Indy Transponder 21-MAY-2013 0030z

Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach - News 12 Long Island | John Klatt of the National Guard Reserve; Sean D. Tucker of Team Oracle; Aerobatic Pilot Matt Chapman; Rob Holland Ultimate Air shows; The Raiders Demonstration Team; Kirby Chambliss of Team Chambliss; the Red Bull Air Force Skydiver Parachute ...

Memorial Day at the CAF Bring the B-25 Devil Dog and FREE Fun - Permianbasin360 | MIDLAND -- This Memorial Day, Mon., May 27, 2013, join the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) for a celebration honoring those who fought for our freedom. The event begins 11 a.m. at the CAF where families can see the B-25 Devil Dog and enjoy traditional...

Airshow To Return To Cape Girardeau - KRCU | Acrobatic aerial stunts and the roar of airplane engines will return to the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport this summer. The airport will host an airshow on Friday, June 28 and Saturday, June 29. This will be the first airshow in Cape Girardeau since 2010.

YARS announces plans for 2014 air show - Youngstown Air Reserve Station - Youngstown Air Reserve Station | YOUNGSTOWN AIR RESERVE STATION, Ohio -- The 910th Airlift Wing is planning to hose an air show here in late Summer, 2014. The purpose of the event is to thank the community for their support, build awareness of installation capabilities, ...

Their favorite week of the year… from General Aviation News | The folks at Calhoun Air Center in Texas have posted a video on their favorite week of the year…WOAW 2013.

New Orleans FBO hosts B-17 from General Aviation News | NEW ORLEANS – Hawthorne Global Aviation Services, an FBO at Lakefront Airport in New Orleans, will host the Texas Raiders, an authentically restored World War II B-17 Bomber owned and operated by the Commemorative Air Force, on the weekend of June 1-2....

Summer plans and Melissa Pemberton - Apron 6 | ...Below another pic from the Sanicole ’11 album. I had the luck to photograph in front of the crowd line, between the planes. It gave me some nice photo opportunities like this one: Melissa Pemberton ready to take the Extra 300 for a spin. I tried to be subtle with the HDR (except for the clouds).

A flight of remembrance - Canton Daily Ledger | This year was a special one for the Fly-in Drive-in as a B25 Mitchell Bomber performed its first show of Canton. The B-25 Bomber, the type of plane that had dropped bombs on Japan during WWII, was part of the Commemorative Air Force - Missouri Wing....

F-35B vertical takeoff video from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | At long last, Lockheed Martin has released the video of the first F-35B vertical takeoff on 10 May. For whatever reason, NAVAIR and the F-35 Joint Program Office would not clear this for release at the time of the event...

Mc Donnell Douglas YC-15 (part 4) from The Lexicans | In January 1978, the same day the AMST program ended, the C-X (cargo experimental) program began. The CX program was needed because formulation of the Pentagon’s RDF (Rapid Deployment Force) in the late 1970s. CX would serve as RDF’s airborne transport. In short CX combined the roles of strategic and tactical airlifters...

Video: X-47B touch and goes onboard USS George H W Bush from The DEW Line by Dave Majumdar | The Northrop Grumman X-47B unmanned combat air system demonstrator (UCAS-D) made its first touch and go onboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) on 17 May.

Hot air balloons collide in Turkey - CNN | One person was killed and at least 18 were injured when hot air balloons collided in mid-air in Turkey.

CAP cadets headed to Air Force Academy from Headline News - Civil Air Patrol | NEW MEXICO/NEW JERSEY -- Hanson Oxford, a cadet in the Socorro Composite Squadron of Civil Air Patrol New Mexico Wing, and Stefan Curcic of the New Jersey Wing’s General Jimmy Stewart Composite Squadron, based in Sayreville, have received and accepted appointments to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Oxford, a cadet captain, and Curcic, a second lieutenant, will begin their Air Force Academy training in June.

Mich. teens get to experience the thrill of aviation from Headline News - Civil Air Patrol | MICHIGAN -- Eight area teens experienced the thrill of aviation, through orientation flights with Civil Air Patrol at Abrams Municipal Airport in Grand Ledge. The cadets’ hour-long flights in single-engine Cessna aircraft introduced the cadets to the science that makes flight possible. They learned about navigation, weather, aircraft instruments, flight maneuvers, and more. While aloft, the cadets got to handle the controls, during the non-critical stages of the flight.

Indy Transponder 05-MAR-2013 1700z

‘Icekosh’ Fly-In a success from General Aviation News | EAA Chapter 551′s Mark Priglmeier recently sent out an email blast with a review of the Twin Pines Resort Fly-in Review — with the headline “WOW!” More than 55 planes flew in — on ice — leading one attendee Dave Tannehill to dub it “Icekosh,” with a nod to the year’s biggest show in Oshkosh....

