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Video: Men Who Fly Like The Squirrel! (Wingsuits)
Tho I've always been a fan of skydiving (and have 110 jumps myself) I've been a little unsure how I feel about the way wingsuit pilots fly. But I must say that this beautiful video is just pure...
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Poll: Airline Passenger Comfort - Would You Slow Down If You Could Enjoy The...
A 747 upper deck lounge from back in the 70's... now that's comfort! A ran a poll like this shortly after AirPigz launched over 4 years ago in an effort to see if people would prefer greater comfort...
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Caption Contest #83 - Ends Wednesday 6.12.13 At 9PM EDT
Seriously, it's time to quit clowning around and think up some great captions for this pic in Caption Contest #83. And it's no joke that the winner in this contest will walk away with a tasty bacon...
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Video: Taking A Dip In SeaRey Amphibian Paradise!
I put up an amphibian SLSA poll back in February to see if the airplane that makes the most sense to me would come out on top... and it has in a big way. With over 500 votes in currently, the...
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Video: Airbus A350 XWB Is In The Air! (First Flight 6-14-13)
Airbus has put the A350 XWB into the sky for the first time today... and in fact, if you're checking out this post before 8:00am EDT on Friday 6-14-13 then it's probably still on its first flight!...
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Caption Contest #83 Winner - NOT The Wright Brothers!
Yuk Yuk Yuk! Congrats go out once again to seasoned captioner and bacon sandwich collector 'Tim' for winning once again! I hope he's gonna make it to OSH13 to collect his winnings, especially since...
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Wounded Tiger Book: Kickstart This Amazing (And True) WWII Story Of Redemption
Mitsuo Fuchida: leader of the air attack on Pearl Harbor... to Christian evengalist in the U.S. check out the Wounded Tiger book kickstarter campaign now (ends July 1st) If the story about the...
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Video: A330 Rejected Takeoff Due To Engine Failure - Very Well Handled
I've posted several of the great airliner videos from Simon Lowe in the past (like this amazing must-see video of a truly perfect A330 landing) but this one captured yesterday of a Thomas Cook Airbus...
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Video: Thom Richard And Precious Metal Prepare To Impress At The 50th...
The guys at LiveAirShowTV put together a great interview piece on Thom Richard and his Rolls Royce Griffon powered P-51 Precious Metal. With the 63 mph speed increase seen at Reno 2012 from the...
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Why Oshkosh Matters (With CoolPix Marathon - 19 Hi-Res Images)
(click pic for hi-res) Ray Hegy's El Chuparosa at Oshkosh 1970 (see original post) Oshkosh 2013 is fast approaching (July 29 - Aug 4), and I'm as excited as ever to be planning to attend. I was there...
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Tom Cruise Turns 51 Today (With Top Gun Music Video!)
This is a guest post... Author Bio: Alex Smith is a freelance film and television blogger for Direct2TV.com who has been a huge fan of Tom Cruise, Top Gun and things that go fast since childhood. He...
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Independence Day Aviation Book Sale! (AirPigz OSH13 Fundraiser #1 - 15 Books)
It's not really the 4th of July to me, it's Independence Day... I think there's some very important disctinction there. My guess is that about 20% of you are rolling your eyes right now and the other...
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Flitzer Homebuilt Biplane: The Perfect Boredom Fighter!
Totally non-authentic and perfectly awesome: the Flitzer biplane (photo: flitzerbiplane.com) Back in the late 70's a homebuilt airplane emerged that had a WWI feel to it and was small and relatively...
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Jack Bally's MANNED 1/3 Scale B-17 Nearly Ready To Fly!
Jack Bally's incredible 1/3 scale B-17 next to a Cessna 140! (photo: facebook) Some new pictures surfaced last evening on the Bally Bomber facebook page showing Jack Bally's incredbile 1/3 scale B-17...
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Video: Unmanned X-47B Makes First Carrier Landing - Very Successfully!
On May 14, 2013 the unmanned Northrop Grumman X-47B made its first ever launch from an aircraft carrier... and today, less than two months later, the pilotless test aircraft has made its first...
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For Sale: $360 - Rare 'Sled Driver' SR-71 Book (AirPigz OSH13 Fundraiser #2)
(click pic to enlarge - this is a composite pic of the same book, closed and open) Sled Driver $360.00 Brian Shul 1994 151pgs Excellent Condition! * To purchase, send me an email at...
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CoolPix: The New Goodyear Blimp (Zeppelin) Is Taking Shape!
(click pic for hi-res) The first all-new Goodyear/Zeppelin airship coming together in Ohio Technically it's an airship and not a blimp (due to some internal support structure) but Goodyear is sticking...
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Video: Disney's Planes - In Theaters August 9! (My Tantrum Is Officially Over...
I'm pretty sure you're already aware that Disney has an animated feature coming to theaters soon (August 9, 2013) that features airplanes, and it's called, not too surprisingly: Planes. As a follow...
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Video: Wow! Full Size Aircraft Flies Inside Building!
Never mind that full-size for a Cri Cri is only a 16 ft 1 in wingspan and just under 13 ft long... but that does still make for a pretty big RC model! And when a model like this is built out of foam...
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