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Mount McKinley or Denali ("The Great One") in
Alaska is the highest mountain
peak in North America, at a height of approximately 20,320 feet (6194
m).
SUN LAKES AERO CLUB Update
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April 30, 2009
MAY ALL YOUR FLIGHTS BE SAFE WITH FAIR SKYS, SMOOTH AIR AND A TAIL WIND
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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News
of Interest to Members and Pilots
·
Newsletter for
SLAC Members (30 kb)
·
Of Interest to
Pilots (43 kb)–
Articles of particular interest to pilots
·
Minutes of the
Chandler Airport Commission (pdf
file 639kb)–(Nanette Kahl)
March 11, 2009 meeting
AIR AND SPACE
1. Hoverwing! (Video)
This video shows a VERY cool "ground effect vehicle" flight
demonstration. Kind of a cross between an airplane and a hovercraft
2. The
last fighter pilot has already been born (11 kb) (Dan Bott)
The X47B Unmanned Combat Aircraft
3. Floatplane
landing accident (9.0 kb) (Ben Thompson)
Happened in the movie “Mother Lode” starring
Charleton Heston in 1982. Accident was included at the beginning of the movie
4. Seattle Paragliding
Tiger Mountain,
Issaquah, Washington (Marc Chirico)
"FLY AWAY" In memory of Ed Ferguson –
Flight at Tiger Mountain
Parahawking in Nepal
Hawk Releases at Tiger
Mountain
Super
Max Comedy Swiss paragliding cult
clip
Tropical
Paragliding Picture Gallery Rebel
race in Tonga. Click on the arrow key
at the bottom right for a slide show.
5. Yikes
–Toddler overboard (PP slides)
3 year old toddler opens the upper door on a Cessna
401 at 10,000 feet and is sucked out the door (fortunately he was pulled back
in)
6. America’s
first jet (20 kb)
The P-59 first flown in 1942 (Bruno Uptagrafft)
7. Go
Navy (PP slides 3.6 mb) (Richard Peak)
The Carrier U.S.S. George Washington and the Lincoln battle group in
action
8. Go
Navy (2) (PP slides 2.9 mb) (Ben Thompson)
Some more great slides of our Navy in action
9.
Timeline
construction of the space station (Link)
(Dan Bott, Homer Mann, Jim Parish and Dick O’Brien)
Gives a good idea of what the station really looks
like
10. Old
School Aircraft (PP slides 5.0
mb) (Bill Barnes)
This is a repeat, however the photos of these old aircraft are fabulous
11. Super
Sport Cub (23 kb)
Although this is an advertisement you may want to
see a new Cub in action with all the stats.
Click on “SUPER
SPORT CUB OVERVIEW VIDEO” at the end to view the video.
12. X Country (15 kb)
65
year old pilot is flying her 1984 Maxair Drifter, a 320 pound Light Sport
Aircraft, on a 7,200 mile round trip from Oregon to Florida
13. Zeppelin
startup struggles (13 kb)
Sightseeing flights over San Francisco are slow
because the economy is sinking
14. Dead
at the controls (10 kb)
What a pilot always fears. Flying in the right seat of a large plane with your family in the
back, the pilot dies and you only have a Single Engine pilots license.
15. Final
saga of the Eclipse 500 (14 kb)
SLAC flew to Albuquerque twice to visit the Eclipse 500 Very Light Jet
facility. Now it is in chapter 7
bankruptcy. Our members were very impressed,
particularly with the stir-welding on the plane.
16. Too
tight a turn (22 kb)
The accident in New York that killed Yankee pitcher,
Cory Lidle. Analysis indicates the
accident was avoidable
17. Sunspot
activity (22 kb) (Elton Dyal)
The eleven year sunspot activity is at the low cycle. Scientists are not sure how it affects the
Earth’s weather, however there was a period of low activity in the late 17th
century that corresponds to a climatic period called “The Little Ice Age” when
rivers that are normally ice free froze and snow fields remained year round at
lower altitudes.
18. American
Airlines (Video 4.6 mb) (Gene Evans)
Landing at Tegucigalpa, Honduras. What
a place to build a runway (with cross-winds too)
19. Doolittle
Raiders Reunion (25 kb) (Tom Malthaner)
Thousands of people, young and old, gathered
to honor five of the nine surviving Doolittle Raiders at the 67th Reunion in
Columbia, S.C., April 16 to 18
20. Unusual
aircraft (PP slides 2.0 mb) (Dan Bott)
We are quite sure there are many you have not
seen before.
