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Circa 1982: My Dad's 'Breezy' Feet Following A Piper Cub!
(click pic to enlarge) Following a Cub on a '70 Knotters' tour back in the early 80's With the 75th anniversary of the Piper Cub sitting on our doorstep (and some celebration and mass arrival plans...
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Goodyear Blimp Coming To OSH12 (With Retro OSH71 Blimp Pic)
(click pic to enlarge) Goodyear Blimp & N8407 Ford Tri-Motor (now EAA's) at Oshkosh 1971 The Goodyear blimp will be coming to Oshkosh 2012 and that makes me very happy! I think having an airship...
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I. Want. One. Boeing 787 Demo At Farnborough 2012 - Wow!
The youtube channel of PlanesTV has some great stuff to watch here lately, including this fabulous video of the Boeing 787 flight demonstration at Farnborough on July 9, 2012. Wow, the plastic...
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Video: Want To Fly A Lightning, And Take Your Own Thunder With You?
The English Electric Lightning is a truly remarkable Mach 2 jet fighter from the U.K. that originated in the late 50's and remained in service until the 80's. The unique over-and-under twin engine...
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Video: FlyingMachinesTV - RIAT 2012 in Super SlowMo!
I just finished two weeks of intense and nearly non-stop work in two of my other lives... one as a ceramic tile installer and the other doing graphic design/magazine layout. I feel like I've been run...
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CoolPix (Poll): Life's A Beach... And Then You Fly!! Blue Angels 2Fer
The world right-side-up: Blue Angels at Pensacola Beach Airshow (photo: facebook) (click each pic for hi-res CoolPix version) This amazing picture was posted Monday on the Blue Angels facebook page -...
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Free Bacon! #OSH12 AirPigz Bacon Parties At #CampBacon
AirPigz Bacon Parties on Wed 7-25 & Sat 7-28 (6-8pm) at #CampBacon (map) OSH12! I sure hope you can stop by to chew the fat and talk airplanes at CampBacon in the EAA's Camp Scholler at Oshkosh...
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Lots Of Cub Yellow At Hartford Wisconsin For 'Cubs 2 OSH'
The classic lines of the 'perfect Piper Cub' at Hartford, WI for the Cubs 2 OSH gathering (7 pix) I finally got all of the jagged little pieces of my life to fit together and left northern Indiana for...
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OSH12 Will Be The Best Oshkosh Ever!
(click pic for hi-res) The amazing collection of Cubs that'll arrive at OSH on Sunday It's the time of the year once again for me to remind you that Oshkosh 2012 will be the best Oshkosh ever simply...
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OSH12 Sunday 7-22: Collings A-36 Apache Arrives (CoolPix)
(click pic for hi-res) The beautiful Collings Foundation's A-36 Apache arriving at OSH12 In recent years I pushed as hard as possible to put up a large number of images from each day at Oshkosh but...
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OSH12 Monday 7-23-12: A Great Day To Go Flying! (15 Pix)
Me in the co-pilot seat flying Cory Robin's WilgaBeast on his last leg into OSH from Utah (15 pix) The first day of Oshkosh 2012 was fantastic for me as I had the great opportunity to meet up with...
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OSH12 Tuesday 7-24-12: Living the Oshkosh Life (8 Pix)
One of the most beautiful one-of-a-kind homebuilts ever: 1970's era Polen Special (8 pix - click any pic to enlarge) I'm definitely playing catch-up this year getting great images captured and put up...
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The 'Hinky Hog' Makes A Brief Return During OSH12
My version of the twitter 'fail whale' - it's the AirPigz 'hinky hog' I was nearly done with the post for Thursday at Oshkosh when I left my computer running unattended for about 10 minutes while I...
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OSH12 Wednesday 7-25-12: The Best Place On Earth! (10 Pix)
A dad and son make a unique Red Barn ice run Wednesday morning in Camp Scholler (10 pix - click any pic to enlarge) This post and the rest of the OSH12 posts are being put up several days late due to...
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CoolPix: OSH12 - Super Corsair Pointed At The World's Busiest Tower
(click pic for hi-res) A great pic of a great airplane at a great place! Super Corsair at OSH12 AirPigz is still running in 'safe mode' after my primary computer (laptop) got rained on at Oshkosh...
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CoolPix: OSH12 - Big Prop P-51 In The Morning Sun!
(click pic for hi-res) The back side of a massive P-51 prop in the morning sun at OSH12 My inop computer problem from a surprise OSH12 rain won't be under control until Tuesday, so I'm still limping...
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Video: Head First Zombies Invade Earth! (New Vertical Skydive World Record)
Ok, so it's not an invasion of zombies from the sky after all, it's really a shattering of the previous record for vertical skydiving formations from 108 skydivers in 2009 to a whopping 138 just...
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CoolPix: OSH12 Seaplane Base And A Beautiful Cessna 195 On Floats
(click pic for hi-res) Polished Cessna 195 on floats at the Seaplane Base at OSH12 I'm still taking the easy way out by posting a single CoolPix from OSH12 instead of putting together an extensive...
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CoolPix: OSH12 - Duggy! (The Little Yellow Aluminum Overcast : )
(click pic for hi-res) Duggy, 'the smile in the sky' DC-3 going almost directly overhead I'm getting closer to getting things back under control at AirPigz after the failure of my primary computer...
View ArticleVideos: The Pure Flying Perfection That Is The Piper Cub
Here are two short-but-sweet videos that give a little peek into the Piper Cub invasion of Oshkosh 2012 that celebrated 75 years of Piper's iconic little airplane. The Cubs had gathered at the...
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