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Hobbico E-FEST Was An Awesome Electriflying RC Display! (21 Pix)
(click any pic to enlarge)The University of Illinois Armory building is a great place for indoor electric flying! Hobbico, headquartered in Champaign Illinois, is the largest distributor of hobby...
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Video: 1975 Flashback With Clay Lacy, A DC-8, And The HUMAN FLY!
Clay Lacy was a household name for me when I was a kid because Clay started flying DC-3's for United Airlines the same year that my dad Robert Clupper did, in 1952. I know my dad knew Clay back in...
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Checking Out Interesting Avgeek Opinions In Recent AirPigz Polls
The 'voted very awesome' Piaggio P.180 Avanti! I really enjoy putting up polls for avgeeks to vote in, and I'll admit that it's partly to see what you think and mostly to try to make some sort of...
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CoolPix: Pitts Special As Art! Betty Skelton's 'Little Stinker' At Udvar-Hazy
(click pic for hi-res) Betty Skelton's Pitts Special on display at the NASM/Udvar-Hazy I'm trying to find the time and energy to get a boatload of pix from the recent AirPigz National Air and Space...
View ArticleVideo: Will You Take Your Russian AN-2 Biplane Waterskiing This Summer?
Disclaimer: the acts depicted in this video are not recommended, suggested or indorsed for anyone at anytime. However, if you feel you must take your airplane waterskiing this next summer, please be...
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Poll: Pick Your Fave Amphibious SLSA (ICON A5, SeaMax M-22 And The SeaRey)
Amphibians rock! Water, ground, and sky... all in one! (Progressive Aerodyne SeaRey) Seriously, the combo of a flying machine that can fly off terra firma AND terra aqueous is pretty much the best...
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Video: Short & Sweet And On Her Feet (Nose Gear View) Cargo 777 Landing
This little one-minute-and-three-second video is an appetizer for a bigger video that's said to be available soon from PilotsEye.tv, a German-based video production project that seeks to bring a...
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CoolPix: Looking Back At Shuttle Endeavour (Looking Over Earth)
(click pic for hi-res) Shuttle Endeavour during one of her 25 missions: 1992-2012 I could say a lot about the decline of the United States of America since the 1960's... the decline in our...
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Bacon Salute! 2013 AirPigz National Air & Space Museum MeetUp
(click pic to enlarge) Avgeeks doing the 2013 AirPigz Museum MeetUp 'Bacon Salute'! (check out the NASM MeetUp category on AirPigz for more posts from the NASM) It was about a month ago, Sunday...
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My Take On The 'Sequestration' Blues (And Thunderbirds Too)
(click pic to enlarge) US Navy Blue Angels in tight formation at Reno in 2009 I'm certainly no expert on the issue of sequestration, and since I've actually worked the last 15 days straight (with my...
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Skunky And Fascinating AgustaWestland 'Project Zero' Electric VTOL Tilt Rotor
Electric tilt-rotor VTOL research testbed built by AgustaWestland revealed yesterday The radio control model world has been leading the innovation in flying machines for several years now... and some...
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Poll: Would You Ride The 787 On Its First Return-To-Service Flight?
(click pic to enlarge) Prototype Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Oshkosh 2011 The nightmare for the Dreamliner may be soon ending. From what I've seen, Boeing has a fix in mind for the battery overheat...
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Caption Contest #80 - Ends Wednesday 3.13.13 At 9PM EDT
Now that the time has changed back to Daylight Saving I figure we should celebrate with a fresh new caption contest, especially since bacon is involved! If you cook up the winning caption for the...
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The Awesome 4th Hop Of The Awesome-Hopping SpaceX Grasshopper! (Video)
After SpaceX solved an issue with the oxidizer tanks on the most recent Falcon 9 launch, their streak of excellent success with five Falcon 9 launches is intact. That's quite an impressive feat. And...
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Vote Now For The Best Caption - Ends Friday 3.15.13 At 9pm EDT
Wow, lots of submissions this time... definitely a challenge picking just 5 for the poll!
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Video: Can You Say Aerodynamic Braking? (Vulcan Bomber Farnborough 2012)
I'm constantly amazed at how easy it is to miss really cool avgeek stuff on the internet, like this fabulous Vulcan Bomber landing video from Farnborough 2012 that now has over 1,300,000 views. I had...
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Caption Contest #80 Has A Sequestered Winner!
While I feel the sequestration is being used as a dirty trick against the American people, I'm at least happy to see we can still have some avgeek fun with it. Congrats go out to 'Tim' (again!) for...
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Video: Boeing Presentation On 787 Battery Problem And Fix (+ CoolPix)
(click pic to enlarge) 'Boeing' on the very reflective side of the prototype 787 at OSH11 Click here to see the full Boeing webpage on the technical briefing with additional info I've been pretty...
View ArticleVideos: FedEx 727 Lands On 4,000 Foot Anchorage Runway!
FedEx recently donated one of their antique Boeing 727's to the University of Alaska for use at Merrill Field in Anchorage as a non-flying training tool, but Merrill Field only has a 4,000 foot...
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Video: Revealed - The Mysterious Apollo Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea!
More pix and info at this BezosExpeditions webpage The mysterious Apollo voyage to the bottom of the sea is really a by-product of every Apollo mission that left the Earth... the engines and booster...
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