Indy Transponder 05-APR-2011 1030z

Julie Clark Still Famous  from Pacific Flyer | There was never a doubt that Julie Clark was born to fly.  Inspired by her father, Ernie Clark, a commercial airline pilot for Pacific Airlines in the 1960's, Julie is truly her father's daughter.  Ironically, it was her father's death in 1964 which would drive Julie to pursue her love of flying. Captain Ernie Clark was en route from Nevada to San Francisco, when a passenger entered the unlocked cockpit with a gun and killed Captain Clark and his first officer…

Blue Angels Could Send Economy Soaring – WSET | AP National/International News Entertainment News from AP Lynchburg, VA - Organizers say when the Blue Angels fly in to Lynchburg, they'll swoop in big money for Central Virginia. The elite US Navy's flight demonstration squadron flies in at the end of ...

Air Expo thunders back into town - Charleston Post Courier | Dozens of aerial performers will be on hand to honor the early days of flight up through modern times -- including the Air Force's elite Thunderbirds aerial precision team flying the F-16 Fighting Falcon. The Thunderbirds are scheduled to land at the ...

Spitfire flypast between Dover and Folkestone this Saturday marks the ... - Kent News | The evocative sight and sound of the most iconic aircraft in history will thrill visitors to the Battle of Britain Memorial at Capel-le-Ferne once again this Saturday (9 April). Mk Vb Spitfire BM597, flown by the renowned Charlie Brown, ...

Nothing Beat Lake Tahoe For Beauty  from Pacific Flyer | The 22nd  annual Lake In The Sky Air Show at Lake Tahoe Airport in beautiful South Lake Tahoe, Calif. is planned for Saturday, August 27, 2011 (please visit www.lakeintheskyairshow.com).  The Lake In The Sky Air Show was described as "the best in the west" by one of the Navy's participants.  This year's show will include exciting aerobatic performances by several top performers including Bill Cornick, Jon Melby and Spencer Suderman…

Wings Over Wine Country A Treasure  from Pacific Flyer | The Pacific Coast Air Museum (PCAM) is proud to host the Wings Over Wine Country Air Show on August 20-21, 2011 at the Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa, Calif.  A tremendous lineup of flying includes military jet demonstrations, world class civilian aerobatics and a host of warbirds. Robust static displays will include the museum's collection of over 30 restored aircraft, civilian and military statics and morning access to the warbirds that will fly later in the show…

Another View Of The Navy Centennial Flight  from Pacific Flyer - By Michael J. "Viper" Maloco | I would like to thank everyone who has spoken out, about the article in the Pacific Flyer, you are all indeed friends.  We must remember this event is about the Navy, this is their year, and they should have center stage at their own event…

A trip down memory lane... DEFCON2 Communist style  from Jetcareers forums by canadian_atc | Some pictures from my recent trip to Cuba.  Shown below are pictures taken in Havanas Revolution Square.  Shows some aircraft used, as well interestingly enough, are the tail section and the Pratt J75 engine from the downed U2 during the Cuban Missle Crisis... also included is the SA-2 missile, the type that shot down the U2…

AAA Chapter At Flabob  from Pacific Flyer | Antique Airplane owners have a new organization they can affiliate with at Flabob Airport.  Flabob Airport is home to the newest chapter of the Antique Airplane Association, which is also one of the oldest chapters.  It is a revival of the "Riverside Valley Chapter," formed in the 1960s but long dormant. Two of the charter members, Ray Stits and Bill Hill, are still active at Flabob and in the new-old chapter.

Student A&Ps Graduate At Old Air Base  from Pacific Flyer | Forty-three student aircraft mechanics attending the Southern California Logistics Airport School of Aviation Technology, located at the former George Air Force Base near Victorville, CA recently graduated with full certification in general aviation, powerplant and airframe maintenance.  Their diplomas paid off as the vast majority landed jobs almost immediately, a spokesman said. The students spent 2,050 hours learning about physics, welding, sheet metal, mathematics, hydraulics and electrical systems in a hands-on program taught over 82 weeks…

Deep Thoughts From FlightMonkeys in the Field  from Flight Monkeys by Chief Monkey | “And the Phoenix shall rise.” So says FlightMonkeys reader, Jeff Sponberg, in a comment he sent our way. We couldn’t agree more. Thanks for kicking off the discussion, Mr. Sponberg.  Jeff made his comment in reference to the news that Sun ‘n Fun had been pummeled by a tornado last week. At the exact time when organizers had anticipated the field to be filled with happy visitors, hard-working vendors, and proud volunteers – all those folks were instead hoping for nothing more than to be safe enough to walk away unscathed...

