The Chicago Tribune reported this morning that the American AL jet that had to return to OHare on one engine a couple of weeks ago lost the engine because of ingestion of 6 cormorants. These birds are heavier than most and totally destroyed the engine. I'm glad I wasn't sitting next to the engine...

Passed my private pilot checkride last week and now want to learn about GPS. I've searched a bit but have found no threads pertaining to my question - I'd like opinions or if someone can refer me somewhere... Someone has offered to give me a Garmin Streetpilot 2610 - is there any use for one of...

Hey everyone, If anyone's interested, I've uploaded my pictures from both X-Prize flights. Somehow, happily, I managed to make it out there for both launches. I even captured the sonic boom of re-entry from the X2 flight, and uploaded it as an mp3....

Watched the flight this morning on webcast. Burt is the man. Michael

R., What has happened to the development of the diesel aircraft engines? As far as I have seen, only Diamond has a production aircraft with diesel engines (they flew one across the Atlantic, with 5.76 gph). In the European market, Diamond offers both the single-engine DA40 and the DA42...

In rec.aviation.owning R. David Steele /omega wrote: What has happened to the development of the diesel aircraft engines? As far as I have seen, only Diamond has a production aircraft with diesel engines (they flew one across the Atlantic, with 5.76 gph). See...

On a flight to Galesburg, IL last week, we were utilizing Quad Cities Approach for VFR flight following. Being a Thursday morning, we pretty much had the airwaves to ourselves, with the exception of a Cirrus driver who was coming in to land in the Quad Cities. The first call we heard from our...

Anybody know what is the maximum age for taking the flight physical ?? My 81 year old father has started flight lessons (again). Thanks in advance, El Squid

Hello erveryone, I have a question which is: what would be the lightest type of aircraft which would make regular travel for 3-4 persons and luggage to travel between europe and the US? We were thinking about a TBM700, PC12, Mirage, Malibu something like that... any ideas? kind reagrds,

Mort, Take a look at this story. This happened to an SU-29 that went into a spin. I thought these planes can recover from almost any spin. What do you think happened? http://www.kobtv.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=14086&cat=HOME Gene

Hello RAP newsgroup pilots, posters and lurkers, I posted a message a couple weeks ago about a new product that I put out called AirPlanLite. I was wondering how many people in RAP have actually tried it, and if they have any feedback they would like to share. I know that because I am asking for...

Hi, I'm living in the UK, and have been planning to take my PPL for a couple of years now. The original plan was to take it this October, but it's a little late for that now, hence I'm now looking at March next year. Due to time & cost constraints, I'm thinking of going the US-based intensive...

Hey I hold a PPL (A) Australian licence and will be travelling to FL this December. I'd like to experience some GA flying while there. How much will it cost me per hour approx if I was to have an instructor onboard? Lets say a two hour NAVEX somewhere with at least one touch and go at a Controlled...

Scientists are now predicting a 70% chance of Mt. Saint Helens erupting and throwing rocks as far as three miles away. Pilots flying in the area should steer clear of the crater. -- Christopher J. Campbell World Famous Flight Instructor Port Orchard, WA

Given my relative low time of 700 hours, I wanted to share the story of my first in-flight mechanical problem, which happened today while returning from southwest Pennsylvania to central NY. Cruising along at 11,000 feet with the XM radio playing in my headsets (thanks to an earlier thread here,...

How do aircraft manufactures determine the maximum gross weight for a given plane? I know I've come across articles that mention on a cool day you can go over the max. gross weight by a percentage, I think 20% was thrown out there but not sure. Then again, on a hot day you might not get any where...

Well Google shows the most recent solicitation from the group for feedback on the Lightspeed 3G headsets was back in early 2003. Jay Honeck gave a very positive update in March of 2004 in response to another post but no mass (relatively speaking) feedback on general experiences. Soooooo....if I...

Anyone have any recommendations for aviation software for the Palm PDA. I'm thinking of AirCalc Pro through AvShop but there's a bunch of stuff available from Palm Gear that's also shareware.

Passed my private pilot checkride last week and now want to learn about GPS. I've searched a bit but have found no threads pertaining to my question - I'd like opinions or if someone can refer me somewhere... Someone has offered to give me a Garmin Streetpilot 2610 - is there any use for one of...

Has anyone seen this?: http://www.tsa.gov/public/interapp/editorial/editorial_1727.xml Does anyone know the penalties for ignoring this? I mean: Is the FAA enforcing this or is this just something that the TSA hopes we will all just bend over for? Can anyone quote the penalties for...