My C150M POH shows an approved fuel grade includes AVGAS 80. Assuming you could find 80, how safe is it to run? And, what are the modifications made to the fuel system to run MOGAS? On a purely theoretical level, what would be the ramifications of fueling up an unmodified Cessna 150 with 92...

I noticed in all the publicity pictures of the 787 and 747-8 that the wings flex to the point that the tips are well above the top of the fuselage. Just a guess here, but is this due to the composite construction of the plane? I'm assuming the spar(s) are composite as well as the fuselage barrel....

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Good website for cockpit photos: http://www.codeonemagazine.com/test/archives/2007/articles/jan_07/cockpits/cockpits.html

Just got this today in e-mail, forwarded from an Aviation Daily piece. I imagine this should **** of a few people. ========================== DHS Wants GA Aircraft Screened Before Flights To U.S. The Dept. of Homeland Security plans to extend the security requirements now applicable to Part 135...

On November 27, 2004, transport flight Blackwater 61, a turboprop CASA 212-CC, crashed in the mountains of Afghanistan. The plane was operated by Presidential Airways, a subsidiary of the private security company Blackwater, also operating as Blackwater Aviation under contract for the United States...

"RL Anderson" wrote in message ... Gang, I just found this out yesterday, but I was told that the story broke on Friday. We have a local pilot, CFI and aviation business owner who has been arrested on sex charges with...

On 2007-11-04 09:14:06 -0800, RL Anderson said: Gang, I just found this out yesterday, but I was told that the story broke on Friday. We have a local pilot, CFI and aviation business owner who has been arrested on sex charges with boys. I will not...

Seems some guy from Minnesota, Lyle Christansen, is convinced that his brother Kenny was D.B. Cooper. Kenny Christansen is in fact a dead ringer for Cooper, was an army paratrooper, bought a house in Buckley, WA, with cash that he never explained where it came from, and he worked for Northwest...

Hi, Does anyone have experience flying around HI? I'm going on vacation there and have a 182 scheduled for 2 days and am hoping to hear about some, "Don't miss this" spots from people who've done this before. Thanks in advance for any replies. z

FAA reviewing football fly-over A 17-year-old Hopewell High student was apparently acting on a dare when he did a fly-over prank at a Hopewell High football game Friday, at one point dipping below the stadium lights......... http://www.charlotte.com/breaking_news/story/348230.html -- Gene...

Appreciate this groups insight :)... When getting VFR advisories into an uncontrolled field, when and how ought one transition to the CTAF. Currently, I tune in and monitor the CTAF on COM2, and if ATC doesn't tell me "squawk VFR, freq change approved" by about 5 miles out, i get antsy and...

Aviation, Geography, and Race by Charles A. Lindbergh featured in Reader's Digest, November, 1939, pp. 64-67 Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces, a world dominated by a mechanical, materialist,...

Hi Everyone, I've found that I always want to look up METARs and TAFs when not in front of a computer. So I wrote a Mobile website to do get this info for me straight from NOAA. I thought it would also be useful to others. So here is the URL: awx.mobi Its a free service and no registering needed...

Is Fuel Exhaustion A Criminal Act? CANADIAN PILOT GUILTY IN CRASH (http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/990-full.html#196511) A Canadian court has found an Alberta pilot guilty of criminal negligence and unsafe operation of an aircraft for a 2002 accident that led to the...

http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=7309699 Looks like (and the way the story reads) the guy was stuck in there until they flipped the plane back over because of the canopy design. ------------------------------------ DW

RL Anderson writes: I just found this out yesterday, but I was told that the story broke on Friday. We have a local pilot, CFI and aviation business owner who has been arrested on sex charges with boys. I will not editorialize on this event. I just hope that his local "airplane...

Is there any chance to get that document? I found 777-200 AFM only but I definitely saw 777-200LR/-300ER version in Internet. Can't remember there... P.S. Why Boeing does not allow to download AFM? 8-(

Modern Aerobatics & Precision Flying by Champion Harold Krier with Bill Sweet. VGC , 116 pages. Great old book on aerobatics,and what is described as 3-D flight.Most unusual,lots of pictures of classic planes,instructional diagrams etc,Very much a how to do it book,rather than an...

As a pilot, have you had any interesting near accidents or mistakes, something that might be a good addition to www.stupid-mistakes.com ? Thanks, - Jeff -