Showing posts with label Bryan Jensen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bryan Jensen. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Jensen and Green Memorial Services Announced


JENSEN MEMORIAL SERVICE DETAILS ANNOUNCED

Memorial services for Bryan Jensen will be held on Thursday, August 25 at 2:00 p.m. at the Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home (phone: 713-243-4111), 1804 E, 7th Street in Atlantic, Iowa. Jensen was killed last Saturday in an air show accident in Kansas City.
The KC Aviation Expo and Air Show has established a scholarship in Jensen's memory. To make a contribution, send a check to Mid-America Youth Aviation Association, P.O. Box 681118, Kansas City, Missouri 64168-1118 or call the KC Air Show offices at 816-289-7218.

GREEN MEMORIAL SERVICE SET FOR THURSDAY


A memorial service for Todd Green will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 25, at American Legion Post 117 (phone: 734-428-8500), 203 Adrian Street in Manchester, Michigan. Green died on Sunday in an air show accident at the Selfridge Air National Guard Base near Detroit.
Although details have not yet been coordinated, the Green family will establish a memorial fund in Todd's memory later this month. ICAS will provide members with details on that fund in the near future.

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Monday, August 22, 2011

Indy Transponder 22-Aug-2011 0130z

Wing walker falls more than 200 feet off plane at Selfridge air show - The Detroit News | Harrison Township— A wing walker at the Selfridge Air National Guard Base fell more than 200 feet during an air show Sunday. The stuntman, Todd Green, was taken to Mount Clemens Regional Medical Center, said Selfridge spokeswoman Penny Carroll. ...

Air Show News: Bryan Jensen Receives Tribute from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City Air Show reopened on Sunday and included a tribute to pilot Bryan Jensen, who was killed when his biplane crashed on Saturday.  The tribute featured a moment of silence, Taps and a flyover in missing man formation.   ...

Kansas City Air Show Continues After Florida Pilot's Death - First Coast News | The Kansas City Aviation Expo Air Show will continue on Sunday after a crash killed a Florida based stunt plane pilot. Bryan Jensen was flying his signature bi-plane, The Beast, when he crashed into a grassy field on Saturday and died on impact. ...

Red Arrows crash: thousands pay tribute to dead pilot - The Guardian | The festival's final day of events went ahead as planned but a display by the Red Arrows was cancelled after the squadron's first fatal crash in 33 years. Aviation enthusiasts and people living close to where the Royal Air Force plane came down paid ...

Oregon International Air Show 2011: Six-jet team announcer says event is about honoring patriots - The Oregonian | HILLSBORO -- To hear Chris Curtis announce for the 6-Jet Patriots Team, you'd never guess he'd suffered 17 broken bones during a plane crash in Afghanistan a year ago. The U.S. Air Force staff sergeant's got a radio voice. And his passion for flying -- including death-defying aerobatic tricks -- is evident.  The speed of his speech and the inflection of his voice changed with ... [photo: Patriots team site]

Wings Over Camarillo - Air Show Buzz

Final day of Chicago Air and Water Show - WREX-TV | Performers include the US Air Force Thunderbirds, the US Army Parachute Team Golden Knights and the US Navy Leap Frogs Parachute Team. The show runs from 10 am to 3 pm each day at the city's North Avenue BBeach. Most of the planes take off and land at ...

Navy is gone but air show continues in Maine - NECN | The air show will feature the Navy Blue Angels, the Army's Golden Knights parachute team and warbirds of yesteryear, as well as civilian stunt pilots. The civilian-run event will also feature a business aviation expo aimed at showcasing the former base ...

Crowd endures wind for airshow - Bundaberg NewsMail | HIGH winds and a small grass fire did little to detract from the spectacle of the Wide Bay Australia International Airshow. The three-day event attracted thousands of people through the gates to watch series of acrobatics and old war planes go through ...

