Showing posts with label Meteor. Show all posts
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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Indy Transponder 16-FEB-2013 0415z

Udvar-Hazy Receives Howard Hughes Memorial Award - Flying Magazine | Last night, the Aero Club of Southern California (ACSC) awarded Steven Udvar-Hazy the 34th Howard Hughes Memorial Award for his lifetime contributions to aviation. Udvar-Hazy spearheaded aircraft leasing services with his International Lease Finance ...
Mr. Yuk seemed appropriate

Langley Cancels Air Show - jble.af.mil | The 2013 Air Power Over Hampton Roads Open House and Air Show, scheduled for May 3-5, has been cancelled.... The decision to cancel the air show and open house at Langley Air Force Base was not easy considering the show's popularity and the Hampton Road area's support of the military....

Luke Cancels Air Show - Luke AFB | Today Luke AFB officials regretfully announce that Luke's 2013 Open House and Air Show, "Storm on the Horizon," originally scheduled for Mar 16-17, is canceled....

Wings Over Wayne Air Show cancelled - Seymour Johnson AFB | The 2013 Wings Over Wayne Open House and Air Show, scheduled for May 18-19, has been cancelled. Driven by the dual threat of operating under a continuing resolution and potential sequestration, U.S. Air Force leadership at all levels are proactively implementing near-term actions to minimize impacts to our people while protecting warrior programs and operational readiness....

Dover air base starts belt-tightening ahead of cuts - USA Today | Wartime operations: essential. Base open house: not essential. Civilian manning, maintenance, training flight hours: to be determined....

Swiss Air Force To Cut Jet Demonstration Team from Aero-News Network | President Says Patrouille Suisse To Be Disbanded By 2016 During a parliamentary security meeting Tuesday in Berne, Switzerland, President Ueli Maurer said that the country's jet demonstration team, the Patrouille Suisse, would be disbanded by 2016. The team has been in existence since 1964.

Aerobatic demonstrations, plane rides only part of upcoming Airport Expo - Weakley County Press | There will be fly-in and static aviation displays set up at the airport as well as aerobatic demonstrations, airplane and helicopter rides, and what is being described as youth aviation adventures. There is no admission fee to attend the Airport Expo ...

St. Louis County Airshow Returns in 2014: A Look Back at the 2006-2007 Airshows from The Aero Experience - Celebrating Midwest Aviation by Carmelo Turdo | The Midwest aviation community received some great news a few months ago - St. Louis County will bring back the airshow at Spirit of St. Louis Airport in 2014, with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels as the headliner. No doubt other top-tier performers will ...

Red Arrows display for Largs skies - Largs and Millport Weekly News | The Largs Events group have revealed their full plans for a two-day highland games spectacular, potentially including a flyover from the Red Arrows. At a recent meeting of Largs Community Council, committee member Ian Murdoch told of plans by Grahame ...

"With this kind of thrill of flying had to do little '  - Tages-Anzeiger Online | ... Former military and patrol-Suisse-pilot Walter Böhm. "In 1979, I jumped for the former commander of the Swiss Air Force, Major General Markus, and won in England at the Royal International Air Tattoo the first prize," says the 70-year-old.

San Diego Air & Space Museum Celebrates 50 Years of Excellence - ScoopSanDiego.com | The San Diego Air & Space Museum celebrates its 50th anniversary of opening to the public tomorrow, February 15th. In honor of 50 years of excellence, the Museum released its long-awaited guidebook, Celebrating: a History of the Museum and its ...

Air Force Week in Photos from Air Force Link Top Stories | This week's photos 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. View the slideshow.

Royal NZ Air Force Heritage Day - 10 April 2013 from MRC Aviation by Mike Condon | Bluebus from www.nzcivair.blogspot.com has drawn our attention to the following event to be held at the Lakeland Linder Airport, Florida on 10 April 2013.

Night in the 40's - Big Band Dance at Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing ... - newszap.com | There will also be a contest for the best-dressed 1940's costume, a swing dance contest, and participants will have the opportunity to get their picture taken in front of the B-17 Sentimental Journey. Food and refreshments will be available for ...

Checking Out Interesting Avgeek Opinions In Recent AirPigz Polls from AirPigz by Martt | I really enjoy putting up polls for avgeeks to vote in, and I'll admit that it's partly to see what you think and mostly to try to make some sort of point. I've always considered myself a bit of an eccentric thinker... not a bizarre weirdo, but someone who makes a specific effort to look a little deeper and with a longer view in mind. So you can imagine that I'm both surprised and pleased to see that...

Representative Introduces Bill To Transfer Air Museum To City - OPB News | Washington Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler has introduced a bill that would transfer Vancouver's Pearson Air Museum into city ownership. This is one of several efforts to resolve the spat between the Parks administrators who own the Museum and ...

Stinson V-77 Project Donated to APM from Antique Airfield News
APM Restoration Center Update from Antique Airfield News

Hurricane sold to French buyer from The Kathryn Report | Wanaka's World War II Hawker Hurricane P3351 fighter plane has been dismantled and shipped to a new owner in France.The plane, a feature of the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow since 2000, was the last airworthy asset of the Alpine Fighter Collection established by Sir Tim Wallis.Alpine Group chief executive Jonathan Wallis this week confirmed the plane's sale but declined to say who...

Skydive Dubai and Balloon Adventures (ballooning-uae) broke two... from Bonjour BlueSky | Skydive Dubai and Balloon Adventures (ballooning-uae) broke two official...

Fort Payne Students Win Aviation Competition from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | FORT PAYNE AL - The Real World Design Challenge (RWDC) is an annual competition that provides high school students, grades 9-12, the opportunity to work on real world engineering challenges in a team environment. Each year, student teams will be asked to address a challenge that confronts our nation's leading industries...

