I've been playing around with ringtones lately, and got the idea to do aviation engine ringtones. (There are aviation-centric ringtones out there, but they seem to all be related to error messages in the cockpit, not the sound of engines.)
It's harder than I thought to find these... this post will be an ongoing document so bookmark it if you're interested.
They are all MP3 files. To download, right click on link and SAVE TARGET AS. To listen, just click normally.
Stuka Dive Bomber
Spitfire Engine runup
Harrier Vertical Lift Off Ringtone
Japanese Zero with Original Engine
For anyone named Mr. Chambers
Don't get on that ship! The rest of that book, to serve man... It's a cookbook!
For those who get calls from Germany
This is Germany calling. This is Germany calling. (From Green for Danger)
Never, ever try a backblast
The backblast backlash will bounce back and destroy everything
And for those with a science fiction bent:
This is the Voice of the Mysterons
Queen to Queens level 3, captain Kirk?
I assume you play chess?
Stand by for action. Stingray crew to report to control tower immediately
Anything can happen in the next half hour
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Fran Bera: Winningest Women Air Race Pilot
View the video:
For my Kindle subscribers, hop on your computer and visit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=366r1ZbsfDM (or just go to YouTube and do a search on Fran Bera)
For my Kindle subscribers, hop on your computer and visit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=366r1ZbsfDM (or just go to YouTube and do a search on Fran Bera)
Reference Library: AOPA Pilot, December 2009 TOC
AOPA Pilot, December 2009 TOC
Features
Bound for the Bahamas, Thomas A. Horne
Safety Pilot Landmark Accidents: Comfortable and Complacent, Bruce Landsberg
Captive No More, Phil Scott
Let's Go Flying Sweepstakes: As Good as it Gets, David Hirschman
2010 Sweepstakes: Meet Your New Fun Machine, Jill W. Tallman
GA Serves America: The Accidental Aviator, Mike Collins
The Resurrection (Lone Star Flight Museum), Stephen Coonts
AOPA Medica Services Program: Don't Get Lost, Julie Summers Walker
Technique: How To Get an A in C and D, Alton K. Marsh
Turbine Pilot: RNP Primer, Marc Henegar
Wx Watch: Icing Intensities, Thomas A. Horne
Avionics: The Aera Era Begins, Dave Hirschman
Commentary
President's Position: Flying Healthy
Letters: Rotten Air
Waypoints: The Future of Engine Controls
Proficient Pilot: The Left Seat
Pilotage: Rough Riders
License To Learn: A turn for the better
Pilot Counsel: Pilot and Aircraft Documents
Fly Well: Making medical matter
Departments
Hangar Talk: The Story behind the story
AOPA online: Exclusives online
AOPA Action: Power of GA reaches senate
Let's go flying: Dog day afternoon
Frugal Flier: Backseat learning
Pilot Briefing: Humans 500, Bears 0
Never Again: Heart attack aloft
Test pilot: Tracking Santa
Pilot Products: New GPS resouces from Max Trescott
Fly by Wire: Index of Advertisers
Pilots: Dan Sorkin
Features
Bound for the Bahamas, Thomas A. Horne
Safety Pilot Landmark Accidents: Comfortable and Complacent, Bruce Landsberg
Captive No More, Phil Scott
Let's Go Flying Sweepstakes: As Good as it Gets, David Hirschman
2010 Sweepstakes: Meet Your New Fun Machine, Jill W. Tallman
GA Serves America: The Accidental Aviator, Mike Collins
The Resurrection (Lone Star Flight Museum), Stephen Coonts
AOPA Medica Services Program: Don't Get Lost, Julie Summers Walker
Technique: How To Get an A in C and D, Alton K. Marsh
Turbine Pilot: RNP Primer, Marc Henegar
Wx Watch: Icing Intensities, Thomas A. Horne
Avionics: The Aera Era Begins, Dave Hirschman
Commentary
President's Position: Flying Healthy
Letters: Rotten Air
Waypoints: The Future of Engine Controls
Proficient Pilot: The Left Seat
Pilotage: Rough Riders
License To Learn: A turn for the better
Pilot Counsel: Pilot and Aircraft Documents
Fly Well: Making medical matter
Departments
Hangar Talk: The Story behind the story
AOPA online: Exclusives online
AOPA Action: Power of GA reaches senate
Let's go flying: Dog day afternoon
Frugal Flier: Backseat learning
Pilot Briefing: Humans 500, Bears 0
Never Again: Heart attack aloft
Test pilot: Tracking Santa
Pilot Products: New GPS resouces from Max Trescott
Fly by Wire: Index of Advertisers
Pilots: Dan Sorkin
Friday, March 5, 2010
The 1947 Powder Puff Derby
The first Powder Puff Derby Race took place in 1929, and featured 20 pilots including Amelia Earhart, Louise Thaden, Ruth Nichols, Marvel Crosson, Pancho Barnes, and so on. It was held in conjunction with the National Air Races being held in Cleveland that year.
