A restaurant in Costa Rica, once was a CIA cargo plane, but once they break down, they stay put

found on http://hooniverse.com/2014/05/21/last-call-plane-station-edition/

Disney's new animated movie, Planes: Fire and Rescue

http://movies.disney.com/planes-fire-and-rescue

impressive paint job concept and execution

From http://stallspin.tumblr.com/post/84285877177/thestonecuttersguild-rv-3-oshkosh-2013-isnt via http://rockinairman.tumblr.com/

the banner photo on some people's Facebook page is a cool airplane, this is also a lawn ornament

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/yachtclubdesavionsdelaroute/ 

An American pilot in a Spitfire, taking recon photos of Berlin, sees the home movie made of his emergency landing about 80-90 years later

Thanks Robert!

American U2 spyplane over 50 years old still flying around, this time causing the FAA fits when their computers glitched due to trying to track the U2

http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/update-spy-plane-fried-air-traffic-control-computers-shut-down-lax

On Wednesday at about 2 p.m., according to sources, a U-2 spy plane, the same type of aircraft that flew high-altitude spy missions over Russia 50 years ago, passed through the airspace monitored by the L.A. Air Route Traffic Control Center in Palmdale, Calif. The L.A. Center handles landings and departures at the region’s major airports, including Los Angeles International (LAX), San Diego and Las Vegas.

The computers at the L.A. Center are programmed to keep commercial airliners and other aircraft from colliding with each other. The U-2 was flying at 60,000 feet, but the computers were attempting to keep it from colliding with planes that were actually miles beneath it.

Though the exact technical causes are not known, the spy plane’s altitude and route apparently overloaded a computer system called ERAM, which generates display data for air-traffic controllers. Back-up computer systems also failed.

As a result, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had to stop accepting flights into airspace managed by the L.A. Center, issuing a nationwide ground stop that lasted for about an hour and affected thousands of passengers.

At LAX, one of the nation’s busiest airports, there were 27 cancellations of arriving flights, as well as 212 delays and 27 diversions to other airports. Twenty-three departing flights were cancelled, while 216 were delayed. There were also delays at the airports in Burbank, Long Beach, Ontario and Orange County and at other airports across the Southwestern U.S.

http://fox5sandiego.com/2014/05/06/faa-u-2-spy-plane-caused-air-traffic-computer-outage/#axzz30xyCRAlo

beware of Alaskan cross winds! This plane had just taken off when winds pushed it into the birch forest, and stuck it.

Edward T. Merren, 58, of Wasilla told Alaska State Troopers a cross wind caught his Taylorcraft airplane on take off Sunday and popped him down into a stand of birch trees next to the runway off of Meadow Lakes Drive. Matanuska Electric Association linemen used a boom truck to reach Merren's perch 50-feet up and bring him back down to the safety about three hours later. He was unhurt in the incident.

Emergency services crews responded along with troopers, but in the end it was a Matanuska Electric Association boom truck and a pair of linemen who navigated the bucket up to Merren. After attaching Merren to a safety harness, he made his way out of the plane and into the adjacent bucket. A few minutes later, he was safely on the ground. Troopers say he was not injured in the unusual landing.

photos and info from: http://www.frontiersman.com/news/pilot-walks-away-from-treetop-landing/article_56f9f5bc-d411-11e3-bc7d-0019bb2963f4.html

You can't be anything but badass with a skull on the front of your fighter plane

Found on http://historicaltimes.tumblr.com/

whats left of a B24 near Fairbanks

Surprisingly, it was running a 4 engine failure test in order to repeat a similar problem that caused another B24 to crash... and huh.... whadya know, the test went so well and duplicated the problem so exactly, that the exact some result occured. In recent years, a forest fire destroyed what was left of the plane

Found on http://destroyed-and-abandoned.tumblr.com/post/82906584701/b-24-outside-of-fairbanks-alaska-texanwill-a-bit 

not on a bet would I have thought you would ever see a photo of Air Force one at a NASCAR race, but I present the Pepsi 400, 1984

And Richard Petty on the back stretch? You can't make this up folks!
Found on http://karakullake.blogspot.com/2013/07/air-force-one-lands-at-nascar-race.html

Steeple chasing with airplanes, not such a good idea (see two guys who are mid jump falling to the ground)

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/yachtclubdesavionsdelaroute/?fref=nf

a rare pilot, he had aerial dogfights and won, with German, Japanese, and Italian opponents. Canadian Wg Cdr Davidson

There on his Typhoon are the kill flags for the Japanese, Italian, and German enemy planes. He lived til old age peacefully on a farm

Found on http://historicaltimes.tumblr.com/

P38 in the background with the pilot arriving in captured german car

Found on http://historicaltimes.tumblr.com/

I've wondered how they made counter rotating dual props... here's a look at the engine set up

Found on Marc's Facebook page, and he frequently posts photos I've seen no where else, and immediately post here because they are so cool https://www.facebook.com/marc.tudeau?fref=photo

airliner comparison of size

Found on http://thesunsetempire.tumblr.com/

During the Korean War, in the confusion of multi carrier groups, planes would sometimes land on the wrong carriers. If this happened some fun was had before sending him “home”.

Found on http://historicaltimes.tumblr.com/