Indy Transponder 26-JUN-2011 1230z

Action's up in the air at Quonset air show - Providence Journal | An Air Force C-5 cargo transport opens wide for tours at the Rhode Island National Guard Open House Air Show. An estimated 30000 people attended the show, which continues Sunday. Talk about twisting in the wind! ...

Video: A Flight On 'Fat Albert' - Patch.com | It may not fly as fast or as nimbly as the F/A-18 Hornets, but the Blue Angels' Fat Albert is definitely a showstopper. This plane typically carries the cargo, equipment and support team for the Blue ...

We made it! - Air Race ClassicAir Race Classic - Air Race Classic  by ejackson | We made it to the finish! We have no idea how we did..we will find out tomorrow at the awards banquet! We'll keep you posted. For now, we're completing han…

High Country Warbirds Fly In, June 25, 2011  from PHXspotters by Felipe Garcia | Today was the High Country Warbirds Fly-in, held at the Planes of Fame museum in Valle (40G). When I first learned of the event, I wasn’t sure if I would make it, given that this is final exams weekend; to my good luck, my final was at 8 AM, which would give me plenty of time to make the drive up to Valle to see this. So after the final, I jumped in my truck with my roommate and we headed North…

Parachute team plans local jump - Dubuque Telegraph Herald | The Golden Knights parachute team jump will land in the Kennedy Mall parking lot just off Stoneman Road at 7 pm Saturday, July 2, according to Richardson Motors and Dubuque Mining Co. For more than 52 years, members of the US Army Parachute Team have ...

Unveiling a star at Aviation Heritage Park's annual Hangar Party - Bowling Green Daily News | Six years ago, when a small group of aviation buffs set out to create an aviation park in Bowling Green, they barely even had a plan. “Aviation Heritage Park started out as just a discussion,” ...

'Complex air show' quells Monument Fire - Sierra Vista Herald | Stacking the aircraft begins at the top with an overall air boss, who is a flying air traffic controller supervising all the aircraft coming into and out of the drop areas, he said. In some cases there may be a need to separate the fire fighting into ...

Jessica Cox: turning impossibility into accomplishment - Sunday Times.lk | 'A shot glass of desire is greater than a pitcher of talent': this well known quote by Andy Munthe signified the central theme of the importance of self belief and persistence, in the deliberation by Jessica Cox to over 2000 students on 23 June at ...

Local role in aviation history is significant - Elmira Star-Gazette | Curtiss also trained Lt. Theodore Ellyson, who became US Naval Aviator No. 1. In the following years, the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company manufactured hundreds of aircraft for the US Navy. In an age when air travel and even space travel have become ...

S.E.5A replica – homage to a fierce ‘scout’ of WW1  from Shortfinals's Blog | In March 1917, at the height of the savage fighting on the Western Front in France, No. 56 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, (motto, ‘Quid si coelum ruat’, ‘What if the heavens fall?’) took delivery of a new version of a fighter which was fated to become the mount of the some of the Allies leading ‘aces’. The S.E.5A had arrived...

From wind to waves - and back again!  from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | The Greek Air Force has just salvaged one of its Mirage 2000 fighters. The aircraft crashed on June 9th, very near the coast of the island of Samos, in relatively shallow water (apparently sustaining remarkably little damage in the process). A team of divers and a recovery barge brought it to the surface. Here, posted by the Greek Air Force, are a series of photographs illustrating the recovery…

 

Indy Transponder 08-APR-2011 1030z

Aviation history takes flight – Anchor | From out of the sky and out of the past comes the Quonset Air Museum. Rhode Island's own little air museum is home to over 20 aircrafts that would make any aviation or history enthusiast happy. Located at 488 Eccleston Avenue in North Kingstown, ...

Contest on to shoot Snowbirds over Comox Valley — with cameras, that is - Comox Valley Record | By Staff Writer - Comox Valley Record While the Snowbirds are practising locally until April 19, get out your cameras because the Comox Valley Air Force Museum Association is holding its second annual Snowbirds Photo Contest. ...

Sights and sounds of history - Charleston Post Courier | A World War II-era B-25 Mitchell bomber could be seen -- and possibly heard -- as its two 1700-horsepower, 14-cylinder engines powered it over Charleston on Thursday. It will be on display at Saturday's air show at Charleston Air Force Base, ...

Red Arrows to return at Bournemouth Air Festival - LateRooms.com | The official line-up for the 2011 Bournemouth Air Festival has been unveiled, with the Red Arrows named among a host of display teams taking part in the event. Following weeks of anticipation in the south coast resort, the festival organisers said this ...

