2012 Waste Management Phoenix Open Golf-MetLife Blimp- What it take to provide video from Blimp
Take a ride over the 2012 Waste Management Phoenix Open. Find out what it takes to put the blimp in the air. The MetLife Blimp Program, initiated in 1987, underwent an expansion in 1994. MetLife operates three airships. known as “Snoopy One,” “Snoopy Two,” and "Snoopy J." Structurally, the blimps are the same A60+ model. All of the blimps are permanently decaled with the corporate logo “MetLife” on either side.
“Snoopy Two” was launched from Hillsboro, Oregon in October, 1993. The primary difference
To find the location of the blimps Blimp Tracker or go to www.metlife.com
between the two blimps is their geographic regions of operation; “Snoopy Two” spends the winter months on the West Coast touring California, Nevada and Arizona.Chief Pilot is Charles Smith. "Snoopy J" was launched in Japan in November of 2010.
The MetLife blimp is equipped with a 
gyro-stabilized camera mounted on
the nose of the gondola.
A zoom lens provides up to 80x magnification. This enables the MetLife blimp to capture television
shots that can track a golf ball down a fairway or identify the number
on the back of a player's jersey.
The primary focus of the blimp program is providing aerial coverage of sporting and special events. In a typical year, “Snoopy One” and “Snoopy Two” cover approximately 70 events for a variety of networks including NBC, CBS, ABC, ESPN and TGC. The blimps can be seen capturing shots of events ranging from the US Open and PGA Championship, to NFL football games across the country The First weekend of February Snoopy Two was in Scottsdale AZ.
Camera used for from Blimp for TV coverage of events:
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NBAA- Meeting In Las Vegas- Business Aircraft
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NBAA2011: Outdoor Static Display Area
at the Las Vegas Convention Center
Business Aircraft
The types of business aircraft vary widely, ranging from propeller-driven aircraft to jets to helicopters. The fleet includes everything from piston aircraft not much bigger than a car and capable of flying just a few hundred miles before re-fueling, to jets that seat more than a dozen people and are capable of making non-stop international flights. However, the vast majority of business aircraft seat six passengers in a cabin roughly the size of a large SUV and fly an average stage length of less than 1,000 miles. Depending on their capability, these aircraft may fly at altitudes below the airlines (below 20,000 feet) or above the airlines (above 40,000 feet).
Piston Engine Aircraft
Piston aircraft used for business typically fly relatively short missions of 300-400 miles, using very small general aviation airports that are often without air traffic control towers. Continue.
Turboprop Aircraft
Turboprops are an attractive option for businesses that need to fly missions requiring 600-1,000 miles of travel between general aviation airports that often have runways too short to accommodate jets. Continue.
Jet Aircraft
Like their turboprop counterparts, jet interiors are often configured similar to a small office, where co-workers can meet and make productive use of time en route to a destination. Continue.
Helicopters
Helicopters are often attractive to businesspeople because of their ability to land at a variety of heliports and outlying airports and are typically used for very short business aviation flights of less than 100 miles, at altitudes of less than 1,000 feet. Continue.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 – 6:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m
Grand Ballroom, Bellagio HotelAt the 2011 NBAA/CAN Charity Benefit, you’ll have “Fun, Fun, Fun” while enjoying the music of The Beach Boys and helping cancer patients cet closer to their cure.
Your generosity will help the Corporate Angel Network (CAN) continue to help cancer patients fly free to treatment in empty seats of corporate aircraft. To date CAN has arranged nearly 40,000 flights with cancer patients aboard. But, their job is far from done.
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True Cost to Charter a Plane
What are the costs to charter. go here
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Indy Drives Graham Rahal and Danica Patrick Up close and Personal
Graham Rahal personal in garage/into car/sprin out
Graham Rahal interview…
Apinsights.info interview with Danica Patrick telling about her favorite car and the car she drives on the street everyday…
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10 Best Future Fighter Aircraft In The World as of 2020
A Follow on Video to the 10 Best Fighter Aircraft in Service 2010 -2015.This Video is the 10 Best Future Fighter Aircraft 2015-2020.The Chengdu J-20 has not been included because its very Doubtful that it will be in service during 2015 – 2020.
10 Best Multi-role Fighter Aircraft In The World – (2010 – 2015)
10 Best Multi-role Fighter Aircraft in the World as of 2010 – 2015.
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The Top 10 Best Fighter Aircraft in the World
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Branson plans to get deep With Virgin Oceanic
With The five dives are intended to be to the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, which at 36,201 feet below the surface is the deepest spot on the planet; the Atlantic Ocean’s Puerto Rico Trench at 28,232 feet underwater; the Indian Ocean’s Diamantina Trench at 26,401 feet below the surface; the Southern Ocean’s South Sandwich Trench, which is 23,737 feet down; and the Arctic Ocean’s Molloy Deep, which bottoms out at 18,399 feet down.
