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  Feb 2015 Michigan Trip, plus some Sebring Photos Feb 2015 Michigan Trip, plus some Sebring Photos Feb 22, 2015 by Experimental Aviation Association Chapter 650 View Album Play slideshow

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http://sploid.gizmodo.com/cool-time-lapse-shows-the-process-of-repainting-a-boein-1685174765

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/b29-doc-restoration/#x

A fascinating piece of WWII history.   The Japanese pre-surrender meeting This was overshadowed by the Tokyo Bay surrender ceremony a few weeks later.  But what rare photos (and some personal descriptions of that event). Interesting photos of the preparation of Surrender of Japan in August 1945.(Officially signed on the USS Missouri in the Tokyo Bay, September 2,    1945 ). A delegation of Japanese Representatives flew to an American Base close to Okinawa.  The Japanese planes were requested to be painted in white and have the"Meatballs" replaced by a Green Cross. Really rare archives. Here are photographs of some of those Green Cross flights and Green Cross aircraft, starting with the most photographed of them all "The Green Cross Bettys of Iejima." Let the surrender begin. B-25J Mitchell bombers of the 345th Bomb Group ( The Apaches ) lead two Green Cross Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" medium bombers into the island of Iejima (called Ie Shima b...

  Airplanes WW II STATISTICAL DATA FROM WW II   http://pippaettore.com/Horrific_WWII_Statistics.htm l

Article, photo's and a thru tunnel video with guy on motorcycle. http://gizmodo.com/the-alaskan-town-living-under-one-roof-1678831641

  WWII planes found in a West Texas Barn Well, now and again there's the proverbial email that alerts you to one of those treasures that's hidden in a barn/hangar some-where, and this is one of them. Not just one treasure but loads of em. This man has enough WW II fighters to conduct his own Battle of Britain. After you get done gawkin' and gawkin' some more, make sure you watch the movie at the end.   http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2014/August/Pilot/f_talltale

Subject: B-36 A flight engineer's dream. A pilot's nightmare.   It's too bad we can not see the B-36 fly today.   It is one big aircraft!   The next to last landing and the last take-off of the last operational B-36 took place at Scott AFB. The aircraft was being ferried to the AF Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB when it developed an in-flight emergency and had to land at Scott AFB to effect repairs.   It was so heavy that it could NOT be parked on an apron as it would have cracked the concrete, so it was kept on the end of one of the runways (which had thicker concrete). It had to be moved around every couple of hours to prevent runway damage.  When it departed the next stop was it's final landing at the Museum where it would become a display and never fly ...

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  The Japanese Zer o and how we learned to fight it. In April 1942 thirty-six Zeros attacking a British naval base at Colombo ,Ceylon (now Sri Lanka ), were met by about sixty Royal Air Force aircraft of mixed types, many of them obsolete.  Twenty-seven of the RAF planes went down: fifteen Hawker Hurricanes (of Battle of Britain fame), eight Fairey Swordfish, and four Fairey Fulmars.  The Japanese lost one Zero.  Five months after America 's entry into the war, the Zero was still a mystery to U.S.  Navy pilots.  On May 7, 1942, in the Battle of the Coral Sea, fighter pilots from our aircraft carriers Lexington and Yorktown fought the Zero and didn't know what to call it.  Some misidentified it as the German Messerschmitt 109.  A few weeks later, on June 3 and 4, warplanes flew from the Japanese carriers Ryujo and Junyo to attack the American militar...

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On Saturday, September 13, 2014 2:11 PM, " BobLnStuart@aol.com " < BobLnStuart@aol.com > wrote:   This is just amazing.  Didn't realize drone technology has advanced this far so quickly. They are using up all their obsolete F-16s You may have seen this. Not a good day for the future of manned aircraft.  The pilot is on the endangered list it seems. This little 4 minute Boeing Video is really something.... A first for a full size jet air plane. Thousands of Planes that were grave yard bound, with costs in the hundreds of millions, now can be used as never before. These F-16 Boeing aircraft have been in the bone yard at Davis-Monahan for 15 years and are now being used as drones. ...

  Subject: restored PBY, A/C history                 Date: internet (AOPA)  8-30-14                        Great video. It's really good to see this aircraft restored, to survive representing a part of naval aviation that many people didn't know about.   T. Click here: Consolidated PBY on Vimeo

http://gizmodo.com/nasa-is-tearing-down-one-of-the-last-vestiges-of-its-sh-1627083398

2014 Budapest Air Show.   T he FAA would never allow an air show like this in the United States. Airshow Budapest 2014 Highlights - YouTube

If you like old airplanes.... this is a good one.....    http://vimeo.com/99919462          

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/watch-test-pilots-push-the-new-boeing-jet-to-terrifying-limits/

Zero/Zero by Charles Svoboda   It happened sometime in 1965, in Germany . I was a copilot, so I knew, everything there was to know about flying, and I was frustrated by pilots like my aircraft commander. He was one of those by-the-numbers types, no class, no imagination, no "feel" for flying. You have to be able to feel an airplane. So what if your altitude is a little off, or if the glideslope indicator is off a hair? If it feels okay then it is okay. That's what I believed. Every time he let me make an approach, even in VFR conditions, he demanded perfection. Not the slightest deviation was permitted. "If you can't do it when there is no pressure, you surely can't do it when the pucker factor increases," he would say. When he shot an approach, it was as if all the instruments were frozen - perfection, but no class. Then came that routine flight from the Azores to Germany .. The weather was okay; we...