Selected Articles
From Past Website Updates – July 28, 2005 to Present.
Index: - Aviation; Museums;
Other; Paragliding and Sky
Diving; Ships; Space Photos.
May
31, 2009 FINAL ISSUE Hubble
Telescope; Flying Wing 1945; Hang gliding and paragliding bloopers; Cumulus cloud applet; F35 helmet;
F35 Flip; Vintage aircraft; Radio controlled model; Sahara Dunes; Autos of yore; Bach-an
organ duo; Inspired bicycles
April
30, 2009 Hoverwing; X47B Unmanned Aircraft; Seattle Paragliding; P-59 America’s first jet; Carriers in action; Old School Aircraft; Unusual aircraft; World’s largest model railroad;
Slides of Tirol, Italy; Finland
in the Winter; Street artist; Taps;
The Thousand Islands; 2009
inauguration photos; Sistine
Chapel;
March
31, 2009 Wright Bros flight
video; F-35 new fighter jet; Boneyard at Tucson; 911 photos declassified; Concorde landing in NY; Landing on an aircraft carrier during severe
weather; Soaring; Radio controlled models; Flying auto; Breaking the sound barrier.
February
28, 2009 1947 Cleveland Air
Races; Eye candy for aviators; Flight 1540 ditching; Really rare old birds; Cockpit views; Cockpit of the A380;
Beautiful Arizona; Ships in
storms; Our Gang Comedy; Norway;
Norway again; Jumbled
words; Lenticular clouds; Jessica Cox; Milton Friedman interview;
Fantastic photos
January
31, 2009 Flying Clipper Ships; Russian Jet SU30; Newest Unmanned Vehicle;
Cool Military Photos;
Paragliding taken to the extreme;
C-17 Globemaster RC Model;
B-36; Nellis AFB Airshow; Update of Kodiak construction; U.S. Airways accident; Our 43 Presidents ancestry, occupations,
etc; Sedona; Fastest gunslinger in the world;
World War II facts; Model T
assemble line; American Indians of the
past; World’s ;largest combustion
engine;
December
31, 2008 Space shuttle; Plane photos; Largest Jet; Safety
Foundation Database; All the women we
have loved; Getting old-how many do you
recognize; Current weather at Sun Lakes
November
30, 2008 Carrier landing
video; Old School aircraft; Folding wing amphibious plane; Great military photos; B787 milestones; Awesome air photos; Extreme
UAV’s; Stroke symptoms; Great driving skill; The King’s Guard drill show.
October
31, 2008 – World clock; Zeppelin
flights start over San Francisco; Ride
in the cockpit of an aircraft landing on a carrier; Russian B-200 Jet amphibious fire fighting tanker; Boeing X48B proposed jetliner; F-35 VTOL Jet fighter first flight; Hundreds of unique research aircraft; Peregrine Falcon; Japanese Illusionist;
Japanese Mall Fountain.
September
30, 2008 – WWII Map of advance of war; WWII Scrapbook rare planes;
Antiques aircraft; Dead stick TO
& Landing; Rare aircraft photos; Beautiful Tibet; Drug interaction checker;
Western paintings; Quiz money in
your wallet.
August
31, 2008 – First flight Cirrus Jet;
Vintage airline photos; very
very unusual planes; 2008 Nellis
Airshow; Mountain flying (move cursor
to fly plane); Luxurious passenger
cabins; F-35 first flight vertical take
off and landing; Emirate takes delivery
of Airbus A-380; Piper Super Cub
performance; Stop action photos; Swan Lake like you have never seen it
before; Chinese drum girls.
