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Shorpy.com Image: Intrepid Aviators Circa 1911 - Hang On!
(click pic for hi-res) The early days of aviation, and no seat belts! From shorpy.com When you click the image above you'll get a big hi-res version over at shorpy.com, and it'll give you a really...
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Caption Contest #71 Scratches Up A Winner!
Two things I've noticed about winning captions... they usually have few words, and oddly the first caption submitted often winds up as the top dog, pun intended here. So today we say congrats to...
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Video: Air Racers 3D (IMAX) - Fly Into The Valley Of Speed!
Air Racers 3D opens in slected IMAX theaters April 5th and 6th (2012) (5 pix and 2 videos) It would at first seem that the timing of this new IMAX theater film project called Air Racers 3D couldn't...
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Scaled Composites Career Day April 21st - Hot Company Looking For Cool...
Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo at Scaled Composites Mojave, CA SCALED COMPOSITES CARERR DAY - SATURDAY APRIL 21, 2012 If you're a hands-on engineer interested in aviation and...
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#SNF12 - Thursday: Spring Break For Pilots Is Under Way! (13 Pix)
AeroShell Aerobatic Team on Tuesday looking fab in the Florida sky (photo: EyeNo) (13 pix) If you're at Sun-n-Fun 2012 then you probably already know that 'spring break for pilots' actually began on...
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Video: MINI Countryman Adds Wingsuit Towing Capability!
You may have noticed that I chose to bypass the viral hoax video of the flapping wing hang glider from a little over week ago... yet, I'm posting this recent MINI commercial that's gotta be faked as...
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Video: PAL-V Flying Car Kinda Motorcycle Gyrocopter Thingy Flies!
I'm willing to go on record saying that I just don't think the idea of having a car that can fly is a really great idea. My biggest issue relates to the fact that flying machines are lightweight......
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Setting My Thoughts On The Pitts S2C (Flying Soon With Billy Werth)
Billy Werth from Grayout Aerosports and his awesome Pitts S2C (photos: facebook) I'm just beginning to seek out the finer details of flying a Pitts S2C in preparation for going flying soon with Billy...
View ArticleHD Video: Stunning Italian Mountains Seen From A Paraglider Harness
You don't have to be into paragliding to be awed by this HD video from youtuber TOMASMBASK. Be sure to watch in HD and full screen if you can for a much larger impact. The mountains are the Dolomites...
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CoolPix: Looking Back At Pilots Who Were Looking Ahead
NACA test pilot George Cooper with a North American F-100 Super Sabre (click pic for hi-res) There's something so very cool and special to me about the images from the big experimental jet age of the...
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Caption Contest #72 - Ends Wednesday 4.11.12 At 9PM EDT
I'm working on an easier and better way to cook bacon at Oshkosh this year, and this is very relevant because the winner of this Caption Contest will earn a delicious bacon sandwich at OSH12. So if...
View ArticleVideo: LiveAirshowTV.com Looks At The 'Air Racers 3D' IMAX Film
As efforts to bring the Reno Air Races back for 2012 continue (see today's new story concerning NTSB recommendations) the recently debuted Air Racers 3D IMAX film has announced more locations for the...
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Poll: Will Anyone Really Vote For The Tri-Pacer?
(click pic to enlarge) Taildraggin' Pacer and milk stool of a trike Tri-Pacer (photo:wiki) Personally I think it was a huge mistake when Piper moved the third wheel on the PA-20 Pacer from the tail to...
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Caption Contest #72 Has A Winner!
. The voting was really close this time between two captions, but this one from 'Marc' came out on top... congrats and I hope you're gonna be at OSH12 to collect your bacon sandwich prize : )...
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70th Doolittle Raiders Reunion - 20 B-25's Gather At The Air Force Museum
20 B-25's on the runway behind the Air Force Museum on Tuesday April 17, 2012 (14 pix) The weather couldn't have been any better for the big gathering of B-25's at the Air Force Museum today for the...
View ArticleShuttle Discovery Makes Final Flight To Air And Space Museum (5 Videos)
Yesterday (April 17, 2012) while I was at the 70th Reunion of the Doolittle Raiders at the Air Force Museum getting pictures of the 20 B-25's gathered there, the Space Shuttle Discovery made its final...
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CoolPix: Stearman Beauty In The Early Morning (OSH11)
(click pic for hi-res) Words aren't really needed here... it's just an opportunity to soak in the shapes, colors, textures, and overall beauty of a classic aircraft in the early morning sun and dew....
View ArticleVideo: Red Bull P-38 Lightning At Duxford Flying Legends 2011 (mmmm)
The videos from the youtube channel of Flying Machines TV are consistantly amazing, and this one of the Red Bull P-38 Lightning flying at the 2011 Duxford Flying Legends event in England is no...
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'Name The Plane' - ID MAKE And MODEL For Free Bacon! (4.21.12)
GAME OVER - correctly ID'd by @manp as an Aeronca Sedan As is often the case, it took just over 30 minutes to find a correct answer for the Name The Plane game. This time twitter follower @manp...
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