The Hornet at Cecil Field — a McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 - Seattle Post Intelligencer | Indeed, I saw a pilot fly a Hornet at an airshow where he flew high G turns with his left wingtip less than 30 feet off the ground – three complete turns with debris flying every which way — go Marine Corps!

2011 CF-18 Demo Jet  from Windsor International Air Show by Sounds of Freedom III - Here's some pictures of the 2011 CF-18 Demo Jet coming to Windsor in September. The theme for this year is Supporting Our Military Families.  I like it. Don't miss it September 10 & 11 over Windsor…

 

Indy Transponder 29-JUN-10 1030z

Win a Chance to Fly with the Thunderbirds - KIONrightnow.com | One of the 5 will be chosed for a ride of a lifetime, a flight with USAF Thunderbird in the F-16C Fighting Falcon on Thursday September 30th The "Hometown ...

Blue Angels charm spectators at air show - SCSU University Chronicle | Like many others in attendance, Johnson and Sommerville said they traveled up from the cities specifically to see the F-22 and the Blue Angels. ...

Before the balloons - Battle Creek Enquirer | The 2010 Field of Flight Air Show and Balloon Festival will feature 47 balloons, acrobatic planes, a US Air Force F-22 in the air, and the usual carnival ...

Highlights from the Great Minnesota Air Show - Minnesota Public Radio | St. Cloud pulled off the new Great Minnesota Air Show over the weekend without a hitch. An estimated 30000 people packed into the St. Cloud Regional Airport ...

United States - Minnesota - Great Minnesota Airshow 2010 - St Cloud - 06/26/10 from FenceCheck Forums - Thanks JT! You should have made the trek up to St. Cloud... the lighting was incredible Sunday when the sun was out and not raining:

Air show, Toby Keith help make Summer Celebration's first weekend a success – WZZM ... Keith with around 15000 people here," Austin says. The festival will hold another air show in 2011, with the US Navy's Blue Angels scheduled to perform.

Crews set up for Rhythm and Booms - WKOW-TV.com | This year's event will feature the US Army Golden Knights, a precision parachute team that will perform two jumps on Saturday. "The second jump with the ...

Quonset Point Rhode Island 2010 Airshow from Military Photos by witchdoctor

18-year-old pilot represents ISU in national air race event - Terre Haute Tribune Star | TERRE HAUTE — As the youngest pilot of 51 competitors, Kay Brown helped ISU rank eighth in the Air Race Classic. Two Indiana State University women who ...

United States - Minnesota - Great Minnesota Airshow 2010 - St Cloud - 06/26/10 from FenceCheck Forums:

Flying History Stops in Rockford – WIFR | "The B-17 was the bomber that won the war in Germany during World War II and there's only 12 flying in the World out of almost 13000 built. ...

Flight on B-17 gives appreciation of WWII heroes - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | During an hour-long flight Monday inside the B-17 bomber Liberty Belle, the 10-year-old boy from Columbus, Ohio, grasped the cold steel of a machine gun, ...

A Once-in-a-Lifetime Flight from AVwebFlash Current Issue | What's the best birthday gift for a 102-year-old? Whatever she wants -- and Myrtle Carroll wanted to go for a ride in one of the little airplanes she enjoys listening to from the porch of her home near the Platte Valley Airport and Vintage Aero Flying Museum in Fort Lupton, Colo. Carroll had only been flying once before in her life, and never in a small airplane. But she loves the sound of the engines buzzing nearby, and when a friend asked if she'd like a ride for her birthday, she said, "Well, yes, I would." On Sunday, Mark Holliday, the museum's chief pilot, who is also the husband of Carroll's caretaker at the assisted-living home, Marilyn Taylor, took her for a spin in the back seat of a Cessna 182. "When you're 102, if you want to fly, you should be able to fly," Taylor told the Greeley Tribune.

