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Mystery Linkage Identified - After A Hint (Douglas Dauntless)
A better view of the dive brake mechanism of the Douglas SBD Dauntless My good friend Marty (aka @pilot2b) only needed a short amount of time to get the correct answer for this mystery Name The Plane...
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Caption Contest #50 - Ends Wednesday 2.9.11 At 9PM EST
Here's another chance to trade avgeek humor for a bacon sandwich at Oshkosh 2011 as the Caption Contest reaches the half-a-hundred plateau. This pic also keeps us on a bit of a Russian theme after...
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Video Proof: Boeing 777 Is Built Ford Tough!
Wow. In just 26 seconds, this video proves without a doubt that the Boeing 777 is built Ford tough! Seriously, I find it pretty amazing that somewhere around 400,000 pounds of airplane can endure a...
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Spotted For Sale: Jump On This! A Real Sea Harrier Jump Jet
Click the pic to go to the details on this Harrier Jump Jet listed at barnstormers.com So they say that a lot of P-51's were sold as surplus after WWII for around $5,000, and when you adjust that...
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Gentlemen...Charge Your Batteries! (EAA $60K Electric Flight Prize)
Click pic to go to the EAA page on the Electric Flight Prize And ladies too… the EAA’s 2011 $60,000 Electric Flight Prize is for men and women of course, but it’s not for the internal combustion...
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Vote For Most Significant February 9th Event In Aviation History
Boeing 747 first flight on February 9, 1969 Sure, there are probably a lot more aviation events that took place on a February 9th date in history, but these three are the ones I'm specifically familar...
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Vote Now For The Best Caption - Ends Friday 2.11.11 At 9pm EST
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View ArticleTop Gear And The Homebuilt Space Shuttle (Make Go Boom)
In our modern world of gigabyte input and general sensory overload, it's easier than ever before to miss something cool... mostly because you were distracted checking out some other thing that's...
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More Awesome Retro Paint For The Centennial Of Naval Aviation
Could this F-18 derivative (EA-18G) in 'three-tone blue' look any better? Hot stuff! (9 pix) I really don't know how I feel about the way we've created so many U.S. coins with 'modernized' graphics...
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Amazing Video Of The 1970 'California 1000' Air Race! (Must See)
This video posted by the claylacyaviation youtube account in late 2010 is an absolutely amazing historical record of a really unique air race: the California 1000. The race took place at the Mojave...
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'Name The Plane' - ID Make And Model For Free Bacon! (2.12.11)
Be the 1st to ID MAKE & MODEL to win a tasty bacon sandwich at OSH11 (CORRECT answer was given at 8:45 on 2.12.11 - see comments) Here's another Name The Plane exercise to see who can fetch up a...
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Caption Contest #50 Winner(s) - 'Caspian Sea Monster' Comrades
Not only did we have a tie in the voting poll (and thus I'm awarding 2 bacon sandwiches), but I got side-tracked this morning and didn't get the winners posted like I should have! Oh well, better...
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Mystery Scoop Identified - Cirrus Design VK-30 Homebuilt
The full pic of the Cirrus VK-30 homebuilt from the Name The Plane game on 2.12.11 (3 pix) I was really hoping the Name The Plane game on 2.12.11 would last about 24 hours. Instead, it went just 15...
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Mystery Aft Fuselage Identified - 'VFW Fokker 614' 70's Airliner
The VFW-Fokker 614 (West Germany) small airliner from the mid 1970's (photo: wiki) The world of aviation is full of unique aircraft designed and built by people driven to find a better way. The VFW...
View ArticleVideo: GRASP Quadrotors Prove The End Is Near (Yikes!)
This is some of the coolest/scariest stuff I've ever seen. The GRASP Laboratories (General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception) at the University of Pennsylvania has been hard at work on all...
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1941 Air Race: Porterfield Gets Whipped By JATO Ercoupe!
First JATO takeoff ever in the U.S. in 1941... on an Ercoupe? OK, it wasn't a real 'air race', but it was a pretty historic event: the first ever JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off) in the United States. And...
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Nice! Very Appropriately Named 'Seastar' From Dornier Seaplane
(click pic to enlarge) The Seastar, from Dornier Seaplane Company, at Oshkosh 2010 I got several pictures like the one above of the Dornier Seaplane Company's 'Seastar' at Oshkosh 2010. It was a hard...
View ArticleVideos: Multiple Views Of STS-133 - Final 'Discovery' Launch
Discovery's final launch a few days ago on February 24th went extremely well, which was a great sight to see on her last launch ever. With just Endeavour and Atlantis left to fly one last mission...
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Caption Contest #52 - Ends Wednesday 3.2.11 At 9PM EST
After a week off, the Caption Contest is back to see who will come out on top and fetch up a bacon sandwich at OSH11 for having the bestest and most funny thought to go with the pic above. So put on...
View ArticleBlack Ops 'Dark Deltoid' VTOL Caught Flying In Texas Hangar
It's hard to believe something so small, light, and inexpensive could look so stinkin' cool in the air, but this little Dark Deltoid RC model is all that and more. I've seen a lot of nifty RC ideas...
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