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Videoblog: Wings around Britain and a tablet pc in the air

Hans Mestrum — Fri, 25 May 2007 09:27:12 +0000

I already wrote some postings about the marvellous Wings around Britain project on which Polly Vacher is flying to more then 200 British airports for promoting the Flying Scholarship for Disabled project. On every flight she taks a dsiabled person with her in her small plane.
I had the honour of flying with her in Belfast. I shot some photos, wrote about my experiences and shot a video. And this one can be found over here. I have put three versions here so most of you can play it I think: a Windows Media version, a version for the iPod video (QuickTime) and the video from Dailymotion. You can all run them here on my weblog.
It is a compilation of around 5 minutes of a video of 35 minutes I shot. You see Polly working with the tablet pc looking with the JeppView software for landing zones before we headed off to Belfast City and after that you see us flying in her beautiful airplane. Again Polly using the tablet pc as navigation tool.
Do not expect a quite, smooth video, because I was filming from within the cockpit of this small airplane with every now and then some up and down movements

Play Windows Media version

Play Quicktime version

Wings around britain
Uploaded by hansonexperience

For those who want to download the files here they are:

– Polly Vacher for Wings around Britain (wmv, 27 mb, 4.56 min)
– Polly Vacher for Wings around Britain iPod video (m4v, 27 mb, 4.56 min)

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A tablet pc in the air: the Polly Experience

Hans Mestrum — Thu, 24 May 2007 09:29:01 +0000

Well let’s give it a try. To write my experiences down here.

On the airport
At half past 12 I went to the meeting point at arrivals and gave Woodgate Charter Services a call. Some time later car arrived and picked me up. Great experience to see an airport from within. Passing all kinds of fences, checks and we were driving on the airport! Of course there was a securiy check in a small building. After that right to Woodgates office, which looks like a nice, comforable pilots home with a lot of wood. lt was weautiful weather with sun and some clouds.

Meeting fellow passenger and Polly
There I met my fellow passenger who was also flying for the first time. She was a disabled person who had the time of her live now. After a while Polly came in. What charming woman, what a charisma. She was able to give all the people attention. I showed her the EasyBook and JeppView and soon we had Belfast Aldergrove and Belfast City charts with the landingzones and landingstrips on teh tablet pc. Polly was very enthusiastic about the tablet pc and the charts. Some later she showed it to our fellow passenger.
Of course I could film Polly working with the tablet and took some photos. Then we went to the plane.

Flying!!
Wow man what a small plane this was. Great that I am a small person now. I had the backseat and had to put on a headphone with a mike. After a lot of checks by Polly of her plane we took off. Phew we were flying. What view we had of the surroundings. It was really great. Polly explained all the details of taxiing and the dashboard and things. We were really very excited.Every now and then we had a bump when there was a cloud or a mountain. We were laughing like children.
Meanwhile Polly used the tablet pc even in the plane, looking up details of the landingzone. That was great. I was able to put it on video. I filmed the whole flight!
It was really great to see all these lakes, mountains and little villages. And what a great view of Belfast we had when entering the landing zone! Beautiful. Polly flew some more to showus the surroundings and she was talking and laughing. She was very enthusiastic as we all were.

Save landing
Of course we were awaiting for the landing,would this give a bump, would we get sick? And you know, it was very very comfortable landing. Very smooth, we did not hardly felt it. Great!
Time for some official paperwork, handshaking and kissing and of course some photos.
You can find more photos. It was a great experience and would like to thank Polly and Trevor for making this possible. It was great to have the first PaceBlade EasyBook tablet pc in the Britain air!
Ok, packing my lugage now and flying back to the Netherlands
Polly again thanks for this wonderfull trip.

(disclosure: PaceBlade who sponsored the tablet pc is a subsidiary of Tulip Computers, my employer)

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Wings around Britain: I will videoblog from a sportsaircraft!

Hans Mestrum — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:49:26 +0000

Wings around Britain
On May 21 a great project will start:Wings around Britain. The challenge is to land at all 206 airfields in Great Britain.
Can you imagine: landing on all these airfields in 2 months! But that’s not all.

Polly Vacher
Polly Vacher (famous record breaking pilot) will take a disabled person on each sector wherever possible. Polly is well-known from Wings around the World Challenge, first woman to fly solo over the North Pole in a single engine aircraft, first woman to fly solo in Antarctica in a single engine aircraft, first person to fly solo around the world landing on all seven continents, 60,000 nautical miles, 357 days,

The aims of the project
The aims are: To promote “Flying Scholarships for the Disabled” and Flying for the disabled in general. Also to promote sales of the book “Wings Around the World” the proceeds from which go to “Flying Scholarships for the Disabled”.

What is Flying Scholarships for the Disabled?
Flying Scholarships for the Disabled (FSD) is a scheme whereby, through the mental and physical challenges of learning to fly a light aircraft, disabled people can rebuild their confidence so enabling them to restore their self-esteem. This in turn empowers them to explore their potential by extending their personal mental and physical boundaries. Each scholarship student completes a 6-week residential course of training, which includes ground school and up to 40 hours of dual and solo flying. This is provided at no cost to the student and currently flight training takes place at flight schools in the USA and South Africa. Watch this great video if you want to know more. Wow, what a project!

Videoblogging from the aircraft
Well and I am proud to be part of such a flight! I will fly with Polly on Wednesday in Belfast. Wew, should be great to shoot a video then for this weblog. Thank you so much Polly for taking me with you on this great trip.
And you know, an EasyBook tablet pc of PaceBlade on board is used as navigation tool! With JeppView of Jeppesen. Great case. I hope I can make photos and a video of the tablet pc in the aircraft. Not much room in such a plane I think.
Hmmm, and do I get sick? Well, let’s hope I am able to shoot the video. Belfast here I come!

