Indy Transponder 04-FEB-2012 2200z

Restored bomber for airshow - Otago Daily Times | The only remaining airworthy Avro Anson from World War 2 has been confirmed to fly at the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow this Easter. The aircraft were popular coastal reconnaissance bombers that performed anti-submarine and convoy...

Imperial Valley residents glam up, celebrate Navy, air show - Imperial Valley Press | The El Centro Chamber of Commerce held its sixth Air Show Gala on Friday evening, bringing more than 100 people to the local Navy base for a formal black-tie event. To find out more about the event, please read the Imperial Valley Press print edition...

Black WWII pilot shares his legacy - Dothan Eagle | The name alone, Lt. Col. Herbert Eugene Carter, may have meant little to most of those in attendance at a Black History Month kickoff at the installation’s Post Exchange on Friday.  But the enthusiasm of both residents and children at...

Members wanted to reunite to mark 60th year of V-Force - Horncastle Today | Newark Air Museum is organising a reunion to commemorate 60 years since the formation of the V-Force; the 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis; and with a special reference back to the 30th Anniversary of the Falklands Campaign....

Charles A. Lindbergh is born in Detroit, MI. In 1927 from National Air and Space Museum | Today in 1902: Charles A. Lindbergh is born in Detroit, MI. In 1927, he made the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris in the Ryan NYP "Spirit of St. Louis" (on display in Washington, DC). After that historic flight, Lindbergh wore this helmet while flying the "Spirit of St. Louis" on a Good Will Tour of South America. This helmet and other personal items carried by Lindbergh on his flights are on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center....

St. Louis Aviation Community Mourns the Passing of Donn Byrnes - The Aero Experience | Donn Byrnes left us to be with the Lord on Monday, January 23, 2012. The eldest son of Gen. Victor Byrnes, M.D. and Ethel Seebach, he embraced early the joy of learning and understanding how things worked. Fascinated with airplanes...

Restored WWII plane takes flight - Tidewater News | Hager was among members of the Commemorative Air Force Old Dominion Squadron at Franklin Municipal Airport who restored the plane. “We were happy,” said Hager, who worked on the plane's wiring and detailing. “We'd been waiting on this for a long time....

WWII Russian plane makes stop at Port - TheNewsTribune.com | The only remaining flying example of the most prolifically produced plane in history, a World War II Russian IL-2 attack plane, arrived this week at the Port of Tacoma on its way to Everett. This Russian IL-2 arrived at the Port of Tacoma this week on...

Willa Brown worked to incorporate Black aviators into military from Air Force Link Top Stories | Inspired by the achievements of Bessie Coleman during the early days of aviation, Willa Brown would go on to have an impact on African-American involvement that would lead to the creation of the famed all-African-American "Tuskegee Airmen" combat flying squadrons during World War II.  As a young high school teacher in Gary, Ind., and later as a social worker in Chicago, Willa Brown felt that her talents were being wasted. She sought greater challenges and adventures in life, especially if they could be found outside the limited career fields normally open to African Americans....

Old Glory Honor Flight will launch special trip to Pearl Harbor - Appleton Post Crescent | Marines stand ready for a wreath laying ceremony at the USS Arizona Memorial, part of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, in December in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Appleton-based Old Glory Honor Flight will fly veterans to Pearl Harbor...

Brig. Gen. Neil Kennedy provided flying gas station in Vietnam and for SAC - War Tales | Capt. Neil Kennedy flew a KC-135 jet tanker in Vietnam War and continued to pilot the same flying gas station for the Strategic Air Command after the Southeast Asian war. He retired in 1991 as a brigadier general after 32 years of service in the U.S. Air Force and the Air Force National Guard and moved to Calusa Lakes subdivision in Nokomis, Fla. “I volunteered for the Vietnam War in 1966 and flew with the 28th Air Refueling Group out of Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota. We flew...

Naval aviator Al Boyd flew off USS Ranger (CV-4) before WWII - War Tales | After graduating in 1936 from Naval Aviation in Pensacola as an ensign, Capt. Al Boyd’s first assignment aboard the Battleship Tennessee was as a catapult pilot flying a pontoon spotter plane. Twenty –five years later, as a captain commanding a Navy base out west, he flew an F-4 “Phantom II” jet fighter-bomber faster than Mach-2 –1,700 miles per hour. On Friday the ancient aviator will celebrate another milestone. He will be 100 years old....

Meteor - Apron 6

What was Dropped from the Skies First, the Mails or Bombs? from Ptak Science Books | Seeing this splendid image of the 1909 near-future forced a question into mind:  what came first, aerial delivery of mail or aerial delivery of explosives?  I suspected that "mail" would be the correct answer, but didn't know how much deeper that went into the past than the history of aerial bombing....

February 4 – Aviation History - CRUFC

Missouri Aviation Historical Society Meeting Features Members' Experiences in the Civil Air Patrol  - The Aero Experience | The Missouri Aviation Historical Society is a group of folks with a love of aircraft, and we are striving to record and document the rich aviation history that has been a part of the great state of Missouri for the past century. From Benoist to Zenith, the aviation industry in the "Show Me" state has always been at the forefront of technology, and has produced some of the world’s best known aircraft. Famous pilots, from Jimmy Doolittle, to...

