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AirPigz National Air And Space Museum MeetUp January 25-27, 2013 (Washington DC)
(click pic to enlarge) Shuttle Discovery at the Udvar-Hazy facility (photo: flickr/concord977) AirPigz 'Air and Space Museum' MeetUp in Washington DC will take place January 25-27, 2013 (Fri, Sat, Sun...
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Videos: Boeing 747 First Flight (Feb 9, 1969 - My 8th Birthday!)
I stumbled across these two videos the other day and realized they were more than awesome enough for posting. You get about 15 minutes of the backstory leading up to the first flight of the prototype...
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Video: War Is Hell... But Sometimes Mercy Rules The Day (A Higher Call - Book)
This nearly 7 minute video shares the amazing story of the 1943 encounter of a heavily damaged American B-17 bomber and a German BF-109 fighter over German territory... what should have ended with an...
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SlickHutto Takes A Spin Back In The Video Saddle... 2012 Fort Worth Air Show
If you've been paying attention the last several years you know that the best post-Oshkosh videos have been made by youtuber slickhutto - but Slick's a busy guy these days with being in the Navy and...
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CoolPix: Gee Bee R-1 After Winning 1932 Thompson Trophy (+ Desktop Pix &...
(click pic for hi-res) Gee Bee R-1 after Jimmy Doolittle won the 1932 Thompson Trophy I'm convinced I should have been born in 1909... that would have made me 23 in 1932, a perfect age to be wowed by...
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Gettin' It Wright... Caption Contest #79 - Ends Wednesday 12.19.12 At 9PM EST
What could be better for an avgeek on a December 17th than remembering what the Wright brothers accomplished on this day back in 1903 while you also set your thoughts on winning some tasty BACON! If...
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Poll: Awesome Or Ugly? The Piaggio P.180 Avanti/Avanti II
The very unique design of the extremely fast 3-lifting-surface Piaggio P.180 Avanti I was just finishing up high school back in 1979 when the initial design work was being done on the Piaggio P.180...
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The 6 Seat 250 MPH TBIRD... A New Idea From The 'Aircraft Designer Wannabe'
TBIRD: 6 seats, around 400hp, a 250 mph cruise speed... and she's pretty too! Ok, it's not actually a new idea... I drew this fantasy design back in 2011 as part of a logo for a project I was working...
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Wright On! Caption Contest #79 Has A Winner
The number of captions and people voting were down a bit this time around... do you think the last minute Christmas shopping rush had anything to do with that? Ha! I was way ahead of the curve this...
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Video: Early Christmas Gift from Slick - Don't Stop The Aviation: GoPro 2012
'Slick' is back again already with another must see video. He's mixed some sweet GoPro footage from fun-flying a Mini-Max, a Piper Clipper and his single place Pitts together in what makes a really...
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Merry Christmas From All Of Us At AirPigz.com!
Oh wait, there is no 'us' at AirPigz it's all just 'me', but that's perfect... instead of some mushy Happy Holidays or even worse Season's Greetings, I can easily, with great confidence and pleasure...
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Video: Stinson 108, GoPro HD, And Some Ice And Snow!
Since there's a little snow in the air in my neck of the woods (northern Indiana) and quite a bit of it on tap for the northeast, I thought a nice little ski-flying video would be appropriate. After...
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CoolPix: Piper Cub Perfection At Oshkosh 2012 (With Desktop Sizes)
(click pic for hi-res) A J-3P (Lenappe radial engine) and a J-3C at Oshkosh 2012 I propose a challenge: take any two Cessna 150's and position them however you like and then take your best picture of...
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Short Story: How Big Would A Ford Tri-Motor Be If You...
(click pic to enlarge) 1929 Ford Tri-Motor N414H at NAHI 2012 in Reno last September This is the first post in a new and occasional series called 'short story'. None too surprising, these will be...
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Would You Please Buy Me An Airplane? (Support AirPigz Today!)
VW powered Nieuport 11 replica homebuilt for sale on barnstormers.com - $8,900 Use this donate button to support AirPigz and help me buy this airplane! ($150 in donations as of 6:09pm EST on 12.31.12)...
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Back To The Future: Read The January 1983 FLYING Magazine (Happy New Year 2013!)
The shape of the future? Bellanca Skyrocket article from FLYING Magazine January 1983 The January 1983 issue of FLYING Magazine is an amazing read! When I posted my fantasy TBIRD 6 seater design I...
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Fabulous View Of A Fokker 50 Takeoff In Iceland - mmm... Nice!
The journey to finding this Fokker 50 takeoff video with the awesome perspective started with a desire to find a great video that showcased the sound of the Rolls Royce Dart turboprop engine. The...
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Perfect Paper Airplane Poll: James May -vs- Me! (Top Gear vs AirPigz)
Making the internet rounds is this paper airplane from Top Gear's James May Please vote now in the paper airplane poll at the bottom of the post! I'm happy to see that one of the Top Gearheads (the...
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CoolPix: NASA X-15 And B-52... Pioneers To Space! (With Desktop Sizes)
(click pic for hi-res) Climbing toward space: X-15 from the B-52 cockpit (image: NASA) I've had a really awesome X-15 and B-52 cover pic on the AirPigz facebook page for the last month or so that's...
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