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The USS Kitty Hawk in some rough seas NEW!   Half motorcycle / half plane

Welcoming home America's troops   The WWI Flying Ace and his Sopwith Camel

Know when to get out of the throttle   Sea plane take-off without water

Trunk Monkey Chaperone

   Learn how to fly a B-17

Trunk Monkey Road Rage   Watch a Chinook land in the water

Trunk Monkey & Eggs   Wicked cross-wind landing

Trunk Monkey & Police   See what your R/C plane goes through from the inside with on-board video

Trunk Monkey Break-in   Carrier Landing

Achmed the dead terrorist

   Liberty Belle Engine Startup

Iraq News Report   Liberty Belle's first flight

Slip n Slide   Making the planes used in the movie 'The Aviator'

Bird Strike   Tomcat fly-by

Pepsi - Italian Style   Planes from 'The Aviator'

Don't Touch   Gordon Nichols' R/C B-52
      Always be on time
      FAI Aerobatic Competition
      R/C B-29 and Bell X-1 launch
      See what an F-15 can do
      Airdrops gone bad
 

 

 

 

 

 

The following appeared in an issue of Australian Aviation Magazine

 

1 Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory.
2 If you push the stick forward, the trees get bigger. If you pull the stick back, they get smaller. That is, unless you  keep pulling the stick all the way back, then they get bigger again.
3 Flying isn't dangerous. Crashing is what's dangerous.
4 It's always better to be down here wishing you were up there, than up there wishing you were down here.
5 The ONLY time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.
6 The propeller is just a big fan in front of the plane used to keep the pilot cool. When it stops while you're flying, you can actually watch the pilot start sweating.
7 When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No one has ever collided with the sky.
8 A 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away. A 'great'  landing is one after which you can use the plane
9 Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make  all of them yourself.
10 You know you've landed with the wheels up if it takes full power to taxi to the ramp.

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 The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle  of arrival. Large angle of arrival, small probability of  survival and  vice versa.
12 Never let an aircraft take you somewhere your brain didn't get to five minutes earlier.
13 Stay out of clouds. The silver lining everyone keeps talking about  might be another airplane going in the opposite direction. Reliable sources also report that mountains have been known to hide out in  clouds.
14 Always try to keep the number of landings you make equal to the number of take offs you've made.
15 There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing.  Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
16 You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience.  The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of  luck.
17 Helicopters can't fly; they're just so ugly the earth repels them.
18 In the ongoing battle between objects made of balsa and metal going fast and the ground going zero miles per hour, the ground has yet to lose.
19 Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgment.
20 It's always a good idea to keep the pointy end going forward as much  as possible.
21 Keep looking around. There's always something you've missed.
22 Remember, gravity is not just a good idea. It's the law. And it's  not subject to repeal.
23 The three most useless things to a pilot are the altitude above you,  runway behind you, and a tenth of a second ago.