Video: Forget The Beatles, The Best Music EVER Comes From The Mosquitos!
The Historical Aviation Film Unit has just uploaded a new video of the incredible Avspecs Mosquito making some of the best stereo Merlin music ever! Forget the Beatles, it's all about the Mosquitos...
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Thom Richard Wants YOU To Design New Paint For Precious Metal! (Entry...
(click pic to enlarge) Precious Metal at Reno 2012 - she'll look different at Reno 2013! Thom Richard is not your average Unlimited racing owner/pilot... oh wait, there's no such thing as an...
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Oshkosh 2013 Gets Stung By Jerry Yagen's Mosquito?
(click pic to enlarge) Jerry Yagen's Mosquito recently restored by Avspecs in New Zealand AVweb had a story yesterday about how the EAA was going to stand firm on their policy of not paying...
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Video: Keyboard As An Elevator... The Flying Piano! (RC)
There seems to be no end to the number of everyday items that can be turned into a wild-n-wacky RC flying model, including a grand piano! And what a great flying piano it is too. With a slab keyboard...
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My First Design For The Precious Metal P-51 Paint Design Competition!
Top view of my first concept for the Precious Metal paint design competition I love Unlimited Reno air racers and I love awesome and effective graphic images, so having the opportunity to submit some...
View ArticleAwesome Top Gun Video Imagery... Red Star Style (Su-33)
This is a fabulous collection of Sukhoi Su-33 video imagery operating off of the Admiral Kuznetsov carrier and it definitely gives off a strong Top Gun vibe. I always find it interesting to see...
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Me With Darryl Greenamyer's Conquest 1 At Reno 1968! (+ NASM MeetUp Reminder)
(click pic to enlarge) Me at age seven and in love with Conquest 1 at Reno 1968 This little Kodak picture (that I cropped down a bit) scanned in fairly well, tho if you click the pic to view it...
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Poll: New American Airlines Paint - Sail Or Fail?
(click pic to enlarge) New American Airlines paint unveiled 1.17.13 (photo: American) So here's the deal... you've got a huge fleet of airliners with a boatload of new ones on order, and you're...
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CoolPix: Summer Dreamin' - Rutan Boomerang At Oshkosh 2012
(click pic for hi-res) Unique view of a most unique aircraft: the Rutan Boomerang at OSH12 The combination of some bitter-cold winter air in my part of the world, along with...
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CoolPix: Hughes H-1 Racer (AirPigz NASM MeetUp Starts Tomorrow!)
(click pic for hi-res) 1935 Hughes H-1 racer at the Air and Space Museum (photo:NASM) The third AirPigz MeetUp starts tomorrow, Friday January 25, and this year we’re meeting up at the National Air...
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CoolPix: Space Shuttle Discovery Up Close At The Udvar-Hazy Center
(click pic for hi-res) The unique textures of the skin on Space Shuttle Discovery The first day of the AirPigz National Air and Space Museum MeetUp was agreat success! 13 people in all gathered...
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AirPigz NASM MeetUp Day 2! (Downtown Washington DC - 5 Pix)
(click pic to enlarge) The Bell X-1 that Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier with in 1947 Day two of the AirPigz National Air and Space Museum MeetUp was absolutely fabulous! We car-pooled to a METRO...
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CoolPix: 1970's Reno Biplane Racer Sorceress At The Udvar-Hazy Center
(click pic for hi-res) Over 40 years later, the biplane racer Sorceress still looks hot! I returned from the AirPigz NASM MeetUp about noon today after driving back from the Washington DC area......
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1944 Dornier Do 335: A Really Big Push/Pull Speedster From WWII (+ Video)
(click pic to enlarge) WWII German Dornier Do 335 at the NASM Udvar-Hazy Center The recent AirPigz National Air and Space Museum MeetUp was more than just a great time with historic aircraft and...
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Video: November 11, 1956 - The Sexiest Jet (Ever) Makes Her First Flight!...
Quoting a friend, this is all I can say: O___O ...can't talk...too pretty... The Convair B-58 Hustler is prepared for her first flight on November 11, 1956
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Top Gun: Mach 2 With Your Hair On Fire In IMAX 3D Feb 8-13!
3D movies haven't lived up to the hype for me, but the chance to see the pop icon film Top Gun (1986) on the big screen with big sound is enough to pique my interest. The movie is actually in IMAX...
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Great Lakes (By Waco Classic) New Paint Scheme Design Contest! (Ends 2-17-13)
Click the pic to learn more about the Great Lakes paint scheme contest! You don't have to know me very well to know I'm a big fan of paint scheme design contests, and while we wait to see who the...
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Video: Dancing With A Kite At The 12th Annual Windless Kite Festival (Amazing!)
The 12th annual Windless Kit Festival was held last month in Long Beach Washington... and before you go off thinking this is some sort of twisted joke about trying to fly kites with no wind, you...
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Poll: Awesome Or Ugly? The Boeing 307 Stratoliner (Plus CoolPix)
Designed in the late 1930's, this is one of only 10 Boeing 307 Stratoliners built The Boeing 307 Stratoliner, the first pressurized commercial transport, would have been a much bigger success if World...
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Video: Ultra Slow Motion (1200 fps) Of A Boeing 777 Burning Rubber!
Have you ever wondered what the landing gear on a Boeing 777 looks like at 1200 frames per second as it makes contact with terra firma? Well, wonder no more! This video offers up a fascinating look...
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