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Caption Contest #73 - Ends Wednesday 4.25.12 At 9PM EDT
My friend Jo (@futureshox) suggested this early 50's pic of the most awesome little Stits Sky Baby as a good one for a Caption Contest, and I sure agree! Seems like we should be able to have some...
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My Grandfather Got His Private Pilot License August 18, 1945
My grandfather Paul Clupper's Airman Certificate (Private Pilot) dated August 18, 1945 My dad Robert Clupper was born in 1929, and passed away in 2009... his dad Paul Clupper (my grandfather) was born...
View ArticleVideo: B-25's Over The Air Force Museum During 70th Doolittle Raid Reunion
Doolittle 70th Anniversary Formation Flight aboard 'Grumpy' from Liz Matzelle on Vimeo I was fortunate to be over at the Doolittle Reunion on Tuesday April 17th for the arrival and static display of...
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Me (avgeek toddler) Checking Out The May 1962 Flying Magazine (Circa 1963)
Me, the little avgeek toddler, checking out the May 1962 issue of Flying magazine! Finding my granddad's Private Pilot license issued on August 18, 1945 was really cool, but I also recently found this...
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Caption Contest #73 Winner - Blueprints Edition
Congrats to 'Charles' for coming up with the winning caption this time around... I hope you'll be coming to OSH12 to claim your bacon sandwich prize! And thanx again to Jo (@futureshox) for pointing...
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Navy F-35C Formation Flight CoolPix Triple Play (Plus Video)
(click pic for hi-res) Navy F-35C aircraft #'s CF-1 and CF-2 in formation flight The first formation flying done by two of the Navy versions of the the Lightning II (F-35C) was completed recently as...
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Poll: Classic Taildragger - Cub vs Champ vs T-Craft
Piper J-3 Cub (photo: mvonraesfeld on flickr) Aeronca 7AC Champ (photo: jwm1049 on flickr) Taylorcraft BC12D (photo: davemacvac on flickr) When I was a teen in the 70's there were three good ole...
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Video: Boeing 737 MAX Now Sporting New And Funky 'Splitlets'
This animated video released today by Boeing shows loads of details on what we can expect the newest version of the 737 to look like. The 737 MAX is scheduled to enter service in 2017 initially with...
View ArticleSuper Sweet Lockheed C-5 Galaxy Video Triple Play!
You might be surprised that I usually don't know what I'm gonna post here on AirPigz until I sit down to make it happen. Today, I went looking for an interesting video to post and somehow I wound up...
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Awesome Videos Of Kent Pietsch Landing On A Pickup & Motorhome!
Yesterday I posted some cool C-5 Galaxy videos including one from Stevo71 and that led me to find out another fabulous video on that account... the one above of Kent Pietsch landing his Jelly Belly...
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Jimmy Doolittle, The Curtiss R3C-2 And The Schneider Trophy Air Race (1925)
Jimmy Doolittle in the Curtiss R3C-2 that he won the 1925 Schneider Cup race with The same Jimmy Doolittle that led the raid on Tokyo in 1942 (that we just remembered with the 70th reunion) also won...
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The Unbelievable Twin Beaver Story - A Most Impressive Piece Of Work!
The Unbelievable story of the Twin Beaver can be found over at VintageWings.ca Some of you reading this will already know how unbelievable the story of the Twin Beaver is... and how so few of us knew...
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Hot! Air To Air Video & Stills With Holland, Goulian, Stewart And Coleman
Really fab aviation photographer Jessica Ambats did a hot air-to-air photoshoot with Rob Holland, Michael Goulian, Skip Stewart and Kevin Coleman down at Sun-n-Fun, and this recently released video...
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First Customer-Built Onex Flies... Let The Revolution Begin!
Bill Fisher and his 'first customer-built Onex': first flight was yesterday! (photo: Sonex) Thursday May 10th 2012 was a big day for the little single seat VW powered freedom machine known as the...
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Caption Contest #74 - Ends Wednesday 5.16.12 At 9PM EDT
It's time for a little more caption action, avgeek style! This pic from the past should prove pretty easy to come up with a pack of wacky captions as we set our sights on another winner of a bacon...
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Video: Ride With The Great Corkey Fornof In The LoPresti Fury!
This sweet cockpit video of Corkey Fornoff flying the LoPresti Fury at the Great Tennessee Air Show last Saturday (May 12th) takes a little while to get to the really good stuff, and it includes...
View ArticleVideo: Shuttle Enterprise Being Lifted Off Of The 747 At JFK
When I posted the video of Shuttle Discovery being mounted on top of the 747 for transport to the National Air & Space Museum (5th and last video in that post) I noticed the rather massive...
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Marvel Film 'The Avengers' Continues Hollywood's Love For VTOL
(click pic to enlarge) The S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier in the hot Marvel movie The Avengers (4pix) Have you ever noticed how much Hollywood is in love with the idea of VTOL aircraft? I guess it's a...
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Caption Contest #74 Winner - 'Pancake Man' Superhero Edition!
Yesterday's post about the flying machines in the awesome Marvel Comics movie The Avengers (in theaters now, check local listings : ) has us in a superhero kind of mood... and that's perfect for this...
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