Does anyone have information or the desire to form a Flying Club or partnership in Las Vegas. Ideally to fly out of Henderson Airport. Rich Raine

I just saw the NOVA program about how two fully loaded 747 jumbo jets collided on a fog-blanketed runway on the island of Tenerife, claiming the lives of 583 people in 1977. The pilot of the KLM plane ordered his plane to be refueled, so he rolled down the runway with 55 tons of fuel for a flight...

I presented the results of my research on the USAF Troop Carrier squadon my father was a member of during the Korean "conflict" the the surviving members at their 52nd reunion this afternoon. For any of you who have considered learning what your fathers did and the men they served with, this is...

The thinking is that, my fiance n' I would fly into BWI since that is closer to Johns Hopkins(Baltimore) than my mother(northern Montgomery County) is. Where the question comes in, is this, would it be possible to start the return from the Montgomery County Airpark(which is 5mins. from her...

An interesting column in today's WSJ predicts that Boeing will take advantage of the European squabbles over AirBus to design and build a 737 replacement. The theory being that AirBus is so mired in its political protectionism and the loss of billions of dollars on the A380 and A350 that it...

INVENTIONS Here are the answers, to the best of my knowledge: PHOTOGRAPHY TRUE: Most of the pioneering work in photography happened in France, and almost no matter which process you consider to be the first true photograph, it is likely to be French.

He has been posting quite a bit lately and a recurring theme has been he flys sims because he can't afford to fly planes. He has made mention of a monthly income of 650.00 per month and his inability to earn more. However I've also seen him write on detailed medical and mathematical subjects...

Airbus has been the subject of a daily article this week in the Wall Street Journal. Today's story reported yesterday's meeting with financial entities in Europe. At this meeting Airbus disclosed that the breakeven number of A380 aircraft now stands at 420 articles. This is up from the previous...

Pirep Lowrance 600c, initial impressions. Since no one particularly discouraged me from getting one, I went ahead and ordered a 600c on line. It seems Lowrance is effectively preventing anyone from discounting it, so the price is the same all over the country. I ordered it from Pilotshop.com,...

I'm in the process of vectorizing all the charts in the PA-28-161 Warrior III POH. I am mostly doing it to make it easier on me and my students when reading them. The takeoff roll charts you almost need a microscope to get an accurate reading, the lines are so close together. I plan on doing all...

MIDDLE SEAT MAILBOX By SCOTT MCCARTNEY Understanding Why People Fly Readers Hope the Death of Cory Lidle Won't Feed Hysteria About Small Planes October 20, 2006 The public has intense fascination with plane crashes, and little understanding of aviation. So this week's Middle Seat column tried...

I note in the simulation of the Baron in MSFS (Dreamfleet's simulation), there's a button on the left side of the pilot, part of several rows of buttons, marked "Ejection seat." I don't know if this is a joke on the part of the developers, or something that really exists in the aircraft. In the...

shoot me an email when you have a minute. Jim

Confusing reports on the Lidle crash-- Mayor Bloomberg, sounding utterly confident in his sources, says the plane took off from Teterboro, circled the Statue of Liberty, flew up (south-to-north) the East River, then into the building. A few minutes earlier, a CNN reporter using PASSUR asserted that...

Front page of Yahoo right now, followed by, "A tragic small plane crash brings to light a surprising fact." It's truly saddening that everyone seems to be resorting to anti-GA-speak. Why would a plane NOT be able to fly over New York? Was there a rule I wasn't aware of? Does New York have a...

The long knives are coming out now... This excerpted from an AP article this evening: "Hersman said that as of September, there were 545 SR20s registered in the United States. Since 2001, the NTSB has investigated 18 accidents involving the plane; those crashes resulted in 14 deaths." They sure...

Here is a copy of my email to Diane Rehms in response to comments she made about GA last week on her news show. I have not received a reply as of yet. I am a long time listener to your show and greatly value your unbiased opinions and interviews. I would like to make a comment about your...

Since I'm tired of reading questions about the development of anti-matter-powered Beechcraft ejection seats, I thought I'd toss this topic onto the newsgroup's platter: North Korea. In pondering why we (the US -- and the World) haven't responded more forcefully to the North Korean nuclear tests,...

In simulation, the simulated ATC seems to be very inefficient at spacing aircraft, because practically every fifth aircraft on landing is told to go around. In fact, if you are told to follow someone in for a landing, you can take for granted that he won't clear the runway in time and you'll be...

Well, since we've been discussing France (Answers in following thread) : INVENTIONS The 19th and early 20th centuries were prodigious times for inventions and discoveries. With the industrial revolution in full blossom, scientists, engineers and dilettantes alike were at work in every nation...