I am training for a PPL on this beauty at North Perry airport (KHWO) in Hollywood, Florida. It belongs to my instructor and is almost as old as me.

She flies very nicely.

This video is shown in segments, so please bear with the commercials.

Neil

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3306581.html

Just caught this new YouTube video, who knew astronauts had such talents!

I initially was going to do this video on how clean this 737 was. It also has the new engine modification as well. But I noticed that the New eagle came in as well. So since all of them were going to be in the same shot. It would only be fair to show both of them.

I flew with a pilot friend in his Cessna 206 yesterday all the length of Florida.

He wanted to take some aerial pictures of a property he has near the town of Live Oak in Northern Florida. This is just south of I-10 about an hour west of Jacksonville and an hour east of Tallahassee, and close to the Georgia border.

He has a beautiful plane, which averaged about 130 miles per hour.



We departed from Homestead General Airport in South Florida and flew due north.

We flew IFR just in case of weather. The weather was great in the flight there but not so much on the way back. The flight took just under 2-1/2 hours for the 317 miles or so distance (510km).

The plan made us fly right over Lakeland Linder airport, the place I visited last month for the Sun-N-Fun airshow. That is far from my home in Miami, and it was just about half way to Suwannee County!


(map courtesy of Fltplan.com)

As I said, the weather was gorgeous. We flew at 8,000ft and the view was spectacular.

We passed by a nice rail yard near Bartow. The aerial images are a little off due to having to shoot through glass and haze.



After 2-1/2 hours we reached the Suwannee County airport in North Florida. This was taken just before turning into final for landing:





(map courtesy Skyvector.com)

We refueled in this airport then took off for the 6-mile trek to the private airstrip we were there to visit. This is a beautiful 57-acre place with a house, a hangar and a grass runway, called Red Barn Acres.





My friend keeps a car there as this is his summer home.



We drove into town for lunch but before that he drove to the nearby Suwannee river. There is this old abandoned bridge, closed to traffic but you can walk on it.



From the bridge you can see the Suwannee river:



We drove back to town and had a very nice lunch, then back to the house for some more photos.

The weather in the afternoon was starting to worsen as expected, and even though we took off with some sun, we promptly got into some clouds and rain. We asked for permission to go over the top of the clouds. We asked the traffic controller who did not have the information so he asked a passing airliner on his descent into Tampa. He said the tops were at about 11,000ft and it was clear above. We requested and it was granted. It was not too bumpy crossing the clouds. just a little, certainly less than I had expected. The top of the clouds was beautiful with blue skies above and wonderful cloud formations all around. At times the clouds were higher and as we were not allowed to go higher due to traffic into Tampa International airport, nor did we want to as we were flying in an unpressurized aircraft, every so often we had to go through clouds and it was a little bumpy inside, but not that much. It is certainly nice to be able to fly IFR were weather is not an issue. Had we flown VFR we would have had to stay in in Suwannee most of the day and wait.

The flight south was nice, as I learned a lot about IFR flying, ATC control and navigation. We arrived back at Homestead General a little after 4pm without incident.

It was a wonderful experience.

Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In May 2013 Newsletter

Hello World War 2 & jet aircraft fans –

You are invited to drop by Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com to view our May selection of eight exciting classic aviation videos streaming over the Web in broadband.

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Now showing in May "At the Matinee" at Zeno's Drive-In. http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/MATINEE.html Free admission!

* Flying the Boeing B-47 Stratojet NEW! (Restored) This comprehensive training film was produced by the US Air Force to familiarize pilots and aircrew transitioning from prop driven aircraft like the B-29 to the new world of the B-47, the USAF's first jet bomber.

* The 365th Fighter Group "Hell Hawks" Exclusive original documentary from Military Arts Pictures Col. Ray J Stecker leads the men of the 386th, 387th, and 388th Fighter Squadrons into action. Watch extensive color footage of the 365th Thunderbolts in their forward bases in France and Belgium and exciting air-to- air and air-to-ground attacks, including rare gun camera film of the shoot down of a Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter!

* German World War 2 Newsreels: JG 26, Rommel, Nachtjäger, Panzers & more. See World War 2 the way it was shown to the German people.(Also available on our World War 2 through Axis Eyes DVD ,)

* Black Cat PBYs What was that mysterious plane swooping down out of the night sky on unsuspecting Japanese ships and bases, hundreds of miles from any known American airstrip? The answer was, as you'll see in this good humored, affectionate film, the slow, ungainly, but deadly "Black Cat" PBY.

* B-58 Hustler 1st Test Flight in resorted color NEW! On Veterans Day, Nov 11th, 1956 Convair's revolutionary delta wing B-58 "Hustler" supersonic bomber took to the skies for the first time, piloted by B. A. Ericson, who flew the first test flight of the company's giant B-36 "Peacemaker" intercontinental bomber.

* Recognition of the Japanese Zero with Ronald Reagan Lieutenant Jimmy Saunders (Ronald Reagan) learns how to tell a US P-40 from a Japanese A6M Zero fighter the hard way.

* Operating Light & Medium Tanks in World War 2 NEW! Restored. Not only does this film cover the basics of operating World War 2 era American tanks, it offers a rare look at two seldom seen early examples, the M-3 Medium "Lee," (British "Grant") and the M-3 Light "Stuart." A Lee was featured in the 1943 Hollywood classic motion picture "Sahara," starring Humphrey Bogart. The Stuart appeared in many episodes of DC Comic's "Jeb Stuart and the Haunted Tank," often in the unlikely role of taking on German Tigers.

* Operating the Browning automatic rifle "The BAR" One of the iconic weapons in the US arsenal. (Also available on our German & American Automatic Weapons DVD ,)
We also show 1940-45 vintage WWII Army & Navy films and pilot's manuals on how to fly the F4U, F6F, P-38, P-39, P-40, P-47, P-51, P-61, TBF/TBM, AT-6/SNJ, B-17, B-24, B-25, A-20, A-26, B-26, B-29, and Stearman N2S. Alert! - don't miss the F-86 & B-58!

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Boeing Stratoliner

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Don't know if it has been posted here before:

http://vimeo.com/36034351

Lucky that they came within 4 days of one another. They're hard to catch up with.

Due to bad weather in Miami, a good handful of planes diverted here on the 2nd of May. I'm lucky I trusted my instincts with the bad weather that morning. It was worth it.

I've received a few emails and seen some comments about the cost of Redbird Flight Simulations products. Coming from the perspective that most of us are use to picking up a copy of FSX, X-Plane or Prepar3D for less than $100 and then adding a few hundred dollars worth of hardware, then a $70,000 price tag on a flight simulator might cause you to start breathing into a bag to stop from hyperventilating.

I was recently sent a video from AERO-TV done a couple years back that did a great job of explaining why Redbird is such a big deal in the flight simulator and pilot training sector.

There are thousands of flight schools across the country that see rising costs in aircraft, fuel and maintenance every year. One aircraft can cost up to $300,000, putting many hours on it to train beginner students when a simulator for $70,000 can teach them a large portion of the training and it's safer, doesn't require fuel costs or hours on an expensive plane. This is a huge cost savings to flight schools.

It's my guess that Redbird, along with their FBO, Aero-Lab and King Schools will be responsible for helping keep many flight schools alive, as well as help thousands more people learn to fly. I'm sure this is why AOPA and Cessna along with many other companies and organizations are very actively behind them.

If you couple this with the fact that LSA aircraft are making it easier to get involved in recreational flying and more affordable, then it could be a bright future for aviation.


Dan

@Sun-N-Fun