Archive for October 2011

Soaring With a Hawk

Posted on October 22, 2011, 7:04 am, by Jack Hodgson, under Just Cool.

Very cool video of paraglider flying with a trained hawk. We originally found this here. We talk about this video in UCAP259.

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Video of C310 ditching near Hawaii

Posted on October 13, 2011, 11:43 am, by Jack Hodgson, under Accidents, Off Field Landing of the Week.
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The 4-Forces from 1968

Posted on October 11, 2011, 8:03 am, by Jack Hodgson, under Airmanship, History.

FAA video from 1968 describing the basics of aerodynamics. I found this youtube video on the juniorflyer.com site. This vid really takes me back. I remember watching these sorts of things early on Sat morning, seated on the floor in front of the TV, hot cocoa in hand. (BTW, swell prize for the first person [...]

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Learning from Legends

Posted on October 2, 2011, 4:11 pm, by Jack Hodgson, under Just Cool.

OK, not directly an aviation story, but a touching example of how one can selflessly influence the future. In case this is totally outside your area of familiarity, the guy talking is Neil deGrasse Tyson, perhaps today’s most well known, and successful, explainer of “big science” (my quote), and considered by many to be the [...]

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