Russian Meteor Impact Simulation Created from Spaceports |  AGI aerospace engineers have used our Systems Tool Kit (STK) software to create a simulation based on publically available information showing the trajectory of the meteor striking in the Russian Ural Mountantins, as well as the trajectory of asteroid 2012 DA14, which had a close approach today....

Monday, November 17, 2008

Indy Transponder 17-November 0324z

Blues gets new leader - Pensacola News Journal, FL
He joined the flight demonstration team, in September. McWherter, a 1990 graduate of The Citadel, is a former Top Gun instructor and commander of the World ...

Blues bring it home Pensacola News Journal
Blue Angels final 2008 show - GTP Forums
Photo: AJ-clicks

Air Force Week underway in Los Angeles from Air Force Times - News
LOS ANGELES — Air Force Week in Los Angeles kicked off Friday with an opening ceremony, expo and aircraft flyover at the Hollywood & Highland Center in the heart of Hollywood.

'Fly Girls' Exhibit Honors First Military Women Aviators from Aero-News Network
WASPs Paved The Way For Future Generations Of Military Women To Serve On November 14, the same day the first woman was promoted to the rank of four-star general, the "Fly Girls of World War II" exhibit opened in honor of the first US military-trained women aviators.
[Photo from PattyWagstaff.com]

Tuskegee Airman to speak at SPFHS Alumni Association meeting Nov. 18 - Suburban News, NJ
Nettingham was a radio operator and a gunner on a B-25 in the 477th Bomb Group and mentions that, at 89, age takes its toll on the remaining ranks of ...

Woman receives piece of uncle’s downed B-24 from Stars and Stripes
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Shirley Morehead plans to place a piece of metal in an honored place in her Canton, Ohio, home as a memorial to an uncle she's mourned for some 63 years. It's a c...

Hiroshima historian returns fragments of shot-down bomber to loved ones in U.S.
from Stars and Stripes
The remnants of a U.S. Army B-24 Liberator shot down over Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II were returned to U.S. soil last week. The pieces of fuselage from the "Taloa" had...

Curtiss P-40N Warhawk - N85104 - Video from Military Photos by livingwarbirds
Video of the Curtiss P-40N Warhawk - N85104. Shot last summer in Camarillo California

Ex-RAAF pilot turns to air racing - The Age, Australia
A former RAAF fighter pilot who flew combat operations in Iraq will become the first Australian to fly in the Red Bull Air Race. NSW man Matt Hall obtained ...

Newark Air Museum 16-11-08 from avimuseumzone by WireFox
Whilst re-painting the Mig 23ML at the museum (yes, not only do I 'yap' about aircraft, I do get my 'hands dirty' often at my local museum. Here is some shots taken today during lunch-break. ...

Museum report- East Kirkby 15-11-08 from avimuseumzone by WireFox
This is the Lincolnshire Aviation Museum at East Kirkby in Lincolnshire on the Skegness road the A155. This museum has been open for some years now and gets better everytime we visit it.
It was opened by to farmers who own the land which this former wartime bomber was sixty odd years ago, in memory of their elder brother killed on active service with Bomber Command during the war. ...

M is for… from Looking skyward by Flighty
Meteors
It seemed somewhat incredible that on Friday 6th June this year this Meteor T.7 wl419 that I saw fly overhead to land at RAF Northolt for that weekend’s Families Day and Charity Photocall has it’s origins back in World War Two! ...

Remembrance Day 2008 # 1: Got there and Initial Pictures
from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney
In my last post, I indicated that the weather was not too good for the trip to Masterton/Hood Aerodrome for the Remembrance Day flying display. The Wellington ATIS* was reporting a surface wind of 340 deg, 25 knots, gusting to 35 knots and the 2000' wind was 330 deg, 32 knots. This may not sound too bad, except that Wellington consists of, and is surrounded by, a multitude of hills. Also, due to cloud, we had to travel south of the ranges positioned to the east of Wellington, so we anticipated getting a hammering. ...
Remembrance Day 2008 # 2: Stampe SV.4
from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney
Here are a number of pictures of the Stampe SV.4. I'm not too familiar with this type, although as one commentator [at the flying display] stated, it looks similar to an DH82A [Tiger Moth]. Perhaps, if you don't look to closely at the tail, the wings or the fuselage [did I miss anything?] :-) ...

Remembrance Day 2008 # 3: Pfalz DIII
from Rodney's Aviation Ramblings by Rodney
The Pfalz DIII was a German fighter aircraft and to my mind one of the more streamlined aircraft of World War One [note the rounded fuselage]. As with all the other aircraft, this one put on a nice display both by itself and in conjunction with the other aircraft. ...
Business aviation to shine at Bahrain's new airshow from www.ainonline.com : Latest News
Business aviation will be an important facet of the new Bahrain Airshow to be staged in the Arabian Gulf state from January 21 to 23, 2010. The show will feature purpose-built chalets in front of which exhibitors will be able to park their display aircraft.

Young Eagle Program: Scouts Fly - KLTV, TX
These youngsters became young eagles after their flight, alll part of a program created in 1993 to get young people interested in flying. ...

Shuttle reaches space station - United Press International
HOUSTON, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- The US space shuttle Endeavour reached the International Space Station Sunday afternoon, NASA said. With commander Chris Ferguson at the controls, Endeavour docked with the space station's Harmony Node at 5:01 pm EST.

Uncontrolled Airspace #108 "I Can Taste the Sake"
from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast

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Aviation Nation 2008 Airshow Pictures from Military Photos by Chucky