Just curious if anyone reading this group has ever piloted an airship.

Could someone fill me in on the Aerostar fuel system? The one in question is a 602P. IIRC, Ted Smith designed it as a "Leave it alone and burn all the fuel in the airplane" type system. But wasn't there a lawsuit over one years ago? Al G

I have a nice (U) video of the first Raptors over Norfolk. If someone can tell me how to put it up on a web site, I'll be happy to make it publicly available.

What is the world coming to? Paul explains: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGDXnoamGuI Electricity will replace fossil fuels. This is the field in which I specialize. --- Mark *I won't see your response. (just flyin' by)

http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=24383 Be sure to check out his pictures!] Expanding My Flying Comfort Zone by Ron Lee Prior to getting my RV-6A I had perhaps 250 hours over 20 plus years. My cross country experience was limited. I did not like to talk to ATC. I had never...

I came across an interesting set of slides that go into considerable technical detail about the problems of coming up with a replacement for 100LL. The conclusion: Avgas 91/96UL (Unleaded), as apparently now available in Sweden. Check it out:...

Now that the President has cluelessly shut down Loran, it'll be even easier for the bad guys to crash planes by jamming or spoofing GPS: http://us.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/08/loran.navigation.shutdown/index.html

Yesterday... - Our 17-year-old son passed his written exam for the private...and scheduled his private pilot checkride... - The medical examiner foolishly extended my flight privileges for another 24 months... We didn't get to go flying, but all in all, not a bad day...

LINDBERGH FOUNDATION GRANT GOES TO ENGINE INNOVATOR (http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/919-full.html#195734) Pilots of older aircraft worry about the future availability of 100LL avgas, and environmentalists are not happy with the ecological impact of leaded fuel. To satisfy both...

http://cs.schwab.com/clicker/cli?requestID=storyreader&storyid=9148979&emailMsgID=mcs111311460390bacmr4ts9yaaaaary76unj The U.S. accuses Airbus of taking advantage of decades of European subsidies worth the equivalent of up to $205 billion to capture long-standing Boeing customers and become the...

Larger screens, color screens. Mike MU-2 "R. Hubbell" wrote in message news:20040305082731.0e32b58f@fstop... Any prognosticators out there that know what's next from Garmin in

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Just let battery run down with the USB XM weather antenna connected. I did this to see how much battery life I would get with the screen set at half brightness (5+ hours), but when I reconnected external power, the unit begin an endless series of re-boots, never getting past the "I agree" lawyer...

I'm a new student learning with a DA-20. Got most things mastered except for the landings...most important, no? haha Seems that most of my landings and I have only tried 9 times thus far are not very well executed. My CFI sez that I am doing two things wrong: 1) I am flaring too late. 2) When I...

I've read several reports online re the Air France crash at Toronto that there were thunderstorms in the vicinity (one account said "right over the airport") If so I'm curious why the captain didn't divert or hold away from the storm until it passed (fuel status?). If there was a storm nearby that...

There are a number of headset - cellphone adapters on the market ranging in price considerably. If you've tried agiven brand, I'd be interested in hearing your PIREP on it. Thanks, Helen

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It was brought to my attention that the thumbnails for the race page itself were all screwed up -- so here is the corrected version: www.alexisparkinn.com/the_air_races.htm -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination"

I'm planning to on making a trip from Long Island Sound to Puget Sound (and back) later this year. We're expecting to do a side trip enroute to Winnipeg and/or Edmonton. Any suggestions on routing across the mountains to Spokane? From there, I can just take the I-90 across Snoqualmie...

Check list challenge: 'Verify Emergency in RAP.' Response: 'Done. The group has been hijacked and is correctly squawking 7500" There's not much hope of recovery, the infection has caused brain death, it's been in a persistent vegetative state. The bad guys won. RAP, RIP.