http://tinyurl.com/dayj8 NewScientist.com Take a leap into hyperspace * 05 January 2006 * From New Scientist Print Edition * Haiko Lietz

....without any noobs reposting that stupid Night Before Christmas rhyme about Santa. A good start for 2009. -- Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. ~ Andre Gide

"This engineering was in a museum Aircraft technicians in Moscow earlier. But when a museum have closed, engineering have put on a separate platform open-air and it became nobody necessary." Nevermind the broken English. Photos of what's apparently a place near Moscow for abandoned Soviet...

In New Zealand there are two things that are the essence of being a 'good Kiwi bloke'. These are of course playing rugby and having a shed.... http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/ -- ....so long as the media are in corporate hands, the task of social change will be vastly more difficult, if not...

.....could be so entertaining. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz7FI_S0_NE -- Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. ~ Lenny Bruce

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwrk0SwDJhI&feature=related Quite interesting video showing how a spinner is made on a lathe. -- Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. ~ Confucius

Maybe this is old stuff for most on this newsgroup, but I just discovered this. I rarely if ever hawk a particular product on Usenet, but this older DVD set (1998) is fantastic. My brother-in-law gave it to me for Christmas....thinking it was some boring collection of fuzzy black-and-white 1960s...

A friend sent this website url; great pictures of Alaskan bush flying. However the pix are all on a very long single page so you'll need broadband and patience. http://shaunlunt.typepad.com/shootings/ -- The government is us; we are the government, you and I. Theodore Roosevelt

Nice series in the Chicago Trib. Sure, it's written as doom-n'-gloom entertainment rather than dry facts and analysis, but they gotta sell papers. Does make one wonder about our own (general aviation) future. Note: As a courtesy to r.a.p., and against all tradition, followups have been...

This is a report on the Casio Pathfinder PAW1200 and its application in the cockpit of a small aircraft. The PAW1200 has it all: R/C time reception from all atomic clock signals (US, Japan, Germany, and Britain), solar powered, barometer, altimeter, thermometer, compass, alarms, stopwatch,...

Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 9:40 PM Subject: On a Rock in Iowa Check this out !!!!! As you can see corn and beans aren't the only things Iowa has.....This huge rock is located on Highway 25 .There is a huge gravel-rock pit here and the kids used to use if for obscenities, etc but since it...

At 1000 rpm or so, my airplane will taxi and get up to, what, 15-20 kts? But at double the rpm it will fly at 80-90 kts, though it would take a long time to take off. Surely double the rpm produces more than double the propellor thrust...or does it? Anyway, it seems very nonlinear, that is,...

First impressions after viewing the main picture and extra features. It's quite professionally done, but ultimately it's not a flying or aviation DVD, it's the history of Van Nuys Airport. Thus, unless you're familiar with the airport--I'm not--it can be a little boring. I found myself hitting...

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Not my statement. See http://www.longbets.org/4 What sayeth the group wisdom? I think eventually there will be pilotless aircraft, the question is when.

Aircoupe Alon A2 with C90 engine with two props, one 48" pitch and the other 52". It doesn't make the static runup RPM minimums with either one, for instance the 48" prop should be 2225 to 2325 rpm, I averaged out to 2162 rpm. Likewise the 52" prop falls short 100 rpm or more. Three years ago...

Folks, I'm hoping you can help me diagnose an odd EGT gage behavior. Background: 1965 Aircoupe with Continental C90-16F engine (has vacuum pump). Plane based in N. California so freezing temps not a factor (pre-heat not needed nor used). Has both a CHT and EGT on different cylinders, with the...

PARIS - Police at Paris' top airport lost track of a passenger's bag in which plastic explosives were placed to train bomb-sniffing dogs, police said Saturday.... French police said the explosives were harmless and there was no chance of their going off, since no detonators were connected to...

With the demise of 80/87 avgas, I bought a gallon of TCP and will start adding that to the 100LL that I must now buy. However, scouting around the internet I found something that claims to be similar in function but safer: decalin. Here's a blurb from Aircraft Spruce. My questions are, has...

"Geoffrey Barnes" writes: You mean the Mike Busch who just started writing a montly column for AvWeb? He's not "formerly" anything there. He had a very close call with a nasty bout of cancer, and was focused on beating that for a while. But now he's cancer free and...