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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Indy Transponder 18-JUN-2014 0945z

Up in the air: FOX6′s Ted Perry gets chance to fly with Navy's Blue Angels - fox6now.com | MILWAUKEE (WITI) — The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels are in town gearing up for this weekend’s Milwaukee Air and Water Show on the lakefront. But before everything moves forward, some members of the media (including FOX6′s Ted Perry) got the opportunity to fly with this precision team....

Capital City Airport to host annual air race * Carlisle Sentinel | The 2014 Air Race Classic started Monday and will continue through Thursday. Racers will move through 10 intermediate stops in four days en route from Buchanan Field Airport in Concord, California. This year's race will have 52 teams with more than 100...

Tora Tora Tora to perform at the "Thunder Over Cedar Creek Lake air show" on July 5 at 7 p.m. [corrected date] A http://tocclairshow.com/lineup.htmlspectacular display of the Tora aircraft visible to boaters and shore huggers all over the lake area. The proceeds of the air show benefit the Cedar Creek Veterans Foundation which is a nonprofit organization established to raise money for the physical and emotional recovery and rehabilitation of injured and disabled military personnel and veterans in the North Texas area. Thunder Over Cedar Creek Lake is the principal fundraising activity.

Noblesville Airport Fly-In Breakfast * Hamilton County Reporter - News | The little known Noblesville Airport was host to more than 70 aircraft Saturday morning. Co-owners Larry Jacobi and Don Roberts held their annual fly-in pancake breakfast for pilots and aircraft enthusiast alike. The small grass strip located at 14782 Promise Rd. was jam packed with everything from modern Cessna’s to WWII era warbirds...

Farnborough Air Show countdown: A look back at 1998 ... · David Stubbings | Photos looking back at the last Farnborough Air Show of the 20th century.

Air show coming in 2015 - Andalusia Star-News | Aircraft enthusiasts who enjoyed South Alabama Regional Airport’s 2010 air show should circle Sat., Nov. 14, 2015 on their calendars. Planning is underway for a second air show at SARA, and airport co-administrator Jed Blackwell said the next one, tentatively set for that date in 2015, should be even better....

World War II aircraft on view at Akron airport * Akron Beacon Journal | The World War II bomber, although it did not fly bombing missions during that war, will be featured in the KAKR- Summit Air FBO Classic Car Cruise-In Friday to benefit the Commemorative Air Force and Saturday for Kids Day at the airport...

Its with great sadness that we report tonight that our long time volunteer and o... · American Airpower Museum | Its with great sadness that we report tonight that our long time volunteer and our lead docent for so many great years Guenter Bier passed away today. Guenter had been a young boy in Germany during WWII having survived repeated B-17 and B-24 bombing raids on his town. He always had admiration for the American crews and their planes even in light of their mission at the time and that carried on till his passing. He moved to the United states after the war seeking the freedoms he did not have in Germany as a boy....

Sopwith Camel Moved Into Place · WarbirdsNews  | Yesterday, staff at the RAF Museum London http://www.warbirdsnews.com/aviation-museum-news/sopwith-camel-moved-place.htmlrolled the First World War Sopwith Camel into the exhibition space dedicated to telling the story of the ‘First World War In The Air.’The Sopwith Camel is perhaps the most famous and iconic aircraft to take to the skies during the First World War. It was...

Delta Flight Museum grand opening (SLIDESHOW) - Atlanta Business Chronicle Byron E. Small | Delta Air Lines Inc. on Tuesday opened the new, 68,000 square-foot Delta Flight Museum at its world headquarters in Atlanta. The museum is housed in the airline’s two original maintenance hangars dating from the 1940s. The museum traces Delta’s (NYSE: DAL) history and the development of commercial aviation. The grand opening event marked Delta’s 85th anniversary of passenger service, dating back to its first passenger flight from Dallas to Jackson, Miss., on June 17, 1929....

Airlift Uplift · Julie Boatman Filucci, Voices From The DC-3 | This is the way it should feel. This is the way it *did* feel. And it was good to get that feeling back. I had plans to go to Wichita last weekend to take care of lingering business in town, and to see some of the warm and wonderful friends that I’ve made there. I also knew that the Citation Special Olympics Airlift (CSOA) would launch that Saturday....