"Harrier and Jaguar" by Fiona Banner, which opened... from x planes which opened yesterday at Tate Britain "The suspended Sea Harrier transforms machine into captive bird, the markings tattooing its surface evoking its namesake the Harrier Hawk. A Jaguar lies belly up on the floor, its posture suggestive of a submissive animal. Stripped and polished, its surface functions as a shifting mirror, exposing the audience to its own reactions. Harrier and Jaguar remain ambiguous objects implying both captured beast and fallen trophy."…

Teams pull jetliner 12 feet to raise money - The Newark Advocate | More than 400 people took part in a charity plane pull on Sunday to help the airport celebrate its 85th anniversary. Twenty-two teams heaved on a 60-foot…

Indy Transponder 28-JUN-10 1030z

Fair St. Louis Airshow Will Feature Nationally Renowned Performers from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo | Renowned air show performers will appear over the Mississippi River near the Gateway Arch for Fair St. Louis, July 3-4, 2010.  MUST SEE air show in St. Louis, absent since 2005.  Come to St. Louis Downtown Airport open house this weekend to meet the pilots! Announced aerial acts include:

Art Nalls in his civilian Sea Harrier
Lockheed C-130 and Army Golden Knights
MO Wing CAF B-25 "Show Me" and TBM-3E Avenger
Aeroshell Team - 4 Texans
Gene Saucy - Showcat
John Mohr - Stearman
Jim Maroney - Super Chipmunk
Kirby Chambliss - Edge 540
Red Eagles - Talon Eagle and Red Eagle
Matt Younkin and Twin Beech


Great Minnesota Air Show ends on high note - St. Cloud Times | The second day of the Great Minnesota Air Show attracted thousands to watch the US Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron, the F-22 Raptor and other ...

"Quonset Air Show 2010 Soundtrack" 06-27-10 :: Original Custom ... by Scott Quillin | Tonight's song is a collection of three soundtracks recorded for the Quonset Air Show 2010 video that I put together over the weekend. I'll upload it tomorrow (Monday). Enjoy this song – it's a rocker! Thanks for listening - ...

Airfest 2010 at the Alberta Aviation Museum - iNews880.com | It's a celebration of our aviation history, because Edmonton has one of the biggest in the world. It's about aviation today, what we do today, our museum, ...

Air show attendance dives - Baraboo News Republic | The Scream'n Rebel Formation Demo Team performs at this year's Baraboo Dells Air Show. ...

Tune In Radio Show "Aviation Scholarships Not Just For Kids" - AvStop Aviation News ... Patty Wagstaff, National Aerobatic Champion and air show performer; and Connie Bowlin, Warbird pilot and owner and retired Delta Air Lines pilot; ...

Air Race Classic 2010 Video from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | TUSCALOOSA AL- Last week Tuscaloosa was the second stop of eight including the destination of Frederick MD on the 2,400 mile, 34th Annual Air Race Classic. The all women air racers honored their rich history by taking to the skies at Fort Myers FL in celebration of the 100th year of women pilots and 81 years of women air racing…

Local pilots' spirits soaring after race - Frederick News Post | Pilot Lin Caywood describes participating in the 34th annual Air Race Classic this week as intense, but a lot of fun. ...

AeroExpo - a few quick thoughts from Unicom by Ian Seager | It was hot, numbers were down and the percentage of 'registration enthusiasts' was up. Sunday was inevitably very quiet. The event was pretty well supported by the industry, and while there wasn't stand after stand of new and exciting aviation products there were enough things to see to make a visit worthwhile.

Best of day 7: Better weather, more Texas BBQ and being on TV from Flying Across America | Before telling more about today's flight, we've to publish one picture from Houston. Lots of you want to see the smile of the 5 years old boy that took a discovery flight on N512R yesterday at the 1940 Air Terminal Museum. It was not possible to upload it yesterday because of our bad internet connection, but here it is now. Look at that smile, it says everything about how fun flying is…

Russian T50 Fighter - Next Big Future | The T50 as far as I can tell is competitive with the F22. Below are links to various comparisons of specifications of the T50 and the F22. ...

Battle of Britain: the spitfire, envy of the enemy - Telegraph.co.uk | In the Spitfire's glory days she was the stuff of Boy's Own legends: the iconic aeroplane that epitomised Britain's fighting spirit during the darkest times ...

Frame Grabs from the B-17 Ride at the Indianapolis Airshow from Airspeed by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper) I'm digging through the footage from the Indianapolis Airshow from a couple of weeks ago as I prepare to edit the content down into episodes. And there's some really great footage in there! For the B-17, i mounted a GoPro HD Hero up behind the pilots, as shown above…

For warbirds fans from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | Via an IRC chat session today I was led to this thread on the Warbird Information Exchange. It's 54 pages long at the time of writing, and it's chock-full of wonderful photographs of historical US Navy (plus a few other) combat aircraft. I've included a couple of examples here…

World's only flyable B-29 returns to the skies from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | The world's only flyable B-29 Superfortress "FIFI" will return to the skies Tuesday, June 29, at 8 a.m. for test flights,  according to officials with the Commemorative Air Force. The CAF Airpower Museum will open its doors at 7 a.m. on  June 29 and June 30 for visitors who would like to get a front row seat for FIFI's pre-flight preparations and first flights. Visitors to the museum will be ushered to the main hangar for an up-close view of the crew preparing this massive bomber for her first flight in four years. Once FIFI begins to head for the runways, visitors will be escorted to a prime viewing area, to witness the B-29s first taxi and takeoff. (Schedule subject to change without notice due to inclement weather or mechanical requirements.)

