“A restored B-17 bomber will visit Santa Barbara from April 23 to 25 during a 60-city “Salute to Veterans” national tour. It’s one of two Flying Fortresses scheduled to land on the Central Coast this spring. The other will arrive in Santa Maria in May. During its Santa Barbara visit, “Aluminum Overcast,” the Experimental Aircraft [...]
I’m pleased to announce the re-launch of SlopeAerobatics.com, a website dedicated to radio control slope and glider aerobatics. It originally launched in 2007 using a Drupal platform that proved to be very cumbersome to theme and manage. So much so that, combined with other factors, I ended up neglecting the site for a good deal [...]
Courtesy TerritorioScuola I have said many times that the French are 10 years ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to glider aerobatics, and videos like this (from 2001!!!) are the reason…
Eté 2009 au Ménez-HomUploaded by PLP35. This is a great video from France showing the joy of R/C glider flying. These guys fly their beautiful crunchies as though they were Weasels! Tres cool
I have amazingly good CAPTCHA karma, apparently. LOL!
After a good deal of thought, I’ve decided to switch this blog over to WordPress software. With all the stuff I’ve got going on, there’s just no sense in reinventing the wheel with my homebrew stuff, especially not when you consider how nice WordPress is these days. Happily it was pretty easy to get all [...]
A “raphanneur” fully decked out for a grueling 80mi day of what Rapha apparently thinks passes for randonneruing Rapha, purveyors of some of the most expensive cycling kit ever created, are apparently now fashioning themselves “randonneurs”… which in the Rapha-verse, means leading riders willing to fork over $4000US on 6 day, 600mi fully supported “randonnees” [...]
This was made by my friend Alden from work. UBERGEEK STATUS IS A GO!
This is a pretty interesting article: “A previously unknown kind of human group vanished from the world so completely that it has left behind the merest wisp of evidence that it ever existed – a single bone from the little finger of a child, buried in a cave in the Altai mountains of southern Siberia.” [...]
Santa Barbara Sky Chart:
