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Video: Breitling Promo For The 50th Anniversary Reno Air Races!
Swiss premium watch maker Breitling has been sponsoring the Reno Air Races for many years and they are more important to the success of the World's Fastest Motorsport than ever before. This video...
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Antique Airfield... Heaven On Earth! (AAA Fly-In 8.31.13 13 Pix)
(click pic to enlarge) Ryan SC-W in front of the official Antique Airfield Hangar The 2013 Antique Airplane Association fly-in runs thru Monday September 2nd in Blakesburg Iowa... it's the most...
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Antique Airfield: Antiques, In The Air! (10 Pix)
(click any pic to enlarge) Cabin Waco flying over Antique Airfield last Saturday evening August 31, 2013 I've got a boatload of pix from my weekend trip to the Antique Airplane Association fly-in at...
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Video: Another Supersonic SpaceShipTwo Test - Commercial Flights In 2014!
AirPigz is all about avgeek diversity, which is why I can go from antique airplanes in the two previous posts to aerospace sub-orbital supersonic testing in the next. My theory has always been that a...
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More SpaceShipTwo Video... Cuz It's AWESOME!
So. Much. Wow. Video screenshot: SpaceShipTwo under rocket power!
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Reno Week Begins As Precious Metal Sneaks In Under The Wire
Precious Metal in her new paint for the 50th Reno Air Races (photo: facebook) Qualifying at the 50th anniversary Reno Air Races begins today, and fortunately for Thom Richard (and his Precious Metal...
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Video: Excellent Reno 2013 LiveAirShowTV Update For Monday 9.10.13
LiveAirShowTV has put together this excellent update of the excitement that's already been part of Reno 2013, the 50th anniversary of the National Championship Air Races. This 5-and-a-half minute...
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Friday Morning At The 50th Anniversary Races: Reno 2013 (8 Pix)
(click pic to enlarge) T-33 Pace aircraft with home pylon in background before sunrise Between having to work Wednesday until noon (when I had hoped to hit the road at 6am), the 35 hour road trip from...
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CoolPix: Precious Metal Shining In The Sun (Reno 2013)
(click pic for hi-res) Precious Metal in the sunshine getting lots of TLC before more racing I was able to capture this unique CoolPix of Precious Metal in the pit getting some serious work done on...
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There's Magic In The Man! Steven Hinton Wins Reno 2013 (In Voodoo)
(click pic for hi-res) Steven Hinton wins Reno Unlimited Gold in the P-51 Voodoo! I rushed to get this hi-res pic of Steven Hinton in Voodoo posted - it's from the Gold Unlimited race and I captured...
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R2-D2 Racing Jet Class At Reno 2013 - Gets 2nd Place! (CoolPix 2Fer)
(click pic for hi-res) Rick Vandam and R2-D2 racing in the Gold Jet race on Sunday Normally I should show you some of the great pix I captured of Pete Zaccagnino in the L-29 'Just Lucky' winning the...
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CoolPix: Midnight Miss III Up-Close As She Wins T-6 Gold At Reno 2013
(click pic for hi-res) Dennis Buehn and pylon 2 on the last lap of his T-6 Gold Race win Way back in the late 60's my dad took me to the Reno Air Races (1967 thru 1970) when I was just a wee lad...
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CoolPix: Strega Passed Everyone But Voodoo In The Race For Reno Gold (2013)
(click pic for hi-res) Matt Jackson passing pylon 2 in the Unlimited Gold championship race Between recovering from the long drive to Reno and back (4,100 miles), plus getting back to my day-job,...
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2 Videos: Recap Of The Bombardier CSeries First Flight (Sept 16, 2013)
I was on the road driving back from Reno on Monday September 16, 2013 when the Bombardier CSeries narrow-body airliner made its first ever flight from Mirabel Airport near Montreal, Quebec. Between...
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Early Morning Rainbow Over Antique Airfield During 2013 AAA Fly-In
(click pic to enlarge) A rainbow over antiques at Antique Airfield on September 1, 2013 The weather back on Sunday September 1st, toward the end of the Antique Airplane Association fly-in in...
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Video Proof Of Why Oshkosh Is The World's Greatest Aviation Event!
This 4 minute 11 second video gives you just a small slice of what took place at Oshkosh 2013, and yet the avgeekery seen in this just-released FlyWithEAA video is crazy huge. Try to imagine the...
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AirPigz #CampBacon Gets Some Love From AOPA And Av8rdan : )
Me with fresh bacon at an OSH13 bacon party at #CampBacon! (photo: Ron Klutts) Avgeeks and social media seem to go together very well... kinda like how bacon and mmmm go together! In the five years...
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Video: Wow, We Were Amazing! Apollo 11 Launch - July 16, 1969 (USA)
I bought a cool NASA meatball t-shirt at Target last weekend and I was wearing it yesterday evening... gotta say it made me feel special. Seriously. And while I know there are great things done...
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HD Video: 'Must See' Pilot's Eye View... This Is Why We Fly
This recently uploaded HD video of a stunningly beautiful approach into Queenstown Airport in southern New Zealand shows why most of us love to fly... the view of the Earth from above is simply...
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Video: SNC Dream Chaser 'Space Shuttle' Free-Flight Test: Successful, With A...
This just released video shows the first free-flight test of the Sierra Nevada Corporation 'Dream Chaser' spaceplane on Saturday October 26, 2013. While the Dream Chaser will have the capability to...
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