Indy Transponder 30-AUG-10 1030z

Only a trail remains: At least 70000 attend air show over two days; crowds pleased - Foster's Daily Democrat | "A beautiful weekend, great weather and the Blue Angels were a great combination." For most of those estimated 70000 people, bathrooms, shade and mapping ...

Mexico, MO Salute to Veterans Air Show from The Aero Experience by Carmelo Turdo:

Winds trim Offutt air show - Omaha World-Herald | One of the show's highlights was the Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team, which performs aerial stunts in tight formation. The Thunderbirds have been ...

Flypast offers a new view of show - The Northern Echo | A FLYPAST by a Second World War Dakota aircraft proved to be the star attraction at an agricultural show in the heart of the North Pennines. ...

United States - Oregon - Oregon International Air Show 2010 - Hillsboro (Portland) - 08/20/10 from FenceCheck Forums:

Nation loses another hero - Sun-Sentinel | He was a B17 navigator in World War ll. He was truly part of the Greatest Generation. Try to imagine climbing into your B17 aircraft knowing you will be ...

Review: A2A Simulations' B-17G Flying Fortress - FlightSim.com | The Boeing B-17 could be called the greatest aircraft in history. It was produced and shot down in vast quantities, housed a crew of around ...

Scrapbook: Legend of the skies. 25th Aug 1943 - RantRave | Published Opinion.| Didn't he win the Kings Cup Air Race in 1938? And now he is more than ever a legend for all the ants on the ground, who never cease to be astonished when ...

Aviation Celebration Honors Alabama's First Lady of Flight Video from Alabama Aviator - Aviation News | BIRMINGHAM AL- On National Aviation Day the Birmingham Aero Club hosted an evening event honoring Alabama's First Lady of Flight- Nancy Batson Crews (1920-2001) with a new exhibit at the Southern Museum of Flight. Award winning author and featured speaker, Sarah Byrn Rickman, highlighted Nancy's story from her recent biography as told to her by her late friend and mentor. Aero Club President, Holly Roe opened the program with Dr. Ed Stevenson from the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame introducing Sara Rickman. Dr. Jim Griffin, Director of the Southern Museum of Flight presented the new Crews exhibit…

The DC-3, A Real Man's Airplane from All Things Aviation by JetAviator7 | Every now and then you run across an article you just have to read, and so it was with an article in Flying by Martha Lunken titled "DC-3, A Real Man's Airplane." Without a doubt this is one of the best articles written about this wonderful 75 year old airplane, and which brought back memories [...]

Happy 40th Birthday To The DC-10 from Flying With Fish by flyingfish | If you're a regular reader of Flying With Fish you may have noticed I am a 'three-holer' fan.  While my favorite three-holer, the Lockheed L-1011, is all but gone from the skies, the long serving three-holer workhorse of the skies is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its very first flight…

Video: Sumptuous 747 Landing In 120fps Slow Mo - Wow! by Martt | I'm a freak for great video, and for great airplanes... guess you could say that makes me a 'super freak' for great video of great airplanes! That's exactly what youtuber GatwickSpotting has here. Shot from over 4 miles away, this slow mo 747 landing is a real treat to watch…

A Fine Day's Cataloging from AcroCamp by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper) Another fine day of editing here at Airspeed Studios. I got most of Day 2 (15 May) cataloged and ready to link up with alternate camera angles and the cockpit audio. And I found several of the Easter eggs that the cast left for me. Like this shot of Jim Rodriguez and Don Weaver giving the thumbs up, er, down, er up. The tech frame evolved when Roger Bishop gave in to the ham that's in all of us and gave the camera a wave. Being a guy with a true sense of lighting and composition, I'm sure that he couldn't resist stepping out into the near-perfect lighting of one of the early flights of that day…

John And Martha King Held At Police Gunpoint (Really) from AVwebFlash Current Issue - Aviation's most prominent husband and wife team is calling on government agencies to keep their databases up to date and warning pilots and aircraft owners they could be next to be surrounded by heavily armed police, handcuffed and detained because of a bit of miscommunication. John and Martha King say there's a lesson to be learned after they spent about 30 scary minutes in the custody of Santa Barbara, Calif., police at the Santa Barbara Airport Saturday…

Guns, Handcuffs and John and Martha King from AVWeb Podcast - Podcast | Think it can't happen to you? John and Martha King (of King Schools) beg to differ. Aviation's best-known couple were the subject of a bizarre case of mistaken identity on Aug. 28 that resulted in them having guns drawn on them, being handcuffed and held for about 30 minutes. As always, there are lessons to be learned from Martha King as she goes through the bizarre event at the Santa Barbara Airport in this unedited and, at 15 minutes, longer-than-usual AVweb podcast.This podcast is brought to you by Bose Corporation…

Strange But True Aviation News from Things with Wings by fail…

How Did An IPhone Take This Picture? - Gizmodo Australia - Unless the blades of this aeroplane propellor can defy gravity and float, the iPhone's camera totally distorted ...

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Blue Angels, Golden Knights arrive in Tuscaloosa - WTVM, GA
(AP) - Tuscaloosa is getting ready for the Blue Angels and the Golden Knights parachute team. The US Navy's 6-member elite aerial-demonstration team will perform their trademark high-speed maneuvers at the Tuscaloosa Air Show on Saturday. ...

