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Aerial Photography 17 May 2013 | 09:56 pm
Nothing is more fun than going for a flight and grabbing some photographs to document the experience and many pilots use only small inexpensive digital cameras on flights because of safety and ease of...
Trikes from around the World 30 Apr 2013 | 08:41 pm
A compilation video of trikes and their pilots from around the world. Combined from still images posted on Trike Pilot Social, this video shows the passion of pilots from around the world who fly tri...
Early Aviation in Arizona 9 Apr 2013 | 08:16 pm
The history of early aviation in the desert southwest and particularly around the boot heel is often overlooked in the grand scheme of things. But from aviation's inception people here were expressin...
The Dolly Zoom and Aerial Videography 27 Jan 2013 | 10:41 pm
The dolly zoom or the "Hitchcock zoom" is a camera technique developed by Irmin Roberts, a second unit cameraman at Paramount and is used in a variety of television and movie productions. Perhaps bes...
Rodeo Intermediate Field, the First Airport in the San Simon Valley 23 Jan 2013 | 09:47 pm
Note: This first appeared in Blogging from the Boot Heel An ongoing project for the past several years was the documentation and submission of the Rodeo Intermediate Field as a site worthy of a New ...
Aerotrekking 15 Dec 2012 | 12:53 am
With the recent media interest in John McAfee the Sky Gypsies Blog has received a significant increase in traffic. For the most part, based on keyword activity, this is an interest in the concept of ...
The Invisible Ether 13 Nov 2012 | 10:09 pm
Pilots spend a good deal of time in the invisible ether, that is the air mass that surrounds the planet, and are subject to winds found at various altitudes. In light aircraft winds can present probl...
Intermediate Field Update 13 Aug 2012 | 08:34 pm
The historical marker for the Rodeo Intermediate Field was approved early last year but installation of the marker fell between the cracks. After attending a Hidalgo County Commissioners meeting and...
Goggle and 3D Imagery 8 Jun 2012 | 01:04 am
Google's mapping applications, Google Earth and Google Maps, are extremely useful tools for low level aerial photographers and a number of previous posts have addressed the utility of these mapping to...
The Flying Trees in the Chiricahua Mountains 15 May 2012 | 09:30 am
Aviation in the Boot Heel of New Mexico and southeastern Arizona goes back to 1911 with the first transcontinental flight by the Vin Fiz which crossed through the San Simon Valley on the way to Tucson...