Bombshell Beauty – April 2011  from Pacific Flyer | Scott Slocum is the photographer for a popular series of aviation calendars with beautiful models decorating photogenic aircraft. Every year he prints a "My Bombshells" calendar which has just hit the market. Check out his website for details. See http://www.mybombshells.com for that and other items for sale…

Florida seen as leading contender for 1 of 3 shuttles - Dayton Daily News | The competing organizations include the National Museum of the US Air Force, Smithsonian Institution, Space Center Houston, Chicago's Adler Planetarium, New York's Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Seattle's Museum of Flight, and the California Science ...

Aviation Club holds Spring Fly-in in Lamar County - WDAM-TV | It was a way to raise money for the Association's Youth Aviation Day Camp. A third of the proceeds from pilot fees will be set aside for the camp. The rest will go towards maintaining the air field. Williams said, "Our little camp is structured to ...

West Alabama Aero Modelers to put on a show - Tuscaloosa News | These planes imitate real-life warbirds. “They carry over the characteristics of the real thing,” Wiseman said. By Margaret Clevenger Special to The Tuscaloosa News TUSCALOOSA | The airplane dips, rolls and performs loop-the-loops, buzzing overhead ...

The one of a kind Plane Boat – Cosmic Muffin  from Aviation Humor | This unique vessel is a late ’30′s Boeing 307 Stratoliner joined to a planing boat hull.  Once owned by Howard Hughes as one of the first executive planes, the Stratoliner was damaged in a 1964 hurricane ending it’s flying days. A new owner trucked the plane body to Fort Lauderdale where he launched the Plane Boat in 1974. The fully restored and functional boat planed at over 20 knots and was controlled from the main cockpit using the original flight controls.   “Cosmic Muffin” came to the attention of Jimmy Buffett and was written into his first novel, “Where is Joe Merchant?” and also the song, Desdemona’s Building A Rocketship”. The present owner of “Cosmic Muffin” is Dave Drimmer who exhibits the boat free to the public and sells T-shirts to support his endeavor. He is also actively seeking additional corporate sponsorship and charters for his original craft…

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Flying High: Planes, aerobats show off during Jacqueline Cochran Air Show - The Desert Sun | Thousands of people turned out Saturday for the seventh annual Jacqueline Cochran Air Show in Thermal. Attendees got to see fast-moving fighter jets speed ...

Thunderbirds inspire kids of all ages at Lackland Airfest - San Antonio Express | Twice, the famed Thunderbirds air acrobatics team visited his base in Hawaii. Both times, Gradel was deployed overseas. "My experience with the Thunderbirds ...

'Daring Birdman' kicked off a century of Naval aviation - The Virginian-Pilot | Ely, meanwhile, returned to barnstorming, delighting crowds across the country with his aerobatic displays. When an interviewer from The Des Moines Register ...

New Pilots Go To Salinas Airshow from Pacific Flyer | Editor's Note: a freshly-minted pilot e-mailed us that he and his brother were going to their first airshow and asked if we'd be interested in a report, no charge. Those were the magic words, since our assigned man took ill. So here's Larry Pemberton's unedited story, with photos by Curt Fargo. - By Larry Pemberton and Bob, Photos By Curt Fargo | Me and my brother Bob decided it was time that we went to an airshow. We are, after all, officially government-certified pilots, tested and approved and have yet to run into anything firm. But, between the both of us, we'd never been to an airshow; can you believe it?...

