Man this guy was amazing in rally cars, this really bites, his 5 year old son was with him too. Terrible. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/article2461339.ece --------------------------------- DW

My first dumb question for the day: With all the renewed Cub interest due to LSA, I haven't see any available with tricycle gear. Have I just missed them, or is there a fundamental reason (e.g. low thrust line would make propeller too small) why no one is making them? P.S. If purists want to...

BRAZIL - How to learn about a new culture. The Open School Institute (www.open-english.com.br), a traditional Brazilian Cultural Center, has innaugurated the BRAZILIAN CULTURE packages ... You may choose: get to know about Brazilian business, music and language ... The soul of Brazilian movement...

Man, we wanted to attend this year, but things at the ol' hotel just haven't cooperated. Between remodeling, personnel, and football season, we just can't get away right now. Anyone going? Anyone there? PIREPs, please? -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com

My father has a C182 in which I have been to about 10K ft MSL. I am currently working on my license and am considering building a Velocity or Aerocanard, both of which have ceilings up into Class A airspace, one as high as FL250. (Before anyone cautions me about building one of these, I know two...

Dave Butler wrote: http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/954-full.html#196146 "An air traffic controller didn’t tell Scott Crossfield he was headed for a storm, but then Crossfield didn’t ask, either." The avweb article links to this Washington Post story: ...

Got to fly right seat in the EAA's Ford Tri-Motor this afternoon. Quite an experience. It's such a low speed, high lift aircraft, it seems to literally leap into air with 10 to 15 kts down the runway. It felt like I was flying an 11 seat, 1350 hp ultralight. It's certainly the most unusual...

Well, it looks like FAA Administrator Marion Blakey finally got it right: Marion Blakey's Last Day as FAA Administrator BLAKEY TAKES PARTING SHOT AT AIRLINES (http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/952-full.html#196129) Marion Blakey made her last speech...

With all the gloomy posts about GA, I thought I'd post about a great day I had flying with my Dad and my 6 year old son. We flew from RHV in San Jose, out to Castle AFB (KMER) to see the museum and get lunch. Everything went smoothly. I helped the briefer identify useful airports to get the...

Looks like an old airplane wing frame in the DG_60cm kml file: 38.289163 N -118.499552 W

So far, I have three new image databases issued over the past week or so by Geoeye (through the Amazon Mechanical Turk site) for the web Steve Fossett search. Were there only three? Or am I missing a fourth that I neglected to save out of my GoogleEarth temporary folder? Anyway: possible old...

http://us.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/09/16/thailand.crash/index.html

http://fox40.trb.com/ In an amazing coincidence, a Sacramento TV station was at Cameron Park airport filming background for a story about the crash of a plane that had departed earlier in the day and caught a second crash on video. Go to the web site and click on "Cameron Park Plane Crash" on the...

I found it he http://www.paragonair.com/public/docs/Safety_Pamphlets/P8740-53.html It's about a third of the way down a long page. Instructors, especially, should know this stuff. Some of the rest of us might be interested in doing it anyway. Dan

http://www.ktvb.com/news/regional/stories/ktvbn-sep1307-plane_crash.cec60c05.html

I'm considering Horton Stack doors (the type that fan-fold to the side) for a hangar. One question is the expected lifespan of the fiberglass panels. If anyone has direct knowledge of this brand in actual use over an extended time, I'd appreciate your feedback. Thanks. - Frank

I've flown several times on Midwest Airlines' Boeing 717 aircraft, and recently two things happened that I never experienced and hope a pilot might explain. First, about an hour into the flight I smelled what seemed like jet engine exhaust. That lasted for about 10 minutes. The other was...

I am looking for a headset for my 2.5 year old son. I have been through the prior posts on the subject but they are quite old. The two that I have been looking at are the Softcomm Child Prince C-45-10 and the Sigtronics S-20Y. Does anyone have an opinion on either of these headsets or...

The new multi billion 9000 foot fancy piece of concrete called 10/28 at ATL New concrete that was supposed to help delays all over America ILS Cat 2 and 3 OTS for weeks Why? ILS Interference from power lines

A friend of mine passed me this article about the deadly thermal currents over Nevada. What a hoot! I've been flying over deserts for 20 yrs. and never realized how much danger I was in! http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/13/MNJTS506U.DTL Here's a sample : "Shane...