Category: Aerobatics

Five aviation links from the cellar »

The National Air and Space Museum has a wonderful interactive demonstration on the principles of flight called How Things Fly. Don’t forget to get your kids! For a more detailed explaination go here.
WikiHow’s take on How to Land an Airplane in an Emergency.
A huge list of aviation humor.
Fighter-Planes.com is a very informative and entertaining source [...]

Operation Red Flag »

Definitely reserve 45 of your minutes to watch Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag by Stephen Low. The IMAX film is about a fighter pilots experience of the advanced military aviation exercise based out at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.  It was released in 2004 and for some reason I’ve never even heard of it [...]

F-22 Raptor Pilot Paul Moga »

Here is a very cool F-22 Raptor video where Major Paul “Max” Moga explains the maneuvers he performs during airshow demonstration flights.

Waiting for Oshkosh 2010 »

Needless to say Oshkosh was incredible. It was my first time going and I was blown away. I couldn’t believe the number of aircraft that were there in one place. It was overwhelming.  I’m not going to write much about it because words can’t express the feelings you experience. Exhilaration is one word that comes [...]

Tim Adams Aviation Photography and ALMS »

I highly recommend taking ten minutes to watch this slide show from aviation and motorsports photographer Tim Adams. It gave me goosebumps. Most of the slide show is of classic warbirds. The other half is of the American LeMans Racing Series shot at Road America. I figure if you like classic airplanes you like [...]

P-51 Four Horsemen »

Here is a very cool aerobatic formation video of the P-51 Four Horseman. The background music is very cool and I’m amazed to see how graceful and precise the pilots are. Love the camera angles in the cockpits as well.