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Join the Hangar Flying with Pilot Kent and Pilot Mike with Aviation Podcasters from around the country at Aviation Podapalooza 2009 at EAA AirVenture 2009 in Oshkosh, WI.

Recorded Friday, July 31, 2009 – 01:14:30 – 34.2MB

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Pilotcast Exclusive in-flight video of an F/A-18 flight with a U.S. Navy Blue Angel!

This is the Blue Angel flight video mentioned in Pilotcast #33,. This movie is premiering to the public exclusively on The Pilotcast! Watch as Patrick Raycraft, a Photojournalist for the Hartford Courant gets a thrilling ride in the two seat U. S. Navy Blue Angel F/A-18 Hornet with “Kojack,” Blue Angel 7.

The first week of March, Pat was in El Centro, California, photographing the winter training of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron. Pat flew almost 55 minutes in the cockpit. This is an amazing QuickTime video of the highlights of that flight, taken with a cockpit camera recording directly on to a DVD recorder built-in the the two seat FA-18.

The Pilotcast crew offers sincere thanks again to Pat, his friend CMDR. “Boss” Foley, the U.S. Navy, and the Blue Angels.

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Special guest “Pilot Ken” Ibold, Editor of EAA’s Sport Aviation magazine, joins the Hangar Flying with Pilot Dan, Pilot Kent, and Pilot Mike.

• Introducing “Pilot Ken” Ibold, Editor of EAA’s Sport Aviation and the IAC’s Sport Aerobatics magazines from Jacksonville, FL.
  • The EAA’s Sport Aviation Magazine: http://www.eaa.org/benefits/sportaviation
  • The IAC’s Sport Aerobatics magazine: http://www.iac.org/magazine
• Ken’s airplanes.
  • Ken owned a Mooney, then a Lance.
  • Ken owns a formerly factory-new Citabria, and is looking at buying a Pitts biplane.
  • Update: Ken bought the Pitts!
    Here’s a picture of the Citabria with the new Pitts:
    
    The new Pitts:
    

• Ken, Kent, “CFI Ron” and Mike will join a large group of pilots from all over the U.S. at a fun fly-in at Gaston’s White River Resort in Arkansas June 9-11 2006.
  • http://www.gastons.com
  • http://www.gastonsflyin.com
• One Six Right, a general aviation movie!
  http://www.onesixright.com
• Light Sport Pilot and Light Sport aircraft
  • Light Sport Aircraft – Why aren’t they selling?
  • Sport Pilot certificates are VERY popular.
  • The quality of the Light Sport aircraft being made.
• The safety record of the Cirrus aircraft. Is it due to owners not being experienced?
• The record of Cirrus vs. other manufacturers.
• The International Aerobatic Club.
  http://www.iac.org
• World Aerobatic Competitions.
  • Why don’t aerobatic competitions draw spectators?
  • Why aren’t there facilities for spectators?
  • Why aren’t they properly promoted with the public?

In the news:

• Warrior with CFI and student crashes into the chilly Hudson River in NYC while flying the NYC VFR corridor.
• A Cessna lands on a freeway in northern California.

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