EAA 650

Very cool restoration… Hey you WWII aviation buffs take a look at this great restoration.  And she flies with the wind!   Click here: http://www.youtube.com/v/TneYPcyGbbY&autoplay=1&rel=0

http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2014/January/28/himalaya-glider.aspx?WT.mc_sect=tec&WT.mc_id=140131epilot

Israel Does It Again. This is amazing. The company  is based in Haifa. No gimmick, it's the real thing. http://www.youtube.com/embed/uVlERTFVSpo?rel=0 THIS IS MADE IN HAIFA AND ALL EL AL PLANES HAVE IT!!!!!

@AvHistorian: Not a quiz or anything, just a very nice pic indeed, further to our naval theme a few days ago... http://t.co/C0OVSnt0L2 Original Message: http://twitter.com/AvHistorian/status/428148022749302784

@RoyalAirForceUK: Typhoons hit Nevada for Exercise Red Flag. http://t.co/Eb3AVZXkes http://t.co/DYT6h0R8YW Original Message: http://twitter.com/RoyalAirForceUK/status/428147956848418818

Current position of the International Space Station (ISS) and the view from the spacecraft......in real time. http://iss.astroviewer.net/

EAA 650 Members:  Tim Sparks advises of a presentation that will be of interest to some of us.  On Friday, January 31 at 6pm, the Bald Eagles group in Nashville will have speaker Bob Kelly whose topic will be "Building Aircraft in Public Schools."  Bob has actually done this in North Vernon, where kids built a Van's RV-12 light sport kit aircraft.  The event is at the Season's Lodge and will have a social hour (cash bar) and buffet dinner prior to the program.  Cost is $28, payable at the event. Please advise Tim at 812 325-3021 or elmshoot@aol.com if you desire to attend.  We have 4 members going so far.  Carpooling can be coordinated. Barratt

National Museum of The U.S. Air Force's Fourth Building Set To Proceed http://www.warbirdsnews.com/avaition-museum-news/national-museum-u-s-air-forces-fourth-building-set-proceed.html

http://youtu.be/wVq3dfDDFKY

  This Sailplane is... Foot Launchable Ground Launchable Ground towable Air towable and... Foot Landable! The engineering is just awesome. http://player.vimeo.com/video/39325401  

       WANT GOOSEBUMPS?   At Arrowhead Stadium....   As you know the budget cuts have eliminated the military flyovers at large events.    Well, there's a group of guys in Kansas City who do some formation flying in their own planes and that decided they'd volunteer to pick up the slack.    They invited a couple of other groups to join them and before they knew it they had 48 guys signing up to join in.    If they had more time, they probably would have gotten an even larger group as people kept joining and a 49th was added near the event.    One additional feature of the fly over was the use of pink smoke for cancer awareness.    The folks from the Guinness Book where there and are expected to confirm it as the largest formation flight ever.   Hope you enjoy thi...

This is one of the best collections of military web sites I have ever seen. You can spend hours reviewing the various sites. Subject:  Airplane Catalog   Even if you are not into this you might want to pass this treasure trove on to others who are.        Aviation                                                Pioneers          World                                                War I Ac...

  Sent: 1/16/2014 10:18:38 A.M. Eastern Standard TimeSubj: Instruments-GPS (A MUST SEE for ALL - Video)     For Everyone, not only Aviators. This video is 4:11 long but it   REALLY GETS GOOD at the 2:40 mark when the airplane enters   the clouds. This video gives EVERYONE an idea of what the Pilot   sees and does on an Instrument approach. I'm sure that you'll not   only like it, learn from it........but the scenery itself (New Zealand)   is beautiful.  Burro, Bob   Subj: Instruments-GPS     This is an interesting head camera video from a pilot flying a new instrument approach into Queenstown, New Zealand. A straight-in approach like this without the nearby mountains is not unusual, especially in the tough weather of Europe; but a double-curved one like this with nearby terrain used to be something countries would not even publish, let alone...

    It can comfortably fly 10,000 Miles (16,000 km) at Mach 0.88 or 654 mph (1,046 km/h) with 1000 passengers on board !   They have kept this secret long enough. This shot was taken last month by an amateur photographer.              The  BOEING    797    Boeing is  ...

First World War fighter plane restored at air museum (From York Press) http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/archive/2014/01/10/10928761.First_World_War_fighter_plane_restored_at_air_museum/

    Begin forwarded message: From: beck8@comcast.net Subject: British Imperial Airways 1930's Date: January 14, 2014 10:36:14 PM EST            British Imperial Airways 1930's Flying the airlines in the thirties was a lot more fun than it is now. It was more leisurely and had more class. Certain elitist and anti-British people have no time for these period "rich types". People like these, the risk takers (especially with their own money) were the backbone of the UK. They flew from the first airline operations across the Channel in 1919.   If people had serious money in the 1930s and traveled internationally, they may well have flown on one of these large (130 foot wingspan) Handley Page bi-plane aircraft, which were the mainstay of British Imperial Airways at the time. They carried 26 passengers in fi...