Showing posts with label Wings Over Tyler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wings Over Tyler. Show all posts

Monday, July 4, 2011

Indy Transponder 04-JUL-2011 1500z

Sell-out crowds enjoy Waddington International Air Show - This is Lincolnshire | Waddington International Air Show, which has been running since 1995, saw about 65000 people from across the country and beyond flock to the air base. EYES TO THE SKY: The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight entertains sell-out crowds during the 2011 RAF ...

Thousands attend 'Wings Over Tyler' – KETK | TYLER — Sunday's air show, the first of its kind in about 15 years, kicked off in a true patriotic fashion with a paratrooper delivering a giant American flag -- all as the Star Spangled Banner played in the background. Soon after, Tora, Tora Tora, ...

Man pulls 150000 pound plane at Kalamazoo air show - Fox 28 | Mark Kirsch pulled a 150000 lb. airplane 120 ft. at a Kalamazoo air show on Friday, July 1. The pull was done in front of dozens of participants from Battle Creek Community Inclusive Recreation, which provides events for people of all ability levels, ...

Two more classics crash!  from Classic Aviation Worldwide by classic-aircraft | In further sad news for the aviation world - Bucker Jungmann, based at Old Warden, crashed upside down in a field while performing at the airfield. Meanwhile Kennet Aviation's Supermarine Seafire was forced to conduct a wheel's up landing with Anna Walker at the controls. Thankfully no major injuries or fatalities occurred in either…

Air Show Fan Now A Pilot - KMOX.com | “Every summer, we'd come up, watch the Cardinals play in that blazing heat, and cap off the 4th of July with an air show. Then it was head back home after saying goodbye to grandma, grandpa, and the uncles,” Capt. Carmean tells KMOX News. ...


AMA plans festival for 75th anniversary - Muncie Star Press | There is no cost to the public to attend the event, which will feature aerobatic flying demonstrations, hands-on radio-controlled flight training, national soaring competition, NASA exhibits, RC boats and cars, tethered balloon rides, ...

Warren air show benefits military families – WCAX | The fun was all part of this year's Stars and Stripes Charity Air Show. Pilots from across the country took to the cockpits of all different models including biplanes and sailplanes to volunteer their time. Hundreds of people packed the ...
A celebration of a local hero at Yeovilton Air Day - This is Somerset | Watch that agility in action when the Navy's Lynx display team, the Black Cats, of Yeovilton-based 702 Lynx training squadron perform their superb aerobatic display. This year Lt Chris Chambers, 36, is the lead pilot, with Lt Dave Fleming, 31, ...

Museum members get trip back in time - CTV.ca | As part of a nation-wide tour by an organization dedicated to preserving Canada's aviation history, some vintage airplanes took to the skies over the capital city – demonstrating to members what a flight might have been like in the 1940s. ...

Floating Mooring Mast Proposed as Way Station for Airships  from I n f o r m a t i o n 2 S h a r e by pawangkul

Horton family story to be shared at museum - News Chief | CL Chennault and the "Flying Tigers," where he flew more than 50 missions in a B-25 before returning to the US Later, he returned to the US Air Force Reserves as a lieutenant colonel. In November 1941, second son Andrew Smith Horton enlisted in the ...

The B-25N “Panchito”  from Moose Peterson Aviation Photography »  “We owe it to present and future generations to wisely maintain and operate these treasures as living history monuments . . ..Larry Kelley” I think July 4th is the perfect day to reflect on the words of Larry Kelley, owner of Panchito…

Movie about pilot Joe Moser's story of WWII survival to premier in Bellingham - TheNewsTribune.com | Moser, who was in the Air Force, is featured in a World War II documentary about him and 168 airmen being shot down, captured and moved to Buchenwald concentration camp. The movie will premier at 7 pm on July 16 at Mount Baker Theatre. ...

B-47 bomber crews loaded with hydrogen bombs were told it was the real thing  from War Tales by Don Moore | Donald Gatrell of Port Charlotte, Fla. was a crew chief on a B-47 “Stratojet” six- engine nuclear bomber during the early 1960s. One mission stands in his mind after more than half a century. “It was the morning after Thanksgiving Day 1961. About 5 a.m. horns on our SAC base at Little Rock Ark. sounded. [...]

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Terrafugia flying car gets road-safety exemptions – Register | The Terrafugia Transition "roadable" aircraft – a stylish combination of light aeroplane and car – has been granted useful exemptions by the US Department of Transportation. It's a car. It can fly. ...