Chopper pilot recalls adventures - Southland Times (blog) | Chopper pilot recalls adventures Flying high with Jacques Cousteau | ...Rod Hall-Jones sailed, flew and ate his way through 23 countries as a crew member of the Cousteau team. Among the regions of the world he visited were Asia, Polynesia, Australia and Europe. It was a mystery phone call - he believed was a joke from friends - that landed the Southlander on the deck of the Calypso and began a life aquatic from the air. Hall-Jones' job was to fly the ship's helicopter for aerial filming....

Wednesday, This Pig's Gonna Ride A Thirsty Globemaster !!! (Check Out This C-17 Video) · AirPigz | Wednesday morning June 18, 2014 I'm scheduled to be onboard a C-17 departing from Wright-Patterson AFB on a training mission that will include inflight refueling with a KC-135 from the 434th Air Refueling Wing based at Grissom ARB in northern Indiana. This trip is operating out of WPAFB because the 434th has temporarily relocated there while the runway at Grissom is getting some repairs...

Minden Air Tanker 46 First Drops Via Minden-Tahoe Airport | Minden Air, our Fire bomber company at Minden-Tahoe Airport, test their new jet BAE 146. Three separate videos in the link from today’s testing on our airport. The test grid has 3,150 stakes with cups to collect the retardant.

The Girls With Wings Blog: Updates from Scholarship winners

Harrison Ford Scholarship Recipient Earns Sport Pilot Certificate  * Aero-News Network | Former Young Eagle Brendan Robinson, who received a Harrison Ford Flight Training Scholarship just last year, is now a sport pilot after passing his checkride on May 29. Robinson, EAA 1047746, graduated from Chilton High School, Wisconsin, only a week earlier and took his checkride in a Piper J-3 Cub: “My favorite airplane,” he wrote....

Elkhart air buffs hope to inspire Young Eagles with free flights * The Elkhart Truth | The semiannual event, called Young Eagles, is orchestrated by the Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 132. Busch noted the planes used in these rides, despite the group's name, are not experimental and have been certified as aviation worthy by...

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Indy Transponder 11-OCT-2011 1000z

Fleet Week San Francisco Delights Thousands (PHOTOS) Huffington Post | This weekend, thousands flocked to the Marina in San Francisco to catch a glimpse of the famed Blue Angels at for the 31st annual Fleet Week San Francisco. Military ships crowded the bay as planes roared overhead, shaking the ground and painting the ...

Aviation and Political Luminaries Jump Start NBAA 2011  from www.ainonline.com : Latest News by James Wynbrandt | A roster of aviation and political luminaries welcomed an energized crowd to the NBAA 2011 opening general session this morning at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Joining NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen onstage were U.S. Senator Joseph Manchin III (D-W.Va.), FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt, NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman, Dave Everitt, presidetn of John Deere Agricultural and Turf Division, and former U.S. Senate majority leader Bill Frist of Tennessee…

WWII Bomber To Stay In Missoula - NBC Montana | Aviation historians say TBM Firebombers dropped torpedoes in World War II. In the 1950's, Johnson Flying Service of Missoula transformed several into slurry bombers to fight wildfires. Historians at the Museum Of Mountain Flying say this is one of the ...

Monnett Finally Lives His SubSonex Dreams  from Jetwhine by Scott Spangler | John Monnett has been dreaming about a homebuilt jet since the 1980s, so one can only imagine the barely controlled eagerness that filled him with the first flight of the SubSonex. And one can only imagine the internal debate between making that flight himself or turning it over to someone like, Bob Carleton, right, who has the necessary flight experience and, perhaps more important, experience with the PBS TJ-100 engine, which powers Carleton’s Super Salto Jet Sailplane…

WWII bombers landing in CS - Bryan College Station Eagle | The aircraft, part of the Commemorative Air Force fleet, will be parked in the general aviation terminal, which is on the east side of the airport and near the control tower, from 9 am to 5 pm both days. B-29/B-24 Squadron, said the two planes are the ...

