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Sky Fighters – Into The Fire

admin — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:50:58 +0000

High definition remake of the popular music video from the movie Les Chevaliers Du Ciel (Sky Fighters) featuring French Air Force Mirage 2000 fighter jets.
Music: Thirteen Senses – Into The Fire

A nice video to start this week, thanks @equisdx.

Planespotting I

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:49:49 +0000

Well these are some of the photos of my first planespotting session last saturday with Isaac Garcia at Madrid-Barajas Airport.

Photos taken with Nikon D90 and AF-S Nikkor 70-300mm 1:4,5-5.6 G VR lens. No post processing except resizing and jpg quality to 90% to reduce the size of images. And watermarking with imagemagick (I wanted to test this classic software).

First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 1903 Dec. 17, 10:35 a.m.

admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:10:15 +0000

Photograph shows the first powered, controlled, sustained flight. Orville Wright at the controls of the machine, lying prone on the lower wing with hips in the cradle which operated the wing-warping mechanism. Wilbur Wright running alongside to balance the machine, has just released his hold on the forward upright of the right wing. The starting rail, the wing-rest, a coil box, and other items needed for flight preparation are visible behind the machine. (Orville Wright preset the camera and had John T. Daniels squeeze the rubber bulb, tripping the shutter.)

Paper planes

admin — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:13:38 +0000

I have found this song called Paper planes , <- click while watching this post, by M.I.A. and I have made it the theme of this post.

There is a flying Guiness record 27.6 seconds by Ken Blackburn and you can alsolearn about paper planes here and here.

I think it could be a good idea in this crisis time to rediscover new cheap ways of entertaiment and paper planes competitions can be funny (time flying, distance, design, races between 2 points,…), you can see an example in this set.

Many people visit this blog from social media sites (meneame, wykop, stumbleupon, …) so if someone want to organise any paper planes competition in any city of the world please send me photos, I will gladly publish them.

Have fun!