There was no such race held the next year.
In 1935, women were allowed to compete against the men in the Bendix Trophy Race. In 1936, Louise Thaden and Blanche Noyes won this race.
During WWII, of course all air racing stopped.
After the war, the Powder Puff Derby race was revived.
The 1947 race perhaps doesn't really count, as only two teams participated. The race began in Palm Springs, California and ended in Tampa, Florida. It was termed the Amelia Earhart Memorial Derby.
The Florida Chapter of the Ninety-Nines, full of WASP, founded the Florida All-Woman Air Show and invited races to terminate in Tampa as part of the show.
Unfortunately, further details were not sent out, so that when the time came, only two entries from the California Ninety-Nines began the race. Mardo Crane was the chairwoman of the race.
Dianna Bixby was to fly her military A-26 bomber and Caroline West, with co-pilot Bea Medes, flew a Eurocoupe.
As it turned out, Bixby had engine problems and never even got started, but West and Medes completed the entire journey. It took 21 hours and 45 mintues. It was only when they touched down in Tampa that they learned that Bixby had never started.
From this inauspicious beginning, the Powder Puff Derby began and would run for 30 years (with one miss in 1973 due to the oil shortage), with the final race taking place in 1977.
At its height, over 100 women would take part in the race each year.
After the Powder Puff Derby (more officially known as the All-Women's Transcontinental Air Race (AWTAR) ended, a scaled-down all-women's race was intorduced called the Air Race Classic.
The 2010 Air Race Classic, or ARC, will take place from June 22 - 25, 2010, from Fort Myers, FL to Frederick, MD.
In 1947, Carolyn West and Beatrice Medes, who only participated in this race out of all of them, flew from Palm Springs to Tucson, AZ, Tucson to El Paso, TX, El Paso to Dallas, Dallas to Shewveport, LA, Sheveport to Monroeville, Al, Monroeville to Cross City, FL, Cross City to Dunellen, and Dunellen to Tampa.
The winners were awarded trophies and cash to cover their gas and oil for the round trip back to California.
The start committee had consisted of Mardo Crane, Dee Thurmond, Irma "Babe" Story, and Helen Hooper Moore.
There was no such race held the next year.
In 1935, women were allowed to compete against the men in the Bendix Trophy Race. In 1936, Louise Thaden and Blanche Noyes won this race.
During WWII, of course all air racing stopped.
After the war, the Powder Puff Derby race was revived.
The 1947 race perhaps doesn't really count, as only two teams participated. The race began in Palm Springs, California and ended in Tampa, Florida. It was termed the Amelia Earhart Memorial Derby.
The Florida Chapter of the Ninety-Nines, full of WASP, founded the Florida All-Woman Air Show and invited races to terminate in Tampa as part of the show.
Unfortunately, further details were not sent out, so that when the time came, only two entries from the California Ninety-Nines began the race. Mardo Crane was the chairwoman of the race.
Dianna Bixby was to fly her military A-26 bomber and Caroline West, with co-pilot Bea Medes, flew a Eurocoupe.
As it turned out, Bixby had engine problems and never even got started, but West and Medes completed the entire journey. It took 21 hours and 45 mintues. It was only when they touched down in Tampa that they learned that Bixby had never started.
From this inauspicious beginning, the Powder Puff Derby began and would run for 30 years (with one miss in 1973 due to the oil shortage), with the final race taking place in 1977.
At its height, over 100 women would take part in the race each year.
After the Powder Puff Derby (more officially known as the All-Women's Transcontinental Air Race (AWTAR) ended, a scaled-down all-women's race was intorduced called the Air Race Classic.
The 2010 Air Race Classic, or ARC, will take place from June 22 - 25, 2010, from Fort Myers, FL to Frederick, MD.
Award-wise, the Air Race Classic started in 1977 with an $8,550 purse for the top-ten crews, with additional leg prizes for those finishing outside the selected group of ten. The awards have been increased over the years, so that the current top-ten purse is $15,000.
In 1947, Carolyn West and Beatrice Medes, who only participated in this race out of all of them, flew from Palm Springs to Tucson, AZ, Tucson to El Paso, TX, El Paso to Dallas, Dallas to Shewveport, LA, Sheveport to Monroeville, Al, Monroeville to Cross City, FL, Cross City to Dunellen, and Dunellen to Tampa.