The idea is that by exploring these deepest of points on Earth, Branson’s new venture will be able to contribute to the science of the oceans. As Virgin Oceanic (see video below) put it in a release, the expedition “offers an unprecedented opportunity to conduct scientific research and to expand our knowledge of the unique conditions, ecosystems, and geology that exist at the bottom of the oceans.”
As part of the announcement, Branson said explorer Chris Welch will be behind the controls of the DeepFlight Challenger for the dive to the Mariana Trench–the big prize, while Branson himself will pilot the submersible to the Puerto Rico Trench. Welch and his company, Deep Sub, bought the submersible after Fossett’s death, and Virgin Oceanic is the sponsor of the expeditions.
The DeepFlight Challenger is designed to cruise at up to 3 knots and has the capability to dive 350 feet per minute. The Mariana Trench dive, which is expected to take place later this year, should take about five hours. Virgin Oceanic plans the next four dives over the following 24 months, assuming that it can get all of the certifications and regulatory approvals it needs.
Following in Fossett’s footsteps
While attaching the Virgin and Branson names to the first-ever attempt at soloing the Mariana Trench, Branson is only picking up where his late friend Fossett had been intending to go several years ago.
On September 3, 2007, Fossett, who was the first person to fly around the world nonstop in a balloon, and who held 116 records in five sports, died when his airplane smashed into mountains near Mammoth, Calif. At the time, he was working with Hawkes Ocean Technologies to ready the DeepFlight Challenger for the first solo dive to the Mariana Trench.
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Hawkes was just four weeks from putting the vessel through its first real tests when Fossett disappeared. His body was not found until October 2008.
Hawkes made its own announcement today lauding Fossett’s “vision and courage in taking the first step to advance manned, deep ocean access technology” and saying that “While we initially began the DeepFlight project with the goal of getting one person to 36,000 feet, now our goal is to get 36,000 people at least one foot down in the oceans.”
Hawkes also said today that it has been preparing two of its DeepFlight Super Falcon submersibles: One is for an expedition it will lead in the Gulf of Aqaba, during which a team will try to be the first to explore that area “below diver depths.” The second is for a separate, multi-year ocean expedition that will be helmed by well-known venture capitalist Tom Perkins and will begin with dives among the “big animals” of the South Pacific.
Mariana Trench
While first Fossett and now Branson have sought the notoriety of being the first to complete a solo dive to the Mariana Trench, such a success would by no means be the first-ever journey there. In fact, that was a feat that was first completed when Navy Lt. Don Walsh and his co-pilot, Jacques Piccard, made it to the deep-sea spot about 200 miles southwest of Guam on January 23, 1960.
But the fact that no one ever returned to the Mariana Trench, let alone doing so solo, has led many experts to bemoan the lack of serious exploration and research, on par with what is done in outer space, in our oceans. “We were happy to be the first, but we didn’t expect to be the last,” Walsh told CNET last year as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of his dive was about to get underway. “To paraphrase [author] Tom Wolfe, we had the right stuff, but [went in] the wrong direction…In the oceanographic community globally, not just in the United States, we have really failed to make the necessary investments to learn about the world’s oceans, which cover 70 percent of our planet.”
Another who worries about humankind’s middling interest in what is to be found in our oceans is famed explorer and researcher Sylvia Earle, who was awarded the 2009 TED Prize for her work and who started Mission Blue, the goal of which is to “heal and protect the Earth’s oceans through the creation and management of essential marine protected areas.”
In an interview timed to the 50th anniversary celebration of Walsh and Piccard’s 1960 dive, Earle told CNET, “We’re far behind the curve from where we need to be…People look at the surface, and they think that’s the ocean, and because they can’t see what’s going on below, they think everything’s just fine. But those of us with decades of exploration [experience know that] the ocean is in trouble, and therefore so are we.”
And that’s a sentiment that Branson seems to share. In today’s announcement, Branson offered this thought: “What if I were to tell you about a planet, inhabited by ‘intelligent’ beings that had, in the 21st century, physically explored zero percent of its deepest points and mapped only 3 percent of its oceans by unmanned craft, when 70 percent of that planet’s surface was made up of water. Then I tried to convince you that only 10 percent of the life forms inhabiting that unknown world are known to those on the surface–you’d think I’d fallen asleep watching the latest sci-fi blockbuster. Then you discover that planet is Earth.”
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