Photos of the EasyBook tablet pc in an aircraft
Below you can find some photos of the EasuBook tablet pc in an aircraft.

(full disclosure: PaceBlade is a subsidiary of Tulip Computers, my employer and sponsor of the project)

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Mivar Automotive and EasyBook tablet pc from PaceBlade

Hans Mestrum — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:05:23 +0000

I visited Mivar Automotive on Autovak RAI 2007 and had a chat with Peter Odding. They are going to introduce their software for car collection on a tablet pc. The EasyBook of PaceBlade (disclosure: paceblade is a subsidiary of Tulip Computers, my employer). So again, this is a nice case. The software is originally developped for a PDA, but customers ask for a larger device (but not too large). And a lot of them want to skip the paperwork when a rented or leased car is inspected after returning.
He thinks a tablet is a great device because it is more robust compared to a PDA. And because it is a real pc it is easy to communicate (wireless) with the backoffice and other software. The camera is very handy when you want to record the damage for your electronic file.
Nice to see that the video of Le Mans Damage Company which I produced was installed on the easybook and shown to customers on the fair. I also saw some photos their which I took at Le Mans.
In this video you can hear Peter Odding talking about the tablet pc and his software. Because it is in Dutch you can find English subtitles on it.

Play Quicktime version

Play Windows Media version

Mivar and PaceBlade

You can download the iPod video (25 mb,m4v) and the Windows Media video (77 mb, wmv, 1280×720).

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AutoVak RAI 2007: foto’s van de Mivar stand

Hans Mestrum — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:18:07 +0000

Zoals al eerder geblogd zou ik naar de AutoVak RAI gaan voor een bezoek aan de Mivar Automotive stand. Ze zetten namelijk een EasyBook van PaceBlade in. Ik heb daar een video van gemaakt die later volgt. Maar hier staan alvast de foto’s.

Naar de fotoset in Flickr.
Disclosure: PaceBlade is een onderdeel van Tulip Computers, mijn werkgever.

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Autovak RAI: toepassing tablet pc bij Mivar

Hans Mestrum — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:08:13 +0000

Vanmiddag ga ik naar de Autovak RAI. Ik ga daar een bezoekje brengen aan Mivar. Ze werken in de Automotiv branche en hebben daar allerlei oplossingen voor. Zo gebruiken ze begrijp ik ook tablet pc’s. Dus eens kijken of ik daar weer een interessante case op video kan zetten. Wordt dus vervolgd hoop ik.

Disclosure: PaceBlade is een onderdeel van Tulip Computers, mijn werkgever.

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Tablet pc’s bij ASTRID

Hans Mestrum — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:40:45 +0000

Een tijdje terug zag ik dat politieagenten een pda gingen gebruiken op straat. Daarmee kunnen ze dan snel informatie opzoeken of communiceren met het bureau. Met tablet pc’s kan dat natuurlijk ook. Een mooi voorbeeld daarvan is A.S.T.R.I.D. ASTRID is de telecom-operator voor alle Belgische hulp- en veiligheidsdiensten. En zij hebben 2 tablet pc’s van PaceBlade gevalideerd. Bijgaand plaatje laat het bericht zien. Op die tablet pc wordt dan ook de bijbehorende software geïnstalleerd en radio’s.
Als ze in de toekomst die tablets gaan inzetten lijkt me dat een mooie case om ook eens te gaan bezoeken en filmen
Disclosure: PaceBlade is een onderdeel van Tulip Computers, mijn werkgever.

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The Future of UMPC’s and tablet pc’s?

Hans Mestrum — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:47:10 +0000

This video is great. Is this the future of the tablet pc and UMPC’s? Well this is the vison of Intel on UMPC. I found this on Om Malik’s blog.

Link to the video in YouTube
Next week on Intel’s Developer Forum in Beijng?

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Blogs about tablet pc’s and UMPCs

Hans Mestrum — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:31:34 +0000

Well those who visit this blog often, have seen that I am envolved in tablet pc experiments and cases. And because the video’s I have produced have been posted on some foreign weblogs (gottabemobile.com, ultramobilelife.com and again on ultramobililelife.com and two times as news on tabletpctalks.com) I found new interesting places with a lot of info of tablets. I subscribed to them by adding them on a seperate tab called tablet pc in NetVibes. You can add them to NetVibes if you like by using this button:
Of course the list is not long now, because I just started. Here is the list I have now:

http://www.ultramobilelife.com/
http://www.tabletpctalk.com/
http://ubertablet.blogspot.com/index.html
http://wickedstageact2.typepad.com/life_on_the_wicked_stage_/
http://studenttabletpc.com/
http://tabletpcpartners.spaces.live.com/
http://www.gottabemobile.com/

If you read interesting blogs about tablet pc’s or UMPC’s please let me know.

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Blogging with my tablet

Hans Mestrum — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:32:35 +0000

I am writing this on my tablet pc. With handwriting. Must do it in English. great to see that the software is recognize my handwriting. My daughter says: Cool dad! Don’t you need a keyboard? Ha this is fun. Now I can even write without using separate characters. Wow man this is fast !
Great feature! Love this. It feels like a new way of interaction with your computer. And it is fast! Just as normal writing. And my writing is terrible. But not for this software. Ok let’s save this baby.
First enter the tags. And then hit publish.

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