Two more Videos from MikeysRC – foam FPV flights!

A really cool FPV (flying point of view) video from MikeysRC.com. A scratch build twin-engine foam plane with HD video transmitter. Aircraft flown off the top of a local hill provides some neat views.

Here is yet another cool plane. This time, it’s an all-foam ducted-fan Concord. LOL. The in flight video is [...]

St. Maarten aircaft landing videos

While talking about cool places to go, I was looking up links to St. Maarten (visited there in 2001).   Which, inevitably brings me to look up YouTube videos of landings there.    Here are a few that I really liked.. the last one gives you a REAL feel for how hairball that approach is!

Airbus A340 [...]

Air France 477 – assembled time line

I was not able to find a lot of information on the aircraft communications time line past the first couple of days of the search. Of the information I was able to obtain, this is the short time line I was able to put together.

Following each, the ‘[#]‘ links to the reference article where [...]

The tragedy of Air France 447

Since the disappearance of Air France 447, an Airbus A330-200, (the exact same model of aircraft flown by Northwest Airlines, that I took to Amsterdam last month), I have been following the news reports pretty closely.  A lot of speculation surrounds, what the call the doomed flight, but until they get the ‘black boxes’ this [...]

Obama White House – they are simply brilliant

Item 1

First up today, a wonderful teleprompter gaff with the President.  Forgetting where he was in ‘his’ speach, he had to have the teleprompter ‘move ahead’ so he could get back on track.  Nothing says ‘passionate about your topic’ like having nothing to say, unless someone is feeding it to you.

Item 2 [...]

Dumbasses, with laser beams

What possesses someone to shine a laser into the cockpit of an aircraft?  And not just any aircraft but a commercial jet with hundreds of innocent lives aboard?

Around 8:00PM tonight it happened again on the approach to SeaTac (SEA).  This even was widely reported on by the local news.   Last year a man was [...]