Selected Photos, Videos and Articles from Past Website Updates

 

Index:

Aviation Stuff
Museums

Other Stuff
Paragliding and Sky Diving

Ships

Space Photos & Photos from Satellites of anywhere on Earth.

 

AVIATION (In alphabetical order)

2005 Year In Review 
Disaster, exultation, milestones, conflict, celebration, tragedy, and remembrance

Aerobatics Extraordinary  (It took about 11 minutes to download this at 28.5kb/s) Worth the wait.

Aircraft Photos (Link) – Thousands of them.

Airfield History in the United States – Abandoned and little known airfields in the U.S. Photos and narratives

Airplanes Waterskiing – Undercarriage skimming the water.

Airshow Highlights – From the 2005 Edwards Air Force Base Airshow.

Airshow photos  Hundreds of photos from
29 airshows from 2002 to 2005 (including the Shuttle)

Aviation Fact Sheet – Download and print the AOPA Aviation Fact Sheet

A300-B4 Hit by Missile in Baghdad (1,490 KB)– Use the “Page Down” key

A-380 Airbus  (3,969kb) Magnificent photos well worth a wait to open.
Looks like there are 22 wheels on the gear of this baby.

 

A-380 Airbus Rampworkers View of A380 (Photos 1.8 mb)– When will we reach the maximum size in Jet Liners?
Page Down to advance photos.

 

A-380 Airbus – (2.6 mb)  Great photos of the new aircraft both external and internal. 

A-380 Airbus – Emirate takes deliver of Airbus A380

A-380 Slide photos –(2.5 mb Click Page Down to advance slides) This is really a behemoth of an airliner.

B-2 Spirit at the 2005 Edwards AFB Air-show

B747 and the Skypark?  Pictures of a retired 747 being delivered to a museum in South 
Africa  In reading the following, bear in mind that the Skypark's runway measures 50

feet wide by 3400 feet long.

 

Basic principles of flight – Tutorial

 

Blimp – The Personal Blimp – Dan Nachbar has constructed a unique blimp.

 

Boeing 787 – Mirror Mirror on the Wall.  Airbus vs Boeing: as the transatlantic spat escalates, the body count grows and so do the recriminations. What's next as the Airbus A380 delivery delays grind on? Here's David and Goliath.

Boeing 787 Flight Deck
Boeing recently in Seattle showed reporters an artist's rendering  
of the 787 Dreamliner flight deck

 

Boeing B-797 – Boeing takes on Airbus A-380

Boeing Blended Wing  - The experiment is ready to launch

Black Holes continue to swallow pilots.  Beware when flying at night.

Blue Angels 28 beautiful photos. (1,150 kb) Flying over Twin Towers

Boneyard in Tucson – Thousands of ($$$$$)

Breaking the Sound Barrier – Photos of condensation immediately upon breaking the sound barrier.

Cartercopter - 200 MPH at 17,500 Feet - 4 place - 1,030 Mile Range

Do you know where the traffic is around you?  The Controller does.  Some critical
information concerning avoiding other aircraft.

General Electric Jet Engine– GE90 115B jet engine for the B-777 

F-16 Accident Report

F-16 Bird Strike – Nobody was hurt.
 

F-22 Raptor (1,765kb) Stealth Fighter arriving at Langley Air Force Base
Press “Page Down” to advance the slide show.

F-22 Raptor – Our Deadliest Fighter. Story and photo

 

F-22 Raptor Demo - Demonstration

F-35 Joint Strike Fighter – The latest. Short take-off and vertical landing

P-38 fighter – Present condition of the Glacier Girl.  A P-38 buried in Ice in Greenland

 

P-51 Excellent Story about the Mustang Fighter

 

P-51 Fighters Crash at Oshkosh –Crash while landing 2007

Gathering of Mustangs

Fighter Planes (2,170 KB) – Interesting slide-show in Power Point.