The winners were awarded trophies and cash to cover their gas and oil for the round trip back to California.
The start committee had consisted of Mardo Crane, Dee Thurmond, Irma "Babe" Story, and Helen Hooper Moore.
2 New Books Added to Our Library
The Winged Victory: Women in Aviation library has added two more books:
High, Wide and Frightened, the autobiography of Louise Thaden, published in 2004 by the University of Arkansas Press, and The Roaring 20: The FIrst Cross-Country Air Race for Women.
Unfortunately both of these books, which I purchased used from Amazon, are library de-accessions. My gain, but the loss of every girl and woman - or guy - who might have visited this particular library and been able to read these books.
High, Wide and Frightened, the autobiography of Louise Thaden, published in 2004 by the University of Arkansas Press, and The Roaring 20: The FIrst Cross-Country Air Race for Women.
Unfortunately both of these books, which I purchased used from Amazon, are library de-accessions. My gain, but the loss of every girl and woman - or guy - who might have visited this particular library and been able to read these books.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
PR: Specials at the Red Prop Pilot Store
Here's the promo code to use through March, for 15% off: RPPS1
2H Innovations’ New Satisfaction-Driven Pilot Store
http://www.RedPropPilotStore.com does it differently with store-backed guarantee
Orlando, Florida – March 3, 2010: 2H Innovations, parent of the innovative ArmBoard system for pilots, has launched a pilot store with an important difference: a full 12-month guarantee on all merchandise, backed by the store itself.
“We’ll fix or replace anything defective, and we’ll assume the battle,” promises founder and president, Hussein Aboul-Ezz. “We know our customers are busy, and we know the manufacturers are busy. We believe that, as the ‘middleman,’ we can make both our suppliers and our customers better off by offering this guarantee. There are no hassles for customers – they get immediate turnaround, and their problem is gone!”
Of course, the fact that Red Prop handles only top-quality merchandise makes the job easier; but any product can develop a problem. “We just don’t think that those problems should be our customer’s problems,” Aboul-Ezz says.
Building on the success of their innovative ArmBoard (introduced in the fall of 2008), the new online pilot store offers high quality aviation products, pilot and aircraft supplies and training materials.
The online store, http://www.RedPropPilotStore.com, offers quick navigation with a vibrant and seamless zoom to aviation products. The on-line store serves a wide range of aviation enthusiasts from student to professional pilots, as well as satisfying the general public’s interest in aviation-related gear.
About 2H Innovations
2H Innovations is family-owned and -operated, and is located in Orlando (FL). The company was initially formed to market the innovative ArmBoard, developed under the belief that the constrictiveness and space requirements of a traditional knee board are uncomfortable and inconvenient. (The ArmBoard delivers everything a traditional knee board does, minus the space requirements and the discomfort; it continues to be a best seller in the new Red Prop Pilot Store.)
Customer Service: 866-735-9276
Email: info@2hinnovations.com
Monday, March 1, 2010
Violet the Pilot: 4 books
Powder Puff Pilot has introduced four new children's books featuring Violet the Pilot:
Violet the Pilot Book Series
By Bettina Bathe
"Violet the Pilot was a happy and fun girl. Gliding on a jetstream to another world. Her smile took you to the Stratosphere where the moon said hello to her on a sandy beach...."
In this four-book series, Violet the Pilot flies different types of aircraft on travel adventures all around the world. Her journeys take place in:
Winter - in the Arctic on a ski plane
Spring - in Hawaii on a helicopter
Summer - in Canada on a floatplane
Fall - in France on a hot air balloon
Traveling with three devoted animal friends, Violet collects other animals and plays musical instruments in each adventure. She always encounters weather and a wide range of geography too!
Softcover, recommended for ages 5 to 9.
Violet the Pilot Book Series
By Bettina Bathe
"Violet the Pilot was a happy and fun girl. Gliding on a jetstream to another world. Her smile took you to the Stratosphere where the moon said hello to her on a sandy beach...."
In this four-book series, Violet the Pilot flies different types of aircraft on travel adventures all around the world. Her journeys take place in:
Winter - in the Arctic on a ski plane
Spring - in Hawaii on a helicopter
Summer - in Canada on a floatplane
Fall - in France on a hot air balloon
Traveling with three devoted animal friends, Violet collects other animals and plays musical instruments in each adventure. She always encounters weather and a wide range of geography too!
Softcover, recommended for ages 5 to 9.
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