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...

If so, let me know ASAP. John

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...

Yes, ultralight, but not entirely off-topic, as I could be interested in building one. I know this is probably the most knowledgeable forum on the net for this question, I know the original Team Air Bike ownership has passed to someone who is not releasing it for build/sale. But I saw one a...

What are people using for master buss bars in homebuilts? It will have a comm unit, transponder, and encoder plus a few instrumets. Day VFR only. I have a 15amp alternator. Any suggestions? Charlie.

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

I imagine circumstances dictate this to some degree, but if your A&P does some work for you, do you tip him? Percentage? - Mike

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...

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....

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...

The NiMH AA batteries in the handheld are now almost 6 years old, and are starting to show their age. What's the best deal going on AA batteries these days? Jim Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup) VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor http://www.rst-engr.com ...

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

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.

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...

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

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...

Wanted Continental 0-200 or 0-240 engine still with hrs and bolt it straight in condition. cheers

Sorry, I haven't sent this out for far too long...but for those who don't know, we've got a "picture page" of rec.aviation users (and their aircraft) he http://www.alexisparkinn.com/rec_aviation.htm To see a new update, go here to see some new pix of Ken Reed's AWESOME '91 Mooney...

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...

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.