Sopwith One and a Half Strutter – crazy name, great aircraft  from Shortfinals's | The Grahame-White Factory at Hendon is a virtual shrine to early aviation. Even setting aside the prominent rĂ´le its founder, Claude Grahame-White, had in the establishment of aviation in the U.K., and the significance of the early factory buildings themselves (Grade II* Listed), the Royal Air Force Museum, London, has chosen to display some superb early aircraft (plus some replicas) in this wonderful setting. It is a pity, therefore, that few people choose to taken the 400 yard walk, through what was part of the former RAF Hendon site, to reach this treasure trove. On a day when the main collections were very busy, I had this gem all to myself for more than 30 minutes! I think my trusty Nikon was feeling rather fatigued when I finally dragged myself away…

Earhart reminiscence evening at Age Concern - Derry Today | 80 years on and the Earhart myth still excites the imagination with yet another expedition to the remote Pacific intended to discover the final fate of the aviatrix.” Thompson will also reveal details of plans to bring the historic aircraft - which ...

4th Annual Conklin Scholarship Awarded at 2011 NBAA - AMTOnline.com | Christine is Vice President of the local chapter of the Women in Aviation Club, volunteers with a number of other organizations, and interned with Rolls-Royce this summer. She is looking forward to the opportunity to put her business background and ...

Historic propeller on show at Leeds Bradford airport - BBC News | Tony Hallwood, Leeds Bradford Airport's Commercial Director, said: "We are delighted that such an important part of Leeds Bradford's aviation history will be on display at the airport to mark our 80th anniversary. "It will serve as an iconic reminder ...

Kentucky High School Flight Monkeys Take Off  from Flight Monkeys  | You say that young people today lack drive, ambition and the ability to stick to a project? You say that your high school students are listless, lethargic, and more than a little cynical? Is that what’s bothering you, Pookie?  Maybe they’re bored and are wondering what all the things they’re learning in school could possibly be used for in the real world. Perhaps they ought to re-build an airplane and learn how to fly it.  Imagine a high school program in which students could undergo STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education that resulted in solid job and technology skills. This program would not only teach the skills and give the experience necessary to learn aerospace maintenance; its graduates could leave school with an A&P and a pilot certificate…

Air to Air Photo Shoot  from VAF Forums by Kevin Horton | Early Saturday morning I finally did an air to air photo shoot with Peter Lubig, a professional aviation photographer. We've been trying to make this happen since early this year, but something always got in the way - my schedule, his schedule, my aircraft U/S, his aircraft U/S, etc…

Today in Aviation History – October 11  from Calgary Recreational and Ultralight Flying Club by bikeal

Fancy a rather unique aircraft for your collection?  from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | The result of a painstaking 35,000-hour, 18-year restoration, K8203 is understood to have been the 23rd of a third batch built by Boulton-Paul’s Wolverhamton plant to Specification 8/34. Delivered in October 1937, it was initially assigned to No.64 Squadron at RAF Church Fenton, and it is their livery that adorns the aircraft again now…

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Indy Transponder 23-APR-2011 2130z


Smoke Squadron arrives for the presentation in Rio Grande, RS from CavokBlog | The Smoke Squadron is already in Rio Grande, after a beautiful presentation at the Festival of Ballooning Torres. The Air Demonstration Squadron (ADS) arrived in Rio Grande, in the extreme south, close to noon this Saturday for a presentation scheduled for 16 hours in the afternoon in front of the Sea Festival Coverage is being made through a partnership between Brazil and Aeroentusiasta CAVOK sites. ...

Jackson is the Lord of the Wings - Sunday Star Times | Friends in high places: Andy Serkis's daughter Ruby, below, watches the airshow with Sir Peter Jackson. By Gollum: Andy Serkis, Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, and daughter Ruby watch World War I fighters with Sir Peter Jackson (partly obscured). ...

Tornado moves a jet, collapses roof at St. Louis airport [Video] from Jalopnik | A possible tornado made a direct hit on St. Louis Lambert Field last night, pushing a Southwest jet away from a gate (the immediate aftermath seen in the video above), shattering windows, crushing a roof, and causing enough damage to shut down the airport. ...

Video: Sopwith 1-1/2 Strutter C-FSOP from CRUFC | Some shots of the Great War Flying Museum’s Sopwith 1-1/2 Strutter C-FSOP. This aircraft is is based out of the Brampton Airport in Ontario, Canada and is powered by a 250hp Continental W670 radial engine. ...
   