Big Ford Island Airshow Features Small Planes - KITV Honolulu | But this was not another attack of Ford Island, instead it was an air show featuring remote controlled models. Ford Island was all abuzz with the sounds of planes. Thousands came to the historic place to look at the skies and look into our past. ...

51 balloonists in BC all week for national championship - Battle Creek Enquirer | Three international pilots - from Brazil, Canada and the Czech Republic - will fly in an International Challenge as they prepare for next year's competition and 12 pilots are entered in a Fiesta Division to complete the field at 66 balloons. ...

Withdraw the Roman country Airstyle - Kurier | Visitors experience a noise level on the 27th of Spitzerberg to 28 August, when top stars show off their skills. Easy times consider the world from above - not just flight fans at the "Roman Airstyle Country" show at the airfield Spitzerberg their money. All interested parties have the opportunity to admire on the last weekend in August, all sorts of exciting demonstrations of domestic and international flights Stars. Visitors can also withdraw itself, for there are several training courses for sailing and flying.  ...

Midair tragedy in Jersey - New York Post | AP HAMMONTON, NJ -- Two small planes performing aerobatic maneuvers over a southern New Jersey airport collided in midair yesterday, killing one of the pilot. The aircraft were in space designated for aerobatic maneuvers. ...

Others from Boeing Field from MRC Aviation

New acquisition for developing aviation museum - WXVT | (AP) - Developers of the planned "Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum" in Gulfport have acquired a 1950s-era passenger plane. WLOX reports (http://bit.ly/r5grzs) that the 1952 Martin 404 was acquired for the museum at auction last week. ...

Russia’s Stealth Fighter Aborts Airshow Takeoff from Defense Tech by John Reed | Well, one of Russia’s two Sukhoi T-50 PAK FA stealth fighters had to abort a takeoff at the 2011 MAKS airshow outside Moscow today. Apparently,  a problem with the right engine forced the pilot to cancel the takeoff following  ...

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Indy Transponder 20-AUG-2011 2115z


Pilot Dies In KC Air Show Crash - KMBC | ... At a news conference, officials identified the pilot as Bryan Jensen, a pilot who flew at air shows and similar events across the country with his company, Beast Air Shows. According to the company website, he was originally from Iowa, went to the University of North Dakota's Aviation College and has flown for Delta Air Lines. His death was the first fatality in the history of the Kansas City Air Show. ...  [Photo: Bryan's YouTube promo]

Red Arrow pilot John Egging killed in crash at Bournemouth Airshow - Daily Echo | He has been named as 33-year-old Jon Egging, who joined the team this year as Red Four. The former Southampton University student, who had supported troops in Afghanistan, was married to Emma and lived in Rutland. His plane came down on a riverbank at ...

Profile: The Red Arrows - BBC News | In its first year the team flew 65 displays in the UK and Europe, and was awarded the Britannia Trophy by the Royal Aero Club for its outstanding contribution to British prestige in the field of aviation. The displays comprised seven aircraft at first, ...

Morning storms force Air and Water Show rain delay - Chicago Tribune | The air show will not happen unless the clouds break up a bit. To our readers: Registration is required before your comments can be posted. Constructive and respectful comments related to the topic of the story are welcome; abusive, crass or vulgar ...

US Army Golden Knights parachute in to KC Air Show - Shawnee Dispatch | In dark and frigid air about 12500 feet above land, six US Army Golden Knights dove out of an airplane Friday with flames shooting from pyrotechnic packs on their ankles, a night-jump ...

Bill Poehler at the LPGA Safeway Classic: Hillsboro airshow introduces noise ... - Statesman Journal | A few miles from Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in North Plains, planes performed routines at the Oregon International Airshow at Hillsboro Airport. From some of the greens you could see the planes doing their acrobatic tricks and the noise came and went as ...

