Northwest Flying Photography Blog

I haven’t been doing much of the photography thing, let alone the airplane photography thing, which is really no excuse for not typing something here for folks to read. The overall problem being that really no one wants to read about me not doing anything, and all I have been doing is a great big wad of nothing.

Fortunately, other folks have been very busy both flying and taking pictures, even if the pictures they take are the fancy moving ones. Case in Point, my friends at Fearless Widget Productions have put together a DVD and offered it to the general public for their purchasing consideration. The DVD “Flying the Finch” is available and more DVDs are on the way. The fine folks at Fearless Widget are great piots and fine people, not to mention putting together a great product. If you are at all interested in wood and fabric aircraft, you can not go wrong with “Flying the Finch.”

Here is a great little youtube clip:

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 After you are done watching that, don’t forget to check out thier other YouTube vids.

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Yes, I’m talking to you.

 Darwin day

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Fly to Lunch is a growing repository of airport (or airport close) restaurants with reviews by pilots. So far it seems to be taking off nicely, with lots of PIREPS coming from all over the country. The UI is easy to use but they need to add a couple of things. A Browse By State feature, and a Number of Reviews column on the results page. All in all it’s a good site and a fine supplement to The Hundred Dollar Hamburger.

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Well they did it, and the airplane took off. While I have issues with the way they presented the full-scale test, they certainly made the pilot of the ultra light a believer. One thing I did note was that Jamie Hyneman seemed to be a little miffed that they had to do the myth when they were introducing it. Of course the result will in no way silence the “not take off” crowd, they will find flaws in the methodology or the presentation and shout out “not take off!” to the rest of us. But the fact remains that the “belt” was moving backwards, and the aircraft moved forward and took off normally… As I knew it would.

Mythbusters 

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