Seaplane base name to honor former mayor - International Falls Daily Journal | A former International Falls mayor, World War II aviator and longtime community advocate will be honored with the naming of a seaplane base. The facility at the Pat Roche Memorial Access off Highway 11 East will be named the Jack Murray Seaplane Base, ...

Keeping those Old (Kiowa) Warriors flying from Sky Talk | The Army's OH-58D Kiowa Warriors are older than the most of the pilots that fly them, but the Army and Bell Helicopter keep upgrading, repairing and extending their useful lives. ...

Father and Son Plan World Flight in Homebuilt for Cancer Awareness - EAA News | Stephan Armstrong, EAA 1054024, and his 12-year-old son, Charlie, will attempt to fly their RV-8 around the world next year to raise awareness for the fight against cancer. Called “Flying for the Cure,” the two plan a spring 2012 departure in SEE WORLD I, the aircraft they spent the past six years building, from Borrego Valley Airport near their hometown of Julian, California. ...

FlightTime Radio Show 171 | Charlie and Milford were in the Key Auto Studio overlooking Big Lake Bob and had guest Matt Casper from Blue Sly Network as their guest. Blue Sky Network makes tracking and communication devices not only for aircraft, but anything that moves and you wish to keep track of! Grant and Steve were back with a few minutes of "Flying Down Under!" Charlie and Milford also spoke a bit of their mind about the media HYPE and the air traffic controllers! I say, Lets Clean House and do it by STARTING AT THE TOP!, and that means Randy first and stop cleaning when you reach the working folks! ie; controllers and supervisors!

Space Tourism Society dinner - registration deadline from RLV and Space Transport News | “Space Tourism Industry + Ten” Anniversary Dinner.  Thursday, April 28, 2011 the Proud Bird Restaurant by LAX.  Registration closes at midnight on Monday April 25 ...

SpaceX's New Rocket - Most Powerful Private Rocket Ever Built from Aviation by K.P. | As NASA is wrapping up its space shuttle program, private space corporations are beginning to take a stronghold in space exploration. Recently, SpaceX or Space Explorations Technologies Inc. announced a new rocket called the Falcon Heavy that is only second in size to the Apollo Era's Saturn V. ...

Final Flight Of Space Shuttle Endeavour, Canada’s Contribution from Aviation Blogs | The final flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour is scheduled for April 29, 2011, at 3:47 p.m. EDT. This is the second-to-last mission before the Space Shuttle program retires later this year. This flight will mark Canadarm’s 89th mission since it first flew on Shuttle Columbia for STS-2 in 1981.  Canada’s most famous robotic and technological achievement made its space debut on November 13, 1981. The design and building of the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System marked the beginning of Canada’s close collaboration with NASA in manned space flight. The Canadarm project remains a true example of successful international space cooperation. ...


Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Indy Transponder 31-MAR-10 1030z


Classic Fighters 2011 event from AeroHub by Graeme | Whilst still well over a year away, it seems that a lot of people in many countries are already making the Classic Fighters 2011 event the target of their focus! Locally, this has manifested itself with meetings already underway by the airshow committee (since last October) and plans by some of the ground theatre and props team members already being put into place. At the other end of the scale, inquiries are coming in from people the world over concerning ticket purchases, transport, accommodation etc. (many have already booked their accommodation!!), and of course, what displays will be seen and what aircraft are going to be in attendance. Even this far out it is possible to say that if all the plans come to fruition, the line-up for the 2011 Classic Fighters event will be better than anything we've ever been privileged to host before…

Festival of Aviation from feed/http://www.eur2llc.com/FAAPilotCoach/Home/rss.xml | There's never been a better time to visit! Prague is one of the world's most beautiful cities and is a must see for everyone! It is also the host city to Europe's greatest aviation event - Europe's Festival of Aviation 28-30 May 2010 at Pribram Airfield LKPM. Long famed for its beauty, Prague is one of the most visited cities on the continent and its historic centre is included in the UNESCO list of 'World Heritage Sites'…

Inaugural event brings wartime aviation to Flagler - Daytona Beach News-Journal | "During the past few years I've been looking into how I could do an air show here. With my connections on the air show circuit and a bunch of buddies I ...