Aerobatic Racing Challenge from Pacific Flyer | What is the Aerobatic Racing Challenge Series? The Aerobatic Racing Challenge Series (ARC Series) is a new and innovative racing format featuring pilots with high-performance aerobatic aircraft competing against each other on a vertical race course. As a featured Air Show event, pilots race through an aerobatic sequence in a side-by-side dual that challenges each pilot to fly the maneuvers as quickly and cleanly as possible…

The Jet Man does it again! from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | I've written about Swiss pilot Yves Rossi before in these pages. He's famous as the 'Jet Man', having built a carbon-fiber 'wing' powered by four jet engines of the type used on small radio-controlled hobby aircraft…

Pilots Fly Onto AF Lakebed from Pacific Flyer | Editor's Note: In September, we published a news release from the FAA and Edwards AFB announcing they were coordinating the first ever civilian fly-in to the historic Rosamond Dry Lakebed. The event, to be held on Friday, Oct. 1, was limited to 100 aircraft and the pilots were to be selected by lottery. A runway was to be "created" on the Dry Lake Bed, located 12 miles west of Edwards' main runway…

Amelia Earhart: the turbulent life of an American icon — a book review from Travel for Aircraft | Amelia Earhart: the turbulent life of an American icon — a book review | Amelia Earhart: the turbulent life of an American icon, Kathleen C. Winters, 2010, ISBN 978-0-230-61669-1, 233 pp. + index | I have been learning about aviation's history from the 1930s and earlier over the previous year or so. I've learned that much of what I learned in my youth has been substantially revised. The academic publisher, Palgrave MacMillan, offered me a prepublication copy of a new title about Amelia Earhart so that I might review and post about it. I happily accepted as there were no strings attached, no requests to edit the post or lavish gifting. Palgrave MacMillan does not work that way, thankfully…

Bombardier Follis shot down over Germany - Bellingham Herald | Our crew was assigned to the Pyote Army Air Base near Pecos, Texas, for training on B-17 Flying Fortresses. Our bomber crew went overseas in a convoy ...

During WW2, this woman veteran taught Army boys to fly. - Susan Rodriguez, who grew up York, Pennsylvania and now lives in Bethesda, Md., sorts through World War II-era papers related to her work as a flight instructor. (Daily Record/Sunday News -- Paul Kuehnel) York, PA - Susan Smith was just out of college and teaching foreign languages in 1942, an emergency replacement because the regular teacher had just gone off to war. Every morning her father…

Gathering Of Mustangs (Well, 5) from Pacific Flyer - Story and Photos By Roger Cain | Although 10 P-51 Mustangs were expected at this year's one-day "Gathering of Mustangs" only five were able to make it to the event October 9th at Nut Tree Airport, about one hour northeast of San Francisco. Hosted by the Travis Air Museum and co-sponsored by its non-profit arm of the Jimmy Doolittle Air and Space Museum Foundation and the Nut Tree Airport, the turnout also attracted the four wheeled kind…

Nearly 100 years since Wiseman's special delivery - Santa Rosa Press Democrat | There will be exhibitions centered on Wiseman's flight at five places (at least) throughout the month of February — the Pacific Coast Air Museum, ...

Some amazing aerial footage of World War I from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | The BBC has unearthed some amazing film footage shot from an airship in 1919 over the battlefields of World War I. It's going to form part of a program called 'The First World War From Above'. The director of the program reports: I was approached to direct The First World War From Above earlier this year. Back then, my fantastic production team at the BBC had put together a dazzling array of stories and elements.

B-58 Launcher, Part D'oh from The Unwanted Blog | The second of two illustrations of a B-58 as a carrier for some form of large rocket, from the SDAM via Mark Nankivil. While this sketch shows more clearly that the intention  was to launch the rocket in a direction safely describable as "up," this illustration also displays a number of… anomalies…

Wings of war: Vintage war planes visit Perry airport - Macon Telegraph | On hand at the Perry-Houston County Airport's Open House and Fly-In on Friday and Saturday were a vintage World War II B-17 Flying Fortress, ...

Fort Hood hero speaks at Danville veterans ceremony - GoDanRiver.com | In his speech, Hopewell spoke about his father's wartime experience aboard a B-17 bomber and how that event brought him to Danville. ...

