Just a week shy of the anniversary of a catastrophic “thousand-year” rain in South Carolina, Woolpert’s video on its groundbreaking disaster relief efforts employed immediately following that event has been recognized. “Aerial Imagery Assists Flood Disaster Response in South Carolina, and in Record Time,” a video by Woolpert Project Director Brian Bates, received an Interactive […]
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Video: Drone-assisted water rescue
HAMBURG, Germany — microdrones has released a video demonstrating a new water rescue tactic it hs developed that uses drones. The company says it may revolutionize lifeguard rescue operations all over the world. https://youtu.be/d6Qhq9yFdKo In the video, a specially trained lifeguard spots a drowning swimmer and immediately deploys a microdrones unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as another lifeguard rushes […]
Video: My GoPro has gone to my head…
Smitty Smith from FunPlacesToFly.com recently posted a video detailing a quick and easy way to capture video, while giving viewers the feeling of really being in the pilot’s seat. He clipped his GoPro camera to his EAA baseball cap and off he went. Check it out here: https://youtu.be/CnKHgETlkVg
Video: Sonex B-Model takes flight
Sonex Aircraft recently posted a video of the B-Model flight test process in Red One, the company’s Waiex-B prototype. Flown by Joe Norris of Sonex Aircraft, Red One is AeroVee Turbo powered. Company officials say the the flight test process revealed no surprises — “it flies exactly like a Sonex and meets all published B-Model specs.”
Video: Warbirds on parade
Our friends at FunPlacesToFly.com put together a video for the Commemorative Air Force Dallas Wing in Lancaster, Texas, called Warbirds on Parade. Check it out below.
Video: Flying for food
Forget the $100 hamburger. In this new video from FunPlacesToFly, Bar B Que is the mission! “We flew out of McKinney Airport and headed for Gainesville Airport in Gainesville, Texas,” explains Smitty Smith, the force behind the website. “We grabbed an airport courtesy car and went into town. What fun!”
Hartzell introduces video series to help pilots better understand their aircraft
OSHKOSH — On opening day of AirVenture 2016, Hartzell Engine Technologies reported it is producing a series of short instructional videos aimed at helping general aviation aircraft owners and technicians better understand the operations of key aircraft components and systems. “When we attend airshows and events we get a lot of the same questions from attendees and many of […]
RAF pilots head to Washington Island fish boil
By MIKE PURPURA On July 16, at 6 a.m., the earth was cloaked in cotton candy clouds as 200 airplanes converged on Washington Island in Wisconsin for the annual fish boil. Some slipped unnoticed across the Cheddar Curtain and into Wisconsin from Northern Illinois. Others flew east out of the North Woods and across Green Bay. […]
The Romance of One Six Right Endures
“One Six Right” – the much loved aviation documentary originally released in 2005 — has been re-released in Blu-ray format. The romance of the original has endured. A recent viewing with my high school aged daughter Savannah produced, “I wish all my history classes were like this. This is interesting and entertaining.” No doubt, the […]