In the dark sky about 1,100 feet above Chicago's South Loop neighborhood 10 days ago, a Learjet skimmed a mere 200 feet directly over a Southwest Boeing 737 coming in to Midway Airport. The pilots had no warning they would come so close --800 vertical feet closer than FAA limits -- and they knew of...

Hi all, I'm working on an article about the Columbia shuttle disaster. I'd like to exchange emails with folks in the southwest who participated in airborne searchs. It is an aviation magazine and ground search parties don't fit. The editor suggested sticking with involvement by the CAP and/or...

There two strong upper level low pressure systems over the eastern United States. I have never seen a weather system/pattern like this before.

***** "The place where you get out of my car," I said. "The people who Joshua come from," I said. "They're called the Yherajk. In t heir natural form, they look like Jell-O globs. People will be terrified of them. But if they could see them in human form first, it would make it easie r. We need a...

Interesting first person account. Big John `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ANOTHER GREAT ONE! V Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 12:00 PM Subject: Pilot's Account : F-18 Hornet Emergency Night...

Is this the same as "Taxi into position and hold"? From the FAA: Canada: "Line Up and Wait" Instruction Notice Number: NOTC1165 In Canada, controllers currently use the phraseology "TAXI TO POSITION" or "TAXI TO POSITION AND WAIT" when instructing an aircraft to enter the

See 'USAF C-130 with "civilian" GPS mounted on the glare shield' on alt.binaries.pictures.aviation, 02/22/05.

29 1996, Ventura, California, By Katharine Seelye * "Dole Criticizes Clinton as Lax On a Policy to Combat Drugs" * * Dole, speaking out against Proposition 215, which would allow marijuana * to be used as medicine: "If somebody, say from Mexico or any other country, * aimed a missile at...

What do you-all think of the flying bits in Beryl Markham's West With the Night? Evidently there is some question whether she wrote it or her boyfriend did.

My friend Lee and I sat along runway 18 on Sunday as the arrivals come into Oshkosh. Many pilots did a great job, but there were some notable exceptions: Chills: A Pitts snuck in under a Cessna on 18R, and the Cessna almost lost its tail to the prop of the Pitts. The controller kept telling the...

Well, After a trip to the lawyer today to get the paperwork going I am now a week away from being an old Georgia Bound Hound! Has anyone heard of any sport pilot activity around Augusta, GA. I know the EAA group pretty much hangs out at a little grass strip called the Pea Patch out towards...

One thing I find amusing about this "TRUTH" joker is that his posts are marked as not to be archived. I guess he realises that if they stay around someone down the line will point to them as evidence of his foolishness. tim gueguen 101867

I was looking at the specs on a new G36 Bonanza it has the usefull load around 1000 #s. My question is why do the older ones have up to a 500 #s more load. I am reading it wrong. If this is true why would anyone buy one. I love my A36 but a new Cirrus has a better payload. Why would they have 6...

I noticed this today. It might be of interest to the group for occasional reference if not regular reading. alt.satellite.gps.garmin

I arrived at KTZR/Bolton Field/Columbus OH at 0930 this morning for what I was told would be a 1000-1030 arrival of the donated FedEx 727. By 1125, I could no longer wait (had to go pick up my son from summer school at 1145). As I was leaving the airport boundaries, I heard the crew call inbound...

I'm planning a trip for mid-May from WHite Plains, NY (KHPN) to Santa Fe, NM (KSF). I'm wondering if anyone here has made a similar flight and has any advice for me. I will be single-pilot IFR, will be flying a Beech Debonair and am planning to file for a TAS of 165kts at 10,000'. I've broken the...

"Green Xenon " wrote in : Richard Crowley wrote: "Green Xenon " wrote ... The emergency doors of airplanes are coated with synthetic leather. No. Not here on planet Earth. Where are you writing from?

Eeyore wrote in : wrote: HYDERABAD: In a slip up hours after the Shamshabad airport opened for business, a KLM flight from Amsterdam which was supposed to land at Hyderabad

Is the VAT. Get rid of income tax and implement the VAT, invented by the French-whose population believes tax avoidance is morally right and proper and therefore must be taxed in an avoidanceproof manner-and we all will benefit.

The folks at CSI:Miami never let things like 'fact checking' or 'realism' get in the way of the story. Even though the show has reprehensible science, their dogged consistency is almost worthy of grudging admiration. Most shows (no matter how badly they might try to stay completely ridiculous)...