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Service Introduction of the Northrop T-38A Talon

Favorite Christmas Eve Sounds

Carols, bells, the whoosh of a sled, and this.....

Aviation Data Link Monitoring-A Summary

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                               Actual HFDL data burst trace from the sample included below. Monitored

                               on 11.387 mHz on 26 Dec 2011, it can be heard HERE. The upper trace shows

                               the stable phasing tone followed by the beginning of the message as seen on

                               Vertin Technologies dowloadable oscillosope. Trace below shows the same burst

                               on Vertin's Spectrum Analyzer, clearly showing the concentration of demodulated

                               audio energy in the phasing portion as trepresented by the spike on the left, with

                               the more disbursed energy of the message trailing off to the right over time.Full

                               detail available by clicking on trace photo. 

Conrail Photo Galery Vol. I

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Warthog Slide Show

Fairchild Republic A-10 Slide Show

Fifty Years Ago in Aviation

First Flight of the B-52H Stratofortress

Night fall, no rest.

Photo by the 132d PAD, Vermont ARNG



Here they come-This morning's HFDL Monitoring

This is frequency 8.977 mHz, dedicated to the Iceland ground station. We can clearly see the tracks of the morning rush as it comes southwestward across the map, which is almost centered on Goose Bay, Labrador. Click on the image for more detail.

What's up there?

FLIGHT        END POINTS       A/C TYPE

CO 019   London-Newark        B752 (Boeing 757-200 seroes)

CO 023   Dublin-Newark         B752

CO 033   Paris-Houston          B752

CO 037   Edinburgh-Newark    B752

CO 059   Amsterdam-Houston B764 (Boeing 767-400 series)

CO 081   Geneva-Newark        B764

CO 097   Berlin-Newark          B752

UAL35    London-Houston       B777

AC0873  Frankfort-Toronto      B777

We can see that Continental Airlines with its massive recent growth,

leads the charge disproportionately. United Airlines and Air canada

are the last two entries.

What does it sounds like?

This is a data burst from CO 033:  Data Burst  As you can tell from listening,
the s/n ratio isn't that good on this frequency, as the data burst itself does not stand out clearly from the brief leading and trailing ambient noise floor. Nevertheless, that data burst resulted in a usable position report.

Monitoring High frequency data link on 11.387 mHz

Try it at home with a short-wave radio





Sooner or later it'll happen........

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First Flight of the Douglas DC-9 Series 30

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Snowy Winter Railroad Scenes in New England

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First Delivery of the Douglas DC-10

Fifty Years Ago in Aviation

The Bell UH-1D Iroquois

Film; What did you shoot way back when?

My New Ride

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1970 Porsche 914/6 GTR 



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First Flight of the B-58 Hustler



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DC-8 Super Sixty Series

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The Demise of Air New England