wrote: One girl has been raped. Two from what I read from a first responder, this was inside the Superdome... The dead showed up on teevee today but they were there before that from what was said as well...

So we were watching "Seconds From Disaster" on NGC last night, which happened to be on AA 77. When they mentioned that seconds after gaining control of the aircraft the hijackers turned off the transponder (along with a brief explanation of what the transponder does), my wife simply says: "That's...

The other night, as we approached rotation speed, we skipped half a dozen times before breaking cleanly. I made some snide remark about this to Mary, and assumed that she was holding the nose down too long, causing the skip. "Poor piloting," I harrumphed to myself... "Danged tires are too...

Dear all, I'm interested in perhaps entering flight training to be a pilot. Couple of quick questions. Are all airlines based on the seniority system, even in Europe? Are there any exceptions to this system?

We had gone to the NC beach for the weekend, and had to bug out because of the hurricane threat. I was worried that even if the hurricane didn't head right for us, that the outlying winds might get strong enough to prevent us from departing. Despite the winds Saturday evening (15 G 25), we had a...

Finally, there's a free web site that does tracking of IFR flights and maps and graphs and whatnot: http://flightaware.com/ For IFR folks, you can enter airports that you're flying between and get a list of IFR routes that people have flown, which makes flight planning a lot easier. Chip

I was thumbimg through an aviation book catalog while waiting for a flight today and saw a blurb about a book about the NX-2. Apparently Convair designed it with the intention of using a nuclear reactor for thrust. Has anyone read the book? How far did Convair and General Electric actually get in...

Hello Todd, In a recent thread on R.A..S.(interesting question about stall and airspeed) that morphed into a discussion about coffin corner, Todd explained, "Flutter limits high true airspeed operations, and it is possible to get to the coffin corner where stall speed and Vne approach each...

Dear all, I'm interested in perhaps entering flight training to be a pilot. Couple of quick questions. Are all airlines based on the seniority system, even in Europe? Are there any exceptions?

www.wxnotice.com now has on demand Metar and TAF weather reports sent to your cell phone. The service is free.

This from EAA: FAA Determines Meigs Closure Illegal, Imposes Maximum Fine Nearly 2 1/2 years after the fact, the FAA has determined that Mayor Richard Daley violated federal law when he ordered bulldozers to carve large "X's" into the runway at Chicago's lakefront jewel, Merrill C. Meigs Field,...

I'm supposed to learn about dividing my sectional chart into search grids. I have several CAP on-line publications but none show an actual sectional. Does anyone have an online, scanned example of a properly done sectional chart? -Robert

This morning, while working out together, my 15 year old son asked (out of the clear blue sky) if he can take a friend flying next week. Absentmindedly, I reply "Sure -- what's the guys name?" -- to which my son replied "Anna..." Yikes! His first date with a girl, and he wants to take her flying...

Lead story on the local Twin Cities 6 pm news: (AHH) Amery Municipal Airport, Wisconsin http://www.airnav.com/airport/KAHH ....obliterated last night by possible tornado, probable straight line winds. Direct hit! (AHH) is about 15 nm in from the Minnesota border, 36 nautical miles east of my...

dear pilots: is it possible to hook up an aviation headset that is a LEMO model to an airplane that has only an ordinary headset (audio+mic) connector? sincerely, /iaw

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Hehehe, yea well I also got a butt load of XC time in my 150 Just got back today! :-) KVUO - KRDM - KBOI - KBYI - KPVU - KCEZ - 0E0 - KAMA - KOUN - KCNK - KVMR - KATY - 1D1 - KFAR - KMOT - D49 - KGGW - KHLN - KMSO - MLP - KSFF - KPSC - KVUO I have not Calucated the total...

It was the day from Hell. From the moment I arrived at the Inn on our "Monday morning" (in real life, Friday), literally everything that could go wrong, did. Everything from an overnight guest, on the lam from the law (and who needed to be arrested *here*, of course, for all to see), to a major...

I hope no one has posted this yet... Oh my god. Look at ebay auction ID#4574014226 I would normally say something witty, but I am speechless. Is it a scam? Perhaps an organic brain dysfunction? Or maybe this man is a brave new form of life being weeded out my Darwin...

this from rec.backcountry... The Donner Party was sitting at dinner, enjoying the comedian, when one of the guests commented, "Does this taste funny to you?"