Gene Lee at TheHDPilot recently posted this video to YouTube, chronicling the never-ending search for the perfect landing:
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Video: MAF first-ever landing at Kaiam
“It was totally worth our MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) Airvan pilots and plane being caked in mud – as this isolated village in the mountains of Papua, New Guinea, now has an airstrip, which will be a lifeline to receive vital help such as medical supplies.”
Video: Jetpack soars past Statue of Liberty
NEW YORK — An Australian entrepreneur. David Mayman, flew a jetpack in a controlled and sustained flight around the Statue of Liberty Nov. 3. The JB-9, a miniature jet-turbine back pack approved for the flight by the FAA and US Coast Guard, was developed by legendary Hollywood inventor (and winner of three Academy Awards) Nelson Tyler and […]
Video: What the runway sees
Gene Lee of TheHDPilot.com sent us this video, noting: “In a never-ending attempt to work on perfecting my landings, I tried using my GoPro cameras in a new way to record the details of what’s going on below the plane. See what the runway sees!”
Video: Practicing aerobatics in an RV-7
Gene Lee of TheHDPilot.com recently posted this short video he shot while practicing aerobatics in his RV-7. He explains: “As part of my plan to learn aerobatics and reach my goal of being able to do them on my own, I felt it was now time to ween myself from my two current acro instructors, […]
Video: Music to the ears
The guys at FunPlacesToFly.com just posted this very short video celebrating one of the best sounds in aviation, a big radial engine as a vintage aircraft takes off from the Gainesville Airport at the Texas Vintage Aircraft Association Fly-In.
Video: Protecting airports
Our friends at FunPlacesToFly.com sent us this video, which captures “a great visit from the McKinney Fire Department as they show EAA Chapter 1246 the Protecter, a custom-built firefighting machine. It was designed to be the first a responder to jet fuel fires, protecting passengers and firefighters from harm.” https://youtu.be/52U1avPGzf8
Video: A different kind of flying
The folks at Team Fly Halo, a group of aerobatic parameter pilots and instructors, recently posted this trailer of a web-based adventure film that they plan to releasing in the next couple months. “We travel the country flying the most scenic places imaginable in our small backpack-aircraft, and one of our team members, Ryan Southwell […]
Video: See the CarterCopter in action
Carter Aviation Technologies has released a new video showcasing the CarterCopter with its slowed rotor/compound (SR/C) technology. “We’ve been talking about the technical aspects of slowing rotors, flying at high mu/high advance ratio for years,” said Jay Carter. “Unfortunately all of that technical talk was lost on many folks interested in what we were doing.”