Indy Transponder 17-AUG-2011 1500z

Murray High graduate realizes Blue Angels dream - Military & Aerospace Electronics | Since he joined the Navy, Benjamin Hernandez had entertained the idea of being part of the Blue Angels, the Navy's elite flying team. Next month, he'll get that chance, after the Murray native was chosen as a ...

California International Airshow Salinas performers to fill the skies - The Salinas Californian | Buchanan, 56, is a renowned hang-glider pilot, a man whose legs were paralyzed as the result of a hard landing in stormy weather in 1981.  He's also one of many attractions at next weekend's California International Airshow Salinas. ...

The Memphis Airshow Is This Weekend at the Millington Regional Jetport - Memphis Magazine | And Memphis readers will get a rare chance to see these aerial daredevils this weekend, at the Memphis Airshow 2011, which will take place at the Millington Regional Jetport on Saturday and Sunday, September 17 and 18. So few people have ...

Air Force Team Prepares For Redding Air Show - KHSL | ... an air force team called 'Red Horse' also know as, Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers, they hope to be completed by Sunday. That way they can test the system well in advance of the air show which starts ...

Rare planes to be on display at A/L Airport - Lewiston Sun Journal | The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Nine O Nine” WWII heavy bomber, Consolidated B-24 Liberator “Witchcraft” WWII heavy bomber and P-51 Mustang will fly into and be on display at the airport. Visitors are invited to explore the aircraft inside and out. ...

The tricolor arrows perform in Torre Suda Mancaversa - Translated | The Aerobatic Team arrives in Salento with the performance of the Tricolour Arrows. The "Tricolore 1 Salento Air Show", scheduled for Sunday, September 18, starting at 14.30, in Torre Suda Mancaversa, is promoted by the Province of Lecce, Lecce Vega Ulm by Aero Club, in collaboration with the municipalities of Racale , Tavistock and Banca Popolare Pugliese.  ...

Krila Oluje - Croatian Air Force Aerobatic Display Team from Military Photos | I believe that the pilots of the Croatian Air Force Aerobatic Display Team deserve to have a thread of their own, given the enormeous efforts and skill required of them, and indeed of any display pilot. So this will be the thread dedicated to Krila Oluje, or Wings of Storm.  The Team flies six Pilatus PC-9M trainers. The aircraft rotate according to availability and the team  ...

Top rating for Bournemouth Air Festival - Bournemouth Echo | THE Bournemouth Air Festival is the “number one” show for pilots, said head of tourism Mark Smith. Mr Smith said they now fit the other air shows around it and the military in particular feel a special bond. ...

Air Show 2012 in Twin Falls - KMVT | Organizers are already gearing up for next year's air show.Last night Twin Falls Chamber of Commerce held a trade show at the airport. People got a small taste of what may be coming in 2012. ...

Crazy Planes: Sky Combat Ace experience is a roller-coaster ride with no rails - Las Vegas Sun | Probably the first order of business is to thank the crew at Sky Combat Ace for ruining every thrill ride I will take for the rest of my life.  Sky Combat Ace. The name says it all, really. We got yer sky, we got yer combat, and we got yer ace. Multiple aces, actually. ...

The First Across the Continent - Air & Space | A 100th anniversary remembrance of Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz.

The mysteries of Amelia Earhart - Ottawa Citizen | Instead, she wound up as a legendary aviatrix. No wonder the only time she felt free was when soaring high above the reach of everyone and everything. You kind of wonder how she felt when she finally vanished while piloting a small plane above the ...

Comox Parade to Honour WWII Pilots - HQ Comox Valley | The Comox Valley community is invited to join a day of remembrance this weekend, for the lives of Canadian and Allied aircrews and ground crews lost during the Battle of Britain. The Battle of Britain was a significant turning point ...

History of the Air Force Series on AirBoydTV:

• History Of The Air Force 1931-1941
 (1976)
• History Of The Air Force 1917-1930 (1976)
• History Of The Air Force 1908 – 1916 (1976)

C-17A marks 20th anniversary of first flight from Aero Pacific Flightlines | The Boeing Company on Sept. 15 celebrated the 20th anniversary of the first flight of the C-17 airlifter. On Sept. 15, 1991, test aircraft T-1 took off from the Boeing Long Beach site on a two-hour flight that proved the engineering and design concepts of the aircraft and marked the beginning of the program. ...

