Showing posts with label aircraft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aircraft. Show all posts
Monday, July 29, 2024

A Wonderful Aeronatical Mobile Contact

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  29 July 2024 20S 0943Z 0543L K8JSM/AM Sean, pilot on a 757/300. En route from San Francisco to Orlando with 246 souls on board, including ...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Nine Homebrew Transceivers by Walter KA4KXX (and some QRP and QRO RC planes)

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  Our friend Walter KA4KXX in Orlando recently sent us this really cool "family photo" of his homebrew rigs.  Be sure to see the k...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

A True Measure of a Jean Shepherd Fan: Did You Fly One of His Ornithopters?

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  I did.  Shep had as a sponsor the maker of a flying bird.  It was a wind-up ornithopter powered by a rubber band.  It was kind of like the...
Monday, January 9, 2023

Other Workshops: Building a Flying 21:1 Scale Airbus A-380

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This is simply awesome.  At almost every minute of this video, I found myself thinking, "Yea, I'd screw that up."  Even the si...
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Friday, December 9, 2022

R-390s, KWM-2s, Airplanes, and Magnetic Loops -- A Really Interesting Interview with Ted Robinson K1QAR

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Eric Guth 4Z1UG has a really interesting interview with Ted Robinson K1QAR.   I really enjoyed hearing Ted's inspiring story:  https://w...
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Thursday, September 15, 2022

SolderSmoke (Old Smoke) Podcast #103 -- March 15, 2009 -- From Rome -- QRSS, Knights and Wizards, LTSpice, and an Echolink QSO with Jeff KO7M (the guy with the Piper Cub)

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  15 March 2009  Beware the Ides of March! Ostia Beach and Ostia Antica 248 Knights of QRSS. And Wizards! ET Phones Home (with QRSS?) Pos...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

Old Military Radios at the Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center, and Autogyros

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  My son Bill and I were out at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center (out near Dulles Airport, where they display the r...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Part of Wright Brothers' Airplane Now On Mars with Ingenuity Helicopter

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  Very cool.  Great idea.  https://phys.org/news/2021-03-wright-brothers-1st-airplane-nasa.html
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Thursday, November 5, 2020

Peter Sripol's Electric Ultralight (and his workshop)

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It has been a while since we looked in on Peter Sripol.  Thanks to Hack-A-Day we got to see this really nice video on his latest project -- ...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Aeronautical Mobile Contact from the Dominican Republic

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767 On the morning of January 9, 2020, I was up early, sitting alone out in my open-air tropical hamshack on Bahia Rincon on the Samana ...
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Friday, June 29, 2018

Two Videos from Other Kinds of Workshops -- Dobson Makes a Telescope, Peter Builds an Airplane

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dobson_(amateur_astronomer) Above you can watch a video showing the legendary John Dobson making a big...
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Sunday, June 17, 2018

Peter's New Airplane

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Again.  Amazing.  What a great workshop.   Note his comments on the importance of DESIGNING FIRST, THEN BUILDING.  Words to live by my fr...
Sunday, November 5, 2017

Peter Sripol Takes Off In His Homebrew Airplane

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Saturday, August 19, 2017

Building an Airplane in the Basement with Insulation Foam, Tape, Glue, Poplar...

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But this one is not a model RC plane.  This kid intends to pilot this plane while actually sitting in it.   As a parent, I must say this...
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Sunday, January 15, 2017

Wonderful "QSO Today" Interview with Ian Keyser G3ROO

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N2CQR and G3ROO I knew it was going to be a good Sunday morning in the shack when I saw that Eric 4Z1UG had posted  an interview with...
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Friday, April 25, 2014

Homebrew Blimp with paper-thin Arduino (Printoo)

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More on Printoo (very interesting!): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1030661323/printoo-paper-thin-flexible-arduinotm-compatible-m ...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

QRPp Model Planes

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Michael, AA1TJ, alerted me to this very interesting hobby.  The video is really beautiful. http://floatdocumentary.com/documentary Ou...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

Kishan Has the Knack! (video)

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Many of us were staring out similar windows, also dreaming of model airplanes, and of transmitter circuits, and telescopes, and rockets......
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Friday, July 5, 2013

"I Make Stuff" Chuck Stottlemyer (video)

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More about Chuck Stottlemyer here: http://makezine.com/2013/07/02/movers-and-makers-charles-chuck-stottlemyer/ Our book: "SolderS...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Drone Dudes

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Our book: "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" http://soldersmoke.com/book.htm Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts,...