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The official blog of the Airspeed podcast and radio show. Join host Stephen Force (the superhero alter-ego of mild-mannered technology and aviation lawyer and pilot Steve Tupper) for everything aviation and aerospace.

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It's Not the Airplane, Man!

Feb 18, 2010 8:32pm

This is a regular blog post. Looking for show notes or links to show audio or video? They’re here! Just check out the other posts.So it's late at night. And a Twitter follower tweets me with a link to Joe Sharkey’s High Anxiety blog. And I go read the blog...

Cessna Citation Mustang - Video Episode

Jan 28, 2010 5:47am

Subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your favorite other podcatcher. It's all free!These are the show notes to an audio episode. If you want to listen online, please use the direct link below. http://media.libsyn.com/media/airspeed/AirspeedMustangVideo.m4v.Remember when I said that I spent the summer building up great content and spent the off-season...

Talking with Acro Camp IP Don Weaver

Jan 24, 2010 2:46pm

Subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your favorite other podcatcher. It's all free!These are the show notes to an audio episode. If you want to listen online, please use the direct link below. http://media.libsyn.com/media/airspeed/AirspeedAcroCamp02.mp3.Not much in the way of show notes for this one, but be sure to listen....

Tailwheel Training and Camera Placement Work with Acro Camp IP Don Weaver

Jan 22, 2010 10:17pm

This is a regular blog post. You can find show notes to episodes - and links to episode audio and video - in the other entries.I finally got a chance to escape from the office and get up for the first time with Acro Camp IP Don Weaver. Although...

Acro Camp Announcement and Casting Call

Jan 16, 2010 1:00pm

Subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your favorite other podcatcher. It's all free!These are the show notes to an audio episode. If you want to listen online, please use the direct link below. http://media.libsyn.com/media/airspeed/AirspeedAcroCamp01.mp3.We’ve just announced Acro Camp, the new movie being put together by Airspeed. Four people from around...

L-39 Driver Tim Brutsche

Dec 26, 2009 8:59am

Subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your favorite other podcatcher. It's all free!These are the show notes to an audio episode. If you want to listen online, please use the direct link below. http://media.libsyn.com/media/airspeed/AirspeedBrutsche.mp3.Many of us go to airshows and love the prop-driven warbirds and the military jet team performances....

ICAS Convention - Day 3

Dec 8, 2009 10:37am

Subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your favorite other podcatcher. It's all free!These are the show notes to an audio episode. If you want to listen online, please use the direct link below. http://media.libsyn.com/media/airspeed/AirspeedICAS03.mp3.Another installment from Firebase Airspeed – ICAS 2009 style. Rico and I talk about yesterday’s events...

ICAS Convention - Day 2 - Part 2

Dec 8, 2009 12:38am

Day 2 of ICAS successfully completed!This is the first day upon which the exhibit hall was open and I spent most of the day making my way around the hall with Rico Sharqawi of Wilco Films. It can get to the point where it takes an hour to go 50...

ICAS Convention - Day 2

Dec 7, 2009 11:17am

Subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your favorite other podcatcher. It's all free!These are the show notes to an audio episode. If you want to listen online, please use the direct link below. http://media.libsyn.com/media/airspeed/AirspeedICAS02.mp3.(Thanks to Clark Cook (www.airshowpix.net) for shooting this picture of Rico, Tiffany Wolf, and me!)A conversation with...

Airspeed Releases White Paper at ICAS - Flying New Media and Social Media Riders

Dec 6, 2009 5:15pm

Download a free copy of the white paper by clicking the HERE.In connection with my appearance on the new-media panel at the ICAS convention, I launched a white paper. As you know, I’m all about new-media types getting media ride seats at airshows and otherwise. If you’re an...

ICAS Convention - Day 1

Dec 6, 2009 11:48am

Subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your favorite other podcatcher. It's all free!These are the show notes to an audio episode. If you want to listen online, please use the direct link below. http://media.libsyn.com/media/airspeed/AirspeedICAS01.I’m in Las Vegas covering the annual meeting of the International Council of Airshows and its 2009...

On the Ramp with The AeroShell Team

Nov 28, 2009 1:26pm

Subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your favorite other podcatcher. It's all free!These are the show notes to an audio episode. If you want to listen online, please use the direct link below. http://media.libsyn.com/media/airspeed/AirspeedAeroShellRamp.mp3. The AeroShell Team has been thrilling airshow audiences for years with a low and precise four-ship...

AOPA Summit Live Video Feed

Nov 2, 2009 9:29am

If you’re going to AOPA Summit in Tampa this week, be sure to tune in to the meetup space feed. There’s a link above or your can check in at http://www.aopa.org/. You can watch either Center Stage or the Meetup Space.Enjoy!...

Airspeed Safety Stand-Down: The Kranz Dictum

Oct 27, 2009 5:00am

Subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your favorite other podcatcher. It's all free!These are the show notes to an audio episode. If you want to listen online, please use the direct link below. http://media.libsyn.com/media/airspeed/AirspeedKranz.mp3. On Friday, 27 January 1967, a fire destroyed the command module of Apollo 1, taking the...

Video Episode - CAP Glider Sorties

Oct 19, 2009 6:50am

Airspeed - VIDEO - CAP Glider Sorties from Steve Tupper on Vimeo.Subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your favorite other podcatcher. It's all free!These are the show notes to a video episode. If you want to watch online, please use the direct link below. http://media.libsyn.com/media/airspeed/AirspeedCAPGlider.m4v.Here’s the video from my first...

Russell Military Museum

Oct 10, 2009 3:31pm

Subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your favorite other podcatcher. It's all free!These are the show notes to an audio episode. If you want to listen online, please use the direct link below. http://media.libsyn.com/media/airspeed/AirspeedRussell.mp3.This spring, I got a call from listener Luke Donald from Russell, Illinois. Luke volunteers...

C/LtCol Melanie Davis: Incentive Ride in the Mighty L-39

Oct 1, 2009 11:27am

Subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your favorite other podcatcher. It's all free!These are the show notes to an audio episode. If you want to listen online, please use the direct link below. http://media.libsyn.com/media/airspeed/AirspeedDavisL-39.mp3.We’re very fortunate here in the Michigan Wing of Civil Air Patrol for a number of reasons....

Wringing out the RG - Commercial PIC Cross-Country Requirement Completed!

Sep 28, 2009 4:04am

This is a regular blog post. Show notes and links to show audio appear in the other posts.Yesterday started out as a CAP proficiency flight out of Ann Arbor. That is, until 1Lt Malek and I figured out that the aircraft was still in Lakeview getting its 100-hour inspection and...

Team-Testing the Remos GX

Sep 22, 2009 7:24am

Subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your favorite other podcatcher. It's all free!These are the show notes to an audio episode. If you want to listen online, please use the direct link below. http://media.libsyn.com/media/airspeed/AirspeedRemosGX.mp3.At Oshkosh this year, I had the chance to join a merry band of new-media types at...

Mackinac Island Airport

Sep 5, 2009 11:31am

This is a regular blog post. If you’re looking for show notes or links to show audio, please check out the other posts.I spent Friday on Mackinac (pronounced MAH-kih-naw) island with Mary, Cole, and Ella. They’re staying in Traverse City for the summer and I drove up to see them...

Flying the Cessna Citation Mustang

Aug 30, 2009 11:59am

Subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your favorite other podcatcher. It's all free!These are the show notes to an audio episode. If you want to listen online, please use the direct link below. http://media.libsyn.com/media/airspeed/AirspeedCessnaMustang.mp3. [Cockpit audio intro]This time on the show, we’re going to talk about flying a jet. But...

Thanks Again, Greg Poe

Aug 24, 2009 8:52pm

No huge essay here. I just got done sending some pictures to Costco. One, taken by Jason Schroeder, struck me as particularly good. I just thought I’d post it. Thanks again for the ride, Greg!Okay, back to editing and writing!...

Selfridge ANGB Airshow and Open House 2009 - Day 1

Aug 22, 2009 3:09pm

This is a regular blog post. Show notes and links to show audio appear in the other posts.I considered just posting this picture and leaving it at that. Seriously. The major and the kid sitting there in the cockpit of an F-16 and talking about whatever....

CH-47 Ride with the Michigan Army National Guard

Aug 21, 2009 5:04pm

This is the a regular blog post. Please see the other posts if you’re looking for show notes or links to show audio.Earlier today, I jogged across the pavement and up the tail ramp of an Army National Guard CH-47 Chinook helicopter. Strapping in, I got a...