WOW !. Bob Hoover's Stopped Engine Aerobatics: http://www.jumpingpixels.com/aerobatics.html Bob Hoover is considered one of the founding fathers of modern aerobatics, he was described by Jimmy Doolittle as, "...the greatest stick-and-rudder man who ever lived." In the Centennial of flight edition...

What's the easiest way for me to fly without commiting to an expensive school? Can I home study for the FAA test, and then rent a plane for the 40 hrs. needed?

Play the Gore movie spoof (click under the U.S. map slide). The last scene, especially, is great. http://streams.cei.org/

http://billartz.com/training.htm Initial and recurrent training

Hello, I am a private pilot aspiring to move up the rating and get my CFI. I am in the market for a PDA to help organize my life, dates, phone numbers, addresses, emails, and also double as a electronic flight computer and sort of a electronic flight bag type of thing. My laptop is a Powerbook...

Hello all, I'm working on an article for a regional magazine in California. The spin of the article is to encourage folks to go down to their local airport and sign up for that first lesson to get them started on either a sport or private pilot certificate. What I'm asking our R.A.P. community...

Curious to see how many of the people here have passports and who has visited outside of their home country as a civilian. Pilots being the more adventurous types, I'm curious. As noted before, I've traveled extensively outside the USA and have had probably 6 or more passports that ran out of time...

On my fuel stop on the way to PJY, I spotted this Beech 1900: http://www.alioth.net/pics/Pinckneyville-2006/Pinckneyville-2006-Pages/Image2.html It has a 'United States of America' logo (a bit like the B747 that gets used for Air Force One) but it has *no* N number indicating it's not a civilian...

I'm VFR at 2,500 ft AGL with a course that will in 10 minutes take me through a Class D airspace. I contact flight following, ATC gives me a squawk code and says, "Resume own navigation on course. Do not enter class D airspace." Huh? If I continue on course, I will go through the Class D...

I am wondering if somebody out there can give me some real world numbers on how much their maintenance costs are for a Cessna 340 and 414. I don't care if it has the RAM conversion or not. A good friend of mine is starting a charter company and wants to have numbers to put in the business plan. I...

One would think a premier aviation publication such as Air & Space would get basic facts correct. Page 13, In Memoriam, paragraph one... "...Scott Crossfieldk 84 was killed las April when flying his twin-engine Cessna 210A..."

Some of you may remember my first airplane, N9636B. It was a 172RG and I had many hours in it. I frequently talked here about my experiences with it. I was curious as to what it was doing now and did a search on the plane. To my shock, I learned that it crashed near Catalina Island on September 5,...

Hi! I fly a Piper Arrow 180 hp from 1968 Anyone have a spreadsheet or programme to calculate takeoff and landing distance letting you input weights, pressure alt, temperature? Frode

Can you point me to a tutorial on "3D Solid State gyroscope". GeorgeC

Hey- I'd like to try some air to air photography. Does anyone know if it is feasible to fly either a Bonanza or a Cessna 172/182/206 without a passenger door or window? Do we need any special paperwork from the FAA FSDO? The plane we are trying to take pictures of is a bit to fast in...

F4 Phantom Jet vs concrete wall and McDonnell Aircraft F-4H-1 (F-4B, F-4N) Phantom II main pilot's cockpit instrument panels. http://www.jumpingpixels.com/nuclearplane.html

In article , "Wendy" wrote: Most of the flight planning software that I have used only offers two options for route planning, 1) direct or 2) airway. I have seen one option that does check winds and offers altitude...

Did any of the WW2 aircraft use Nitrous Oxide injection? Race aircraft? Al

Many thanks to everyone in the aviation community for making our annual Big Kids Toy Show in Iowa City (KIOW) a success! We had T-28s, T-6s, a Mustang, a Columbia 300, a turbine-powered Lancair IV-P, a Citation (straight from Cessna's factory!), a '29 Travel Air, a Gypsy Moth, a Pitts Special, a...

In your controller training, are situations addressed concerning aircraft which request priority but do not declare an emergency? Is there any guidance in the Controllers' Handbook? D.