FPV Air2Air Hydroplane from flip on Vimeo.
A beautiful camera equipped scale model of a Blohm & Voss BV 138 with a camera equipped Twinstar in trail. The spliced videos make for the awesome piece above.
Capt’n Chris
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I received this series of pictures via email. It’s quite amazing and does not appear to be Photoshop manipulated. You can click on each picture for a larger version. Additionally, the tower looks like it was built solely to demonstrate the power of this excavator.
Pretty astounding… I’d like to see the shots of the way down as well.
Capt’n Chris
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What would they be?
That was a question I posed recently on Twitter, and I am accumulating responses. There is no limit as to what these 3 airplanes can be.
My personal 3 airplanes would be: F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, Viking 400, Cessna Citation X.
What would yours be? Here’s what folks on Twitter have said so far…
matthammer
Gulstream G550, Beechcraft G36, F4U Corsair
falcon124
Turbo Goose Amphib, F-18F Super Hornet, Boeing Stearman
jenniferwhitley
Columbia 400, Super Decathlon, SpaceShip Two
yaksierra
Ryan ST, Pilatus PC-12, Waco QDC
atp4tr
Turbo C-206 Amphib, Pilatus PC-12, Cessna Citation X
AirPigz
DC-3, Piper Cub (Clipped Wing), Sbach 342
reptlnerd
PBY Catalina, Epic jet, SBach
DaveFlys
Lancair IV-P, F-16C/D, INCOM T-65 “X-Wing” StarFighter
navigator2024
Pitts Special, ICON A5, BBJ
StephenForce
F-86 Sabre, Twin Otter, Super Decathlon
Captain_Ron
F-14, Pilatus PC-12, Columbia 400
airsquad9
L-1011, C-130, P-51 Mustang
As more people reply, I’ll post their responses here.
Capt’n Chris
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Just a quick note to wish you, your family and friends a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday. And in that spirit I thought it’d only be appropriate to say what I am thankful for (off the top of my head…)
My wife and family, my friends, good health, a stable, good job with a strong airline, that I get paid to do what I love, PlaneMadness.Com & Podcasting, airplanes, motorcycles, approach lights at 300 AGL, good neighbors, R/C aircraft, radar, two great cats, more thrust then you’ll ever need (…because there’ll be a time you need it), Flight Line Internet Radio (FLiR), XMAS & New Years off, APU’s, Sea-Doo’s, WordPress, ATC, PodPress, the iPhone (especially ver. 2.2), dogs (all dogs), de-ice fluid, Twitter, heated leading edge surfaces, wingsuits, dark microbrews, happy gate agents, and that I can still look twenty something in a ball cap, for now :).
Anyhow, that’s a brief rundown… and not quite in proper order, mind you. Must less the entire list.
But you get my point… Happy Thanksgiving!
Capt’n Chris
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…Capt’n Chris coming at you live from the BitThruster Studios Complex on the West Coast of the United States - It’s Episode #44 of the PlaneMadness Podcast with an informal wrap up of the AOPA convention as well as all kinds of other great content!
We’re playing catch up a little here this week, and so some of the stories you hear today you may have already heard… So I’ll try to give them some of the PlaneMadness forward galley ’secret sauce’ if you will.
Here’s what’s in today’s show…
Music in this Episode:
Robert Lund - 50 Ways to Loose Your Luggage
PlaneMadness Episode 44 Show Notes:
http://www.planemadness.com/2008/11/25/planemadness-episode-44/
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That’s exactly what a Delta baggage worker got upon opening the cargo bay door on a Boeing 757 after a flight from Portland to Atlanta.
Apparently (although not confirmed), the worker was able to get the door shut in enough time that the cheetah wasn’t able to get out and onto the tarmac - Where the cookie could have crumbled a whole different way. In fact, there were two cheetahs on board but only one had escaped it’s cage inside the cargo compartment.
The airplane was towed to a closed hangar while Delta asked for and received help from Zoo Atlanta. It was in the hangar that zoo officials were able to tranquilize the big cats. They were then taken to the Zoo in Atlanta to serve as a temporary home, since originally the cheetahs were supposed to go to a zoo in Tennessee. Now the Tennessee Zoo has to put together a team to come fetch the bigs cats in Atlanta. Why not just fly them?
Not!
Capt’n Chris
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I recently received the following email from a listener in Switzerland:
Hey Chris!
I found something interesting on the internet: It features a kind of “radar” page that shows position and past track of airplanes around Zurich airport. Basically it’s a Google maps background on which the live (!) position of different airplanes can be seen.