Bombshell Beauties Calendar from Pacific Flyer | Bombshells 2011 is our hottest issue yet featuring gorgeous women and air to air photography of the most rare and unique vintage warbirds flying today. The 2011 theme brings nose art to life with the girls dressed like the very art work that appears on the aircraft with which they are being photographed…

DVD Review: Waddington International Airshow 2010 from Flightline UK - UK Airshow News | The Media Group have once again produced a a very different and interesting interpretation of an airshow DVD. As well as coverage of the flying display highlights there are a number of other background features covering some of Waddington's units as well as airshow preparations. The E-3D Sentry AEW1 crew provide a "video diary" of their own preparations for the opening station flypast while other sections focus on 8 Squadron's Memorial Garden, the Waddington Fire Crews, the Air Traffic Control Caravan  as well as preperations for the Tornado GR4 Role Demo and Harrier GR9 displays amongst others…

Area 51 Movie to be Released in 2011 from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) The movie Area 51 is a "found footage" take on the secret location in the Nevada desert, that supposedly houses a UFO, as three students try to break in to the secure facility back in 1994. The video cam was later recovered. Production of the movie took place in Utah…

'Super 8' Movie to be released June 10, 2011 from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) The secretive sci-fi movie "Super 8" will be released in theaters June 10, 2011. The story is set in 1979 when a train is carrying something that came from a section of Area 51. The train is heading for Ohio together with the unknown cargo taken from Area 51. What was taken from Area 51 will eventually escape. Production is now underway in West Virginia. Steven Spielberg is producing "Super 8" with J. J. Abrams and his Bad Robot partner Bryan Burk…

SiFi Apollo 18 Movie Coming in March 2011 from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) A new SciFi movie Apollo 18 will imagine a world where the mission actually took place and led an encounter between aliens and humans on the surface of the Moon. The early 1970's Apollo 18 moon mission was officially canceled by NASA, but according to urban legend, it actually happened. The movie footage shows signs of alien life taken by the Apollo 18 moonwalkers, and the events of the mission are built into a thriller story line…

Arcadia Publishing from Pacific Flyer | Arcadia Publishing has teamed up with some of the best aviation historians to create the Images of Aviation series. This series focuses on preserving the history of the aviation industry and chronicling its progression throughout the years. Each book contains more than 200 vintage images celebrating the history of flight - from the early experimental, lighter-than-air craft to modern commercial, military and private air machines…

For Sale: The only aviation-themed, all-suites hotel in the Midwest by Jay Honeck | Now's your chance to hang out with pilots all day long, too! As seen in AOPA Pilot Magazine, GA News, and a host of other aviation periodicals, I present for your consideration the Alexis Park Inn & Suites: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...#ht_582wt_1135

A quick trip to Masterton: post 2 of 3 from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings | In this second post of the quick trip to Masterton, here are a few of the aircraft sitting and flying around…

A big thank you! from From the Flight Deck | These "kids" are now in their late twenties and early thirties. Looks like I was spreading the "word of aviation " for quite some time. I took them up for a tour of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Even though none of them pursued aviation, I think they had a great day…

Kids get heads up in the clouds at first annual fly-in - Columbus Telegram | Those who did fly received a Young Eagles certification. Young Eagles is a program of the Experimental Aircraft Association, an international aviation group ...

The Fall of the Concorde from Aviation by K.P. | The Concorde, introduced in 1976, was the first passenger airliner that traveled at supersonic speeds. This was the product of a joint venture between British and French companies and remained in operation until 2003… The Concorde could supercruise at Mach 2.02 and had a top speed of Mach 2.04…

The Ryan FR-1 Fireball and F2R Dark Shark: an Evolutionary Dead-End  - When the US Navy initiated the development of its first jet fighter, the McDonnell FD-1/FH-1 Phantom, in 1942, not only did it hedge its bets on McDonnell's design by carrier testing the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, but it also initiated a back up program at the insistence of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics (BuAer) for a mixed-powerplant fighter that combined a conventional piston radial engine with a jet engine...