May
31, 2008 – Ryan Nelson 1st Skydive; Seattle Paragliding;
Cockpit Views Military Planes;
America from J3 Cub; Multi-wing aircraft; The Emma Maersk (Huge cargo ship); Northern Lights; Water Fuel; Robot Dog; Food Tips;
DubaiLand;
April
30, 2008 – Beijing Airport (Largest bldg in world); Space Photos; Aircraft Photos;
Recognize a Stroke; Pre-Ignition
Converter; Fauna (God’s
creatures); Beautiful Alpine
Scenery; Elephant painting self
portrait; Garden scenes (Holland); Batteries at a discount; Devil’s Pool (Victoria Falls, Africa);
March
31,2008 - Gathering of Mustangs (P51’s);
P51 breakup; F22 Raptor
demo; B777 jet engine; WWII Accident stats; Top secret recipes; Rotating canal locks; Daily Astronomical photos; National Parks; Roses;
February
29, 2008 – Aviation Events in AZ;
Old Warbirds; Military Aircraft
Slideshow; Airbus Cockpit; Brittan Launches Nuclear Sub; Thousands of Interesting Photos
Worldwide; Dubai Maddness; Moscow Subway Stations; Oregon Scenes from Ultralight; 10 best Hubble Photos;
January
31, 2008 – Jimmie Doolittle’s Raiders;
Lockheed Constellation; Great
Plane Photos; Air Shows 2002 to
2006; Inside the International Space
Station; Personal Helicopter; Cat Fishing; Unusual Homes; WW l Human
Figures; A Thousand Islands; Free Info from Google from any phone; News in the year you were born; Play favorite songs from the 1950’s to the
1982 while you use your computer
December 31,
2007 – C-17 Globe Master;
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles;
Pacific Clipper; Windiest
Airports; Fleet Week in SF; B-17 Story;
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter;
Modern Logging; Modern Binary
Explosives; Candy Recipes; Custom Cars;
November
30, 2007 – Cockpit views 32 military planes; Parachuting Incidents;
P791 Airship; Russian SU-30; Hot Air Balloons; Kodiak 2nd flight;
Travel in space; Airbus A-380; Classic planes in flight; Airports within 200 NM
of CHD; Versatile carpenter; 7 Yr old
sings national anthem; Cookies hundreds of recipes; HMS Astute Brittan’s latest
Sub; Disappearing Car Door.
October
31, 2007 – Newsletter; FA/22 Raptor Demo Flight; SR-71 Breakup at Mach
3.18; Sand Sculptures; Classic Cars; Fantastic Trip through Large and Small;
September
30, 2007 – Sept Red Bull Air Race (San Diego; Free Power Point Viewer;
Cessna going low wing?; Boeing B-4 Mail Plane; Sit in cockpit during carrier landing; RC Model
B-29-largest Radio Controlled Model; Paragliding; Person Blimp Update; Largest
helicopters and plane in the world; Barnstormers Website (searching for a plane
to buy?); Tips on forwarding Email; Lake Peigneur, LA event.
August
31, 2007 – Basis principles of flight; The CT is a Carbon Tech Light Sport
Aircraft; 2007; Russian airshow ; Seattle Seafair 2007; Ford Tri-motor; John
Travolta Digs; Radio controlled jet.
July 31,
2007 - Only restored DH4 DeHavilland still flying;
The Personal Blimp; 2006 Michigan Airshow highlights; Twenty paragliding
videos; Humming Birds; Green’s Travel Tips
June
30, 2007 – F-15’s collide and one lands without a wing; World’s shortest runway; Glacier Girl update; Rotax 912 DVD; Rising Sea Dragon in Asia;
Neat Clock; Surfboarding using a
Paraglider; Spectacular Photos mostly
Birds.
May
31, 2007 - Aerobatics (video); Kite
aerobatics (video); FA37 mach 4 latest fighter; Landing at Tegucigalpa; Osprey
in flight; Paragliding pictorial; Equestrian games; Remove a cork from inside a
bottle; Scotch tape figures; Puppeteers.
May
12, 2007 – Aerial photos of the Southwest; First aircraft accident; Hot air
balloons (44 slides); Highway conditions in Russia;
April
27, 2007 -- Military planes in
action Slides; Russian Aircraft; Glacier Girl (P38);
April
12, 2007 – Paragliding; Flying under the radar: RC model in action; Boeing
787; Abandoned air fields in US; A380; Global Hawk UAV
April
1, 2007 – Neat plane photos; Redneck Bungee Ride; B-767 out of fuel at
41,000’; Boeing's X-48B blended-wing-body.
March
18, 2007 – Shuttle Preparation; A380 Airbus; World Paragliding Competition
in Australia; Jetliner landing on freeway; Unbelievable Snowboarding; Satellite
photos of Earth (View anywhere on Earth – look at your home)
March 4,
2007 – B-1 Stealth Bomber; A380 Engines; Acrobatic Flying;
London to Sydney Air Race in 2001; Green’s Travel Tips; Balloon Art; When
Insults had class; Rotary Engine Motorcycle.