Planning continues for Fargo AirSho despite Blue Angels' murky future - In-Forum | FARGO – Fargo AirSho organizers are moving ahead with plans for the August show, despite uncertainty over whether federal budget cuts will ground its star act, the Navy's Blue Angels. AirSho committee co-chairman Mike Haugen said Monday he'd been in ...

Mojave Fly-In - April 20th from 10:00 - 2:00, on the Mojave Airport. An experimental aircraft fly-in with a focus on prototype, research and development aircraft. All aircraft welcome.

Flights of fancy - Stuff.co.nz | The Royal New Zealand Air Force Red Checkers aerobatics team has been above Invercargill and Te Anau this afternoon. Crowds gathered in various vantage points including the airport, along the road to Otatara and on the banks of the Waihopai to catch ...

Raiders Demo Team - The team provides a unique and exciting 4 to 6 aircraft formation aerobatic demonstration. The Raider Pilots are Level II Qualified in both formation and solo aerobatics and display the capabilities of the Yahkovlev 52 and Nanchang CJ6 aircraft in precision formation and solo aerobatic flight always at show center.

WWII B-17 begins national tour in Atlanta - Online Athens | With four engines producing 4800 horsepower, the B-17 was the workhorse heavy bomber used against the Axis powers. There were 50 caliber machine guns on each side and a ball turret below. Crews favored the B-17 because it could take anti-aircraft fire ...

Cuts Ground Blue Angels, Thunderbirds; Ex-Air Force One Pilot Reacts - KWTX | ...Having the fate of both flying teams in the air is unsettling for many fans, including 88-year-old Brigadier General Jim Cross, USAF (Ret.) "I would love for my great grandchildren to be able to see the Thunderbirds and the Blue Angels right now," Cross said. "Unfortunately, they may never get to see them again." Cross saw the Thunderbirds in 1947, six years before they were formally activated by the Air Force. "I was thrilled the first time I saw them in Birmingham," Cross said.  "I figured, 'golly I wish I could fly one of those airplanes.'"  Though he never became a fighter pilot, Cross knows the skies pretty well...

Honoring a pioneer - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette | Only a month before, Ringenberg flew more than 2,000 miles from Bozeman, Mont., to Mansfield, Mass., in the women-only Air Race Classic. Not wanting to pressure the family so soon after her death, Paluso waited until early 2009, to ask Ringenberg's ...

Air Force's first female chief from Air Force Link Top Stories | In 1960, Chief Master Sgt. Grace Peterson became the first female chief master sergeant. She was not only the first female chief master sergeant; she was part of the original group of senior NCOs to be selected for the rank of E-9. At the time of promotion, Peterson was the first sergeant of a 400-person Women in the Air Force, or WAF, squadron at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J....

Taiwan gives medal to 102-year-old former general who led pilots against Japan ... - The Province | Lee is known as the oldest surviving general from the Flying Tigers, an American aerial squadron founded by Gen. Claire Chennault. Lee fled to Taiwan in 1949 with Gen. Chiang Kai-shek following the Nationalist defeat by Communist forces in a civil war.

Pilot's Journey Podcast Guest Appearance from Toriaflies | I had the pleasure of being a special guest on the Pilot's Journey podcast recently, where the topics were all about the ladies! I talked about Women Of Aviation Week, while Girls In Flight Training founder, Mary Latimer spoke about her program....

The Jockstrap Raiders from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | ...The Jockstrap Raiders is a Student Academy Award winning animated short film about a group of misfits during world war I. It takes place in Leeds, Englandwhere our heroes are all excluded from the war due to various abnormalities. Threatened by...

Amazing St. Maarten-like photo of a B-2 stealth bomber landing in Guam from David Cenciotti's weblog | Princess Juliana Airport in St. Maarten, the Caribbean island, is one of the world’s most famous airports: essentially, planes on short final for landing pass on top of beach goers on Maho Beach, that is always floodeed with tourists and photographers...

We Choose Space Exhibit Arrives At March Air Museum In Riverside - San Bernardino Sun | The We Choose Space exhibit has arrived to the March Air Museum in Riverside March 3, 2013. The exhibit is on loan from NASA and features many items from the Space Race era such as helmets, gloves, and memorabilia. The exhibit includes the ...

Tim Pickens: rocket-barnstorming to inspire from Spaceports | In this video, Tim Pickens shares his idea of rocket-barnstorming as a way to inspire the next generation of engineers. Much like original barnstorming brought aviation to the masses by fueling people's imaginations in exciting ways, Tim posits rocket-barnstorming could do the same thing for space travel...