Indy Transponder 21-NOV-2011 2330z

The Russians are coming... - Otago Daily Times | A rare Russian Yak 3 fighter plane and two Supermarine Spitfires have been announced as attractions at next year's Warbirds Over Wanaka Airshow.  The Yak 3, part-owned by...

NTSB: Cause Of Fatal Air Show Crash Unclear - AVweb | Evidence shows that the engine quit on Kyle Franklin's Waco during an air show in March, but NTSB investigators had no luck finding out why, according to the board's final report, published this week. Franklin's wife, Amanda, who performed as a wingwalker in the show, suffered extensive burns in the forced landing and died about two months later. "Post-accident examination of the engine and its fuel system revealed no anomalies that would have precluded normal operations," the NTSB concluded....

First in the Air German aviation pioneer Karl Jatho took off before the Wright brothe... - pprune | On August 18th 1903, aviation pioneer Karl Jatho took to the skies - four months ahead of Orville Wright. Since the achievement of this German airplane builder was never mentioned in any encyclopedia, his machine, most probably the first successful motorized aircraft in history, was rebulit, using historical blueprints [videos included]....

A lifetime of aviation wisdom offered by Barry Schiff to reward a pilot or flight instructor - Women of Aviation | I have been a fan of Barry Schiff since I began taking flight lessons. Most flight training material that I found seemed to always fall short of truly explaining the whys of the facts stated. As outstanding flight instructors do, Barry offered more than information in his Proficient Pilot column in AOPA Pilot magazine; he offered insight....

CARL VINSON WWII FLY OFF - ASB Video | I've got a couple hundred hours that capture all the behind the scenes of the End Of WWII Warbird Fly Off on the USS Carl Vinson. I've been thinking of doing a docu on it.... let me know if it is something you think folks would be interested in. Uploaded By:  Ed Shipley

The Latest from AirboydTV:

• Rhine Airborne Operations (1945)
• Carrier Force Strikes Formosa (1945)
• Spitfires And P-38s Accept The Challenge (1943)
• Budapest Ferihegy Airport (1956)
• The Story Of Naval Aviation (1954)

A-12 Avenger II: bits of it are for sale - The Unwanted Blog | It looks like Purdue University in Indiana has the canopy from a McDonnell-Douglas A-12 Avenger II, and they’ve put it up for auction. Only a few hours left, so if this is what you’ve been needing to finish that A-12 in the garage… here ya go....

Challenges: River dance - AOPA | Floatplane flying combines the best of both worlds | Let’s all tip our caps to aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss, who was one of the first to brainstorm the possibility of marrying a boat to an airplane. Curtiss attached pontoons to a biplane and managed to get airborne in 1911, and pilots have enjoyed both the utility and the fun of being able to land and take off on water ever since....

Maverick “flying dunebuggy” in production - AOPA Pilot | The company called Itec/Beyond Roads has delivered four of its “Maverick” powered-parachutes with a driveable dunebuggy used as a cockpit. It is approved as a light sport aircraft, a category the includes powered parachutes. One is going to Dubai, and factory reps may travel there in a few weeks to provide training to the new customer. Deliveries are cautiously made only to experienced customers until fleet...

China's Maritime Patroller - Ares | China's AVIC-Shanxii Y-8F-600, a modernized version of a reverse-engineered Antonov An-12, is spawning a growing family of special-use variants without having apparently entered service as a transport. Two AEW versions (one with a...

Indy Transponder 20-MAY-2011 1030z

Benefit planned for air show performers - Brownsville Herald | Brownsville's Commemorative Air Force has scheduled a June 4 fundraising benefit for Kyle and Amanda Franklin, the husband-and-wife aerobatic team seriously injured during Air Fiesta in March when their plane lost ...

Air Show Adds Stealth Bomber To Event Lineup - The Dispatch | OCEAN CITY -- One week after a headline act of the 2011 Ocean City Air Show became jeopardized, organizers this week announced a B-2 Stealth Bomber flyover had been added to this year's line-up. Air Show organizer Bryan Lilley said the Air Force B-2 ...

Look to the skies for Gibraltar's festival of the seas - Olive Press | GIBRALTAR'S Festival of the Seas will reach a spectacular climax on Sunday with an aerobatic display led by a former Red Arrows leader. The Blades Aerobatic Display Team, including former Red Arrows pilots and a world championship aerobatic instructor, ...

Lynchburg Air Show features Navy's Blue Angels - Roanoke Times | US Navy pilots with the Blue Angels arrive at Lynchburg Regional Airport on Thursday for the Lynchburg Regional Airshow this Saturday and Sunday. Parking is available on Liberty University campus. Shuttles will take visitors to and from ...

