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Sunday, June 26, 2011

Indy Transponder 26-JUN-2011 0230z

Downpours Mar US Thunderbirds Air Show in Bulgaria - Novinite.com | The Thunderbirds are the air demonstration squadron of the US Air Force. Photo by BNR Downpours marred Saturday the air show of the world-famous US squadron Thunderbirds at the Bulgarian "Graf Ignatievo" air force ground. The news was reported by the ...

Wings Over Tyler air show - KLTV |Tyler is hosting an air show, Wings Over Tyler, on July 4th weekend. The crazy tricks and high speed turns these pilots can pull off have not been seen in Tyler in quite a while.  "Oh they'll be flying upside down, loops, sideways, pretty close to the ground, doing double-eights in the sky with smoke trailing behind," said Carolyn Verver, who helped organize the show. ...
   
Aviation celebration held at Caldwell Airport - Northwest Cable News | She is on a panel with other pilots like Joe "Rifle" Shetterly, Greg Poe and members of the Idaho Division of aeronautics. Both Morgan and Poe hope by sharing their adventures in space, local kids will be inspired to explore the wonders of flight and ...

Patrol at Le Bourget - Apache Roll | No flight demonstrations for the patrol, but a nice static display which brought together our aircraft, one of the beautiful Constellation Wingwalkers and sponsored by the Breitling brand that had one of the most beautiful stand of the show. ...
   
Pilots show off planes' capabilities - Kansas.com | Here at the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport outside Paris, Rambo performs those same maneuvers for a much larger audience. He's been demonstrating them daily to the thousands who gather to watch the afternoon entertainment. ...

Paris Air Show - "rehearsal" for MAKS - The Voice of Russia | Russia's exposition at the Paris Air Show this week impressed ordinary visitors and aviation officials alike. The Sukhoi Superjet gained a lot of orders along with the MS-21 airliner currently being developed by the Irkut and Yakovlev Design Bureau, ...

Electravia, Cri-Cri Set Speed Record at Paris Air Show from CAFE Foundation Blog | Anne Lavrand of Electravia in Grenoble, France, shares this exciting news from the Paris Air Show today.  “A new speed world record for electric aircraft : 283 km/h ! (175.46 mph) ...

Snowbird loved flying since a fledgling - St. Thomas Times-Journal | Padruig MacIntosh climbs into his Snowbirds jet Friday at the St. Thomas Municipal Airport prior to the team's practice session. By NICK LYPACZEWSKI TIMES-JOURNAL Capt. Padruig MacIntosh is a six-year-old boy in a grownup's flight suit. ...

Hawk One Returns to 4 Wing Cold Lake by dandempsey | On the 17th of June a golden jet broke out of the clouds east of Cold Lake, Alberta and was soon arcing over the airfield at 4 Wing. It was a return visit by the Discovery Air Hawk One F-86 Sabre which made its inaugural visit to the area in 2009 in celebration of Canada’s ...

Planes of Fame Air Show 2011 from TAKEOFF TUBE

#74 Super Corsair F2G-1 from Moose Peterson Aviation Photography | In North Dakota yesterday, the mighty #74 Super Corsair roared back to life at the hands of Bob Odegaard and very talented family. I got the call from Casey that it would be first cranked over and prelimanary  ...

Daredevil Shirley grandfather is a record breaker - Birmingham Mail | DAREDEVIL veteran Tom Lackey has completed his toughest challenge yet – wing walking both ways across the English Channel. And the 91-year-old grandfather from Shirley said completing the four-hour feat was “terrific”. ...

When museum pieces fly - AirForceTimes.com | A B-17 crash is reigniting the debate over whether restored military aircraft — warbirds, they're called — should be flown. The Flying Fortress, a World War II bomber, made an emergency landing June 13 in ...

Armed Forces Weekend: Sunday's activities from What's On at RAF Museum London | 25 June 2011 - 26 June 2011 | Incorporating The Hendon Pageant This year's Hendon Pageant is dedicated to Armed Forces Day 2011, Saturday 25th of June, and consists of a series of activities held on both the Saturday and Sunday dedicated to the members of all 3 Armed Services in the UK and their families. Activities on Sunday include  ...

The 178th victory from the Warbird's blog | In a dark hallway of the Sikorski Institute in London, this tail section of a German Junkers bomber sits more or less forgotten. (The engine in front of it doesn't belong to the Ju-88 but to a British Hawker Hurricane fighter.) It is billed as the 178th aircraft shot down by RAF 303 Squadron, known as

First flight A400M from I Love Planes | This is a picture from the first flight of the Airbus A400M military transport plane. The plane is several years late, over budget and several customers have cancelled their orders due to the delays. ...

Weekend Wings #40: South Africa's "Franken-Mirages", Part 2 of 3 from Bayou Renaissance Man | Last week, in Weekend Wings #39, we looked at the South African Air Force (SAAF) and its Cheetah program to improve its 1960's-vintage Mirage III fighter-bombers. This week I'd planned to examine three related areas pursued by the SAAF during the 1980's and early 1990's: but the sheer length of the resulting article is way too big for Blogger to handle comfortably! When I initially put it up, it produced errors. I've therefore split it in half. I'll devote this Weekend Wings to South Africa's Carver fighter project. Next weekend, in Weekend Wings #41, I'll cover the 'Super Mirage F1' program to upgrade the engines and weapons of the SAAF's front-line aircraft, and describe various weapons and systems that were developed to equip Mirages, Cheetahs and Carvers. ...