Lightning - P-38 Style from FenceCheck Forums - From the 2010 PoF High Country Warbird Fly In at Valle, AZ (40G):

Photo gallery of B-17, B-24J Liberator, TP-51C Mustang from Aerospace News by aubreycohen@seattlepi.com (Aubrey Cohen) In case you missed it, we posted this photo gallery Friday of a Boeing B-17, Consolidated B-24J Liberator bomber and a rare dual-control, two-seat North American TP-51C Mustang fighter flying from Everett's Paine Field to Seattle's Boeing Field for a visit to the Museum of Flight.

Yankeedog's Flying Circus: QC Air Show-Part 1 of whatever ... by yankeedog | If it's summer here, it must be airshow season. This weekend brought the 24th Annual Quad City Air Show, which has grown a lot from its inception. This year was unusual in that the show didn't feature either the Blue Angels or the ...

90-year-old Davenport airman takes sentimental journey - Quad City Times | JEFF COOK Visitors to the annual Quad-Cities Air Show tour a WW ll-era B-17 in Davenport, Iowa, on Sunday, June 27, 2010. (Jeff Cook/QUAD-CITY TIMES) M. Jim ...

Raise Your Hand If You Like This 1974 BD-5 Promo Pic by Martt | I found this BD-5 promo pic in the Vol. 1 No. 3 edition of the 'BD News' publication put out in 1974. I've got a small stack of amazing Bede promo materials left over from the early 70's when my dad had purchased a BD-5 kit. He sold the kit before it was really even started and put a deposit down on two of the 'D' model airplanes, the ones that were supposed to be a factory built and ready-to-fly. Then shortly after, he traded one of the 'D' slots for an order on a BD-5 Jet. As it would turn out, none of these airplanes would ever be delivered... but at least I've got a stack of cool promo materials to show for all the excitement : )…

Museum Monday: New England Air Museum | Stuck at the Airport by Harriet Baskas ... in this post courtesy Cliff1066 via Flickr Creative Commons. He's got dozens of other great photos from the museum on his Photostream as well. ) Add Comment ». Categories: Airplanes, Aviation history, Exhibits, Museums, aviation ...

Thunderbird wing failure - 1967 from Pilots of America Message Board by Let'sgoflying! Over Air Show Center . . Jerking The Wings Off An F-100 Super-Sabre Supersonic Fighter - Del Rio was several times a movie set for a West Texas border town. It's windy, and the weather tends toward extremes. A large U.S. Air Force Base 6 miles east of town was named after Jack T. Laughlin, a B-17 pilot and Del Rio native killed over Java within a few weeks of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor…

Idaho Canyon Flying: Serious Aviating With a Huge Fun Factor from Av8rdan's World of Flying by Dan Pimentel | We've all know people who love to take their single-engine GA plane into the Idaho backcountry to try and slip into some of the famously difficult dirt and grass strips nestled along pristine streams loaded with trout. We've seen the photos, a little patch of nothing between the trees, with a windsock as the only clue this is an actual air strip…

Randa Milliron: A Spaceport of Her Own from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) Setting up a private rocket site in the remote Tropics of Tonga sounds like a movie supervillain plan, but Randa Milliron of the Mojave, Calif.-based InterOrbital Systems (IOS) explains why it's the best way to get us to orbit and beyond in the recent Podcast interview by Podcaster Dr. Alex "Sandy" Antunes for the 365 Days of Astronomy series [click link for audio]…

Lockheed Martin's quiet green supersonic machine from Plane Talking by Ben Sandilands | The unusual tail design scoped in the LockMart study is intended to disrupt and diminish the supersonic booms generated by SST's. These shock waves were sufficiently intense directly underneath Concordes cruising at close to Mach 2 to damage some buildings and shatter windows, causing it to be banished from flying over populated areas…

Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | As 1944 began, Soviet aeronautical experts were already filtering through information of successful flight tests of British and American jet aircraft and the impending service introduction of rocket- and jet-powered aircraft in the Luftwaffe. The Soviet GKO (State Defense Committee- a wartime organization that ran the Soviet Union during the Second World War), headed by Stalin, quickly concluded that the different efforts by engineers doing research on jet propulsion at the time needed to be consolidated under one organization, the NKAP (People's Commissariat for Aviation Industry).