The final shuttle launch  from Spacevidcast by Benjamin Higginbotham

Happy last shuttle launch!  from make the logo bigger by mtlb | The history of the space shuttle, in pictures. For Gen Star Trek, the end of an era:

Friday, July 1, 2011

Indy Transponder 01-JUL-2011 1030z

US flying aces set for starring role at Waddington - This is Lincolnshire | The skies over Lincolnshire were filled yesterday with performances from the famed Avro Vulcan bomber, Blades aerobatic team, Chinook helicopters and the United States Air Force Thunderbirds. SKY HIGH: Clockwise from left, the US Air Force Thunderbirds ...

Wings Over Tyler – KETK | Not only will there be some vintage warbirds strutting their stuff, but today the modern aircraft made an appearance. In the Gulf and Iraq wars, the stealth and high tech got all the press. But if you were a soldier or marine, these were the planes you ...

CAF Airsho 2011  from Military Photos by cco23i | Info from the show director.  Hello guys! Midland AIRSHO is only 98 days away.... come on out and see me!!! It's going to be a great time! Check out the website www.airsho.org click on Living History and you'll find a registration form and guidelines. I promise we'll treat you good!! ~ Dear Living History Groups:  The Commemorative Air Force is once again busily preparing for the annual CAF AIRSHO 2011, presented by Western National Bank. The theme for AIRSHO is “Red, White & Loud… the Sound of Freedom” and will be held at Midland International Airport (MAF) on October 8-9… 

Fly up to Arlington for Fly-In – HeraldNet | One of the highlights of this year's fly-in will be flights and tours of the B-17 Sentimental Journey aircraft from the Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force out of Mesa, Ariz. According to the Commemorative Air Force website, a B-17G aircraft ...

First man on the moon lands in Australia - International Business Times AU | Neil Armstrong, the United States Naval Aviator who set foot on the Moon on July 21, 1969 as part of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, is set to have a rare visit in Australia. As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing mission, ...

Gary Sinise Launches the Gary Sinise Foundation with Branding and Website by ... PR Web (press release) V12 Studios Ltd. (V12), a leading branding consultancy, today announced the launch of the Gary Sinise Foundation brand, corporate identity and Web site.  The Gary Sinise Foundation branding capitalizes on his name recognition, which not only carries his reputation as talented actor, but now stands to justly represent a man of humanitarian action.  Seal Foundation, and Disabled American Veterans. ...

Retired bomber lands at new home at museum - Pensacola News Journal | According to Woltman, he is the last aviator qualified to fly a Skywarrior jet. The aircraft will now be on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum. / Katie King/kking@pnj.com The National Naval Aviation Museum on Thursday received its latest ...

B-17 to visit Peoria during July 4 week - Peoria Journal Star | By Journal Star staff A restored World War II-era B-17 bomber will fly into the Gen. Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport July 5-6, offering the public an up-close view of what is considered one of the greatest military airplanes ever built. ...

An exhibit at Philadelphia International Airport honors the Tuskegee Airmen ... - Philadelphia Inquirer | The exhibit, which will be on display through June in Terminal A-East, is a photo essay of seven decades of aviation history. On hand were four original Tuskegee Airmen, named for the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, where they trained, an all-black unit ...

Aviation soars to success in 1st Air Race - Daily Illini | Alice McCormack, Visiting Aviation Education Specialist for the College of Aviation, stands in front of the plane she used in the Air Race Classic, at the Aviation Institute on June 30, 2011. The Institute of Aviation recently added to its award board ...

'Breitling Reno Air Races - The Game'... and the YouTube video - Classic Driver | Swiss watchmaker Breitling, whose name is synonymous with air travel, has entered the games market with a new app which enables the chair-bound to take to the skies in the virtual cockpit of a P-51 Mustang. The flight simulation app, which is currently ...

Eastbound I-10 Blue  from Travel for Aircraft | The ascending Grumman F9F Cougar Blue Angel at the I-10 Florida Welcome Center as entering from Alabama — photo by Joe May…

Rocketry club hosts July 4th launch event - Mountain Home News | Mountain Home's model rocketry club will hold its first-ever Fourth of July launch event Monday morning. Scheduled to begin at 10 am at the gravel parking lot north of Tiger Field off South 18th East Street, club members will demonstrate various types ...

First flight of Japanese ATD-X likely in 2014  from Military Photos by Beast of war | Tokyo has reaffirmed its plan for a 2014 first flight of its experimental Mitsubishi ATD-X Shinshin stealth demonstrator, while it also considers three fighters for its F-X requirement.  "The first flight of the ATD-X is scheduled in Japan fiscal year 2014," said Japan's defence ministry…