Last night during the Olympic women's platform diving competition, one gal blew her dive and her chance for a medal. She was understandably distraught and was sitting behind the platform crying. An NBC cameraman zoomed in on her face, probably chuckling with glee at his luck in being able to...

This past Saturday, I had the privilege of flying in a massed Veterans' Day formation at DeLand, FL. I was leading White Flight, consisting of my Johnson Rocket, a Comanche and a Bonanza. We had arranged to form up over Bob Lee Airport with Red Flight, consisting of an SX-300, a T-34 and and SBD...

The recent thread about lathes and related machinery leaves me at a loss with the terminology, me not being a native English speaker. A) I think I can imagine a lathe, if I understand correctly it is called a "tour" in French and a "draaibank" in my native Dutch. That means, the piece of stock...

I got an eMail from Verizon this morning saying that they are dropping their news server. I'm not going to pay for a subscription to a newsgroup service for 2 groups so my question to the group is: what eMail list would you recommend to replace this group? I'm already on the Chuggers list but...

to All: My tail stopped flapping yesterday. I don't know exactly when. When I checked it around nine a.m. it was flapping okay. I was in & out of the shop several times during the day I could hear the motor but I didn't look to see if it was still flapping. When I checked it about ten p.m....

Start with this: How many people do you know who own a $45,000 SUV? Light Sport Aircraft are not intended for people who are already pilots. The whole purpose of the Light Sport Certificate is to draw new people, along with new money, into the sport side of aviation. Consider someone who has...

what's the process to change the up weight on a Kitfox 7 to the Sport weight of 1320#.Thanks LJ

I want to get a small float plane to fly from my lake to salmon streams abt 20-40 miles away in Ak. Land on the lakes or mouths and fish for Kings and then fly back to my lake. Flight time prob abt 20 min one way. wld i be better off: 1. just buying a supercub 2. buying a cessna 3. buy a fox...

Subject: Aircraft Spruce's attitude Abuse I went to Arlington Washington fly in, Saturday July 12, the*re I purchased from Aircraft Spruce and specialty a handheld ICOM A-22 and *ordered an Airmap GPS . I took the A-22 with me (and paid for it with c*heck)and was told that they will ship the...

Can someone please provide me with pinout information for an old 360 Channel King KX 170 NAV/COM? This in not the KX 170A or KX 170B version.

I'm looking for an adapter with a 3/8--24 thread on one end and a 1/4--28 thread on the other. This would allow me to use a standard Jacobs chuck on my right angle drill. Surely some one must sell such a device. Since I retired, I no longer have easy access to a lathe so I must now go tool hunting....

Hello My family has an aerial photograph of an airport we need help to identify. It was taken by my late father-in-law sometime in the 1960's. At least that 's our guess. Could be a little later; and maybe even a bit earlier; we just aren't sure.

Looking for anyone buying, selling, trading Capella kit parts. Respond to email address.

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To RAH Group. Tune your internet tonight 6:30 PM CST to EAA.ORG The Admiral was relieved of duty 10 days after the attack and received much of the blame in subsequent official investigations. Kimmel will explore some of the unanswered questions and mysteries surrounding that tragic day in a...

There are more updates on the Composite workshop to be held on March 20-21/ 04 http://www.continuo.com/marske -mat

Just as the homebuilt community is drawing scrutiny from the FAA over professional builders of homebuilt airplanes, we find out that US Senators are hiring builders to build homebuilt planes for them: http://tinyurl.com/lbgc3

Okay, so I've been "volunteered" to be on the board of directors of the biggest fly-in event in Iowa City's history, the Eastern Iowa Big Kids Toy Show, scheduled for May 20 - 21, 2006. See us at www.BigKidToyShow.com (Yes, they made me wear a -- *sob* -- TIE for the photos... It was awful! ...

Has anyone built a Banty Should I build it Any negative comments about this Banty or positive Thank you

If so, let me know ASAP. John