Flying Luxury Hotel – 250 passenger, 174 MPH, Vertical takeoff – 14 million cubic feet of Hydrogen gas

 

Ford Tri-Motor NC9612

Goose Amphibian (2,190kb) Gone wild!  The pilot forgot to throttle down.

 

Hot Air Balloons –They will amaze you  (44 Slides 4.6 mb). 

Insurance.  You should be able to find answers to any Aviation Insurance questions and in
addition look at the precautions you should take

 

Glacier Girl – The latest on the P-38 that was buried in ice for years

 

Granny – (4.9 mb) Jetliner landing on a freeway? 

Harrier Crash  (2,300 kb) Movie of Harrier Crash off a beach loaded with  swimmers.  The pilot ejected safely

Impossible Landing (Video 12.9 mb) – F-15’s collide and one lands without a wing.

Jet engines – (Video 1,924 kb) Demonstration of the tremendous power of jet engines

Jumbo Jets Landing – Four photos of landings at St. Marteen Airport, French West Indies

278 Photo OOPS (14.8kb) You may need to click twice.  Lots of plane accident photos.

 

Landing Airliner – In Honduras short runway, crosswind, mountains.

 

Landing Airliner – (Video 4.6 mb) – American Airlines landing on short/narrow runway.

Military Photos  - This website has hundreds of beautiful photos

Military Planes in Action –(Still photos 3.3 mb)  Navy, Marines, Army, Coast Guard and US Air Force. 

Missile Mishap (2,480 KB) Video – Between planes

 

Osprey – (Slides 3.5 mb) – Photos of vertical take off and landing military plane

Photos of the Predator
4 photos

Plane photos
– All the air-to-air photos and beautifully detailed ground images used by AOPA Pilot magazine over the years

 

Plane photos – (4.3 mb) Neat pictures of airplanes in flight

 

Puppeteers – (Video 3.7 mb)

RC Model – (Video 4.8 mb) German radio control pilot – One wonders about the genes in this fellow, perhaps his granddad was in the Luftwaffe

Russki Aircraft - Here are some great shots of Russki a/c, most of which you probably haven't seen before.
The Russian design aesthetic is so different than the
U.S.'s.

 

Russian Airshow - 2007  (4.7 mb Power point show)

SR-71 breakup at 80,000 feet Story of a harrowing ride.

SU-35
  Russian Jet Fighter – Video (Caution 11.8mb)

SW Airline Accident at Midway – Three interesting aerial photos.  This was the first and   
only fatality SWA has had in its 35 year history, according to the photographer.

Terrafugia (terra means earth, fugia means escape) – The flying SUV

 

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle – NASA’s Altair

USA by Air – Air photos of trip from California to Oshkosh.

When it’s OK to wet your pants. (1.5kb)

Wheels Down?  (2,100 kb) Famous last words.  A Seaplane pilot’s worst nightmare
Note: Click on the Play icon to start video

X-Wind Landings  (2,960kb) Scary!  These should bring back some nostalgic memories to  
you 747 and 777 Jocks.

 

MUSEUMS

Museum of Flight  Seattle, Washington.  There are 122 photos of planes with basis specs  
and their history
.

Russian Air Museum – (A little long loading) 17 photos and narrative

 

OTHER

360 degree view from the top of Mt. Everest  .Takes a little time to open but worth the  wait.  Click in the fast scroll area and view three 125 degrees segments.

 

Amazing 6 Year Old – Genius at work.

A Billion is a difficult number to comprehend

Silhouette Art (Video 2.9 mb) – People creating silhouettes

And you think you are having a bad day!  - Courtesy of Steve Lambert

Bandwidth Meter Speed Test  (link) Check the bandwidth of your Internet Connection

Beautiful Bird Photos - Dow Lambert Bird Photos

Beautiful Scenery – 18 excellent photos

Beautiful Slides  25 slides  
 

Bridge/tunnel  Between Sweden and Denmark

Rotating Canal Locks – Rotating locks

Chuck Herrin.  These are the recollections of Chuck about WWII.  It is wonderfully written  
and is 11,200 words long.  Chuck was a member of the Sun Lakes Aero Club until he 
died in the crash of his homebuilt two place “Hornet” on June 26, 2003 during it’s first
trial flight in Oregon.  He was a magnificent person and is sorely missed.  The eulogy by
the Sun Lakes Aero Club follows Chuck’s recollections.