Unfortunately, the area is limited by the range of the ADS-B receivers that are positioned around Zurich (probably less interesting for people living overseas). But in combination with the LiveATC feeds (LSZH Zurich, Switzerland and LSZH #2 - Zurich, Switzerland) it’s possible to track some flights and hear the atc communications with them as well. When I learned RTF it was quite useful to actually compare what I heard in RTF with the visual information on the “radar” screen.
So here’s the Link: http://radar.zhaw.ch/radar.html
I think the default language is German; here’s how to change it to English: By the lower left corner there is a field named “Eigenschaften” (Properties), if you select it, a small window appears and there, on the upper right corner, you can choose English.
In the same window there is also an array where you can select “Units = aviatic” (Altitutde in feet, Speed in kts) So if you click on one of the plane symbols on the main screen you get all the information (Altitude, AS, ROC, ROD) in the “correct” units.
Keep up with your great shows/podcasts it’s a real pleasure listening (and watching) to them!
All Best,
[Name Removed], Switzerland
This is really cool, so definitely check it out!
http://radar.zhaw.ch/radar.html
Thank you Sir!
Capt’n Chris
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Japan Airline’s (JAL) President rides the bus to work, has a desk among many and lines up in the cafeteria like everyone else - All this while his airline is one of the top ten in the world. When JAL cut back like every other airline, it’s CEO cut back all of his perks, including his pay. In 2007 he made about $90,000 USD - That’s less then a JAL senior pilot.
He shrugs it all off as something that just has to be done in tough times, and laughs at the notion that many US Airline CEOs make so many millions of dollars. He says “Businesses who pursue money first, fail…”
Recently his air conditioning broke which even caused a spat with his wife over his pay…
Folks, why does this seem so incredible to me? Because over here in the states, many of our airline managements have a totally different concept of sharing in their company’s (and therefore their employee’s, I might add…) hardships. This does nothing but create a rift, a distance if you will between management and it’s employee groups. American Airlines is a great example in my opinion of this, with wounds that run so deep between management and employees, there’s doubt if they can ever even heel.
Being a proud American first though I say these words with tough love only - Because it’s my true desire that we not only be out in front of the rest of the world with regard to management employee relations, as an industry, but that we also set a real example for it.
Capt’n Chris
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272 Stolen Items and more than $10,000 in Cash Recovered
Recently KCBS Channel 2 in Los Angeles did a very though and explosive report on the organized crime within KLAX. Bands of thieves throughout the baggage handlers, TSA, and other employee groups used organized methods to identify valuables within luggage.
Thorough cell phones and text messaging, those thieves at or near X-Ray screens would then talk to other thieves who would go into the luggage and steel the valuable(s). This has resulted in 3,793 passenger claims of stolen items since January 2001.
The problem at KLAX is so horrific it makes it the worst in the nation, behind KJFK and KEWR. KCBS Channel 2 blew the lid off of it, to the surprise of LA City Councilman Jack Weiss and everyone else.
Take a minute to watch the KCBS 2 report here: http://www.KCBS.Com
It’s unbelievable…
Capt’n Chris
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The PlaneMadness Podcast has teamed up with Flight Line Internet Radio (FLiR).
Under the new agreement I will be presenting regular content on this rapidly growing aviation network. You can listen by going to http://www.flightlineinternetradio.com, or you can hear FLiR right now by using the Windows Media Player Console located in the right column of this site.
There is a wide range of aviation oriented content on Flight Line Internet Radio and I am very pleased to be a part of it. Be sure to listen for The Warbird Beer Show, The Airplane Geeks Podcast, and Rob Mark of JetWhine as well!
Capt’n Chris
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The 2008 AOPA Convention Episode
Join me as I take you back to the 2008 AOPA Convention in San Jose, California. It was held Thursday, Friday, and Saturday November 6 -8 2008. I was able to attend Thursday and Friday and spoke with several interesting people whose interviews are in this episode. Overall it was a educational and exciting experience and I’m glad I was able to attend.
Many special thanks go out to the following people who took the time out of their busy schedules to speak with me. I’m sure you’ll find their interviews as engaging as I did:
Photos
John & Martha King, Patty Wagstaff, and a mutual friend
The Cirrus Vision Jet
The Cirrus Vision Jet - Interior
Mooney’s Banner
The Icon A5
The Icon A5’s Interior
PlaneMadness Episode 43 Show Notes:
http://www.planemadness.com/2008/11/15/planemadness-episode-43/
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www.twitter.com/planemadness
Caller Feedback Line…
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Copyright 2008
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