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An Ephraim Sunset
Here’s a larger version of this Door County, WI sunset photo. Satellite view.
Door County Breakfast? Think a bit different at Good Eggs in Ephraim
The general temptation when considering breakfast out in Door County is to visit one of many restaurants, including Sister Bay’s Al Johnson’s and the Sister Bay Cafe across the street. Just this once, resist and drive over to Ephraim where Good Eggs is literally whipping up egg wraps. These wraps, which can include bean salsa, mushrooms, peppers, cheese, onions, potatoes and chicken are simply delicious. This is rather high praise coming from someone who does not eat eggs. Check out these photos (click for larger versions) and stop.
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Northwest Goes after the Small Airlines with Non-Stops to Las Vegas
Northwest Airlines, Madison’s largest air carrier, announced new non-stop service to Las Vegas yesterday. This service competes with an existing non-stop route flown by Allegiant Airlines. The major airlines have often used this tactic to drive low fare competitors from the market. Northwest flies several non-stop routes from Milwaukee that compete with local favorite Midwest Airlines. These flights are unusual in that they do not require connections on NW’s Minneapolis, Detroit or Memphis fortress hubs.
Innovation, Burt Rutan and EAA’s Airventure: “We bought the engines on ebay”
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SpaceshipOne/White Knight, making it’s way east to the Smithsonian, flew during Saturday’s EAA Airventure Air Show. I captured a 20MB video clip of several passes along with SpaceshipOne’s landing. You’ll hear designer Burt Rutan address the crowd during the aircraft’s flight, using “Military Power”. Enjoy! Rutan also mentioned that the aircraft would make one more stop at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio before reaching it’s final destination; the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. the video is a bit jerky at the beginning, but my handheld technique improves after a few seconds 🙂 | |
| Earlier this week, Rutan and Richard Branson announced a joint venture to form a new aerospace production company to build a fleet of commercial sub-orbital spaceships and launch aircraft.
I’ll post more photos and videos over the next few days. John Robb has been pushing for the government to support, in a big way, competitive private space initiatives ala the X-Prize rather than spending $3.2B annually on 1970’s technology – the shuttle. Robb also mentions how “big buck programs are a source of power in the Pentagon“. Robb has more ideas on the Government’s role in all of this and makes a rather startling but true statement:
More Videos: Marine AV8-B Harrier VSTOL | B-17 Takeoff. My father took a number of photos earlier this week. More photos here (click to view larger versions): |
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Fossett Crosses the Atlantic in a Vickers Vimy
Financier and adventurer Steve Fossett flew a replica of the first airplane to travel nonstop across the Atlantic recently. Aviation Week:
Pilot Steve Fossett and navigator Mark Rebholz took off from St. John’s, Newfoundland, on July 2 at about 7 p.m. in fog, heavy cloud cover and strong winds. They had a good tailwind until midway and made most of the trip under cloud cover, not seeing the Sun until about the last 5 hr.
Fossett and Rebholz expected the crossing to be completed by 4-5 p.m. the next day and, in fact, landed at 5:05 p.m. Irish time, setting down safely at the eighth hole of Connemara golf course. That was a slightly better result than the original June 14-15, 1919, crossing by Royal Flying Corps pilot Capt. John Alcock and navigator Lt. Arthur Whitten Brown. They ended up nose-down on soft ground after a 16-hr. crossing that included an ice storm.
More on Fossett
Lessons in The Art of Travel
I always go straight to the nearest supermarket, to find out what the locals actually eat and drink, rather than what the guidebooks say they do. Essential for making informed restaurant decisions later, and a dependable entertainment in itself: there’s always some arresting indigenous twist on a theme, such as lobster-flavoured Walkers crisps, and you can usually count on spotting the likes of Frische Dickmilche or Fockink Anis on the shelves.
Bold Air: Wisonsin Air Taxi Service
Radlinger’s vision is that business travelers would be able to pull up 15 minutes before departure at a smaller airport such as Timmerman Field, West Bend or Waukesha’s Crites Field, hop aboard a plane aRadlinger’s vision is that business travelers would be able to pull up 15 minutes before departure at a smaller airport such as Timmerman Field, West Bend or Waukesha’s Crites Field, hop aboard a plane and take off, making their total trip not much longer than the actual flying time.
“People are tired of the inefficient, cattle-call mentality of commercial and low-cost carriers, the lack of service and the inability to fly direct to a destination,” said Radlinger, executive vice president of Bold Air, which has headquarters in downtown Milwaukee. “If they can get where they’re going faster and in comfort, at a price competitive with what they’re currently paying, that’s a no-brainer.”
Bold Air would likely charge about the same or slightly more than the commercial fare on a route, Radlinger said. He hopes to begin offering flights by the second quarter of 2006.nd take off, making their total trip not much longer than the actual flying time.
“People are tired of the inefficient, cattle-call mentality of commercial and low-cost carriers, the lack of service and the inability to fly direct to a destination,” said Radlinger, executive vice president of Bold Air, which has headquarters in downtown Milwaukee. “If they can get where they’re going faster and in comfort, at a price competitive with what they’re currently paying, that’s a no-brainer.”
Bold Air would likely charge about the same or slightly more than the commercial fare on a route, Radlinger said. He hopes to begin offering flights by the second quarter of 2006.
Bold Air, with it’s non aircraft ownership approach is slightly different than the emerging “microjet” initiatives underway, including Dayjet as well as Pogo, among others.
Monterey Bay: New Species Flashes Red, then Kills Prey
David Pearlman has more.
Gorgeous Western Australia Beach VR Scene – with a Dolphin
Peter Murphy shares a gorgeous Quicktime VR Scene from a beach Western Australia Beach, with a dolphin!
these dolphins btw are very curious about cameras and people and this one made its way slowly along the line of people half rolled on its side looking at everyone … when it came near to me I put down my camera nearer the water to get a closeup view and it came closer … and then spouted water thru its blowhole onto my (precious) lens! — something they quite regularly do to cameras apparently
(… but with a bit of cleaning it was ok)