Today in Aviation History – September 17 - CRUFC

35 Years Ago: NASA Unveils First Space Shuttle, 'Enterprise' - Space.com | In 1985, NASA handed Enterprise over to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum near Washington, DC It still sits there today, but the shuttle will soon be heading to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City. ...

Soyuz lands in Kazakhstan with a crew of 3 - Translated | Russian spacecraft landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan.  Soyuz cosmonauts Aleksandr brought Samokutiáyev and Andrei Borisenko Rolamd Garan and astronaut. The Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-21 with three crew aboard, landed successfully on Friday (16), in the steppes of Kazakhstan, informed the Flight Control Center (PPA) of Russia. ...

Indy Transponder 26-AUG-2011 1330z

Blue Angels: Real stars are pilots in the war - WCSH-TV | BRUNSWICK, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Thousands of Mainers and tourists will be heading to Brunswick this weekend for the Great State of Maine Air Show. The highlight, of course, is the return appearance of the Navy's Blue Angels precision flying team. ...

American Heroes Air Show Lands in Georgia from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | Buckle up the entire family for high-flying excitement when the American Heroes Air Show, the U.S.'s premier aviation event devoted exclusively to helicopters, returns to the community of Canton outside Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, September 10th. ...

Red Arrows decision 'on day of show' - U.TV | The appearance of the world-famous RAF team was put in doubt after one of its pilots was killed in a crash at the Bournemouth Air Festival last weekend. Flight Lieutenant Joe Egging, 33, died when his Hawk T1 aircraft came down in a field just minutes ...

Aircraft and MiG-Sparks and the ducats on the occasion of Air Show - PAP | For the first time in Poland there is a team of Swiss Air Force aerobatic "Patrouille Suisse", on six airplanes flying Northrop F-5E Tiger II, a team of Croatian Air Force and Defence "Krila Oluje" ...

Prairie Air Show not returning to Peoria airport -- for now - Peoria Journal Star | By DAVE HANEY A contract remains severed between the Peoria airport and the all-volunteer group that has brought in the likes of the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds to the River City over nearly a decade. But officials from both sides say an agreement to ...

War veteran sharing history at air show in West Milford - NorthJersey.com | A B-29 navigator in the 393rd bomb squad, 509th Bomb Wing, and member of crew B-8, Widowsky will be at the Greenwood Lake Air Show this weekend. World War II veteran Jack Widowsky shares memories with Greenwood Lake Airport Manager Tim Wagner at the ...

Tuskegee Airman shares stories of training for war - The Desert Sun | A painting of Tuskegee Airman Rusty Burns, of Sun City, is displayed on a mural honoring the World War II Tuskegee Airmen at Palm Springs Air Museum. Burns was the guest speaker at an educational workshop at the museum on the World War II Tuskegee ...

EAA AirVenture 2011 Demo Air Race TBM 850 vs P-51 Mustang Video from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | -Pembroke Pines, Florida- DAHER-SOCATA has released video highlights of the air race challenge between its TBM 850 very fast turboprop aircraft and a World War II P-51 Mustang fighter, which occurred during the 2011 EAA AirVenture aviation event in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA. The race was held July 29 as part of DAHER-SOCATA's celebration marking 100 years of continuous aircraft by the company and its predecessors ...

Former Air Force Two now part of AMC Museum from Air Force Link Top Stories | The Air Mobility Command Museum here has long been home to many landmarks of American avionic innovation. The retired military and civilian airframes are restored to historically accurate quality by museum volunteers and displayed for the enjoyment of several generations of patrons.  If the planes could talk, they might be asking, "Who's the new guy?" because a special Douglas-built VC-9C aircraft, formerly known as Air Force Two, joined their ranks Aug. 18.  "(The aircraft) is another gem in the crown at the AMC Museum," said Michael Leister, the director of the AMC Museum. ...

Winged Chinook — Boeing Vertol Model BV-347 walkaround -Travel for Aircraft | These images of this rare Chinook were taken April 2011 at the U.S. Army Aviation Museum* but for more photos, as well of images of the interior showing the retracted gondola, please go to this Chinook Helicopter web site**. The gondola must have been a good piece of engineering since a pilot was lowered with a set of flying controls but it must have been a risky proposition for that pilot. The gondola pilot would  ...