Airspeed

Transition alert! We're merging Airspeed and Airspeed in Brief. Please be sure to listen closely so that you can keep on getting your periodic dose of Jet-A, 100LL, and rocket fuel! See the show notes at www.airspeedonline.blogspot.com for a transcript of this show and the information you'll need to make sure that Airspeed stays on your player.

We talk about how best to light the fires of your kids' minds - By taking them to the airport, to Kennedy Space Center, to the Very Large Array - Wherever. Just take them!

For full text and a picture of Ella, see http://airspeedonline.blogspot.com/2006/05/airspeed-take-your-kids-to-airport.html.

Capt. REFSMMAT - The ideal flight controller and a Steely-Eyed Missile Man.

Steve starts and ends the show from the cockpit as he is in the process of undergoing a biannual flight review. That's the minimum instruction of an hour on the ground and hour in the air that every pilot must undergo every two years in order to exercise the privileges under his or her private pilot certificate. And yes, he passed!

Update on preparations for the 2006 Field of Flight Airshow and Balloon Festival in Battle Creek, Michigan.

This episode starts off our Steely-Eyed Missile Men series and features John Aaron, the Gold Team and Apollo 12 EECOM who uttered the greatest call in all of manned spaceflight control. This is the story of SCE to Aux.

Audio used under the NASA policy entitled Using NASA Imagery and Linking to NASA Web Sites - 10.13.05 - Still Images, Audio Files and Video available at http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html. No use of any NASA material in this podcast should or does express or imply any endorsement of this podcast or any person or business that helps out with this podcast by NASA or any person whose voice is contained in the audio material.

Thanks, NASA, for having such a great policy. On to Mars!

DMCA and other copyright contact is Steve Tupper - [email protected] - 248-470-7944.

Airspeed's first installment of the best music to plug into your intercom while you're flying. From Bela Fleck to Cirque du Soleil and from Gary Hoey to Cheis Thile, here's what's on Stephen Force's playlist when he goes up. Featuring commentary about:

1. Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries - Royal Memorial Orchestra from "Music from the War Movies"

2. Gary Hoey's Low Rider from "Wake Up Call"

3. Cirque du Soleil's Svecounia from "O"

4. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones' The Big Blink from "Left of Cool"

5. Van Halen's Dreams from "5150"

6. Enya's Book of Days from "Shepherd Moons" (English version)

7. Chris Thile's Raining at Subset from "Not All Who Wander are Lost"

Musical snippets used under 17 USC 107. DMCA copyright notices, if any, to Steve Tupper - [email protected].

General information about instrument flight and the attendant challenges.

We provide a little ammunition for your arguments with those who seem to think that general aviation represents a threat to the American Public.

We leave the Airspeed studios and have lunch at Pasquale's in Royal Oak, Michigan with Paul Stambaugh, aerobatic pilot (and owner of Pitts S1-S N34RM "Psycho Therapy") and Great Lakes Ferry pilot, among other things. We talk about aerobatics for both fun and safety, what it's like to be the premier Great Lakes aircraft ferry pilot in the United States, and why, despite all of his experience, Paul keeps his day job as a senior mechanical engineer. Pull up a chair at this classic southeast Michigan Itallian eatery and hangar-fly with Steve and Paul!