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The Germans can make more than really nice cars.  

Human Powered Helicopter

Gamera, AGRC, Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland

Cruising the Sky

Another great video from Evert Cloetens:  Cruising the Sky on Vimeo

Eagle

This is one of the best shot, best produced helicopter videos I've seen. Fantastic panoramas in the clouds and a great 360 roll around the Eagle. And Adele is icing on the cake:

Eagle on Vimeo

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Our 412 at 29 Palms Marine Corps Air Station.  As my friend reminds me, the Marine Corps may be a Department of the Navy, but it's the Men's Department.  


The photo is Jim Langley's, surreptitiously taken from Nibecker's Facebook page.     

Good Times

A friend just send this photo of me, next to an AStar I had just flown to the middle of nowhere in Baja California.  Drinking coffee and enjoying the mountaintop scenery, how much better could it get?  

(Photo is by Antonio Mercadoh, thanks for sending.  Ebmiggen the photo to see the famous Starbucks mug in my hand)

Hotel California

If you're going to fly helicopters, you might as well go big.  


I meant to post this on April's Fools Day, but forgot.  While the rotor blade concept is actually taken from a Soviet helicopter design, the rest of it is fictional.  But slick nonetheless.