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“Grand Canyon Confluence,” Greg Brown’s latest Fine Art Aerial Photo Metal Print!

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Hey Friends, check out “Grand Canyon Confluence” of the Colorado & Little Colorado Rivers, my latest “View from the Flying Carpet” Fine Art Metal Print!

The Colorado and Little Colorado Rivers converge at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, Arizona.

Their confluence is notable because the Little Colorado is muddier than the Colorado with different silt, so the water colors of the two rivers are strikingly different where they merge. And the sand bar at their confluence is a popular stop for rafters transiting the Canyon. Few people get to enjoy this aerial perspective of the feature, captured from my Flying Carpet.

Like all my Fine Art Metal Prints, “Grand Canyon Confluence,” ready-to-hang pricing starts at just $160, with super-affordable US shipping all the way up to the largest sizes.

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Greg

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Greg Brown’s 2026 Aerial & Terrestrial Photo Wall Calendars!

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This year’s all-new 2026 Views from the Flying Carpet” Photo Wall Calendar features 13 stunning aerial photographs capturing North America’s diverse terrain!

Click each Calendar to Preview Monthly Images and Order (See All of Greg’s 2026 Calendars here.)

Notes: 1) My calendars ship affordably worldwide. 2) “Legacy” Calendars incorporate previous-year photos.)

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Introducing Greg Brown’s 2026 Aerial & Terrestrial Photo Wall Calendars!

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This year’s all-new 2026 Views from the Flying Carpet” Photo Wall Calendar features 13 stunning aerial photographs capturing North America’s diverse terrain!

Click each Calendar to Preview Monthly Images and Order (See All of Greg’s 2026 Calendars here.)

Notes: 1) My calendars ship affordably worldwide. 2) “Legacy” Calendars incorporate previous-year photos.)

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Greg’s aerial photograph, “Approach to Telluride Airport,” selected by Flight Safety, Int’l (FSI) for global advertising!

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Hey Folks, I’m proud to announce that prestigious Flight Safety, International (FSI) has licensed two of my aerial photos for exclusive global advertising!

The latest is “Approach to Telluride Airport, Colorado (KTEX),” shown above.

The first was “Dusk Arrival,” to Sedona, Arizona (KSEZ), shown below in Aviation International News:

Like all my Fine Art Metal Prints, “Dusk Arrival” and “Approach to Telluride Aiport” ready-to-hang pricing starts at just $135, with super-affordable shipping throughout the Continental US all the way up to the largest sizes.

Check out all my Views from the Flying Carpet aerials* and Down to Earth terrestrial photos!* (*Pages take a moment to load.)

Many thanks to all who invest in my prints, books, and pilot achievement plaques!

Greg

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Greg’s aerial photo, “Dusk Arrival,” selected by Flight Safety, Int’l (FSI) for global advertising!

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Hey Folks, I’m proud to announce that prestigious Flight Safety, International (FSI) has licensed two of my aerial photos for exclusive global advertising!

The first is “Dusk Arrival,” to Sedona, Arizona (KSEZ), shown above. (I’ll reveal the second image when it shortly appears in print.)

Here is FSI’s first ad incorporating my photo, in this month’s Aviation International News:

Like all my Fine Art Metal Prints, “Dusk Arrival” ready-to-hang pricing starts at just $135, with super-affordable shipping throughout the Continental US all the way up to the largest sizes.

Check out all my Views from the Flying Carpet aerials* and Down to Earth terrestrial photos!* (*Pages take a moment to load.)

Many thanks to all who invest in my prints, books, and pilot achievement plaques!

Greg

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“Arizona Red Rock Country, from the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness,” Greg’s latest Fine Art Aerial Photo Metal Print!

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Hey Friends, check out “Arizona Red Rock Country, from the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness,” my latest “View from the Flying Carpet” Fine Art Metal Print!

Like all my Fine Art Metal Prints, “Arizona Red Rock Country, from the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness,” ready-to-hang pricing starts at just $135, with super-affordable shipping throughout the Continental US all the way up to the largest sizes.

