GOP SECRET MEETINGS Secret attempts over the weekend by the Bush Administration to strong-arm House GOP leaders into removing immigration safeguards from their proposed 9/11 security bill. The Senate 9/11 bill (supported by the Bush Administration and by Democratic leaders) is a farce designed to...

Go to www.google.com and look what they've done to the logo today.

OUCH ! Beware of trees in the air !

Flying from Troutdale to Pullman this afternoon. This might be the coolest flight I've made so far! -gatt

Hello All -- You are invited to drop by Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com and catch our Pacific Theater Double Feature of World War II aviation films for free online video viewing. * This month "At the Matinee," we're featuring the B-29 & P-51 combat classic "The Last...

OtisWinslow wrote: I haven't flown around NY. I have dealt with Tampa and Miami .. both of whom were helpful. I fly around NY, and have found the controllers typically quite helpful to VFR traffic. In fact, I once surprised a VFR-only pilot in our club with how helpful they are. We were...

While baby Bush may have once been an airman, Kerry currently owns and pilots his twin aircraft today. While baby Bush shuts down thousands of square miles of airspace wherever he roams, Kerry declined flight restrictions for his presidential campaign. Now...

These are wonderful interviews all! Actor Morgan Freeman - please visit http://www.centennialjournal.com/articlesview.php?ID=467 Producer, Director, Actor, Sydney Pollack. http://www.centennialjournal.com/articlesview.php?ID=466 Last month we featured Actor Dennis...

Mark your calendars boys and girls! November 29, The History Channel, "Deep Sea Detectives". R.A.P.'s own Roger Long will be seen pontificating ponderously and speculating on the cause of a ship sinking. If you would like to put the face together with the rambling posts that appear in this...

"John Doe" wrote in message ... 1 fatality at Santa Fe air show. http://www.kobtv.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=14086&cat=HOME Man, that really sucks, for everyone; the guy, his family and friends, and all the...

Aviator=92s writings reflect religious experience of flight Gods of Tin (Shoemaker & Hoard, $24) by James Salter He rode upon the cherubims, and did fly: he came flying on the wings of=20 the wind. =97 Psalms 18:10 Late in the summer of 1951, James Salter was in flight school, on the=20 wing of...

http://www.xeron.org/cosas/bowman/bowmanf.html My kid showed my this slick little on-line archery game. It teaches a lot about geometry, a good deal about windage (if you turn on wind), and it's just gory enough to make the girls go "Eeewwww!"... Besides, it's good cross-wind training... ;-)

Driving home today I saw a 172 that I've flown many times heading toward me slowly at about 500'. This is in SoCal, so it's obviously a densely packed urban area. In fact I pulled over and turned my car off so I could hear if the Cessna was having engine trouble. I'm debating whether to inform...

Has anyone else here seen the new software from NASA that has a 3D map of the world created from satellite images? http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/worldwind/ Be Warned it is a 260MB download. It starts out with a view of the globe you can rotate around and then zoom in to any part of the world. ...

Can anyone provide a lick to the actual transcripts? My Google search gave thousands of hits, but none leading to the specific transcripts. Thanks AJW

Suppose *both* pilots in, say, a B-737, were to die in flight due to some incredible, but unfortunate coincidence. For instance, one could die of a heart attack, and the other, say, of an aneurysm. Now, I'll admit the chances of this happening are remote, but it could happen; stranger things...

From: Geoff Peck ) Subject: CHARTER: rec.aviation.piloting Newsgroups: rec.aviation.piloting Date: 2002-01-13 00:45:07 PST The charter of rec.aviation.piloting is: ******************************************************************* * Information pertinent to pilots of general...

I miscalculated my health benefits. I expected to have to pay cash for my medical and for some diagnostic tests that I needed to have to get the medical, but my HMO ended up picking up all of it. So I have a signficant surplus in my healthcare flexible spending account that I must spend by the end...

Anyone ever get splashed in the face with 100LL while refueling at a self-serve pump? Today, I joined the nitwit club and was rewarded for my refueling complacency with a cereal bowl-sized volume of 100LL splashed directly in the face. At least I was wearing sunglasses, which kept most of...

When I heard this on the news, I assumed this happened at one of the MKE area airports, but it was actually in someone's back yard. http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/sep04/262562.asp -- Ben C-172 - N13258 @ 87Y