February
18, 2007 – Russian SU30 Fighter Jet; 1/5 scale model of Spitfire; X-wind
landings (video); Boeing 777 flight deck; De Havilland Dh4 fully restored; 56
best photos from air shows (Video); Hawker Jet strikes Glider in mid-air; USS
New York built from 911 scrap metal.
February
4, 2007 – Dan Lance plane accident; TWA-800 Conspiracy Letter; Update on
Bob Little who was injured in a plane accident; Too close for comfort; X31
automated landing on carrier; Video of carrier landing with you in the cockpit;
Night approach into Aspen, CO; 2006 Reno Air Race; Hubble Telescope Photos
January
21, 2007 – 2007 Meeting Times & Dates; RC virtual reality; X35B Marine
STOL Fighter; Large to Small; Earth from Space; Bandwidth Meter Test.
December
17, 2006 – One second in the life of an air racer; F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Lightning video;
December
3, 2006 – Col. Ray Schrecengost Memorial Service at Arlington Cemetery;
V-22 Osprey; B-52 RC jet model; Interview with Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola
Gay; Mt, Rainier flood; Rome from a helicopter.
November
19, 2006- News of interest to
members; Supersonic Business Jet; Boeing 747-800 large cargo jet; Next
generation spaceship; Mountain trails; Classic Cars; Grand Canyon Skywalk
November
5, 2006 – Navigation into Tibet’s Linzhi Airport; Paragliding
Incident; Albuquerque Balloon Festival;
Hundreds of beautiful photos from NASA Sattelite; First President of the
US, do you know who it was?
October
22, 2006 – Bio of Member Elton Dyal; Morning Glory Clouds in AU; Chino Airshow
Highlights; Smallest Twin-engine plane
in the world; Sand Sculptures;
October
8, 2006 – 100 greatest military photos; Man in space; Three carrier strike
group; Hurricane Katrina destruction photos; John Travolta’s digs;
September
24, 2006 – History of Staggerwing; C-17 Globemaster RC Model; Microscopic
Art; The Universe Humbles us;
September
10, 2006 – CHD Airport Minutes;
Michael Miller, a touching video;
Helicopter rescue in Afganistan;
Go-Around procedures;
August
27, 2006 – US by Air Calif to Oshkosh;
Airfield History of the US;
Digitally produced photos; Bear
gets into Bird Feeder
August
13, 2006 – Paragliding and Dust Storms; Commemorative Air Force; Beautiful
Bird Photos; 24 Second Rule (Basketball)
July
23, 2006 – Fabulous Photos; Fighter Planes; PHX Class B Airspace;
July
19, 2006 - 263 mile cross country world
record Paragliding Flight; Landing in a crosswind; Lithium batteries may
explode
June
25,2006 - Stemme S6-T Motorglider;
Trip to Babylon ; Inflammatory Cancer ; Ninety Niners June, 2006 Air Race ;Take
a Balloon Ride
June 18,
2006 –
First Paragliding flights; Sinking or Carrier Oriskany; Vintage aircraft
photos; Boeing B-797; Japanese Precision Goldfish Swimming Team.
June 11, 2006 – 1956 Collision of United & TWA over Grand Canyon; Airbus A-380 Cockpit; Memorial Day Air Show at Jones Beach; Fly with the Blue Angels in an F/A-18.
June
4, 2006 –B-17 and B-52 Fly-By; Exploding Fuel Tanks; Diamond D Jet below
$900,000
May
28, 2006 – Airbus A-380 vs Boeing B-797; Jimmy Doolittle Tokyo Raid;
Paragliding
May 21,
2006 – Pearl Harbor Bombing; Paragliding; RC Model in
aerobatics
May
14, 2006 – Boneyard in Tucson; The power of jet engines; For Horse Lovers;
May
7, 2006 – Paragliding; Coast to Coast in a powered parachute; Bad Flying
accidents; Salvaging the USS Cole.
April
30, 2006 – A-380 vs B-797; Luxury flying hotel; 2005 Edwards Airshow;
Printable Flash Cards; Unique Volkswagen storage building; The only American
Flag that does not fly.
