Smitty Smith, the force behind FunPlacesToFly.com also is working on another website, VansAircraftBuilders.com. In that role, he put together this video of Richard Wingfield’s new RV-14. “Yesterday I went to our EAA Chapter 1246 monthly Coffee and Donut get-together and came across this brand new RV-14 from Van’s Aircraft, built by Richard Wingfield. Richard was […]
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Boneyard by night
Airailimages‘ Frederick A. Johnsen recently sent a link to a video he worked on. “We received silent video capturing beautiful and ghostly night time-lapse imagery at the huge aircraft boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base made by Andrew Breese of Airman Magazine,” he explained. “The detail is overwhelming as the constellation Orion rises in the […]
Video: Millenium Phenom
Those who saw our Picture of the Day from Smitty Smith of FunPlacestoFly.com of the Millennium Falcon on a jet will recognize that same jet in this video, photographed, produced and edited by Todd Comeau. It gives an up-close look at the incredible paint job on the Millennium Phenom.
A new pilot’s first flying vacation
As a relatively new pilot — having received my pilot certificate on April 3, 2015 — I’ve logged about 190 hours. Some of that includes the first multi-state, week-long trip I’ve ever done and by far the furthest I’ve flown as PIC. The series of VFR flights would take my wife, Tameka, and I from our […]
72 hours in Phoenix
Day 1 Arriving at Sedona Airport (KSEZ) — “America’s Most Scenic Airport” — at sunrise is a dramatic experience, even for a general aviation pilot who has flown the approach through downtown San Diego (KSAN) and landed at the Catalina “Airport in the Sky” (KAVX). Sedona’s Runway 3/21 is perched on the edge of a 500-foot tall mesa, […]
Video: Getting in sync
The folks at FunPlacesToFly.com just posted a video to help pilots who shoot their own aviation videos. The video shows how to sync multiple aviation videos with Adobe Premiere Elements. The tutorial shows how to sync videos shot from different locations on your airplane, while keeping the timing consistent.
Video: All about your Garmin GTX 327
A new video just posted by our friends at FunPlacesToFly.com features Anthony Arispe of ArispeAviation.net talking about the Garmin GTX 327 Transponder in great detail. He also goes through how to use the interactive panel of the unit.
An Alaska Logbook: Excursions to Chena Hot Springs and Talkeetna
Last summer, while on a flying trip to Alaska, I visited two popular tourist destinations in the backcountry. One of them, Chena Hot Springs, was half an hour by air from our home base at Chena Marina Airport (AK28) in Fairbanks. The other, 184 air miles south, was the historic town of Talkeetna, aerial gateway […]
Video: Smoothing out the bumps
Our friends at FunPlacesToFly.com have posted the next video in a series about getting the best video while flying. The latest video includes a comparison video between the GoPro Hero5 Session VS Hero4 Session. “The new GoPro Session Video Stabilization is incredible, smoothing out the bumpy shots,” they say. “The Hero5 Session is perfect for […]