Powered parachutes fill the sky - Fox11online.com | NEW LONDON - The skies near New London will be filled with beautiful colors as the Wisconsin Powered Parachute Association celebrates their 10th Annual Fly-In. This event will feature powered parachutes, helicopter rides, powered paragliders, food, ...

FlightTime Radio Show 180 from The FlightTime Radio Show | Back in the Key Auto Studio at WBOB, we talk about Milford's first sailplane flight with a passenger onboard and the USA Today front page article about becoming an airling captain!

"CF-Squared" UCAP #239 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast

Young Eagles Take Flight at Morgantown Airport - WBOY-TV | The Young Eagles program is held by the Morgantown Pilots Association and the Experimental Aircraft Association. "We have been doing this since 1995, flying in excess of 2000 kids," said Richard Judy, president of the Morgantown Pilot's Association. ...

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Monday, January 31, 2011

Indy Transponder 31-JAN-2011 0300z

Air Show in El Salvador. - Demotix | 2011 Air Show, was held at Ilopango Airport, San Salvador city on Saturday. International and local pilots took part in a breathtaking display of acrobatics ...

Busy day on water for Auckland Anniversary - TVNZ | The Laneway music festival is also happening in Aotea Square. Off the water, the Red Checkers and Warbirds will fly over the city just after 11.00am.

Sky-high poetry takes wing - Wairarapa Times Age | Jeffrey Holman was in Masterton for the Wings Over Wairarapa airshow at Anniversary Weekend, and brought with him his new book of aviation-inspired poetry, ...

Formation flight Sunday. Thunderbirds from Planeshots

Final flight for Jim Poel - Travel for Aircraft | This weekend a family lost a good man, the aviation community lost an excellent pilot and the Glenn H. Curtiss Aviation Museum lost a brave person willing to pilot the Albany Flyer replica. This aircraft is the Glenn Curtiss design from 1910 and its flight is what set American aviation on its way.
Jim Poel was piloting this aircraft last June when a crash occurred. He was severely injured and his fight for recovery had been going well. Recovery in these cases is a fight, make no mistake …

Celebrating a pioneering African American aviator from General Aviation News | On Feb.1, pioneering African American aviator Mildred Hemmons Carter will be saluted with a program honoring the 70th anniversary of the day she received her pilot’s license. The program will be held at 2 p.m. at the Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center in Tuskegee, Ala. …

The "flying coffins" in German from fox2magazine
The Starfighter was the most spectacular fighting of the sixties: There was another aircraft that was so fast and went in such amount as the F -104 - but 116 German pilots killed him. The "flying coffin" is probably the biggest scandal of the aircraft postwar era and the aircraft was able to have a German loss of service without comparison. Nearly one in three German aircraft were pinned to the ground. ...

Circumnavigating the globe in a 182 - twice! by Steve | There are plenty of impressive aviation tales but this one certainly ranks up there with the best of them! Bob Gannon has flown his 182 around the world twice, landing in over 150 countries on all seven continents over the past decade. I can't even fathom having the nerve to consider such an adventure let alone actually doing it. What an incredible story!

DVD Review: Heart of Scotland Airshow 2010, Perth by Flightline UK | The charming Heart of Scotland Airshow at Perth was certainly a highlight of the season with it’s small, but very varied flying display over the picturesque Perthshire countryside. The weather for the weekend was …

DVD Review: Duxford Battle of Britain Airshow and Autumn Airshow 2010 by Flightline UK
… For this review, Flightline UK was supplied with the Blu-Ray edition in HD but more about that later. Apart from the content of the flying displays, this is a very interesting production because of the way it’s put …

WEF 2011 - MilCAP over Davos, Part 2 from AirSpace | Each year at the end of January, when you can see hundreds of photographers/Spotters hanging around Swiss Airfields, it is time for the WEF. Not a …

Red Flag Media Day 11-02 from photorecon.net | On January 25, 2011, Nellis Air Force Base Public Affairs hosted a media day for Red Flag    11-2.  Photorecon attended along with 38 other aviation photographers from all over the nation. Since 1975, Red Flag exercises have been taking place at Nellis Air Force Base, located in the desert north of Las Vegas, Nevada.  Red [...]

FlightTime Radio Show 159 from The FlightTime Radio Show | Milford and Charlie were at Craig Airport (KCRG) in Jacksonville for the EAA Chapter 193 Pancake and Egg Breakfast. Sky Harbor at Craig Airport is the Chapters new home and this was their House Warming Party! We had Brown Aircraft visiting the show. They filled us in on all of aviation services the provide. Check out their new web page, www.brownaircraft.com. Steve and Grant were back, reporting from Down Under! They had a new episode of Flying Down Under. Check it out...! They have a mate talking about Towel Dragging?!
Brandy Hofstetter-Newest Pilot from Welcome to Able Flight
It wasn't long ago that Brandy Hofstetter learned to drive, and it's been less than a year since she graduated from high school. Now the 18 year-old from New Jersey has an impressive addition to her list of achievements; she's Able Flight's newest pilot.  When she passed her checkride in early January she also became the fourth woman to earn a pilot certificate with an Able Flight Scholarship. To celebrate her remarkable achievement, the day after her flight test she took her mother and a friend on flights as her first passengers. ...

Happy birthday! Commander of International Space Station crew has present ... - Daily Mail | The commander of a six-person crew who are currently on the International Space Station (ISS) has had a special delivery today, ...

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