PlanePlaces.com

Zenair CH-701 Waterflying Video

vzett — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:50:16 +0000

Here’s a nice video of our Zenair CH-701 amphibian making a takeoff and landing during Oshkosh AirVenture 2008 at the Oshkosh seabase.

Our Zenair has the Rotax 912S 100HP engine with 3-blade Warp Drive propeller. We removed the fixed leading edge slats last year to improve cruise speed and glide performance (at a slight penalty to high-angle climb rate).

For an idea of the takeoff performance in the video, we were off the water in ~11 seconds and less than 1000′ with 1 pilot, normal water gear, 10 gallons of fuel in calm winds. For water takeoffs we use 1/2 flaps.

Piaggio Royal Gull Amphibian Video

larryz — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:36:33 +0000

We captured a rare Piaggio Royal Gull amphibian on landing and taxi during at the Oshkosh seabase this year.

Flying the Zenair CH-701 from Oshkosh to Ohio

larryz — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:32:33 +0000

Here are a few pictures from the CH-701’s flight home from Oshkosh AirVenture 2008. Weather was amazingly clear for summer.

Oshkosh AirVenture Seabase Flying Action

vzett — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:40:22 +0000

Call weather on Thursday provided a great day for flying action. We took our CH-701 out for an hour of landings and takeoffs ourselves. The forecast for the rest of the show looks favorable for continued calm-water operations.

AirVenture Seabase Tuesday Photos

vzett — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:49:08 +0000

We’ve posted the first of many photos from Tuesday. As we get time to upload ones from our other cameras we’ll add more. We also have some video of the Albatross, Cessna Caravan, and Piaggio in action we’ll be posting after the show when we have our hi-speed internet connection back.

Yesterday has a day for flying boats with the arrival of an Grumman Albatross, the Piaggio twin pusher seaplane, and the new SeaMax experimental.

1st Day of AirVenture Oshkosh at the Seaplane Base

vzett — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:58:37 +0000

The 1st day of Oshkosh was fairly quiet. A good north breese kept casual seaplane flying to a minimum until mid-afternoon. Following the airshow, we repositioned our Zenair CH-701 Amphibian from Whitman Field to the Seaplane Base where it will stay for the week.

We’ll try and update photos daily through the week.

Map of the Flying M Ranch for Google Earth - Steve Fossett’s Departure Point Before Going Missing

vzett — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:30:46 +0000

We heard the unfortunate news today about adventurer Steve Fossett disappearing during what by accounts was a simple pleasure flight in good weather. He departed the Flying M Ranch southeast of Reno, NV in a Citabria Super Decathlon Monday morning on a local flight and did not return. The Flying M Ranch is owned by the Hilton Family of hotel fame. Finding the ranch on a map wasn’t easy - so we’ve created the simple map below showing the location of the Flying M. We suggest you view the map in Google Earth to get an appreciation for the mountainous terrain nearby.

Get the latest version of Google Earth HERE

Flying M Ranch - Switch to Hybrid Mode or use the View in Google Earth Button for best results!

Download the Latest Google Earth

vzett — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:27:58 +0000

For best results when viewing Google Earth files, it’s best to always have the latest version. The easiest way to do this is to install Google Earth via the ‘Google Pack’ from Google. The Google Pack is free, and will keep all your Google applications up to date. To get Google Earth via the Google Pack, use the button below:

Submit an Airport Video Link

vzett — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:06:11 +0000

Help us find more great Airport / Airplane videos for our Google Earth Map!

cforms contact form by delicious:days

YouTube Airport Videos in Google Earth

vzett — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:07:01 +0000

Update:We appreciate the wonderful response we’ve been getting about our Airport Videos Google Earth layer below! We’ve got an inbox full of corrections, deletions, and new videos to work through thanks to your help. If you’ve saved the Airport Video layer to your ‘My Places’ folder in Google Earth, it will update automatically each time you load it.

It’s been a long time coming, but yesterday’s release of Google Earth 4.2 covered widely on the internet it is now possible to embed flash videos, such as those on YouTube into the windows version of Google Earth.

Working with EarthNC.com, we rolled together a bit of code that searched YouTube for videos tagged with airport ICAO (international identifier) codes and built a nice worldwide map of airport videos. To see the videos, just click on an airport icon in the map. The resulting map includes over 2800 videos. If the airport has more than 1 video (and many do), you can browse between them using the controls below the video player.

We’re not claiming to have exhaustively searched YouTube or error checked every video, in fact we had to refine our search to lower the number of false matches - but this also cut out a lot of airports. We’ve provided an e-mail link with each video so you can help us weed out incorrect or inappropriate videos. We’ll rerun the search from time-to-time. If you tend to post airport related videos, be sure to tag them with the full 4 character ICAO code and the word ‘airport’. We also suggest that you use YouTube’s new geotagging feature to add a specific latitude/longitude to your video as we will check for this in the future. To submit a video directly, use our new Video Submission Form, all you need is the video link from YouTube, Revver, or other online services, and we’ll add it to the map.

Open in Google Earth 4.2 for Windows ** You Must Download and Install the latest Google Earth for Windows for the Videos to Play! **:

View YouTube Airport Videos by PlanePlaces.com in Google Earth

Get the Latest Version of Google Earth

This map requires the latest version of Google Earth for Windows which you can get free using the ‘Google Pack’ button below.