Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me - Aether Inglewood Second Life

A machinima from Aether Inglewood

"Aether Inglewood builds a her first airship in Second Life. Stand back this could get ugly."

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 Luftwaffe Guncamera

an IL-2 machinima from JG52Karaya, who wrote:

Various guncamera scenes covering the Battle of France, Battle of Britain and early African theatre. Footage taken from "IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946" under full realism settings.

Recorded with Fraps, edited with VirtualDub and finalized with MovieMaker

Diana Krall - New Years Eve

"What Are You Doing New Years Eve?"

Spitfire IL2 movie

an IL-2 machinima from Unnamed6661

"Flying" a video by Sam Fuller

Flying from Sam Fuller on Vimeo.

All My Internet Friends

All My Internet Friends

a song by Amanda French

Monday afternoon I gave a presentation to the staff
Kicked off with a knock-knock joke to liven up the charts and graphs
That crowd
Never laughs out loud
But all my internet friends were tickled pink
They put animated smileys when they passed around the link
They said, Hey, girl, here’s another awesome thing we found
Sarah Palin getting smacked down
With a Prince song in the background
Better watch it quick before they take it down

Wednesday night I figured I’d go out and buy a DVD
Walked into a store and walked right out again immediately
This sucks
They want thirty bucks

But all my internet friends give things away
They just really like to make stuff even when it doesn’t pay
They say, Hey, girl, here’s a picture, here’s a poem too
Here’s a blog post, here’s a podcast
Here’s a song and here’s a lolcat
And an iPhone application all for you

Saturday I had a date with Dave the software engineer
Told him bout the time I got my headphones wrapped around my ear
I swear
He just didn’t care

But all my internet friends they listen well
They make sympathetic comments when I say that I’m in hell
They say, Hey, girl, what’s your status? I say, Omigod,
I’m not sleeping, I’m not eating
I can’t take another meeting
With the clean, well-meaning morons at my job

There are those who say I spend a little too much time online
Sometimes I agree, but on the whole I think I’m doing fine
Click, buzz
I feel strong because
All my internet friends are here with me
Saying Love and information want only to be free
And we’ll take no crap from anyone who says that they know better
We won’t stand for that because we all came here together
We’re remaining interwoven
We’re a net, and we have chosen
To be knotted tightly to each other
You be client, I’ll be server
We won’t ever have to be alone

All My Internet Friends

TimeForce 10 Test Machinima

This is an experimental machinima with various video captured within the virtual world of Second Life for a multi-sim science-fiction espionage roleplay adventure which my group is playing both inworld and offGrid on various blogs, etc.

These are test shots edited together featuring Avery Robbiani and Aether Inglewood with music from "The Prisoner" added for a little flavor.

Thanks Aether and Avery!

RCAF Air Combat - 28 December 2008

Below is a photograph of RCAF pilots after our final scheduled air combat in Second Life. Sunday 28 December 2008. Pictured from left to right Whitewolf Mumfuzz, Vickster Kuhn, Cornelius Fanshaw, GoSpeed Racer, Aether Inglewood. Zoe Connolly, and Crosshaven Barbosa.

Participants not pictured: Avery Robbiani, Dan Gervasi, Lord Lisle, and Sin Trenton

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr

I'll no longer schedule air combat for the weekends. We'll still dogfight, but conditions in the remaining OpenSpace sims are such, that event planning for a large number of scripted planes is now impossible. The load on sims is too great. I can't announce a dogfight and then have too many show up to participate effectively. I went over a few options and the best solution is for individual pilots to find each other using group chat. My guess is no more than groups of 4 pilots per dogfight per combat area.

RCAF still lives on!

We're working on ramping up the roleplay with our TimeForce 10 multi-sim science-fiction espionage adventures.

One era ends and another begins.

IL-2 The Magic of Flight

an IL-2 machinima from fight2flyphoto

Aether Chronicles: RCAF Last Organized Dogfight

Aether Chronicles: RCAF Last Organized Dogfight


"....Due to the Open Space issues in Second Life, today marks the last of Royal Caledon Air Force's weekly organized dog fights. As I joked today with Zoe Connolly due to my performance in the skies above Lovelace this morning I wouldn't be missing them very much. That of course is not true...."

Read the rest of Aether's essay here: Aether Chronicles: RCAF Last Organized Dogfight

Our Last Scheduled Dogfight is Today....(Dec 28)

This is it. Our last scheduled Air Combat in Second Life...

This doesn't mean that we will not be dogfighting again, this only means we will no longer schedule our dogfights during the week. Pilots are free to use Extropia Defense Force (EDF) or Royal Caledon Air Force (RCAF) group chat to arrange 1-on-1 dogfights or even up to 4 fighter pilots depending on sim-load. All of that is up to you now. Experiment, Have Fun, and Chalk Up The Kills ;)

We'll begin a new era of EDF and RCAF with more emphasis on roleplay and your own individual dogfights.