Check out all my Views from the Flying Carpet aerials* and Down to Earth terrestrial photos!* (*Pages take a moment to load.)

Many thanks to all who invest in my prints, books, and pilot achievement plaques!

Greg

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“Thunderstorm with Rainbow,” Greg’s latest Fine Art Aerial Photo Metal Print!

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Hey Friends, check out “Thunderstorm with Rainbow,” my latest “View from the Flying Carpet” Fine Art Metal Print, available in two variations!

I photographed “Thunderstorm with Rainbow,” from the Flying Carpet, en route from Flagstaff, Arizona, to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

I’m offering this print in 2 variations: “Wide View” & “Close View.” Can’t decide which to order? Consider “Wide View” for larger print sizes, and “Close View” for smaller sizes.

Like all my Fine Art Metal Prints, “Thunderstorm with Rainbow,” ready-to-hang pricing starts at just $135, with super-affordable shipping throughout the Continental US all the way up to the largest sizes.

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Many thanks to all who invest in my prints, books, and pilot achievement plaques!

Greg

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Grand Canyon by “Flying Carpet”

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Hey, Fellow Pilots: Can you believe we get to do this??!!

Relive ‘Grand Canyon by “Flying Carpet”’

“Miles and Miles of Sunflowers!” Greg’s latest Fine Art Aerial Photo Metal Print!

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Hey Friends, thanks to your enthusiastic reception, here’s “Miles and Miles of Sunflowers,” my latest “View from the Flying Carpet” Fine Art Metal Print!

I was returning my wife Jean and her tennis teammate Jenny from a tournament in El Paso. Five long hours round trip by Flying Carpet, and it was too hazy to see anything special… until 15 minutes from home.

There we encountered these vivid, horizon-to-horizon sunflowers sweeping from Lake Mary toward the San Francisco Peaks. Never have we seen anything like this before! This turns out to be Northern Arizona’s most amazing wildflower year in memory, and we’re thrilled to have captured even a tiny fragment of it from aloft.

Nowhere is the power of numbers more boldly reflected than in these fields of sunflowers captured from a speeding airplane thousands of feet in the air!

Like all my Fine Art Metal Prints, “Miles and Miles of Sunflowers,” ready-to-hang pricing starts at just $125, with super-affordable 2-day shipping throughout the Continental US.

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“Oh, the Glory,” Greg’s August, 2019 Flying Carpet column

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Rarely do we light airplane pilots get to outfly the airlines, but it does occasionally happen.

A dozen years ago, the Flying Carpet suffered a spate of in-flight voltage regulator failures. This device meters electricity generated by the alternator to meet the airplane’s ongoing electrical needs and keep the battery charged. It also protects the electrical system against spikes or shorts that could damage electrical components.

Every few months our latest voltage regulator would fail in flight, disabling the aircraft’s charging system and sending us scrambling for a mechanic. Sometimes it could be temporarily reset by cycling the alternator switch, but usually not. Of course these failures always occurred at inopportune times, and caused lots of “what-if” stress every time we launched on a cross-country flight. Yet the intermittency stymied our mechanics in identifying the cause.

Then one day, a savvy avionics tech at Falcon Field (KFFZ) asked if I could hear our original-equipment flashing beacon cycling on and off through my headset. When I answered yes, he asked if those beacon pulses also presented via the ammeter needle. They did. It turns out that with age, the power supply units for old flashing beacons can internally deteriorate, drawing increasing electrical current as the circuitry fails.

Testing revealed that our beacon was drawing so much current with each flash, that over time it was causing each successive voltage regulator to disconnect the charging system and fail. Installing a new low-power LED beacon finally solved the problem, though it would take months of trouble-free operation before we could fully believe it.

Jean and I launched homeward from Falcon Field that day flashing our bright-and-shiny new beacon, arriving to rare IFR weather in Flagstaff…

**Read Greg’s entire column, “OH, THE GLORY” **. (Optimized for portable devices HERE.)

(This column first appeared in AOPA Flight Training magazine.)

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©2019 Gregory N. Brown

If you enjoyed this story, you’ll love Greg’s book, Flying Carpet: The Soul of an Airplane. Autographed copies available!