Are they going to through the book at this jerk, or what? http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1111-full.html#197777 Laser Prankster Nabbed By Victim, A Pilot Hit twice on the same night by a laser beam, Mark Westwood, a helicopter pilot for the British police, found...

Could someone fill me in on the Aerostar fuel system? The one in question is a 602P. IIRC, Ted Smith designed it as a "Leave it alone and burn all the fuel in the airplane" type system. But wasn't there a lawsuit over one years ago? Al G

Ham radio and general aviation (GA) have a lot of things in common. Among them a They are both technology oriented. The members of each can't understand why more people aren't interested in

Hi Folks, First off, apologize for the long URLs. Was visiting a geek site the other day, and ran across a really cool shot. It is a shot of a cruise missile in flight. The addy for this shot, located on Google maps, is as follows: ...

Just curious if anyone reading this group has ever piloted an airship.

Who else makes an in-ear aviation headset other than Clarity Aloft and Lightspeed? I thought I had seen reference to another one, cheaper, from a start-up, within the last few months? It had an "obvious" sort of URL like "inearheadset.com" or something like that (obviously not obviouse enough for...

Here is the theme song for the TV news coverage of the Lidle crash: Don Henley, Dirty Laundry, from I Can't Stand Still album "I make my living off the Evening News Just give me something-something I can use People love it when you lose, They love dirty laundry Well, I coulda been an actor, but I...

Anybody have good information about this event? It's supposed to be the 22nd-25th at Wynkoop (6G4) in Mt. Vernon, OH but I am not having any luck tracking down an events web page for it. I have a friend that is just dying to see a biplane up close. -- Hello, my name is Mike, and I am an airplane...

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Hi all, Been trying to get my medical file from the FAA (my 3-rd class is coming up for renewal and I don't remember what I put on the application 3 years ago). I searched the FAA's website and didn't find any official forms for requesting this info, all they seem to require is a "signed...

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Does anybody know a place that offers complex airplane renting/instruction in Southern Illinois? Thanks!

http://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=19646 "Chris" wrote in message news:... some good photos of flying in the Alps. Total lunatics most of them.

"I have some friends that fly 210's for Flight Express. Lycoming is providing a new engine at a very modest price to Flight Express and in return they are debugging and refining the engine for Lycoming. The engine is an IO-550P3 and produces 325 HP. The engine has the induction system on top and...

so, as usual before retiring to bed, I am going through the scriptures, i.e., 14 CFR, and tonight I was perusing chapter 61 -- which I am sure is on everyone's bed stand -- and came across a part that I haven't fully memorized yet :-) This is part 61.31(j)(2). Part 61.31 covers those...

South side, towards the west, W83 deg 09 min, N45 deg 08 min, just above the box for the Alpena VORTAC. Is that a shipwreck with mast sticking up, or what? Seems that the water would be too deep there for a mast to be visible. I can't remember ever seeing that symbol before. Anyone? David

Maurice Kirk flew his L-4 Piper Cub up to Taipei yesterday, May 15, and may make an attempt to reach Koreak today. See the photo at http://p196.ezboard.com/fwarbirdsforumfrm7.showMessage?topicID=106.topic In April 2001, Maurice was a camp-follower in the London-Sydney Air Race, keeping up with the...

MAKING MONEY I found this on a bulletin board and decided to try it. A little while back, I was browsing through newsgroups and came across an article similar to this that said you could make thousands of dollars within weeks with only an initial investment of $6.00! So I thought, "Yeah right,...

Yesterday a coworker and I decided to fly out to Lancaster PA to their pilot shop because he wanted to look at purchasing a transceiver. This was our first time flying together, but we did do the ATOP course at Continental as a team. We decided that we would rent a plane from my FBO and that we...

Hello. I'm a CFI planning on doing training for the new Light Sport Pilot certificate. I put together a very short survey about attitudes towards LSP, and requesting some information that might be helpful in serving this market. It is an anonymous survey, and it only takes a few minutes. I'd...