flight Monkeys by Chief Monkey | Kermit Weeks has a new plaything, and man are we glad he does. It’s an Albatros D III. This faithful reproduction of a WWI icon is just stunningly beautiful – perhaps as beautiful as it was once deadly.  The D III is made, as the original was, of plywood with fabric covered wings. It sports an engine that makes a sound so alluring that it virtually forces total strangers to look up when it flies overhead. This thing is amazing....

Blue Skies JT  from US Army Golden Knights by wfallin | The Golden Knights proudly and humbly memorialize Jonathan Tagle with the letters JT flown in free fall above Laurinburg NC. Home of the Golden Knights. The initials he was famously known for. He was more than just a skydiver. JT was an inspiration to all of those that put on a parachute. He was a professional canopy pilot, a pioneer and an ambassador for a country in a discipline that has no margin of error. One which is not for the feint of heart. Flying parachutes at speeds nearing 90 miles per hour inches from...

Search to find Earhart plane wreckage begins in HI - Austin American-Statesman | FILE - An undated file photo shows American aviatrix Amelia Earhart. A $2.2 million expedition is hoping to finally solve one of America's most enduring mysteries. What happened to famed aviator Amelia Earhart when she went missing over the South ...

More from Antique Airfield: Joe Fichera's Bird, Fly-In Registrations, First Flight for Stan Sweikar's Fleet, Award Winning Stearman Air to Air Photos, John Lorenz's Interstate Cadets, Vega Restoration Tail Installed and Connected

Aviation in Miami: the first 100 years — on view in HistoryMiami until 22 July from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Aviation in Miami: the first 100 years — on view in HistoryMiami until 22 July 25º 46′ 28″ N / 80º 11′ 50″ W Miami FL is an international city with a flair for style and architecture. I visit there on occasion to enjoy Cuban coffee, Venezuelan chocolate as well as to pick up larimar set [...]

Project Supercar: X-1 to make special visit to National Museum of the U.S. Air Force from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | Project Supercar: X-1 will make a special appearance for visitors at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on July 5. The X-1 is a fully customized Ford Mustang that focuses on power and speed with a central drive system and a real F-16 ejection seat.

Fly-in, breakfast back on track for Peach Festival - Shelby Township Source Newspapers | Advisor and Source Newspapers is your source for all Macomb County 24-hour breaking news, local news, sports, opinion, entertainment and more. View weather updates, watch videos and photos. Keep up with News and local Sports. Find restaurants ...

Blue ribbons fly in memory of Mooresville Guard pilot - Statesville Record & Landmark | MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- Rows of small blue bows flapped in the hot wind Tuesday, their ribbons trailing across the mailboxes they were tied to on Corona Circle in Mooresville.

Pilot begins expedition around the world looking for world record from NOTÍCIAS SOBRE AVIAÇÃO AVIATION NEWS | 20 year old wants to be the youngest to make the journey with single engine. Expedition began in Campinas on Tuesday and will pass through 12 countries....

"Lookout For That Old Weather" UCAP #293 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Hacking drones... In cockpit weather might be old... Pireps... LSAs not doing their paperwork?... Skycatchers barnstorming... The Pilot's Bill of Rights in the news just before Oshkosh, go figure...

Young Eagle Rally at St. Mary's Airport - Bay Net | According to chapter President Jeffrey Test, the pilots “donate their time, aircraft and fuel” in support of the Young Eagles program. This year, three of the 12 pilots were not chapter members said Joe Spelz the chapter Young Eagles coordinator ...

Commemorate space anniversaries during Family Day at museum from National Museum of the USAF Top Stories | Commemorate the anniversaries of several milestone space explorations during Family Day from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on July 21 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.  Two anniversaries took place on Mars: The Viking Lander I landed on Mars on July 20, 1976, and the Mars Pathfinder mission landed on Mars on July 4, 1997. Two others took...

Monday, October 12, 2009

Indy Transponder 11-OCT-09 2345z


Blue Angels to fly today - San Francisco Chronicle
The Blue Angels just might not break out their most acrobatic stuff. That's the word from the Navy's elite flight team a day after its performance was cut ...

Blue Angels' Fog Cancelation Perfect Example Why Newspapers Are ... by deansguide
In what became a perfect example of why newspapers are failing business models, the Navy's Blue Angels were forced to cancel their show, in San Francisco, yesterday due to fog conditions. The simple fact that fog was present forcing the ...

The Blue Angels, From Above on Flickr by AGrinberg
Blue Angels Practice - Fat Albert on Flickr (anthonybrown)
California - Fleet Week 2009 - San Francisco - 10/08/09 from FenceCheck Forums

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Warbirds Take To The Skies Sunday In Tulsa - News On 6
The Tulsa Warbirds are a group who maintain and fly the fighting aircraft that are featured. Fly-bys are planned for 1 pm and 5 pm Sunday. ...

Bravery of women war air crews feted in first simultaneous flight by female ... - Daily Mail
A total of 14 lost their lives in the line of duty, including British pioneer aviatrix Amy Johnson, and their contribution was considered so important they ..

Hamilton Field's 1988 Air Races - BrooWaha from Google
Now, for a recent example, at the 2009 Reno Air Races the famous P-38 Glacier Girl was there. While in our bookcase is my husband's copy of the 1994 The Lost Squadron. There's dozens of other examples where I stood with a plane in one ...

Strega - Whitch-in-the-box or the Merlin that screamed in the night from www.youtube.com
Late night run up in Tiger's hanger, a great way to finish a celebration for the youngest and fastest Unlimited Champion in the history of the Reno National Championship Air Races; congratulations to Steven Hinton!


The latest from the CAF Minnesota Wing
Quote of the week - San Francisco Chronicle
the world famous aviator Charles Lindbergh (1902 - 1974) from an interview shortly before his death This is an sfgate.com City Brights Blog. ...

AOPA Summit - Bringing Every GA Pilot in theCountry Into the Conversation About GA's Future. from Av8rdan's World of Flying
Every year as AOPA's Annual Convention approaches, I get a little nostalgic about what could have been had my career went down another path. These days, I am content in owning a healthy advertising agency that specializes in promoting aviation businesses, but had the stars lined up differently back in 1998 ...

Ramona, Ca. - RNM from FenceCheck Forums
The Great Georgia Air Show 2009 on Flickr (DentTech™)
Switzerland - Air Power Demo 2009 - Axalp - 10/07/09 from FenceCheck Forums


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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Indy Transponder 5-February 2350z


Paul Bonhomme Gives Us An Update…. from Smoke-On by Administrator
Image Compliments of Red Bull Air Race Newsroom I recently sent Paul Bonhomme an e-mail to see how things were going in his camp and tonight, Paul took a few minutes out of his busy schedule give us some updates. With the 2009 series right around the corner, Paul let us know that he and his team [...]

Wisconsin Aviation HoF To Mark State's Centennial Of Flight - Aero-News Network, FL
The Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame (WAHF) plans a series of events to celebrate Wisconsin's Centennial of Flight, including the construction of a ...

COMMEMORATION OF THE CENTENARY OF AVIATION IN CANADA - Aviation.ca (via Google Translator)
On 5 February 2009 - The Government of Canada, Province of Nova Scotia and the Municipality of the County of Victoria have joined forces to help the Association's centennial in Silver Dart commemorate the centenary of the first flight in a flying machine with a pilot in Canada. C'est aujourd'hui que l'honorable Keith Ashfield, ministre d'État (Agence de promotion économique du Canada atlantique), en compagnie de Keith Bain, député provincial de Victoria-les Lacs, et de Bruce Morrison, préfet du comté de Victoria, a fait l'annonce de cet investissement. Today, the Honorable Keith Ashfield, Minister of State (Agency Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency), along with Keith Bain, MLA for Victoria-the lakes, and Bruce Morrison, Reeve County Victoria, made the announcement of this investment. ...

Drang nach Osten from Ares by Nicholas Fiorenza
The Luftwaffe has sent combat aircraft to an Asian air show for the first time. Four Eurofighters, an Airbus Multi-Role Transport Tanker and 70 Luftwaffe personnel have been deployed to Indian Air Force Station Yelanka to participate in Aero India on 11-15 February. The five aircraft left Germany on 4 February, stopping overnight in Abu Dhabi.
The Indian air force extended the invitation to the Luftwaffe during last year's ILA air show in Berlin. The Luftwaffe will use the 8,000-kilometer deployment to gain experience with the new technical and logistical procedures of the two aircraft types involved. The flight was the first aerial refueling of a Eurofighter by a German tanker, according to the German Ministry of Defense. ...

Spitfire warbirds ready to scramble - Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand
By REBECCA PALMER - The Dominion Post Friday, 06 February 2009 BUSTING TO TAKE OFF: The warbirds get revved up for the sevens. ...

Albatross shares sky with Vampire - Taranaki Daily News, New Zealand
Mr Emeny is part of a small group of Taranaki pilots who take their special warbirds all over the country, showing off their aerobatic skills to keen ...

Air squadron parades across city - BBC News, UK
The march was also marked by an RAF flypast of a Tornado F3 flown by Stirling-born pilot Roy MacIntyre. The squadron, formed during the WWI, is also known ...

The 24 hour Vulcan Scramble! – a race against time to save XH558 from Aviation.ca News
XH558 is the only airworthy Vulcan in the world. Restored to flight after nearly 15 years at a cost of £7million. She now faces grounding forever, unless an additional £750,000 can be raised in February enabling funds for another full...

Air Force honors pilot for World War II exploit from Air Force Times - News
Just days shy of his 90th birthday, Texan Walter T. "Tom" Holmes Jr. again was a determined, carefree pilot Monday as he basked in the glory of his part in a historic battle of a bygone war.

Love of planes leads to giant hobby - Kilgore News Herald, USA
His current project is a B- 17 Bomber, which is a fourengine aircraft. "The problem I'm having is finding four ceiling fans exactly the same to use as the ...

WhiteKnightTwo test flight delayed from RLV and Space Transport News
Rob Coppinger reports that a crash of a DC-3 at Mojave Airport (no serious injuries apparently) on Wednesday prevented a test flight of the WK2: Crash delays WhiteKnightTwo return to flight - Hyperbola
[Update: Jeff Foust says he has heard that a WK2 flight is taking place today: Second WK2 test flight underway - Personal Spaceflight]

Rocket Racing League from Aviation Entertainment by Roger Dodger
It's so much better than NASCAR or even the Red Bull Air Races. Rocket-powered airplanes will race against each other in real time for live audiences. Folks at home can watch too on TV or streaming internet. This will be a lot more entertaining than the Red Bull Air Races in which the planes take turns, one at a time, through a timed race course.
The airplanes of choice for the Rocket Racing League are heavily modified Velocities from Velocity Aircraft. The Velocity already has a futuristic appearance due to the pusher engine and the composite construction. The rocket racer teams replace the standard piston engine with a 2000-pound thrust rocket engine that gulps liquid oxygen and kerosene (or ethanol). ...

Brazil solicits Tom Cruise as turboprop fighter pitch-man? from The DEW Line by Stephen Trimble
Fictional Top Gun graduate Tom Cruise is being recruited by Brazil's Ministry of Defense to hock Embraer Super Tucanos on the international market, according to Brazilian media today. Really:
According to the newspaper "The Day", Nelson Jobim, Minister of Defense, called the star to fly a Tucano on a possible return to Brazil. If Cruise agrees, it will help [Embraer's] image abroad. According to the publication, the Brazilian government is negotiating the sale of these planes to the Americans. Clifford Sobel, Ambassador of the United States, confirmed the interest to Tom over lunch on the island of Ivo Pintanguy in Angra dos Reis, last Sunday.

Theo Spark: Cool.... from www.theospark.net
Happy birthday to Lucky Lindy from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter
Super Hornet spewing flames by flynavy via Twitter

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