Aviation MegaThread!!!!

This will be fantastic! Bob Hoover is a true American hero and aviation legend, not to mention one heck of a nice guy. I used to sit on the wing of his P-51 with him at Reno every year following the Unlimited Gold race while he signed autographs for fans. What a time to be a kid who loved airplanes........

Can't wait to see that! His book Forever Flying was great.

AAAaaaarrrrggghhhh.. pilotitus is flaring up again.
Can't afford to do it.

Sure you can its only money.... What else are you going to do with it...?

Go on....just one little take off and landing.... maybe a few circuits..... what harm will do...? We won't tell if you don't...

I finally broke down and scheduled an hour for next weekend. Been ~7 months since I've committed aviation...

Ack. Thinking about climbing into a Cessna again next month as well. Just a taste.

Just heard on the news that a Curtiss Helldiver has been found off the coast of Florida.

Anyone able to add some info?

CNN Video

Anyone in the game know any inside details about the latest from Honda?

http://www.gizmag.com/hondajet-test...aign=64dcc747e3-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email

Has anybody posted the Stratolaunch system yet?

Oh cool!!!

Wow, thats cool! My Grandma built those in WWII. She was a welder and did a lot of welding on the aluminum fuel tanks and lots of other bits from the sound of it.

Some very good news, indeed.......................

http://www.rgj.com/article/20120104/EVENTS05/120104020

Awesome news!

I was bored this morning, and was poking around RCUniverse.com, when I came across this:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/market/item.cfm?itemId=809793

Great Planes/Harold Wagner Piper J-3 twin Cub (RTF)


I was like

So, I fired up my Google Fu, and ran across this:
http://johnlinde.ca/Early_Designs.html


A tad more at the bottom of the page, along with some other aviation oddities...
http://www.twinnavion.com/oddballs.htm


There's been some interesting stuff attempted in the evolution of avation, to say the least...

Wow! I do learn something new every day...The twin Tri-Pacer is something else too!

Somebody requested a snowy, full moon night flying video. My sack isn't big enough to shoot that, but I did get a new camera for Christmas and put this together. There's snow at least... This is my first attempt and I have quite a bit of jelly effect in it, but thought I would post it anyway.

<iframe src="https://api.smugmug.com/services/embed/1667668436_HLXDFdQ?width=640&height=360" scrolling="no" width="640" frameborder="0" height="360"></iframe>

Well, there you have it... video evidence, that you officially suck....
What are you flying?