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Video: The Arizona Desert, A B-17, And A B-25 - Wow!
Seeing the B-17 Sentimental Journey and the B-25 Maid in the Shade flying around the Arizona desert doesn't exactly make sense to me, but this video is so enjoyable to watch that it doesn't need to...
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Video: Out Late In Your F-35 And You Need Petrol - Watcha Gonna Do?
Aerial refueling is one of those intense skills kinda like carrier landings, it's just not an easy thing to do. But just like carrier landings, can you even imagine doing it at night in the dark? Wow...
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Caption Contest #75 Spins Up A Winner For Father's Day!
Honestly I thought this odd pic would have stirred up a lot more wacky caption response, especially with tomorrow being Father's Day... but the captions were good and the race was tight. In the end...
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Video: Welcome Home (I Think) - X-37B Lands After 469 Days In Space
Do you remember the launch of an Atlas V rocket back on March 5, 2011 that was carrying the second Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle on its first flight? Well unless you're an uber space geek then...
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Video: Kick The Tires And Light The Fires! F-35C Makes First Night Flight
The carrier based variant of the Lockheed Martin F-35 is the C model... it's got the bigger wing, larger control surfaces, stronger landing gear and a hook, among other differences. One thing in...
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'Name The Plane' - ID MAKE And MODEL For Free Bacon! (6.19.12)
GAME OVER - correctly ID'd by 'Tim' as the Boeing 2707 SST cockpit It only took about 12 minutes to find a winning answer, and it came from 'Tim' on his second try after providing a little more...
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Video: ANA 767 Makes Hard Landing Today (That's Not Gonna Buff Out)
(also check out this older post: Video Proof: Boeing 777 Is Built Ford Tough!) Watching this video captured earlier today of an All Nippon Airways Boeing 767 making a hard landing at Tokyo Narita...
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CoolPix: Blue Angels Over Baltimore Last week (Now With Desktop Sizes!)
(click pic for hi-res) I've been bringing you what I call CoolPix images for a long time now, and I've always intended that you would use them as desktop backgrounds. But I imagine a lot of folks...
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Seen On Eve Of Indy Air Show: FedEx Hiring Quiet Pilots? (Wilson!)
(click pic to enlarge) Wilson the volleyball looks ready to go in this FedEx ATR-42 I eventually got myself down to Indianapolis Regional Airport late in the afternoon today for the 'media' day...
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CoolPix 2Fer: Dave Folk's F4U-5 Corsair At The 2012 Indy Air Show
(click pic for hi-res) Dave Folk's awesome F4U-5 Corsair in the sunshine at Indy I'm without a long lens of any kind for my awesome Canon T3i camera so I'm having to think up-close and personal this...
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CoolPix - Air Racer: 3 Blade Rare Bear At The Phoenix 500 In 1995! (+ Video)
(click pic for hi-res) John Penney in the 3 Blade Rare Bear at the 1995 Phoenix 500 Race permit & insurance in place... tickets are on sale now for Reno 2012: Sept. 12-16 If there was one event I...
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Video: MV-22 Osprey Full Demo At Andrews AFB May 20, 2012
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure all the people trash talking about the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey are people who have never designed, engineered and built a machine that can do something no other...
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Poll: Awesome Or Ugly? The Late 1950's Fairey Rotodyne
The higly unconventional late 1950's Fairey Rotodyne - vote now: Awesome or Ugly? The first ever Awesome or Ugly poll with the 1931 Vickers Type 161 was a rather great success, both for the poll in...
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Video: 1970 Super 8 Home Movie: Blue Angels In F-4J Phantom II's (Mesmerizing)
With this video you get flicker, lint, and projector noise. But the cool part is, I think all of that is truly genuine. That's what makes this 3-1/2 minutes of vintage 1970 home movie (Super 8mm) so...
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Virgin Galactic: On Track For Powered Flight By The End Of 2012
SpaceShipTwo glide test yesterday in the very blue Mojave sky (photo: facebook) Virgin Galactic is progressing nicely toward the first powered flight of the suborbital space transport system by the...
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Caption Contest #76 - Ends Wednesday 7.4.12 At 9PM EDT
It's a little risky posting a Caption Contest with the holiday coming up (especially when I'm getting it posted late in the day) but I'm gonna trust that there's plenty of creative avgeeks out there...
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Celebrate Independence Day With A New Spaceport America Logo & Website
All new Spaceport America logo gives a great look to the future of reaching into space I'm a logo freak (possibly a snob) so anytime a new logo emerges I'm very interested (and usually disappointed) -...
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CoolPix: Michael Goulian In Formation With The Blue Angels - Wow!
(click pic for hi-res) An amazing display of blue and yellow paint! (photo: facebook) Last night, Michael Goulian posted this amazing picture on his Goulian Aerosports facebook page, and it just...
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Caption Contest #76 Winner - Born To Be Wild!
Congrats to Tim C. for winning the moon minibike caption contest - I hope he'll be able to make it to OSH12 to enjoy his bacon sandwich prize! And as always, thanx to everyone who submitted captions...
View ArticleWill OSH12 Be As Hot As OSH88? (With Concorde Video!)
I actually posted this Mach 1 Concorde ride video on day number 1 in the life of AirPigz.com back on December 8, 2008. It was the first real piece of content that I produced for AirPigz and it's...
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