Indy Transponder 27-JUN-10 1030z

A wing and a prayer - Providence Journal | Pilot Sean D. Tucker cuts a ribbon held between two posts, with the wing of his plane 9 feet off the ground, at the Rhode Island National Guard Open House ...

Blue Angels, more wow crowd of 30000 - St. Cloud Times | The US Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron made its St. Cloud debut Saturday during the first day of the Great Minnesota Air Show. ...

Quonset Air Show 2010 Ready by ilham | The Quonset Air Show is about to blast off and is ready to show the extreme aerial stunts that viewers crave. The air show is completely about fighter planes stripped of the weapons and prepared specially to perform air stunts that ...

BIGGIN HILL: This weekend's air fair to mark Battle of Britain 70th anniversary - This is Local London | THIS weekend's Biggin Hill Air Fair will mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain with a series of spectacular air displays. ...

Thunderpig takes wing at vintage military plane show - Pittsburgh Post Gazette | Thunderpig was the only improbable-looking machine at the Warbirds Experience, an annual event that showcases vintage planes. This year, for the first time, ...

Royal International Air Tattoo | Events diary | Caravan - Running for two days, the Royal International Air Tattoo just keeps getting bigger and better. It's the world's largest military airshow and has gained a well-earned reputation as one of the UK's top outdoor family events. ...

Quad City Air Show Boosts Business - cbs4qc.com | Thousands of people were out Saturday enjoying the Air Show and bringing in big business to the Quad Cities. "We usually have about 30 rooms and tonight we ...

Tora Tora Tora pilots memorialize Bettendorf teen - Quad City Times | The grounds are open from 8 am to 5 pm with aerobatic shows beginning at noon. For more information, visit www.quadcityairshow.com on the web. ...

A few 'Precious' memories of Peppy - News-Journal.com | World War II B-25 bomber pilot and inductee into the American Combat Airman Hall of Fame. College and pro football game official. ...

Sponsor Our Veterans from Windsor International Air Show by Sounds of Freedom II | The Windsor International Air Show and its' volunteers are dedicated to preserving and remembering the significant sacrifices our Veterans made and continue to do so, even in this modern day. Our small thanks consists of giving them the honour and VIP status at our show…

Knowing code pays off for Keyser man who served with Tuskegee Airmen - Cumberland Times-News | Clifton Brooks, 88, recently received a bronze replica of the Congressional Gold Medal that was presented in 2007 to the Tuskegee Airmen, a black aviator ...

Airport event offers chance to experience flight - Idaho State Journal | The Legacy Flight Museum in Rexburg displayed a number of military aircraft during the event, among them the Douglas A1E Skyraider. ...

Hangar Party Features F9F-Panther Jet – WBKO | The party is a fundraiser for Aviation Heritage Park. It featured planes, a silent auction, and special exhibits honoring area Marine Corp, Coast Guard, ...

Dakota Territory Air Museum hosts free event - Minot Daily News | Frank Waldner of Bismarck wiped off his M151A2 Jeep near the Dakota Territory Air Museum right ...

Edmonton Celebrates Airfest 2010 - Aviation.ca | Skies over Edmonton are a buzz this weekend as aircraft both military and civilian make their way to the Alberta Aviation Museum for its annual Airfest ...

Kids fly for free in Richland today - KNDO/KNDU | Planes from all over the area landed at the Richland Airport for a special aviation day tailored to kids. Hundreds of children, ages 8 to 17, ...

Cockpit Conversation by Aviatrix (cockpitconversation@gmail.com) I listened to a radio show about nostalgia (ha! "I listened to a radio show" is nostalgia enough for some people). The research conclusion was that people like nostalgia because they are pleased to be able to remember something from the past, especially something that their peers confirm that they remember too, proving that it's a correct memory. It's the opposite of the feeling you get when you can't remember how to do something you once did every day…

Cosmonaut Museum for 50th Year of Gagarin from Spaceports by jack@jackkennedy.net (JackKennedy) A visit to Moscow this year and next would be incomplete without touring the Cosmonaut Space Museum and giving a hat tip to the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin [narrated video inside the museum]. It will be fifty (50) years ago on April 12, 2011 that Gagarin rocketed into orbital space and into the history books…