Our last scheduled dogfight....

Sunday 28 December 2008
Any aircraft you wish to fly....
9:00 AM SL time
Location: Lovelace Liberty



Clear Skies with love,

~ Zoe Connolly ~

IL-2 Airshow Two Trailer

an IL-2 machinima from jafaem

TimeForce 10

TimeForce 10

The Secret Adventures of the Amazing TimeForce 10 from the Celestial Intervention Agency (CIA).

CIA HQ: Extropia with offices in 1967 London and 19th Century Caledon.

Front Group: Celestial Bodies Modeling Agency.

Our mission: Keeping Earth safe from Super-Villains, Rogue Agents, Malevolent Extraterrestrials, Temporal Anomalies, and Bureaucratic Red-Tape.

TimeForce 10

Our Last Scheduled Dogfights....

Here we are at our last scheduled Air Combat in Second Life...

This doesn't mean that we will not be dogfighting again, this only means we will no longer schedule our dogfights during the week. Pilots are free to use Extropia Defense Force (EDF) or Royal Caledon Air Force (RCAF) group chat to arrange 1-on-1 dogfights or even up to 4 fighter pilots depending on sim-load. All of that is up to you now. Experiment, Have Fun, and Chalk Up The Kills ;)

Now on to the weekend schedule....

Saturday 27 December 2008
World War 2 aircraft only per sim rules....
9:00 AM SL Time
Location: Aeronautica

Sunday 28 December 2008
Any aircraft you wish to fly....
9:00 AM SL time
Location: Lovelace Liberty

It's been a great pleasure arranging all this. Some of my best friends in SL are here in these aviation groups. There's something special about pilots ;)

Now we'll begin a new era of EDF and RCAF with more emphasis on roleplay and your own individual dogfights.

I love you guys and gals!

Clear Skies with love,

~ Zoe Connolly ~

Family Guy - So Quagmire's A Pilot

Glen Quagmire gives his passengers a little pilot-style info before takeoff. (Season 5: Episode 8)

TimeForce 10 - The Christmas Eve Raid (part 2)

Previously on TimeForce 10
TimeForce10 - The Christmas Eve Raid (part 1)





My mind yelled to get out of the way, but I kept firing until finally....



With the fuselage penetrated, a fuel line burst into flames.





TimeForce 10 Flickr Set

Eartha Kitt, sultry singer and dancer, dies at 81

TimeForce 10 - The Christmas Eve Raid (part 1)

It happened so fast, there was little I could think about. I could only react...and react I did, thanks to training and experience.



At first the Sopwith looked like a friendly biplane coming in for a landing. The very unfriendly burst of machine-gun fire indicated otherwise....



"Who was this fiend who would attack my aerodrome on Christmas Eve?" I thought in disgust as I watched the Sopwith Camel make another turn for... no doubt... another strafing run.



He came at me again. I raised my guns and squeezed each trigger, firing my own bursts at this madman. He was now on a suicide run. The only question now was ... would I survive.



I was fixated on my target far too long. Finally I heard myself shout "Get out of the way, Zoe! Run! Jump!"



TimeForce 10 Flickr Set

Apollo 8 - First Flight Around The Moon (December 1968)

40 years ago....

"Apollo 8 was the first manned voyage to a celestial body.

Its three-man crew of Mission Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders became the first humans to see the far side of the Moon.

The mission also involved the first manned launch of a Saturn V rocket, and was the second manned mission of the Apollo programme.

Originally planned as a low-Earth orbit Lunar Module/Command Module test, the mission profile was changed to the more ambitious lunar orbital flight in August 1968 when the Lunar Module scheduled for the flight became delayed. The new mission's profile, procedures and personnel requirements left an uncharacteristically short time-frame for training and preparation.

After launching on 21 December 1968, the crew took three days to travel to the Moon. They orbited ten times over the course of 20 hours, during which the crew made a Christmas Eve television broadcast in which they read from the Book of Genesis. At the time, the broadcast was the most watched TV programme ever. Apollo 8's successful mission paved the way for Apollo 11 to fulfill U.S. President John F. Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the Moon before the end of the decade."

(shorter length videos)

Apollo 8 Launch



Apollo 8 Christmas
Apollo 8's historic broadcast from the Moon on Christmas Eve 1968 from Astronauts Anders, Lovell, and Borman.

Christmas Songs and Secret Santa

Merry Christmas everyone ;)

The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole (HQ Audio)



Frank Sinatra & Bing Cosby - Christmas TV special



Mitzi Gaynor - "We Need a Little Christmas" (1967)



Secret Santa