Tuscaloosa to get Air Show this weekend - The University of Alabama Crimson White, AL
The Blue Angels doing a fly-by over the university during their rehearsal. /CW Babatunde Ajilore Thundering jet engines roared across the grey, overcast skies of Tuscaloosa Thursday as planes of a myriad colors, shapes and models began practicing for ...

Pilots arrive in Tuscaloosa - Tuscaloosa News , AL
The Blue Angels performed their first flight demonstration in 1946. They act as recruiters for the US Navy and are the public face of Navy and US Marine Corps aviation. Cities like Tuscaloosa are always welcoming and hospitable to the pilots and the ...

Thunderbirds touch down - SunHerald.com, USA
Four diamond planes will fly precision maneuvers and two solos will roar past the crowd at this weekend’s air show at 500 mph. Biloxi firefighter Robert Goldsmith had finished his third briefing of the day, getting his gear and his courage together for ...

Snowbirds begin spring training from Aviation.ca News
Spring training begins for The Canadian Forces Snowbird team on Monday afternoon at 19 Wing Comox. The location is chosen because it provides an opportunity to practice over mountains and water. Marking 100 years of flight in Canada,...

Canadian Aviation Expo to make Hamilton International its home from Aviation.ca News
The Canadian Aviation Expo is partnering with the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum and making its home at Hamilton International Airport in Ontario. The expo, Canada's largest trade and consumer aviation show, takes place in the first week of May and...

Want to fly like they do at AirFest? Here's how - Tampabay.com, FL
By Susan Thurston, Times Staff Writer Fans of military planes, parachute jumping and scary-looking air stunts come together this weekend for the annual MacDill AirFest. Expect huge traffic jams along Dale Mabry Highway and MacDill Avenue as hundreds of ...

B-17 bomber from World War II flies over Chino skies - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, CA
Enrico Bottieri, 83, of Fountain Valley sits in the bombardier seat of a B-17 bomber during a flight over the Chino Valley. The plane was known as the Flying Fortress. Bottieri flew a P-47 Thunderbolt fighter in World War II. (Thomas R. Cordova / Staff ...

Pete McLeod Interview Toro Magazine Dec. 08 from Smoke-On by Tom
For those fans of Canadian Pete McLeod, here is an interview he did in December of 2008 for the web site Toro Magazine. READ ARTICLE Photo By Markus Kucera

Addison Texas Spartan from Another Time by Dan Linn
I made a visit to Addison airport, North of Dallas, last week to attend the FLYING magazine Parade of Planes. While I was there I was able to arrange a visit to see Spartan Executive s/n 26. Very clean, very nice. The metal is nice and straight... not a dent or a ding in the clean light gray and blue paint scheme. In talking with the owner, Bobby Lett, he suspected that since this ship flew with the military it has been wearing full paint since it left the service. S/N 26 was in the service from 1943-1945. It flew in the USAAC as 42-38266 . The Des Moines Register newspaper was its first owner and it was fully polished when it left Spartan…

Space Adventures: Potential for September ‘09 seat from Personal Spaceflight by Jeff Foust
Eric Anderson of Space Adventures held a short teleconference Friday afternoon (Friday morning here in Arizona) to discuss a new development in his company’s efforts to fly paying customers to the ISS. Highlights:..

Indianapolis Air Show and Indy Transponder with Roger Bishop from Airspeed by Stephen Force (Steve Tupper)
Subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your favorite other podcatcher. It's all free! These are the show notes to an audio episode. You can listen online right here by clicking: http://media.libsyn.com/media/airspeed/AirspeedIndy.mp3. It’s time for the annual Airspeed prelude to the airshow season! This year, we talk to Roger Bishop, the chairman of the Indianapolis Airshow. Many of us go to airshows, but too few of us appreciate what goes on months and even years before show day to bring you the experience. We got the inside story from Roger about what it’s like to schedule acts, attend the ICAS meeting, coordinate volunteers, plan for general aviation arrivals and departures, and make the whole thing come together seamlessly on the show days. Roger is also heavily involved with the Indy Transponder, a premier aerotainment news and information site and we talk about what goes into maintaining and growing that resource.

Pilot escapes as Spanish F/A-18 crahes from Military Photos by Herman the German
The pilot of a Spanish air force Boeing F/A-18 escaped with minor injuries when he was forced to eject from his single-seat fighter during a night-time exercise on 2 April. Spain's defence ministry confirms that the aircraft crashed on part of the Bardenas Reales weapons range near Caparroso at around 22:30 local time.

Barrow air show man owes his ex-staff £13k in wages - NW Evening Mail, UK
Mr Rose, who is head of the local air cadets and owns his own glider, is also the organiser of the highly successful annual Wings Over Walney Air Show. The former BAE Systems security chief was awarded an MBE in 2002 for services to the defence ...

Amateur rocket rules - easier on most, harder on some from RLV and Space Transport News
The new FAA rules governing amateur rockets were mentioned several times at the conference today. As noted before, a rocket is determined to be "amateur" by its performance, not by who is launching it. So a company can launch a rocket under the amateur rules just as a weekend rocketeers can if the performance parameters of their rockets put them within the amateur category…

Amateur rocketry at Space Access '09 from Dick's Rocket Dungeon by Dick
No new info provided, but Clark Lindsey notes that the FAA/AST presented their new amateur rocketry rules at Space Access '09. Clark has been providing a brief summary of each session.

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