Vintage bomber is rolled out for restoration work - Cambridge News | Experts at the Imperial War Museum Duxford had to roll B-17 Flying Fortress Mary Alice out of her hangar at the American War Museum in pieces yesterday as they started a year-long conservation project. The delicate and painstaking process of taking off ...

Air show returns to GarCo Airport - Citizen Telegram | The highlight of the event will be Aaron Tippin's Red White & Loud concert sponsored by Alpine Bank, Drive 105 and Mr. T's Building and Hardware. Aaron and the Commemorative Air force B-24 airplane will fly into the Rifle Airport and provide a rare ...

“Titanium Goose” walkaround — Lockheed’s rare A-12 “Blackbird” 2nd part  from Travel for Aircraft | The A-12 is an advanced design, even by today’s standards as was discussed in the post that was published two days prior to this one. There’s no need to repeat, so this post will serve to show and mention a bit more detail about this splendid aircraft…

Above and Beyond: Warner and the Whale  from Air & Space Magazine 

Air Force Week in Photos  from Air Force Link Top Stories by afnews@dma.mil  | This week's photo highlights feature Airmen around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force…

Today in Aviation History – May 20  from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal

Sunset Head Down Jump by Tazio Madliger!  from Bonjour BlueSky 

 

Indy Transponder 15-MAY-2011 1030z

Neosho hosts benefit for Kyle and Amanda Franklin - Neosho, Mo. —  In a show of community camaraderie, an estimated 500 people turned out to support aviators Kyle and Amanda Franklin Saturday morning at Neosho’s Hugh Robinson Memorial Airport.  The Franklin Fundraiser pulled in $20,186 to go toward medical expenses for the couple who were burned when their engine caught fire over the Air Fiesta 2011 at the Brownsville-South Padre Island International Airport on March 12. Kyle was in the cockpit and was burned as he tried to help his wife. Amanda was on the wing when the fire started and worked her way toward the cockpit before a short landing. She took third-degree burns to 70 percent of her body and remains in critical condition in a San Antonio hospital…

Planes of Fame Air Show draws record crowd - Contra Costa Times | CHINO - The annual Planes of Fame Air Show drew thousands of people eager to learn about historic and modern aircraft Saturday. Brian E. Boyer, chairman of the museum's Board of Directors, estimated they might have attracted more visitors than in ...

Salinas' own Sean D. Tucker shows veteran pilots how to be safer in the air - www.thecalifornian.com | Over the course of his 30-plus years flying aerobatics around the globe, it would be fair to say that Sean D. Tucker has encountered his share of mid-flight emergencies…

New River Air Show gives glimpse into lives of Marines – WNCT | JACKSONVILLE, NC- Thousands of people from across the East came out to get a firsthand look at Marine Corps aircraft and at the 2011 New River Air Show. (more) JACKSONVILLE, NC- Thousands of people from across the East came out to get a first hand ...

54 Guest Fly out of Renton Airport Today  from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | Renton Airport does it again, thanks to incredible people with their outgoing spirits and willingness to give back to their flying community!   A special THANK YOU to our ground helpers... Lauren, Christine, Katie, Zach, Kathy, and Carolann! You were all awesome!   An EXTRA special THANK YOU to our pilots, Dale, Gary, Tom, Peter, Jay, and Rochelle. Thank you for taking our helpers flying too! Thank you Austin for coming down and giving it a try on the lake, too. Christine loved the ride… 

Texas Students Take First Place in Team America Rocketry Challenge Final Flyoff - PR Newswire | THE PLAINS, Va., May 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A team from Rockwall-Heath High School in Heath, Tex., took first place at the ninth annual Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) finals Saturday afternoon, besting 99 teams from across the ...

Lindbergh 'link' between early flight, space tourism - Alamogordo Daily News | In 2004, Burt Rutan and Paul Allen won the $10 million Ansari X-Prize as the first non-governmental entity to fly to space, land, and re-launch within two weeks. The competition was based on the Orteig concept. Lindbergh, Webber said, "was a link ...

The ICON-oclast of the Air, Land, and Sea  from Flight Monkeys | With the announcement of the Sport Pilot certificate and the Light Sport Aircraft category, the FAA opened the door to innovation based on a clean sheet of paper. Perhaps no company has seized on that opportunity with the zeal that ICON has...

1940-1970s pilot photos  from Heritage flight gear / flying gear displays by Phil | More flightgear photos from the classic era of flying... when some flying was dangerous and sex safe... Fast foward 60years and sex is now dangerous and flying is much safer - who would of thought such changes!  In the early jet age, each pilot spent years to get where they were, by undergoing training….

