The first Airbus A380-800 rolls out

What a massive plane !



Original Airbus A380-800 picture in context

More Airbus 380 pictures from Airliners.net

Thanks to Airliners.net for the picture

Your brain is a mess

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.

Are you a Geek?

A one-question geek test. If you get the joke, you're a geek:

Seen on a California license plate on a VW Beetle:

FEATURE

Leave me a comment if you get it. Thanks to the Vin'z for this joke.

If you really want to see how geeky you are, take
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The CBS plane - in charge of reporting traffic - lands on the highway!

In San Francisco, every morning, the main highways are overflown by planes from the local radio station KCBS to report traffic jams.

This morning, the plane went out of fuel and had to land on the highway, causing traffic congestion. On the bright side, no one was hurt.








Thanks to CBS-5, KCBS and SFGate.com for the pictures.

See the full news story here

Crissy Field - Aviation airfield in San Francisco

Crissy Field is just below the Presidio Park, next to the Golden Gate Bridge. I was told it used to be an aviation airfield and I just found some pictures of it on this great site: Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: San Francisco area.

Today, Crissy Field is a nice park, with grass, access to the water and a gorgeous view on the Golden Gate Bridge.

The above site shows Crissy Fields on the 1929 "Rand McNally Standard Map of CA With Air Trails" (courtesy of Chris Kennedy). It described Crissy Field as measuring 3,050' x 400'.



It used to look like that



This picture shows a Ford 5-AT-B taking off from Crissy Field



That's what Crissy Field looked like before they removed the paved runway



And finally, this is what it looks like today




I found most of the information above on the following sites:

Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields

Crissy Field Aviation Museum

Northern California Chapter of the American Aviation Historical Society

Crissy Airfield History - Presidio of San Francisco

Give them credit for their great work and visit their site.

Today's aviation proverb

Flying isn't dangerous. Crashing is what's dangerous.

Today's aviation joke

Two moose hunters from Texas are flown into a remote lake in Alaska. They have a good hunt and both manage to bag a large moose. When the plane returns to pick them up, the pilot looks at the animals and says, "This little plane won't lift all of us, the equipment, and both of those animals. You'll have to leave one. We'd never make it over the trees on the take off."

"That's baloney!" says one of the hunters. "Yeah," the other agrees, "you're just chicken. We came out here last year and got two moose and that pilot had some guts! He wasn't afraid to take off!"

"Yeah", said the first hunter, "and his plane wasn't any bigger than yours!"
The pilot got angry, and said, "Hell, if he did it, then I can do it! I can fly as well as anybody!"

They loaded up, taxied, then at full throttle took off. The plane almost made it but didn't have the lift to clear the trees at the end of the lake. It clipped the tops, then flipped, then broke up, scattering the baggage, animal carcasses, and passengers all through the brush.

Still alive, but hurt and dazed, the pilot sat up, shook his head to clear it, and said, "Where are we?"

One of the hunters rolled out from behind a bush, looked around and said, "I'd say... About a hundred yards further than last year."

tokyo-genki.com

You need to meet my friend Yves. He is the one that got me starting this blog. His blog is called tokyo-genki.com. Visit him.

He is a very impressive guy. He had a real japan girl fantasy so, instead of just fulfilling it in front of the internet, he moved to Japan. Respect.

He also found that guy. Go there and annoy him!

San Francisco Bay tour

The great thing about living and flying around San Francisco is the scenery. The simplest flight is an impressive scenic experience.

So, we went on a Bay tour, starting from San Carlos (KSQL), my home airport. San Carlos tower delivered us a squawk code and after take-off, we contacted SFO tower for clearance into the class B airspace.




After clearance into the class B, we followed highway 101 up to the airport. We were then requested to proceed directly over the field !




We then flew over the city of San Francisco




Over the Golden Gate Bridge







Over the Marina and the Palace of Fine Arts




To return to San Carlos, we were requested to fly along highway 101, right next to SFO.

My cheap airplane

Only 69$ per hour!

Tango at CELLspace

Yesterday we danced tango at CELLspace. Amazing experience, best dancers ever and alternative tango music.

Google Blog

That's it. The next one after me doing a blog is Google. Google Blog

Hero

That guy - Philip Greenspun - is my new hero. He is an MIT teacher, has a passion for photography (see Photo.net)and owns his own airplane. His site is full of very interesting plane stuff.

When I see his sites, it seems that he is having so much fun in life!

Journal pas intime

I am the last hip person to do a blog. The next one after me is a looser doing a blog.