How many "Types" have you flown? Without mentioning any names, I have recently seen claims of having flown more than a thousand types. Are there a thousand types? Are there 1000 civilian types? Maybe I'm looking at this wrong, if I fly a C-210, a T-210 and a P-210, I consider them all...

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We witnessed an interesting thing last night, and it gives me hope for the future of GA. Becca, our middle-school-aged daughter, threw a little Christmas party for friends, and held it in our hotel meeting room/theater, with the idea that they'd all watch a movie after listening to music and...

....offers endless opportunities for screwing up the experience for them, as I've demonstrated yet again. My business partner's 21-yr. old son has been hinting around for a few years that he wanted to try flying sometime. When he finally asked outright to take a flight, I was happy to agree,...

http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/mwade/craft/apoollrv.htm

In October, after an extensive repair/restoration of my airplane, the oil cooler split on start-up and dumped most of the oil. Long story, but the engine seized up 6 minutes into the flight and we did an emergency landing in the desert. We were very fortunate to walk away with minor injuries,...

Being as fond of History as I am of flying, I'm really happy to have a picture of the First Flight Memorial as one of the first pictures in my airpictures gallery. Could this site be as successfull as the Wright brothers invention? Many thanks to Gene Seibel, the author of this picture There are...

Well, did my first solo on the weekend! Went up with my instructor first and did 2 touch and go's than on the third time around he asked me to do a full stop, and he'd get out and I could do one on my own. "Are you happy with that?" he asked. We landed, and taxiied off the runway and the plan was...

Saw this tonight and thought you might be interested: http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=325405#post325405

I think most of you know that I've been operating aircraft ham radio mobile since the days of dynamotors and vacuum tubes (yes, I put a Heathkit "Twoer" in the Cessna 120 using a surplus wwii dynamotor back in 1968). For those of you who have been sorta thinking that some day it would be nice...

Folks: For those interested, we had an experience this weekend in our COZY MKIV when the propeller decided to proceed along a different path than the rest of the airplane. You can read the details at: http://www.cozybuilders.org/Desert_Center/ comments welcome.

Today a family arrived at the inn for mid-term university graduation. This is a much smaller affair than the more traditional spring graduation, but it's a happy event nonetheless, with lots of extended family joining in the graduation celebration. This family brought Grandpa along, a fine old...

Looks like airplane treadmill problem, regularly a spark for flame wars on R.A.P., has made it into the mainstream. http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/ Let the arguing begin! - Ray

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At the begining, everything works fine. You create a gallery dedicated to birds'eye view pictures and test it for a few days. No problem. Then, you open it and make it public on this newsgroup. The first day, you get 200 visitors. The problem is : this very same day and the next one, without...

Want an clock with an accellerometer in your panel? http://www.fdatasystems.com/GT_50.htm

I just got my new medical. When I got the certificate I saw that under limitations it said "None". My previous medical used to say "must wear corrective lenses". I should have simply walked away with the certificate, but instead I asked them why that limitation was missing. The response was "You...

I had a trip planned to Hayward (in the SF Bay area) to get an eddy current inspection done on our prop hub (another story...another chance to dump some AMUs into the plane should we opt for a new hub). I'd planned to file IFR no matter what the weather conditions turned out to be since I'd...

http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/examiners_inspectors/8700/ 8700.1 General Aviation Operations Inspector's Handbook (Includes Notices) (4/6/2006)

Here's a very close call as recorded through the HUD camera of a T-38C. Scott Wilson http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=qLVtstYAZLY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLVtstYAZLY