Showing posts with label Arnold Palmer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arnold Palmer. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Indy Transponder 02-FEB-2011 0345z

Sandstorm delays Al Ain Aerobatic Show - The National | AL AIN // The opening of the widely anticipated Al Ain Aerobatic Show tomorrow will not proceed as planned, due to the sand clouds shrouding the UAE and ...

China, Pakistan, Iran blocked from Indian airshow - Emirates 24/7 | India, which hosts South Asia's biggest airshow next week, has not invited arch-rival Pakistan, China or Iran to the biennial event, organisers said on ...
   
New Delhi Russian MiG-35 to skip Bangalore airshow - Hindustan Times | The biennial airshow, to be held from February 9-13, offers international exhibitors a prestigious platform to showcase newest aerospace equipment and ...

AeroIndia show to be the largest ever - Sify
... apart from the Advanced Light Helicopter 'Dhruv' that will be flown by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited's Sarang chopper display team. ...
   
Master disaster plan ready for airshow - Times of India | There will also be 295 domestic companies, as opposed to 289 in 2009, during the five-day airshow. The organizers expect 50000-75000 visitors in a single ...

Wings of Freedom Tour flies into Page Field - Cape Coral Daily Breeze | Participating in the Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress "Nine O Nine" World War II Heavy Bomber, Consolidated B-24 ...

The lady loves taildraggers - AOPA Pilot | The first fly-in of Ladies Love Taildraggers drew a small but enthusiastic group to Moraine Airpark in Dayton, Ohio. ...

Golf legend Arnold Palmer retires license from General Aviation News   | Long-time pilot Arnold Palmer, who started flying in 1956, made his last flight as PIC Jan. 31, according to report at Golf Digest magazine, which notes that when Palmer, 81, flew his Cessna Citation 10 jet from Palm Springs to Orlando that morning, it was his last flight as pilot. His license expired that day, and Palmer elected not to have it renewed. The blog quotes Palmer: “I’ll still be flying in my plane as much as always, just not in the cockpit. Flying has been one of the great things in my life. It’s taken me to the far corners of the world. I met thousands of people I otherwise wouldn’t have met. And I even got to play a little golf along the way.”   ...

The Luscombe Silvaire Survives for 74 Years With a Life of its Own by Alan Smith | A 1928 Velie Monocoupe by Clayton Folkerts and Don Luscomb. (Jeremy Drey)We all know the famous names that mark the history of the light plane industry. Most of them, like Bill Piper, Clyde Cessna, or Walter Beech are names that are still with us today along with the aircraft being produced by the companies they started. ...

PHOTOS: History flies into Marco Executive Airport - Marco Eagle
The B-17 was the companion of the B-24 in thousands of wartime, bombing and reconnaissance missions. Together they were the backbone of the daylight ...

B-57, C-7 Go Back on Display in Dayton from www.airforce-magazine.com | Crews at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, have finished restoring a Vietnam War-era Martin B-57B Canberra bomber and a De Havilland C-7A Caribou transport aircraft and returned them to the museum's Southeast Asia War exhibit area. The restoration work began last fall. Museum staff ...


MNCAF News

Aviation In The Antarctic from Aviation Earth | The first person to ascend from the continent of Antarctica was Captain Robert Scott. His balloon rose 800ft in 1902, thus beginning a journey that still continues today. Scott’s ascent (closely followed by that of Ernest Shackleton) clearly demonstrated man’s battle to overcome nature’s obstacles. But true Antarctic aviation would have to wait until after [...]

Door gunner saved life of Polish soldier from Military Photos | Polish soldiers were conducting operation against man making IEDs in one of villages. Suddenly they got into crossfire from enemy. Patrol commander called air support. Mi-17s used part of field to land and take soldiers on board. Captain have noticed that last soldiers in formation is loosing strengh and falls. He left  ...

When Hornets Growl from Air & Space Magazine | The new, supersonic face of e-warfare.
When Pigs Could Fly from Air & Space Magazine | The F-111, beloved by pilots in America and Australia, takes to the air for the last time.

Moving the Buran from High Power Rocketry 
From what I understand, this orbiter was on display in Gorky park for a while. Sadly, it appears as if the orbiter and an Energiya booster were both crushed in a hangar collapse in 2002: ...

Challenger ended shuttle program at Vandenberg from RLV and Space Transport News | Trent Waddington points me to this JP Aerospace blog entry with the following video of a news report about how the plan to launch shuttles from Vandenberg was canceled after the Challenger accident. The video includes comments from John Powell.

New Museum Spotlights Columbia Shuttle Disaster from SPACE.com | A new Texas museum opens today (Feb. 1) to honor the space shuttle Columbia and its seven-astronaut crew on the eighth anniversary of the fatal disaster that ended the orbiter's final mission.

Florida Space Industry Sets March 16, 2011 from RLV and Space Transport News | Florida Space Industry Sets March 16, 2011 for Florida Space Day in Tallahassee | Joining Together to Preserve Florida’s Role in our Nation’s Space Program ...

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Indy Transponder 23-OCT-10 1030z

Snowbirds dazzle at year end air show - Moose Jaw Times-Herald | The Snowbirds perform a stunt during Friday's year end air show at 15 Wing Moose Jaw. Times-Herald photo by Myles Fish. Flocks of geese grounded the ...

Rich memories for former Snowbirds - Moose Jaw Times-Herald | A Snowbird pilot from 1980-81 and commanding officer from 1989-90, Dempsey was one of many ex-Snowbirds taking in the show as part of the 40th anniversary ...

Sean D. Tucker - Stunt Pilot - 39online.com ... terrified of stalling the plane or panicking at the controls or even spinning out of control so he took an aerobatic flight course to conquer his fear...


Bethel airport fall foliage air show set for Sunday - Lewiston Sun Journal | BETHEL — The second annual Fall Foliage Community Event air show will be held Sunday at Bethel Regional Airport...


A fighter falls prey to politics - Telegraph.co.uk | The development of the Harrier was part of a golden era in British aviation history that included the first test flights of the Concorde supersonic jet. ...


No Tickets to the Korean Grand Prix? No Worries - Wall Street Journal | During the day on Saturday and Sunday, the "Black Eagles," Korea's air-show team, will perform in the sky with eight fighter jets. And Friday through Sunday ...

RAF fund gets £4600 from Kemble air show - This is Wiltshire.co.uk | Visitors to this year's Cotswold Air Show have helped raise more than £4600 for the Royal Air Force's leading welfare charity. The air show, which this year ...


Group to buy, renovate vintage bomber - The State ... it became the centerpiece of the Doolittle Raiders' 50th anniversary held in Columbia in 1992 and subsequent reunions here in 2002 and last year. ... 

Selfridge museum offers rides in a flight simulator - The Detroit News | Selfridge Military Air Museum and Flight Unlimited from Willow Run Airport will offer museum visitors a chance to fly a cockpit flight simulator from noon ...



FAA Presents Wright Brothers Master Pilot Awards At NBAA Annual Meeting from AvStop » Number One Online Resource For General Aviation News | On Wednesday, Federal Aviation Administrator Randy Babbitt, attended the National Business Aviation Association's annual meeting. There, he presented the FAA's Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award to six outstanding legends of aviation: Neil Armstrong, Gene Cernan, Bob Hoover, Clay Lacy, Russ Meyer, and Arnold Palmer…

Arnold Palmer Receives NBAA's Highest Honor from Aero-News Network | Meritorious Service Award Given During Special Session At Convention NBAA's first-ever second-day General Session, held Wednesday at the Association's Annual Meeting & Convention in Atlanta, was a celebration of heroes that culminated with presentation of NBAA's 2010 Meritorious Service Award to golfing legend, businessman and American icon Arnold Palmer…

50 Secrets Your Pilot Won't Tell You | Work & Career | Reader's Digest

A little extra at the Spaceport America dedication from Personal Spaceflight by Jeff Foust | Friday's events at Spaceport America went off pretty much as planned. There were the speeches by dignitaries (including Richard Branson, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, and NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver), followed by the flyover by WhiteKnightTwo with SpaceShipTwo attached. After the two vehicles completed several passes and appeared to fly off, Branson and the others started a press conference…

Runway opens at first spaceport - BBC News | The event was marked with a flypast of an aircraft carrying SpaceShip Two. The vehicle has been designed to take fee-paying tourists on trips to the edge of ...

Virgin Galactic seeks feedback from customers from RLV and Space Transport News | Virgin Galactic tries to find what will please its customers: Virgin Galactic Testing Extends To Passengers - Aviation Week - To make sure its customers will enjoy the experience, Virgin Galactic is running its clients through microgravity simulations and training and getting feedback on their experiences. "We take the understanding of our customers as seriously as understanding our technology," Tizard said. "Proving the market really goes a long way to paying our bills."

NM spaceport runway dedication from RLV and Space Transport News | UPHAM, NM – The New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) today dedicated the nearly two-mile long "Governor Bill RIchardson Spaceway" at Spaceport America, representing significant progress toward launching commercial customers into space from the desert of New Mexico. Governor Bill Richardson, Sir Richard Branson and approximately 30 of more than 380 Virgin Galactic future astronauts attended the event along with guests from around the world and watched a flyover and landing by Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo, in a captive carry with SpaceShipTwo…

P-39 Recovered from Russian Lake After Six Decades. from Planenews Aviation News Portal by gil | A Bell P-39Q Airacobra that was built in a western New York state factory in 1943 has returned home after resting at the bottom of a Russian lake since 1944. This particular aircraft was part of 4,719 P-39s sent to the Soviet Union under the United States' Lend-Lease program, which propped up Allied forces with war materiel before and after the U.S. entered World War II…

Longmont man donates WWII bomb casing to museum - Washington Examiner | Shortly after midnight July 5, 1943, an American B-17 pilot accidentally dropped six 100-pound bombs on the sleeping city. Although no one was hurt and no ...

Whiskey on the rocks from Military Photos by Pandemonium | The incident with The Astute reminds me of another incident long forgotten by most of us, but the consequences were vast according to some as it would lead to the murder of the swedish Prime minister, There had been smaller incidents before between Swedish and Russian subs, but this was something the Russian naval command wanted to gorget as soon as possible
Extremely serious but quite amusing, enjoy…


PSA's Reasons for Betting on the Tristar from Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | On May 6, 1949, twenty-six sailors on shore leave from the naval base at San Diego paid a $15.60 one way fare on a small airline called PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines) which had a single red and white DC-3 to fly to Oakland, California…


-Subscribe for daily automatic E-mail delivery directly to your Inbox!

-Also join us on: ---Facebook ---Twitter

-Send Notices > Releases > Updates > Be a Contributor > Contact: IndyTransponder@gmail.com