Record Crowds Attend 'Wings Over South Texas' Air Show at NAS Kingsville from U.S. Navy News Headline Stories | Naval Air Station (NAS) Kingsville hosted more than 100,000 spectators for the "Wings Over South Texas" air show March 27-28…

Eurofighter gets a warm welcome in Chile – defpro ... Eurofighter Partner Company EADS Deutschland turned up in Chile to present the Eurofighter Typhoon to the South American visitors at FIDAE Air Show. ...

Take a backseat ride in a Harrier from TAKEOFF TUBE by rss@www.takeofftube.com(Jocey) From his T.V. series, 'James Mays Big Ideas', James meets up with the guys from R.A.F. Wittering and goes for a flight in a Harrier…

Starfighter pilots' view from David Cenciotti's weblog - the most visited Italian Aviation Blog by David Cenciotti | In the last days I had the opportunity to watch the last two DVDs dedicated to the F-104 produced by Pro-Wing International; those filmed in October 2004 that focus on the very last days of the F-104 at Grazzanise, the airbase where the (operative) career of the Starfighter ended on Oct. 31, 2004. Respectively titled "F-104EVER: the last STAR fighter" and ""THE LEGEND: Eternal Star", the two DVDs represent the two episodes of an extremely interesting movie produced by Luc Delestinne, the famous aviation film maker and producer whose Pilot's View® mini-cameras among the few ones in the world to be "flight-safety approved", meaning that they can be even attached to the pilot's helmets or masks to provide some of the most dramatic in-flight views ever seen.

Video: Rotary Powered Sopwith Camel In Formation With A Spitfire by Martt |  If you're in a hurry, jump up to the 2:30 mark in the video to see the Sopwith's rotary engine started.  It's like a 160hp rabid animal attached to the front of the airplane!  You kinda get the feeling that the engine is the crazy master here, and the best you can do is not make it mad!  Actually it looks very cool, but you can sure see how much of a challenge operating an engine without a normal throttle is... especially one that weighs 345 pounds and spins with the prop!..

Curtiss P-40, aircraft of the Flying Tigers from Flying Tigers News | Here's a great video showing a Curtiss P-40C the warpaint of the Flying Tigers--the American Volunteer Group that flew and fought for the Chinese Air Force in the early months of World War II in the Pacific. The video is by "Captain Lou" Costello. Don't you just love the sound of that Allison engine? All right, perhaps you don't, but I am so addicted that I sometimes leave the sound running in the background while I work on mundane chores…

Hawker Hurricane Mk IVRP in Museum of Aviation in Belgrade- Serbia from Let Let Let - Warplanes by Darko | The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd. Some production of the Hurricane was carried out in Canada by the Canada Car and Foundry Co Ltd. Although largely overshadowed by the Supermarine Spitfire, the aircraft became renowned during the Battle of Britain.The 1930s design evolved through several versions and adaptations, resulting in a series of aircraft which acted as interceptor-fighters, fighter-bombers (also called "Hurribombers"), and ground support aircraft…

New Yorkshire Air Museum display hails aviation pioneers - The Press, York | A NEW exhibition has opened at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington, celebrating some of the leading figures in aeronautical history. ...

US Top Guns salute Red Bull Air Race pilot Matt Hall after slow ... by matthallracing | US Top Guns salute Red Bull Air Race pilot Matt Hall after slow start in UAE. Posted on 31 March 2010. ABU DHABI, UAE – There are often visitors to the Race Airport during race week but it's a rare thing to see a whole squadron of US ...

Felix Baumgartner Tests Next-Generation Pressure Suit from Aerial Sports Feed | History has been made today as Red Bull Stratos unveiled the first space suit ever to be produced by David Clark Company for a non-governmental space program. The Red Bull Stratos science team has also revealed the pressure helmet, which with the suit will serve as Felix Baumgartner's sole life-support system when he steps off his capsule at 120,000 feet to attempt a record-breaking freefall from the edge of space. ...

Reno Air Racing Foundation gives prizes to young researchers - Reno Gazette-Journal | The Reno Air Racing Foundation awarded medals to six students for their exhibits Saturday at the "Reach for the Stars" Young Researchers Awards at the ...