Today in Aviation History – May 15  from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal

Indy Transponder 30-APR-2011 0419z

'Synergy' Aircraft Revealed, Prepares To Lead A Revolution - AirPigz | These illustrations and the 1/4 scale model seen here are of an all new aircraft called Synergy that's getting close to being completed in full scale form.  Even more, this aircraft truly represents a 'synergy' of advanced aerodynamic ideas that just might see it revolutionize the world of aviation...

Benefit for Kyle and Amanda Franklin to be Held May 14 - The Aero Experience | A fundraiser is being organized to help raise money for Amanda and Kyle Franklin, who were seriously injured while performing in an air show earlier this year...

Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell takes the plunge - Washington Post | Update, 6:50 p.m.: Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell, along with her daughter Cailin, participated in a tandem parachute jump with the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights Parachute Team this morning in Dinwiddie. The first lady and her daughter jumped as part of her ongoing work to raise awareness of the need to support Virginia’s military families...

Women in Aviation: Coast Guard aviators of tomorrow - Coast Guard | It was 1911 when small town girl Harriet Quimby moved from Michigan to New York. Inspired by the challenge of flying an “aeroplane,” Quimby took flying lessons and on August 1, 1911, became the first American woman to get her pilot’s license. In the 100 years since, women have gone on to fly around the world and launch into space...

“My other ramp is on a C-17.” The CV-22 ramp may not be the biggest - You Like Airplanes, Too? | U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Eric Wiggins, an Air Force CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft flight engineer from the 8th Special Operations Squadron (SOS) “Black Birds,” sits on the back ramp Jan. 26, 2011, scanning the area during a local training mission at Hurlburt Field, Fla...

WWII Heritage Days this weekend at PTC’s Falcon Field - The Citizen | PEACHTREE CITY, GA — “Remember Pearl Harbor!” Rosie the Riveter, and Glenn Miller. Experience the sights and sounds of the Greatest Generation when the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Dixie Wing hosts the eighth annual “WWII Heritage Days” April 30-May 1, 2011. The history festival will be held at The Historical Airpower Facility, Atlanta Regional Airport Falcon Field, Peachtree City from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. both days...

WASP program part of OTC observance - Wings 1944 | Texas Gov. Ann Richards once said that Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, only she did it backward and in high heels. That sentiment certainly resonates with Nancy Parrish, whose mother, Deanie Parrish, was a member of the Women's Air Force Service Pilots...

ebook: Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation through World War I - EBooksFreeDownload | At the start of the twentieth century the United States led the world in advances in aviation, with the first successful engine-powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903. Fifteen years later, however...

Retweeted by StephenForce and others - @usairforce | Today in 1918, Lt. Edward V. Rickenbacker downed his first enemy aircraft.

Indianapolis Aero Club - Since 1933: May 10, 2011 Meeting: Jonathan Gaffney - President National Aeronautic Association - Indy Aero Club | 100th Anniversary of the Collier Trophy - JONATHAN GAFFNEY became 31st President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Aeronautic Association in 2007. Since that time, he and the staff of NAA have transformed one of the world’s oldest aeronautical organizations into a vibrant, sustainable association dedicated to its
original charter: "...the advancement of the art, sport and science of aviation in the United States."...

VIDEO: NASA's AirSTAR Model Plane - AIRBOYD | Courtesy: NASA Langley Research Center. The remotely-piloted Airborne Subscale Transport Aircraft Research (AirSTAR) generic transport model demonstrates software and control systems that may some day make airliners safer.

The Spirit of Kitty Hawk Moves to Its New Home - Nuts About Southwest | While it hasn’t been a secret, we really haven’t publicized our exciting preservation/museum project yet.  However, you certainly will know something is different if you pass the corner of Lemmon Avenue and Mockingbird Lane starting today here at Love Field.  A big shiny Southwest 737 is half-inside and half-outside the Frontiers of Flight Museum...

Airline pilots visit fifth-grade classrooms in Glendale - AZ Central | Legend Springs Elementary School fifth-graders got a taste of what it's like to be an aviator from four pilots. The visits were part of Southwest Airlines' Adopt-A-Pilot program that pairs a pilot with a fifth-grade class to learn about the science of aviation, the career of a commercial pilot and goal setting...

NASA Heavy-Lift May Result in Bid Protests - Spaceports | As NASA hashes out an acquisition strategy for building a congressionally mandated heavy-lift launch vehicle that leverages space shuttle and Ares rocket technologies, agency officials are hoping to minimize the potential for a formal protest from industry...