 

Cork Removal – (Video 4.2 mb) How to remove a cork from a bottle.

Excellent Photos – 26 photos

Fabulous Sand Painting (4,080 KB)

 

Final Curtain – (Slides 1.0 mb) Entertainment celebrity deaths in 2006. Photos and text.

Click on Page Down to advance photos.

 

Floating Drydock- This is huge.

Flowers – Beautiful photos of Roses

Fun Test For You - 11 questions. Be sure to read each one very carefully.

G BLOCK Have you wondered what Shepard Smith means when he says “The G BLOCK” on 
his nightly Fox News TV program?  Wonder no more.

Israeli Weapons–(link) 1948-2006

Horse Lovers –21 still photos

Horse Lovers – (12 Video slides 658 kb)

Murals – A couple of incredible murals

Michelin Airless Tires

 

Neat Clock- Probably from a Dutch website

National Parks – Photos of our National Parks

Pearl Harbor – Lest we forget

Photos – Satellite photos.  View anywhere in the world in detail.  Look at your home.  Use the scales at the left to home in on your search

Photos (3,249 kb) Beautiful reef photos.  Note: Use “Page Down” to view 23 slides.

Photos - Many Digitally Produced Photos

Photos  - More interesting photos

 

Fire Rainbows – Rare weather phenomenon

Top secret recipes – Top secret recipes from famous eating places

Sex Offenders - This link will enable you to see all of the Sex Offenders within an area including their photos.  Put any postal address & zip code and check.

 

Spectacular Photos – Mostly birds

 

Spectacular Clouds and Photos (link) - You may have seen a few of these photos, however 
there are hundreds of beautiful photos that you probably have not seen

Swan Lake Like You Have Never Seen before: – Chinese

Chinese Drum Girls (Video 5.8 mb) Fabulous coordination. 

Recollections of a 10 year old . Member Gunter Peters lived in Nienburg, Germany in
March 1945 nearing the end of WWII
.
 

 

PARAGLIDING AND SKYDIVING

4 Videos – Paragliding

400-Way Skydive Formation - The gold ring was achieved on February 8, 2006, on jump  
number nine of the declared 400-way attempts. World Team held the formation for 4.3 seconds.

First Paragliding Flight

Parachuting
(5,323 KB)– Video - Unbelievable formation & well worth the wait.

Perpetual  Paragliding Tumble (Loops) (3,900 kb)

Paragliding – More on Seattle Paragliding.
 

 

Paragliding – World Championships held in Manilla, Australia Feb 24th to March 9th , 2007.

 

Pictorial – Schematic on paragliding.  

 

Surfboarding using a Paraglider

 

SHIPS

Graf Spee Eagle Rising – Salvage operations on the Graf Spee.

USS Oriskany – Scheduled to become a reef this summer

USS Ronald Regan In Australia

 

SPACE PHOTOS & Photos from Satellites of anywhere on Earth

4 NASA Photos

Daily Astronomical Photos – Updated daily

 

Satellite Photos -View anywhere in the world in detail.  Look at your home.  Use the scales at the left to home in on your search.  It starts at Seattle Paragliding on Tiger Mountain.  Courtesy of Marc Chirico

 

Shuttle Preparation –(3.0 mb) Exciting photos of the Space Shuttle Discovery getting ready for launch.

Fabulous Space Slides  (2,110 KB) 26 Slides- Click mouse to advance slides

Tracking Satellites – Click on any white dot and see what satellite it is and the orbit path.  The outer satellites are 22,241 miles from Earth in a geosynchronous orbit, which if over the equator stays at a constant place in the sky relative to the Earth.  Satellites close to Earth are for GPS, Spying, etc. The AZ Republic says there are 5,500 tons of debris between 550 and 625 miles from earth