Close encounters of the cloud kind.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrICb0NQ8Gg In flight stills and videos to the sound track of Close encounters of the Third kind. Hopefully some find worthy sharing with even our non pilot brethren on our email lists and show off one of our many cloud...

"Michael Henry" wrote in message ... Stealth Pilot wrote: the other thing I like about high fuel prices is that the chinese have to pay them as well. that'll slow the buggers down. maybe the jobs ...

This is just a quick report of the Reading, PA Ww2 Fly-In Weekend. They hold it each year on the same weekend as the AOPA convention in Frederick. It's my third year going there and for any of you on the East Coast/mid Atlantic it is most definitely worth a visit. The Reading aero-club picks you...

I'm getting tired of paper revisions. At work, I tease those that actually still use paper when there's a better alternative. And here I am still using paper when there's a better alternative. However, I've no machine running a Microsoft environment directly, and this seems to be the target...

In article pan.2008.06.08.14.02.43.820278 @meower.flonker.kookologist.sf-fan.callahanian, TransWench says... I was busily flonking away in talk.politics.guns, alt.politics.usa.constitution.gun-rights, rec.crafts.metalworking, misc.survivalism, and alt.usenet.kooks, when The Goddess Eris...

For all the hand wringing and crying abnout a new pilot/CFI not finding any work, I'm still waiting to hear from any of them re;my job offer. Must be a myth? Or perhaps they are expecting to make 100K right out of the box and ink wet on the certificates? We need more CFI's to work near Pensacola,FL...

I'd like to go but funds are tight, would anyone want to share a scholler campsite?

You've been cleared into Class B VFR, and you've been assigned a heading. After a while you see that your heading will take you through some clouds, and you asked to be cleared on a different heading, 40 degrees to the right. ATC says unable and gives a plausible reason why. What do you do?

Maailmaa parhaillaan silpova ydinpäästöjen synnyttämä nälänhätä alkaa saada sellaiset mittasuhteet, ettei sellaista olla nähty maailmansotien 40-luvun. Suomessa ei tietysti poliittisesta harhaisuudesta ja kaunasta johtuvan ydinhaihattelujen yms. takia olla tajuttu päälle kaatuvan...

WHO: The Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum and the Pueblo Chieftain WHAT: are having a paper airplane contest WHEN: 14 June 2008 from 10 AM to 4 PM. Sign up and practice starts at 9 AM. WHE At the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum located on the grounds of the Pueblo Memorial Airport (PUB)...

I've had it. Despite my attempts to ignore the Berties and the Maxwells of this NG, I give up. I'm giving R.A.P a pause for a while. I'll come back when it cleans up its act, maybe. Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination"

the sky now has two types of pilot in it. professional aviators and true enthusiasts. No, professional aviators and RICH enthusiasts

Had an excellent days flying including a visit to Tibenham an old WW2 airfiled in Norfolk. It was the home of the 445th Bomb Group, reknown for having the worst one day casulttie when 34 aircraft went out and only 4 returned. A Liberator base it also had actor James Stewart staioned there. The...

Straight line winds through Saginaw yesterday pretty much trashed the southeast quadrant of the city, including the airport... The catwalk gratings on top of the above ground fuel tanks at the airport were lifted out of their frames and scattered about... These are not flat plate gratings, but...

Hi all, If you live West of the Mississippi River, may I humbly suggest that you make a stop in Iowa City, IA (KIOW) on Saturday, July 26th to partake in our annual Oshkosh fly-in pool party? Each year we serve FREE food, refreshments (adult and otherwise), music, and hangar flying at poolside...

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"The Saudi Sycophants" Not since the Vanderbilt's and Carnegie's and their opulent robber baron era of the 1800's have "We the People" been controlled by "We the Few". The oil SCAM being perpetrated on the American people by the Bush Administration is the greatest crime we have known in nearly...

The Mooney 201 has a ram air port, a half a foot under the prop spinner. The POH tells us it can be opened at altitude for a very modest increase in MP and we find maybe a half inch increase in pressure. The idea of the thing is, if the port is looking right at the air being thrust toward it by the...