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Day #3: Air Force Museum MeetUp - Avgeeks, Bacon, And Airplanes!
The perfect Sunday morning breakfast for real avgeeks must include bacon! (7 pix) A total of 12 people made it to the 2nd annual AirPigz Air Force Museum Meetup over this last Fri - Sat - Sun, and it...
View ArticleVideo: Superman, Iron Man And The Rocketeer All Fly Over New York?
OK, these sweet RC 'flying people' aren't patterned after Superman, Iron Man and the Rocketeer, but I say they should have been! Regardless (or as the uninformed say: irregardless), they do look...
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Video: The Amazing (True) Story Of The F-106 With No Pilot!
I've seen the pic below for several years now but I didn't know the story behind til I watched this recent video put together by AVweb. What a fascinating story - especially when you realize it was...
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Video: GoPro HD And The Extreme Werth Brothers 'Tail Grab'
In mid January, the youtube account for GoPro cameras posted this short and awesome video of Billy and David Werth demonstrating their well-practiced 'tail grab' where Billy flies his Pitts inverted...
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Super Bowl Sunday And My Past Aerial Pix Of Indy's Lucas Oil Stadium
(click pic for hi-res) Downtown Indianapolis from the Farmers Airship - August 2011 With football's biggest day now in our lap, and the start of Super Bowl XLVI (that's 46 for the non-Romans among...
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Caption Contest #68 - Ends Wednesday 2.8.12 At 9PM EST
With the Super Bowl now over, the next logical thing to do is to take an avgeek moment and come up with a funny caption for the pic above! The best part is that the winner will snag a bacon sandwich...
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Video: Organic Variable Geometry Wings... With Killer Landing Gear!
(both videos are selectable to 720p HD) This first video is only 21 seconds long but wow, what an impressive 21 seconds! It's a slow motion capture of an Eagle Owl in the final stages of landing...
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'Name The Plane' - ID MAKE And MODEL For Free Bacon! (2.8.12)
(click pic to enlarge) GAME OVER - correctly ID'd by John Conway as a Lockheed U-2 I'm amazed how often this game doesn't even make it to 30 minutes. John Conway got the correct answer in about 15...
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Vote Now For The Best Caption - Ends Friday 2.10.12 At 9pm EST
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Video: Soaring Isn't Just Awesome - It's AWESOME!
Do you like gorgeous slender airplanes, beautiful mountains and great camera views? Well then this video is right up your alley! But you might wanna turn the music down if you don't like a rock music...
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Caption Contest #68 Winner - Army Surplus Edition
There was a rather large number of captions submitted this time around, which is great of course. A big thank you goes out to everyone who got in on that. It's always a challenge for me to try to...
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Video: New On The Airshow Circuit: The Boeing 737?
Here's something you don't see everyday... in fact, you probably shouldn't ever expect to see two 737's flying a pretty tight formation with a large collection of propeller driven aircraft! Yet,...
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Planes, Trains And Automobiles: The 2012 Chicago Auto Show (Feb 10-19)
(click pic to enlarge) The Chevy 'Code 130R' Concept for a small 4-seat muscle car (27 pix) Chicago Auto Show website The Chicago Auto Show is currently underway (Feb 10-19) at McCormick Place near...
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Video: Fascinating 1995 Story Of The 'Kee Bird' B-29 Salvage Attempt
There are so many interesting stories from the world of aviation that it's easy to miss some of the really fascinating ones. One such story for me is seen in this video about the 1995 attempt to...
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CoolPix: The Rather Amazing 1930 Handley Page H.P.42/H.P.45 (+ Video)
The huge 4-engine, 130' wingspan Handley Page H.P.42 airliner introduced in 1931 (click pic for hi-res) My self-directed aviation education as a kid was built around books that my dad had, and while...
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Video: Virgin Galactic Shows More Of SpaceShipTwo In Flight
Here's a recent showreel video from Virgin Galactic with some stellar views of both WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo in flight. Impressive stuff... and fun to watch : ) Video screenshot of...
View ArticleVideo: RC Floppy Wing Flyer Loves To Fly Slow!
My friend Gary (youtuber sr71afan) makes some of the coolest simplified RC foam flyers and fun little videos to go with them. By going with hyperlightweight foam and flying either indoors or in...
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Caption Contest #69 - Ends Wednesday 2.22.12 At 9PM EST
I was reminiscing over the weekend about some rather amazing experiences I had when I 20 years old and younger... I have three different historic Tri-Motor aircraft that I was able to travel cross...
View ArticleRadar Track Of Traffic Inbound, Then Outbound At Super Bowl - Cool!
Super Bowl XLVI was a money droppin' party for a lot of jet-setters, and this video shows the track of those jets (and yeah, probably some prop jobs too) both into and then out of Indianapolis on...
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Stunning Thunderbirds T-33 (RC) - First Flight Coming Soon!
Incredible detail on this T-33 by model master Graeme Mears (photo: facebook) Quite a while back I showed you the unbelievable story of a privately owned F-16, which of course was really a...
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