President Visits Astronauts After Delay - Spaceports | President Barack Obama meets with Space Shuttle Endeavor commander Mark Kelly, husband of wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and shuttle astronauts...

Missouri family's song likely to be wake-up music for Endeavour astronauts - STL Today | The Plunkett family of Halfway, Mo., had mixed feelings about today's decision to scratch the shuttle Endeavour launch. They were half glad the launch was scrapped because it meant more time to rack up votes for their song, "Dreams You Give," to be chosen as a winner of the NASA Space Rock Contest...

Indy Transponder 19-APR-2011 0417z

P-40C Takes to the Air! - Another Time | News is circulating that another P-40C has flown!  Special thanks go out to Colin Hunter for allowing me to post a picture of Rod Lewis's P-40C that is fresh from restoration at Avspecs Limited in New Zealand...

Fundraiser set for injured stunt flyers - Neosho Daily News | Neosho, Mo. — A fundraiser for a local couple seriously injured during an aerobatic routine at a Texas airshow last month has been set for May. The Neosho Franklin Fundraiser, a benefit for Kyle and Amanda Franklin, Neosho, is set for May 14 at the Neosho Hugh Robinson Airport. The event will include plane rides, a static display, a remote controlled plane display, children’s activities, live entertainment, food vendors and more...

Lindbergh Prize Goes To Pipistrel - AVweb | Pipistrel's Taurus Electro won the 2011 Lindbergh Electric Aircraft Prize for "best electric aircraft" at the Aero Friedrichshafen trade show last week in Germany. The prize, awarded by Erik Lindbergh's nonprofit group, recognized the Electro's "plug and play" electric power system, enhanced by solar panels on the...

1942: Cape airman among first to bomb Japan in WWII; 2007: Bee colonies collapse on Cape - Cape Cod Today | On this day in 1942, a Cape Codder was among 80 airmen to bomb Japan in the Doolittle Raid, the first US air attack on Japan in World War II. Coming less than five months after the devastating Japanese assault on the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, the Doolittle Raid, named for its commanding officer, James "Jimmy" Doolittle, caused little damage in Japan...

VIDEOS: World War II Plane Visiting Hillsboro - KXL | The B-17 Bomber, Liberty Belle, is offering flights out of Hillsboro Airport this weekend. The Flying Fortress costs $4,500 per hour to operate and would be scraped if people didn't take rides on her. You can schedule a flight this Saturday or Sunday at www.Libertyfoundation.org KXL's Mike Turner went up in the plane and shot this video...

VIDEO: Now this is flying…Texas Flying Legend’s Style! - Warbird Radio | Our friends at the Texas Flying Legends Museum certainly know how to put on a show…  Take a look at this video from their recent airshow in St. Barths.  Enjoy the video!

Female pilot marks Spitfire’s 75th anniversary - You Fly Girl | This news is from March 5, 2011. BBC: Female pilot marks Spitfire’s 75th anniversary
Carolyn Grace, 58, thought to be the world's only female Spitfire pilot, gave the public a view of her plane over Southampton Water earlier...

High flying pilot keeps her feet on the ground - You Fly Girl | Perhaps you’ve seen Doris Lockness driving her 1999 S-type Jaguar to the grocery store or maybe you’ve met her at the Senior Citizen Center in El Dorado Hills. If you’re an aviation enthusiast, you may know that Doris used to be a WASP (Women Air Force Service Pilots) in WWII delivering military aircraft from the factories to military bases nationwide, and a flight instructor...

Blog Archive » Kim Ewing (Georgia) - Ladies Love Taildraggers | I began flying in 2006, right after I graduated from high school. My aunt and uncle own and operate Bermuda High Soaring School in Lancaster, South Carolina and I learned how to fly in gliders with my uncle as my CFIG. After that, I was definitely “bitten by the bug”...

Four companies win big money via NASA’s CCDEV-2 awards - NASA Space Flight | NASA has awarded four Space Act Agreements in the second round of the agency’s Commercial Crew Development (CCDev-2), a commercial effort aimed to foster domestic crew transportation by the middle of the decade. The winners – ranging from lifting body to capsule spacecrafts – were Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Boeing...

NASA Awards $269-Million in CCDev2: New US Capability to Fly Astronauts Developing - Spaceports | Boeing Co. garnered the largest of four NASA Space Act Agreement awards designed to nurture the development of commercially operated astronaut transport systems, landing a deal worth $92.3 million to refine the design of its CST-100 crew capsule, the U.S. space agency announced Monday, April 18, 2011...