Young Eagles gives kids - The Reporter | The Fond du Lac Chapter of EAA will hold the first 2010 Young Eagles rally on Saturday, April 3. Young Eagles rides take place the first Saturday of each ...

Aviation Trivia of the Day by JP Santiago | It's a travel nightmare. Weather delays and closures at airports during peak travel seasons. It was no different in the past than it is now with air travel when we're at the mercy of the weather despite the advances in technology since the end of the Second World War ushered in unprecedented growth in air travel. Picture in your mind it's the start of the 1962 Christmas holiday travel season and one of the primary airports on the US West Coast, San Francisco, is socked in with fog so thick that anything more than ball toss away fades into the murk. Fog at San Francisco International is nothing new, but this particular week in 1962 the fog stubbornly persisted throughout the holiday season. Flights were delayed or canceled and passengers were stranded at San Francisco International Airport. Unless, of course, you're booked on Pacific Southwest Airlines, PSA…

United States - Arizona - MCAS Yuma Airshow 2010 - MCAS Yuma - 03/27/10 from FenceCheck Forums

March 31 from Cut and Paste Aviation by KenInfinite http://cutandpasteaviation.blogspot.com/atom.xml

P-51D MUSTANG from My Life by prestwick

United States - Alabama - Thunder Over Alabama 2010 - Maxwell AFB, Montgomery - 03/27/10 from FenceCheck Forums - Here are a few of my favorite shots from the show.



Thursday, April 9, 2009

Indy Transponder 9-APR-09 1000z

Pilot has Wright stuff - Appeal-Democrat, CA
By Nancy Pasternack/Appeal-Democrat On the day 6-year-old Dean "Wilbur" Wright attended an air show for the first time, he decided he wanted more than anything to become a US Air Force Thunderbirds pilot. Decades later, when he took his initial ...


Troops mobilise for extravaganza - Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand
Among those taking to the sky is Vintage Aviator production manager Gene DeMarco, who will pilot a Sopwith Camel. Mr DeMarco has a long history of involvement in airshows and has long since lost count of how many he has taken part in. ...


World-class warbirds take off - Nelson Mail
The biennial Classic Fighters Air Show, held at Omaka Airfield in Blenheim, has a tradition of attracting tens of thousands of people from throughout the country and around the world to see what is increasingly described as a world-class air show.


Red Bull Air Race World Series - eCoronado.com, CA
In close partnership with the city, the San Diego International Sports Council and the Port of San Diego, the Red Bull Air Race World Series will make its second stop of the 2009 season and will race right downtown on the Big Bay against the beautiful ...


New Video Of Sergey Rakhmanin’s MXS-R In Action from Smoke-On by Tom
Before packing up his MXS-R for the Season Opener in Abu Dhabi, Sergey Rakhmanin video taped some footage while training in North Carolina. View It On Sergeys Site--------------


Rocket Racing League update from RLV and Space Transport News
John Carmack said in his
presentation at the SA'09 meeting that the suborbital spaceflight project sponsored by the Rocket Racing League and announced at the Lunar Lander Challenge event last October had not come "to fruition". John didn't say anything further about the status of the RRL and the rocket racer vehicles. Alan Boyle has subsequently managed to get some information about the RRL: Rocket racers take it slower - Cosmic Log/msnbc.com - Apr.8.09. (Alan did not attend SA'09 this time but did come to Phoenix for the Origins conference at ASU and dropped by one evening to have supper with some of us.)

Rocket racers take it slower - msnbc.com
The economic downturn has forced the Rocket Racing League and other ventures to scale back their suborbital ambitions - but the league's leader says his plans for a "NASCAR with rockets" are still moving ahead, more than three years after they were ...


Flying high above Bundaberg - Bundaberg NewsMail, Australia
THE countdown is on; in 84 days the Wide Bay Australia International Airshow will take off at Bundaberg's airfields, signalling an aerobatic display that promises more flash and bang than ever before. Speaking to CEO Richard King-Siem, it is impossible ...

On the Fly ... from AVwebFlash Current Issue
You can place your order now online for the FAA Oshkosh Notam...The Lindbergh Foundation is auctioning off rides in EAA's Spirit of St. Louis replica...FAA is checking into questions raised by an ABC report about the Red Bull Albatross.


British Airways' Last Concorde May Become Dubai Novelty [Airplanes] from Gizmodo by Wilson Rothman
It's like those sci-fi rich guys who collect everything including somebody's frozen head, only it's real: Dubai collectors—possibly the same ones turning the QE2 ocean liner into a hotel—are trying to buy BA's last Concorde. The plane, dubbed
Alpha Bravo, was slated to be shown off at Heathrow but now, according to British papers, it may be "cut into pieces" and sent to Dubai. Six of the planes are already in museums, and this puppy isn't fit for flight anyway, as it wasn't given the safety upgrade that the others got after that 2000 Paris crash. Still, some people are sad to think of the last of the skinny-but-mighty supersonic passenger jets sitting on top of a cruiseliner with its wings literally clipped. [Telegraph UK]

Historic WWII bomber on display in Camarillo - Agoura Hills Acorn, CA
The B-17 bomber was the world's first allmetal, fourengine monoplane. The planes were produced from 1935 through 1945. With a crew of eight to 12 men, .50-caliber machine guns, and a typical bomb load of 5000 pounds, the B-17 was the most heavily armed ...


TLP 2009/02 Florennes AB from Defence Talk Forum by r.e.hendriks
Hi all, Here some shots I took during last TLP at Florennes. The weather was perfect and even more improtant, they flew, at last!! More shots can be found at my new website, which I'm really proud to present:
www.fly-by.nl

“Reichdreams Dossiers” from The Unwanted Blog by admin
I’ve been working with Justo Miranda to make his Dossiers available online as downloadable PDF files. Things are ready to go… nine of his dossiers are available for purchase right now, with the rest to come along soon (it takes a while to scan & prepare these publications, since I’m shooting for high quality). They are available for purchase via PayPal, and are currently *half* the price of the original paper editions. Soon the whole publication catalog will be available for purchase via Paypal, downloadable directly to your computer.


Lightning Strikes Don't Really Hurt Airplanes, Right? from All Things Aviation by JetAviator7
A friend of mine from my college days works in the aviation business, and he buys and sells airline parts. We both did a lot flying together at Michigan State University (sob - we lost to UNC) at the Winged Spartans flying club. Our careers took different paths as I went into the aviation insurance business after a stint as a chief pilot, and he went into the airline parts business after a stint selling Cessna Citation trade-ins…


The big small aircraft show - Engineering Capacity
This famous Air Show in miniature attracts in excess of 10000 visitors and this year over 150 scale models of various iconic aircraft will take to the skies during the two-day event.


Cub Waits in Barn for 59 Years from Another Time by Dan Linn
Read this story in the
Texas Antique Airplane Assoc. newsletter and had to post it! What a cool story and amazing find. Enjoy! Thanks Jared for letting me post it. - Cub Waits in Barn for 59 YearsBy Jared Calvert - When I first step in the barn I realize building a clip-wing Cub will have to wait. I stood by myself, in awe at the sight. I was only told the plane, built in Lock Haven in 1946, had been sitting for “a while”. I figured a high time, beat-up Cub would be a good base for a clip-wing and make a nice hangar mate for my Pitts. But seeing the short lightning bolt, “Cub” inscribed tires and cotton fabric, I knew this Cub had been in this barn for a very long time. It would have to be restored to original…

1940 Air Terminal Museum from Pilots of America Message Board by flyingcheesehead
I was recently in Houston, and amid the craziness surrounding my sister's wedding, I was able to hook up with PJ for dinner one night. After devouring some delectable smoked dead animals at Pappa's BBQ, PJ invited me to check out the 1940 Air Terminal Museum where he is a volunteer.

Indy Airport Brings New Web Site Online - Inside INdiana Business, INThe Indianapolis Airport Authority has launched a new Web site. The authority says it is designed to provide more reliable flight information for air travelers in the state's largest city. It also contains information dating back to 2001 about the new ...

United States - Florida - Gulf Coast Salute 2009 - Tyndall AFB, Panama City - 03/28/09 from FenceCheck Forums

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