Just running a test to see if I can embed live content from Ustream on the blog like in the old days. If this works, readers will not have to log in to see live or on demand content.
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Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Test of Concept 03-02-2016
Just running a test to see if I can embed live content from Ustream on the blog like in the old days. If this works, readers will not have to log in to see live or on demand content.
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
FPS Russia Tries Out the DRD Paratus 18
+Fps Russia delivers another amazing video, this one a 7.62 x 51 mm rifle that can break down to fit in a backpack or small suitcase and can be re-assembled very quickly with no special tools needed...except perhaps a little common sense when blowing up pick ups...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
The Smoky Mountain Explorer Trailer
Below is a trailer from the Great Smoky Mountains Association for their new series The Smoky Mountain Explorer. The first episode will feature Clingmans Dome and the Spruce-fir (sic) Forests.
Saturday, May 5, 2012
FAA Harasses Delta Passenger for Filming Bird Strike
A Delta passenger who filmed birds striking his plane over New York City's John F. Kennedy International airport received a scathing letter from the Federal Aviation Administration condemning his use of an electronic during flight takeoff.Source: Fox News (read the entire article)
Grant Cardone, 54, became a viral hit after posting a video of birds being sucked into the engine of his Los Angeles-bound Delta flight on April 19. The plane was forced to turn back to the airport and landed safely, the New York Post reports.
Soon afterward, Cardone received an official letter from the FAA complaining the video was taken illegally because he used his iPad to film the strike, and use of portable electronic devices is prohibited during "critical" phases of a flight, such as takeoffs. Electronic devices also cannot be used during an in-flight emergency.
"Your failure to comply with flight attendant instructions during a critical phase of flight and an aircraft emergency could have affected the safe outcome of the flight," the letter says.
Hat Tip: Drudge Report
Full incident audio recorded from the Internet:
Here is an excerpt of what I posted on Facebook regarding this incident:
I wonder if the Federal Aviation Administration realizes that there are tens of thousands of videos on Youtube documenting every phase of flight? Why are they harassing this guy?
WHy did they not come out and attack the people who filmed shuttle launches from planes http://is.gd/Mb5UF9 Takeoffs http://is.gd/takeoff and even landings http://is.gd/landings even other birdstrikes have been filmed without FAA harrassment http://is.gd/birdstrikes
Why pick on this guy and not the others? What makes him different?
Here are other videos of bird strikes, takeoffs and landings. There are also pilots who film their own flights, so what is the big deal about this? The pilots and crew all behaved in a professional manner. I suspect it has more to do with an idiot bureaucrat who needed to intimidate someone to make his (or her) life just a little bit more bearable.
If anything, these videos bring to light the skill and professionalism of the pilots and air traffic controllers and the letter to the passenger who filmed the bird strike reveals a petty and arrogant federal bureaucracy.
Friday, August 12, 2011
The Adventures of a Cardboard Box
Wow. What an amazing short film.
This film was made for the Nokia Shorts 2011 competition. It tells the story of a boy who meets and befriends a large cardboard box, and was shot on a Nokia N8.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
StreetView Experiment: From Franklin to Dillsboro
This video is an experiment to work out the kinks of using Google StreetView to create a virtual road trip.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Night Driving Time Lapse
Shot this Monday night on my trip back home from Waynesville.
I also seriously thought my windshield was clean...
Friday, May 14, 2010
Google Earth Flight Simulator:
Episode One of Macon Tours
This is my first attempt at making a video of a flight in the wonderfully realistic Google Earth Flight Simulator. It is about 20 minutes long. I had to cut out the takeoff and first 10 minutes to make it fit the length guidelines of face book, which limit videos to 20 minutes.
Among the places I visited in the video are the local rock quarry, Rattlesnake Gap and the Wayah Mountain Range, a flyover of downtown Franklin, NC and a run on Cowee Mountain. I turn around in Jackson County and then land at (or near) the Iotla Airport.
Let me know what you think.
I've already tried to fly the Highlands Road from Franklin to Highlands, but am having a difficult time flying the Cullasaja Gorge without crashing.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
WCU Cherry Blossoms
I shot this video last year of the Cherry Blossoms on the campus of Western Carolina University. Unfortunately, I was busy this year and didn't have the time to stop and check them out. Maybe next year I'll make time for it...
Saturday, March 27, 2010
MAMA 2 Landing at Angel Medical Center
Screen grab from the video
I was on the road Saturday in Franklin on my way to the Greenway and heard MAMA 2 on the scanner report her location and ETA to Angel Medical Center, so I swung by the hospital to catch a view of the Medevac chopper making a landing.
The downdraft nearly knocked over my tripod as she came in and rotated for the landing!
If you live West of the Balsams in North Carolina, you can hear MAMA 2 Operations being conducted on 155.355 Mhz.
The camera I used was a Kodak Zi6 which only records mono audio. I altered the audio to simulate stereo.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
March of the Contrails
Atmospheric conditions were perfect this morning for a spectacular display of contrails created by the exhaust plumes by passenger jets flying over western North Carolina this morning and I was lucky enough to capture it on video...
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Pickens to Asheville:
Snowflight Video and Slideshow
I found this gem that had been uploaded to the Internet yesterday. Nice photos, nice music...
And here is a bonus flight from the same pilot...Over the Smokies to Gatlinburg:
And here is a bonus flight from the same pilot...Over the Smokies to Gatlinburg:
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Snowboarding in Washington, DC
I did a lot of dangerous things when I was young...I don't believe I would have entertained this idea for more than a second before dismissing it as insane.
Hat Tip: @JRinFranklin (who, I suspect, would do this very thing tonight if we had the snow on the ground)
Hat Tip: @JRinFranklin (who, I suspect, would do this very thing tonight if we had the snow on the ground)
Friday, December 25, 2009
Mele Kalikimake
Mele Kalikimaka is the Hawaiian Christmas Song sung as a warm greeting from Hawaii as sung by Bing Crosby.
This post is dedicated to @mscator, who serves as a positive role model (though I don't always follow her lead, LOL) on Twitter.
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