21. Be
sure your aircraft is tied down and secure (Link)
Storms damaged 22 aircraft in
Ottawa, Canada. Photos of damaged
planes
22. Bird-strikes
at Chandler Airport (Link)
From Jan 1 1990 to Dec 31, 2008 –
Reported strikes from the FAA Bird-strike database
OTHER STUFF
23. Astonishing video (Link video & text) (Bruno Uptagrafft)
The most
gigantic model railroad in the world. 6.8 miles of HO track, and 10,000 train cars. This Miniatur Wunderland is in Hamburg, Germany, More details
24. Newspapers
headlines of the world (Link) (Bruno Uptagrafft)
Read any newspaper. Click on the World
area (USA, North America, etc), Click and drag the map (or use the arrow keys
to locate the area you want), Click on the orange dots to locate the newspaper
you want, click on “Web site” in the upper right to view other pages.
25. Seattle
growth (Video 10.5 mb Large) (Bob Earl)
View Downtown Seattle grow since 1958
26. Woodies
Car Collection (PPS 1.2mb) (Eugene Evans)
Many of you will remember these old cars
27. Open
baggage (Video 4.7 mb) (Eugene Evans)
Watch how simple it is for a thief to open your
baggage, steal something and close it without your suspecting anything
28. Lunch
on the skyscrapers (PP slides 4.5 mb) (Bruno Uptagrafft)
High iron workers in New York in the early 1930’s
29. Tirol,
Italy/Austria (PP slides 3.7 mb) (Bruno Uptagrafft)
Beautiful slides of the countryside (Tyrol)
30. Snow rollers
(Link) (Bob Earl)
Unusual snow rollers on the Camas Prairie in Idaho
31. Finland
in the winter time (PP slides 2.7 mb)(Jim Parish)
32. Street
artist (10 kb) (Jim Parish)
2D that looks like 3D. Paintings on the roadway
33. Roller
coaster (12 kb) (Jim Parish)
Take a trip to Sandusky, Ohio and ride this monster
34. Calving
Glacier (Video 6.7 mb) (Bruno Uptagraftt)
Standing too close to one can be detrimental to your
health
35. Taps
(Video 5.0 mb) (Richard Peak)
Silenzio TOQUE DE SILÊNCIO TAPS. TOUCHINGLY
BEAUTIFUL....."TAPS" (MILITARY ADOU')
To hear this final farewell, by a small child, to the lost soldiers
and not choke up is very difficult.
The conductor of the orchestra is from
Austria Andre Rieu. His
programs are wonderful and this girl makes your hair stand on end.
36. Mount
Redoubt Eruption (134 kb) (Jim Parish)
Beginning
March 22nd, 2009, Alaska's Mount Redoubt, began a series of volcanic eruptions,
and continues to be active to this date
37. The
Thousand Islands (PP slide show 32. mb) (Bruno Uptagraftt)
These are a chain of islands that straddle the
U.S.-Canadian border in the Saint Lawrence River as it emerges from Lake
Ontario.
38. 2009
Inauguration (6 kb) (Gene Evans, Jim
Parish)
This photo is of the crowd. You can zoom in to see the photo of each
person in extraordinary detail
39. Sistine
Chapel (Link) (Bruno Uptagraftt)
Up close and personal
40. Fairbanks
Ice Festival (Link) (Richard Peak)
Great ice sculptures
41. Sand
Sculpture (Link) (Jim Parish)
On Prince Edward Island, Canada. Click on photos for enlargement
42. Just
when you thought all the good ideas were taken (Link) (Jim Parish)
43. A glimpse of the future (Link) (Richard Peak)
Sony played this video at their
executive conference this year.
44. Cougar vs Bear
Cub (Link Video) (Bruno Uptagraftt)
This has a happy ending
45. Breaching
Humpback Whale (15 kb) (Bruno Uptagraftt)
Photo by the son of a friend of
Bruno’s who works in the laying of undersea cable.
46. Response
to a telemarketer (Link video 3.7
mb)
This is a comical response to a
telemarketer
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