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Bill Walton

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Bill Walton is a life-long aviation enthusiast and expert in aircraft recognition. As a teenager Bill helped his engineer father build an award-winning T-18 homebuilt airplane in their Wisconsin basement. Bill is a freelance writer, an avid sailor, engineer, announcer, husband, father, uncle, mentor, coach, and Navy veteran. Bill lives north of Houston TX with his wife and son under the approach path to KDWH runway 17R, which means they get to look up at a lot of airplanes. A very good thing.

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Military Transport

The Carbon Comet: Lockheed’s X-55A Carbon Fiber Airlifter

Timing Was Not on the Side of This Interesting Alternative Technology Hauler On 2 June 2009 what appeared at first glance to be a standard Dornier 328JET commuter jetliner lifted…

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WATCH: The New TOP GUN: Maverick Lego Trailer You Have to See to Believe

Gaze Awestruck at the Product of One Man’s Dedication to His Favorite (Unreleased) Film As of this moment the official release date for TOP GUN: Maverick is 2 July 2021.…

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Military

WATCH: This Battle of Britain Movie Tribute Made With Plastic Models is Simply Awesome

This “Miniature” Version of the Classic 1969 Film Features the Original Dialog and Music At Avgeekery we’re huge aviation movie fans. We’re sure most of you would agree that one…

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Military ASW

WATCH: The Screaming Eagles Crush Top Gun with Prop Gun

Prop Gun is One of the Best Movie Spoofs We Have Ever Seen There are some great gag films out there. Class videos are sometimes seriously entertaining too. We’ve managed…

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Commando II: The Latest Shadowy Special Ops Hercules

These MC-130Js Can Go Places and Do Things You Don’t Need to Know About The United States Air Force (USAF) has operated the Lockheed MC-130J Commando II since 2011. These…

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WATCH: When the World-Famous Maulers Deployed for the Last Time

VS-32’s Storied History Came to a Close Not Long After They Made This Awesome Viking Video Sea Control Squadron THREE TWO (VS-32) Maulers completed their final combat deployment aboard the…

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WATCH: Nothing Could Stop This Tomcat- Including the Crew Ejecting

The Crew Punched Out Just in Time But the Jet Flew On Without Them The 8th of March 2002 dawned over the ships of Carrier Group 7 in the northern…

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Airshows

WATCH: The Red Arrows Take America On Their 2019 North American Tour

The Team’s Itinerary For This Tour Was Its Most Ambitious Ever During the summer of 2019 the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows, departed their native British skies…

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Military

WATCH: Star Wars Canyon Never Looked (or Sounded) Better Than This

These Are Some of the Last Videos of Jets Flying Low and Fast in Star Wars Canyon. There was a place where the sound of freedom tore the sky and…

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Military

WATCH: The Blackbirds Are Flying SR-71 Promo Film

Lockheed Put The Strategic in Strategic Reconnaissance With These Aircraft The proverbial top-secret black cat was well out of the bag when Lockheed produced their promotional film “The Blackbirds Are…

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WATCH: This Is The World’s Most Famous Spitfire

This Combat Veteran Has More Acting Credits Than Any Other Airworthy Spit Avgeeks everywhere appreciate the art of the low pass. Whether it’s a prop job or jet, watching an…

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WATCH: All-Access With The Diamondbacks Flying Tomcats

We Loves Us Some Tomcats and It Shows- For More Than 90 Minutes! Here at Avgeekery.com we’re always looking for content that our readers (and viewers) will appreciate. Therefore, we…