A blog about planes and other flying machines
I like to say that this is my plane, even though it’s not. I use a picture of this plane as my twitter background image. If I had the money to own and buy a plane, I’d want something like this. I want something that’s big enough for me to bring along the family, yet [...]
Now, this is nice. When he retired from AT&T, General Motors Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre negotiated a deal that allows him to commute between San Antonio, Texas and Detroit via private plane owned by AT&T. According to the Detroit News as part of his retirement package, Whitacre gets to fly for up to 10 [...]
I love this listing. I love it because of the main photo. The listing says that the plane is damaged (you think?) and they recommend that you either rebuild the plane (seriously?) or scrap it altogether. I love the other pictures that they have of the plane showing the damage, but I think I love [...]
This is a cool video taken with a Kodak Zi8 camera of a Cessna 172 in taking off from runway 34 at Sterling airport. Sterling is in New England or something like that. Makes me want to go out and start flying.
It was freaky how the prop looked like it was stopping at several times in the video. The beeping alarm is the stall warning. I seriously have to figure out a way to get back in the air. I’ve been earthbound for way too long. I’d love to go on trips like this with mah [...]
I found this over at http://www.fearoflanding.com/ I figured given that today is Thanksgiving, I should be grateful for something aviation related. Well, let me just say, that I’m thankful that there are no bears in Texas. Apparently, there are Texans in Alaska though. The story goes that this guy was out fishing in Alaska, left [...]
Over the summer, I had the opportunity to do some plane spotting over in San Francisco. I arrived early enough that I was able to snag the very best spot. I captured a rather mundane picture of a SouthWest Airlines Boeing 737 touching down at SFA, that just didn’t speak to me. I liked that [...]
This is the first of, I believe 3 parts, of my personal 2011 aviation highlights. This was a very active year with my aviation hobby as I got to see planes that I hadn’t seen before, I went to a couple of airshows and also went plane spotting out of state. Part 1, comes from [...]