April
2, 2006 – Great White shark trailing a kayak; special medical conditions may
not preclude you from flying.
March
26, 2006 - Alaska
Landings Videos; Bob Hover rolling a Shrike Commander; CarterCopter (an unusual
PAV); Russian Antonov 225; Pretty Blue Planet video; Paul Allen’s luxury yacht
“Octopus”.
March
12, 2006 - Missing Man Photo; 777 Engine fire at take-off; Maneuvering flight
quiz; Bridge/tunnel between Sweden and Denmark; USS Oriskany to become reef.
March
5, 2006 - Lauridsen
Aviation Museum, Glendale, AZ; Angel Flight West; AOPA Photo archives; Maricopa
Live Steamers; Airplanes waterskiing; U-2ST Dragon Lady; Graf Spee Rising,
January
1, 2006 Goose Amphibian Gone Wild; SW Airline Accident at Midway;
Extraordinary Aerobatics; Two pilots
invade the D.C. Airspace; Magic (through the glass); Funny Commercials.
December
25, 2005 Midair at
Renton Municipal Airport; Fraud afoot. Watch those scams & frauds;
Interpreting your engine monitor;
December
18, 2005 Cirrus
Accident raises concern for first respondents; Lockheed Martin to build giant
airship; How to keep email from becoming Spam; Interesting photos of Gulls;
December
11, 2005 Review
past updates; Plastic Pilot’s Certificates Required; Mountain Flying Course
On-line; Aircraft Photos (thousands of them); Definition of the G Block
(Shepard Smith on Fox News); Cross-wind Landings in a 747 and a 777.
November
27, 2005 Paragliding;
Unusual photo of cloud, planes and sun; Excellent Runway finder.
November
20, 2005 F-22 Raptor; Autobus A380; Kodiak Plane; Beware Theft at ATM; 16
current AOPA links.
November
13, 2005 Optical illusion (2
planes); 31 unique accidents; analysis of weapons, equipment, tactics and other
info in Iraq as told by a Marine Sergeant.
November
6, 2005 Photos from 29 air-shows
from 2002-2005; SU-35 Russian Jet Fighter; Aerobatic Video; Bob’s Travel Tips;
October
23, 2005 Animations-Interview with an Honest Boss and Turkey song
and dance; Predator photos; 20 whooping cranes migrating to Florida; log of
pilot flight across U.S. in gyroplane; travel info on flying to Caribbean and
Mexico.
October
16, 2005 360
Degree view from Mt. Everest; Insurance; Cypriot Airliner Crash; 7 Story
Airbus; Model A Wright Bros Biplane;
Wings Program eliminates BFR; limitations on LSA Night or IFR.
October
9, 2005 A foray
into IFR turns into a date with icing for this pilot; Only flyable B-24 in the world;
Bob
“Tornado” Earl’s bout with his cat;
Memorial Field update.
October
2, 2005 Current
25 Urban Legends; Tetka, when she gets stuck, drag her free with your mouse.
September
25,2005 Photos of Allison Ranch approaches and departures (Member Harold Thomas)
September
18, 2005 Spectacular
clouds and photos; Wheels down? (Seaplane water landing with wheels); Museum of
Flight, Seattle – 122 planes with basic specs and history.
September
11, 2005 Unscramble
your head – Quiz; Harrier crash off
beach with swimmers
September
4, 2005 Recollections of Chuck Herrin on WW II; New F-22;
B-747 landing in So. Africa on runway 3400 feet long and 50 feet wide;
The Art of Troubleshooting before you get a mechanic.
August
28, 2005 18 photos
of Blue Angels; SR-71 breakup at 80,000 feet; Pilot’s gripe sheet.
August
21, 2005 Ethanol, the new fuel;
Memories of member Gunter Peters in Nienburg, Germany in March, 1945; Test your knowledge about Hypoxia; Proper Radio phraseology; Computer flights qualifying for Wings
Program.
August
13, 2005 Beyond
flying cars; Check your oil; Musings of an old CFI
August_6_2005 Only flying mission leaving in a Mustang and returning
in a Focke-Wulf; Beautiful movies of
flight; Experimental Honda Jet; Reminiscing of an airline pilot.
July
28, 2005 Sign up
for a space trip now; Space elevators?; Wireless headsets.