In April of this year, I had an opportunity to experience the Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress Nine-O-Nine that recently crashed subsequent to the failure of engine number 4 (right side). https://youtu.be/Fpv-xxYQ8-o ATC Audio: https://youtu.be/weNLHLWSg6g The Collings Foundation flew several of their...

I'm reading the specs for the Remos G-3. Looks like a nice plane. But one thing that gobsmacked me was the note that "Max endurance: 6hrs at 4300rpm". Does it really run at 4300rpm? Is the prop geared down from that? I mean, I normally fly a Lance with a 300hp IO-540, and it's pretty damn...

Just saw an ad for Kiro News 4 at 11:00 It showed 2 light planes that had collided - looked bad. Anyone know anything? Tony -- Tony Roberts

A few weeks ago, someone in rec.aviation.piloting??, asked about flying the Oregon trail. At the time of that post I had this trip planned for a portion of the Santa Fe trail. I just now have had time to set down and relate part of it. Here it is. Three days of perfect flying weather while I had...

I'm wonder how this would play out: a. Person designs a unique plane, one of a kind, no other ones to compare it to. b. It is a single-seater. c. It has unique control surfaces,

According to today's AvWeb's article for today, it seems that our old paper licenses are going to no longer be valid in a couple of years... Just as well -- they sucked for scraping frost off the inside of a windshield anyway...

Admittedly, I only have about 65 hours (PP-ASEL), but I've yet to have a flight where something "unusual" didn't happen. Also, admittedly, half of the time, it's something dumb I've done (forgot to turn my transponder to ALT, etc). However, the other half isn't. Today for example, I almost made a...

I'd appreciate some guidance from the New York area folks on flying in to Teterboro. I have to fly there for the first time next week. My typical flying is in a much more relaxed envirronment than this and I don't want to create any problems for myself or ATC. My biggest concern is who to talk...

Long-time poster Michael (thisoldairplane.com) died yesterday, June 24 in Berrien County, Michigan when his motorcycle was hit by someone who apparently ran a stop sign. The other driver was killed too. Local media is thin on the details. Micheal's funeral will be in New Jersey on Sunday at Wien...

Being newly licenced (yesterday), I've started thinking about the type of VFR flight-planning I'll do in the real, post-student world, and what tools I'll use. As a student, of course, I did everything by hand, and meticulously, and eschewed GPS navigation as well. Some of my observations from my...

I'm looking for a simple flight planning program or link to do some long cross country, short leg vfr flying. Something simple, without weight and balance computation or having to put in fuel burn and power setting. Don't need any graphics. Just a flight log type that uses an airport...

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/group-wants-airman-replaced-by-gender-neutral-terms-in-faa-documents/ Group Wants ‘Airman’ Replaced By Gender Neutral Terms In FAA Documents Russ Niles February 23, 20208 Aviation regulators and authorities are a “find and replace” away from welcoming more...

I wonder, does anyone routinely recalculate limiting V speeds on the basis of TOW? I assume that limiting Va speeds go with the square root of the fraction MTOW loading so for 75% MTOW Va would drop to 86% Va. But the question is, if Vne is limited by arodynamic issues such as flutter or...

A coworker is a radio specialist for the local Civil Air Patrol unit, says they're looking for pilots right now. I'm just curious what thoughts or experiences people have with regard to the CAP. -Chris

Thankfully, there was no fire. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-compton13apr13,0,3190581.story 5 hurt as small plane crashes in Compton By Richard Winton and Carla Hall, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers April 13, 2008 Five people were injured, four critically, Saturday...

"American Eagle said Thursday it will charge $1 each for a can of soda and a bag of cashews on flights into and out of Los Angeles next month."

At the risk of reopening not-so old wounds, I'd like your opinion of this page of aviation videos: http://alexisparkinn.com/aviation_videos.htm After our earlier heated discourse over the propriety and preferred methods of showing aviation crash videos, I hesitate to even bring this up -- but I'm...

On Sun, 9 Oct 2011 19:37:20 -0400, Tom wrote: On Sun, 9 Oct 2011 19:36:13 -0400, Ryan White wrote: You "Tom" troll who also goes as "MU" is actually Courtney Brown, Emory University Remote viewing creepo professor. https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=mu+%22courtney+brown%22 ...

This will be my first winter flying the club's Lance. One instructor told me that you want to tap the brakes before retracting the gear to dislodge any slush or snow so that it doesn't freeze in the wheel well, and I read somebody else saying that you should hold off retracting the gear...

CBS noon news reported the crash of a Bonanza out of the Lufthansa Flight Training School at Goodyear Airport. The student pilot was a 22 yr-old woman, here from Germany since December, with 49 total hours, 5+ solo hours, on what was supposed to be an hour-long solo flight. No emergency radio calls...