Burt Rutan Returns for Another Shot at Space Travel - AIN online | The science-fiction pundits were wrong. The future of space travel doesn’t look like a Buck Rogers-style rocket poised to roar straight up into the twinkling heavens from a tinkerer’s backyard. What space travel will look like, ...

Virgin Galactic's Private Spaceship Ramping Up Toward Passenger Flights - Space.com | This year is key for Virgin Galactic's bid to become the first commercial spaceliner service, as rocket-powered flights of its SpaceShipTwo are on the books for summer. Meanwhile, assembly of a second vehicle pair...

Indy Transponder 03-December 2335z

Willa Brown (Chappell) from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale
... Willa was instrumental in establishing the Coffey School of Aeronautics. (In doing so, she fulfilled Bessie Coleman's ambition of a black owned private flight school.) As the president of the Chicago branch of the National Airmen’s Association of America, she led the successful fight to integrate African Americans into the U.S. Army Corps. ...

Willa Beatrice Brown and African American Pilots - Flickr
... She continually lobbied the government for integration of black pilots into the segregated Army Air Corps and the federal Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP), the system established by the Civil Aeronautics Authority to provide a pool of civilian pilots for use during national emergencies. Subsequently, when Congress finally voted to allow separate-but-equal participation of blacks in civilian flight training programs, the Coffey School of Aeronautics was chosen for participation in the CPTP. Brown became the coordinator for the CPTP’s Coffey School of Aeronautics in Chicago, which became the hub of African American Civil Air Patrol activity in 1941. Brown is recognized for being the first black female officer in the Civil Air Patrol and the first black woman to hold a commercial pilot’s license in the United States. ...

Marion pilot aims to set speed record in globe-circling fundraiser - Ocala, FL
Foy, the 2006 winner of the 2478-mile Air Race Classic all-women's cross-country air race, also recently had a family member diagnosed with ALS. ...

Aviation Inspiration: At age 23 Barrington Irving became the youngest pilot ever to fly solo around t.. by wisdomgroup (WisdomGroup)

Congratulations, Amy! from The Girls With Wings Blog by Lynda
... Amy is 20 years old and also a junior at Dowling College, majoring in Aviation management with a professional pilot minor. "Anyone who knows me can assure you that I have a deep-rooted passion for Aviation. I think about it all the time. It is my first thought in the morning and my last thought as I close my eyes to rest at night." But besides this, she clinched it with "I also try to spark an interest in aviation in other people, not just girls, and share with them what a rewarding, interesting and amazing field it is." ...

Air Force Week SLC announced for 2009 - Davis County Clipper, UT
The event will culminate with an open house and air show at HAFB, as previously announced first by the Clipper. One of the nation’s premier demonstration ...

Airmen bid farewell to two Doolittle Raiders from Air Force Link Top Stories

Kidds Kids Flight from Nuts About Southwest - by sheaser
This episode of Red Belly Radio actually began back on October 2 with a telethon to raise funds to send a number of families with special needs kids to the Disney parks in Orlando Florida. Listeners of the Kidd Kraddick syndicated morning radio show pitched in and called a phone bank where volunteers took donations.

Historic Flight Delayed Another Day - Part six from Aviation.ca News
Editors Note: As the crew of the Kelly D were not able to fly on Tuesday due to the weather, the report for tonight will be direct from the blog of Curtis Peters, President and CEO of Aviation.ca....

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Historic Flight Delayed Due to Weather – Part Seven from www.aviation.ca
The other issue we’re looking at is the cold. This front came in a week sooner than expected with temps aloft between -15 and -20. This is really pushing our gear as we’d only planned for as cold as -15. I’m 100% sure the plane can handled it, but I’m not convinced us pilots can. Remember your PDM classes? Yes, people make stupid decisions when their brains freeze up. If we were flying a Seneca V or something, I wouldn’t think twice about going, but we’re in a 900lb open cockpit biplane,” Peters continued.

Second PilotExpoNZ in February from Pacific Wings Magazine by Rob
The second PilotExpoNZ—a biennial expo for general aviation (GA) in New Zealand—will be held at Ardmore Airfield on the afternoon of Friday the 27th and all day on Saturday the 28th of February 2009. The first PilotExpoNZ in 2007 was the first aviation expo of its kind to be held in New Zealand and provided pilots, aircraft owners and operators the chance to meet the businesses that supply aviation products specifically for GA flying. ...

Taking dreams to the skies - Southern Highland News, Australia
He is an international Qantas pilot when he is at work and he conducts flights in his warbirds - a Russian YAK-52 and a Chinese Air Force Nanchang - when he ...

Lumbering Catalina touches down in NT - Northern Territory, Australia
"It's not really a lovely aeroplane to fly," he said. "It's heavy and sluggish but I think you would expect that if you look at the design of it. ...

Westland Apache from PPRuNe Forums by EGDY
AMARC - Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ from Fence Check
Ugly airplane contest from Pilots of America Message Board by Dan Thomas
Classic Jets from Fence Check
US - VA - AirPower Over Hampton Roads - Langley AFB - Apr 27-29, 2007
from Fence Check

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