In plane sight - Port Huron Times Herald | The Air Show and Open House events at the base run today and Sunday. / MARK R. RUMMEL/TIMES HERALD By JULIANNE MATTERA Bob Shenefect of Birmingham takes a picture of his children, Nick, 5, and Grace, 10, in front of the Abrams M1A2 SEPv2 tank Friday at ...

Crunch time arrives for air show planning committee - Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier | Construction crews are working to complete paving on the apron at the Waterloo Regional Airport ahead of the Thunder in the Valley Air Show on Aug. 27-28. Officials hope to attract 50000 or more people per day to the show. ...

MAKS-2011:trends in global aviation - The Voice of Russia | Besides, the salon made a spectacular sight, stunning thousands of viewers with aerobatic stunts by The Swifts, Russian Knights and Falcons of Russia. The next MAKS air show will take place in two years.

LIVE: Shoreham Airshow. UPDATE - Shoreham Today | All eyes are now on The Blades stunt team, the only full-time aerial display team in the UK, made up of former Rd Arrow pilots. * The Shoreham Herald will be reporting from the airshow all weekend, keep checking back for updates.

Brothers pass on piece of history to Malmstrom Air Force Base - Great Falls Tribune | Jack Gamble, of Belt, an aerial engineer and gunner on a B-17 bomber in World War II tells of his unit's exploits at the conclusion of a ceremony where brothers from California donated a Norden bombsight to the Malmstrom Air Force Base museum. ...

National Wings of Freedom Tour Coming to the North East - Collings Foundation Newsletter | Get involved  | All of us who work out of the Foundation’s Stow, MA headquarters look forward to this time of year. This is the opportunity to see the tour we have all been planning and talking about over the course of the year. Check on our online schedule or call us for confirmed dates and locations.
We are looking for WWII Veterans local to the Worcester / Central Massachusetts area for interviews and participation in the Wings of Freedom tour, Battle for the Airfield reenactment roundtable discussion, TV programs and projects.   We are organizing a WWII Veteran meet and greet through the stay Worcester Regional Airport September 23rd to 28th. Telegram and Gazette and other local media outlets would like to conduct interviews prior to the event. If you are a WWII Veteran or know one that would like to participate please contact Hunter Chaney at: 978-562-9182 or email hchaney@collingsfoundation.org  More Collings Foundation News   ....

84-year-old great-gran walks on plane's wing for charity - Scottish Daily Record | Isobel first did a wing-walk in 2007. She said: "I saw somebody on the wing of a plane and I thought to myself, I can do that." She took to the skies again last year, jumping out of a plane at 10000ft.

Profile 57 - "192" as flown by Don Erickson from WWII & Korean Conflict Airplane Profiles | ... That black tail really does it for me - menacing, sleek; it's a mean machine.  Though I do have a certain loyalty to yellow tails and blue noses, this single P-51 of the 75th FS, 23rd FG  is my best to-date.  But in comparison to some of the more colorful birds of the past, it's rather unremarkable.  No victory markings, no pin-up girls, no clever name painted across the cowl... just the black tail and the last three numbers of the machine's serial number stenciled onto the nose. ...

Daytripper: Charles Lindbergh's Boyhood Home - Patch.com | The park named after the famous aviator is about two hours from the Twin Cities. By Mike Wilkinson Charles A. Lindbergh's childhood home. Minnesota Historical Society LITTLE FALLS — Arguably the most famous aviator in history was born and raised in ...

Aviation High School Groundbreaking Will Be Tuesday At Museum Of Flight - Waterland | Aviation High School will break ground on its new campus on the grounds of The Museum of Flight this coming Tuesday, Aug. 23rd, complete with student alumni flying five or more planes to the site, and a student-built robot assisting with the first shovel of dirt. ...

D23 Expo: Jon Cryer to Voice DisneyToon's Planes
ComingSoon.net | Planes takes off with an international cast of the fastest air racers around, in a comedy packed with action and adventure starring Dusty, a small town dreamer who longs to enter the most epic around-the-world air race... despite his fear of heights. ...