The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds

Robin Olds

I received this email from Monica at St. Martin’s Press:

Wanted to make you aware about this book we recently published. The long-anticipated memoirs of the greatest fighter pilot in American military history, Robin Olds:

FIGHTER PILOT The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds By Robin Olds with Christina Olds and [...]

Chinook Water Extraction

Some good flying:

Parrot AR.Drone

Coming from Parrot later this year: the autostabilised augmented reality WiFi drone controlled from your iPhone! Demoed at this year’s CES, you know you want one!

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Another Turkish Airlines Ad

Someone at Turkish Airlines should get a grip on their advertising agency…

Thanks to Flying with Fish and The Flying Pinto for pointing this out.

Undercarriage Is An Extra $15

Turkish Airlines introduce the world's first Viagra-powered aircraft

Oh dear. Thanks to Photoshop Disasters for this…

Terrorist Escalation

Thanks to JH for passing this along:

The British are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.” The British have not been “A Bit Cross” since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies all but ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from “Tiresome” to a “Bloody Nuisance.” The last time the British issued a “Bloody Nuisance” warning level was in 1588 when threatened by the Spanish Armada.

The Scots raised their threat level from “Pissed Off” to “Let’s get the Bastards.” They don’t have any other levels. This is the reason they have been used on the front line of the British army for the last 300 years.

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A380 Flight Deck 360 deg Panorama

This is very cool!

The Truth about Gadgets and Flying

“Everything is amazing and nobody is happy”by Meowbay

Dubai Airport

Posted via web from Chris Parker’s posterous

How Aeroplanes Work

And how it’s explained in the newspapers:

The jetbrake is what holds the thrilling-edge sluts in place during a roach on a taxiramp or a runtower. When the props are retarded on the combustion spool, sometimes the engine stalls and the hayler-ons have to go around on a mist roach. Often the plane is [...]