when I look at my eyeglass case, I see two closely overlapping wing-type shapes that are being pulled apart for opening. why would it not be worthwhile to extend wings this way for landing and departure? /iaw

We're just a few weeks away from America's only fly-in pool party at our aviation themed hotel, the Alexis Park Inn & Suites! We're located right next to Rwy 25 in Iowa City, IA (KIOW). Here is your official invitation: http://www.alexisparkinn.com/iowa_city_pool_party.htm Heading to OSH from...

For the past several days I have only been averaging about 1 to 5 messages per day. That's way down from normal! I mean, there are usually that many from Juan alone...anybody else seeing this problem? Scott

Toks Desalu wrote in message Can you believe this? I studied regulation back in college and don't remember any specific regulation that said the hand must be at control at all time. Anybody can point it out? Why they really want to make us look bad? The airplane was a DHC-6 Twin Otter...

I'm looking for a 35-50 hp 2 stroke suitable for a legal 103.7 ultralight. Anybody here know of a Rotax 477 or 503 - or a suitable substitute that is not being used by some other fool? Now I know that "friends don't let friends fly 2 strokes", but with the (bleepin') catch-22 in the spot pilot...

Has anyone come up with an estimated cost of a sport pilot license versus a regular pilot's license. Then would it be reasonable to add the requirements for a pilot's license later? Any thoughts and comments are appreciated. Gary

For what it is worth, I just received the following notice: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APA 35 October 1, 2004 Contact: Greg Martin or Tony Molinaro

Barrel rolls all the way up!!! You KNOW Zoom was at the controls!!!! -- Dionysos

I sold my experimental airplane sometime ago but I'm looking at buying another one at this time. I always flew over cities and used my RV-6 just like I would any other airplane with a normal category airworthiness certificate. But, I remember reading something here once about some letter that we...

"...but I don't have a lathe." Sound familiar? The truth is, you probably have any number of things around your shop that can serve as a lathe. In a lathe, the work rotates against the cutting tool. ( In a milling machine, it's the cutting tool that rotates against the work.) The main purpose...

The local EAA chapter has a lathe, drillpress, milling machine, etc set up in the back of the chapter house. As far as I can tell, the lathe hasn't been used in a while. When I asked, someone rightly replied they were concerned someone might hurt themselves using the lathe. Having had some training...

Robert Baslee's company - Airdrome Aeroplanes - makes kits (very good ones IMO) for various WWI aircraft, including Nieuports and Fokkers. http://www.airdromeaeroplanes.com/ Robert was contracted by the movie company to built two - later changed to four - full-scale Nieuport 17 replicas. Robert...

Did anyone noticed that Zoom claimed, under oath, to have received an appointment to a military academy?

Have they tried dimples on radio controlled aircraft? The size and speed could designed around the magic Reynolds number = 100,000 where the coefficient of drag drops precipitously. Dimpling could vastly extent the range of large and slow as well as small and fast radio controlled aircraft. A...

For those of you that are near to Las Vegas.... The memorial service for Bill is April 18th (Saturday) at Palm Mortuary 6701 N. Jones Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89131 starting at 1:00pm (702-464-8470) (800-542-2902) Bill died in the crash of his homebuilt airplane on October 18, 2008 near Parowan,...

Is it possible to change the operating limitations of your homebuilt after it has been certified? Let me take the more extreme case... I was wondering, if one owned (or bought) an RV3, is it possible to change the operating limitiations to have a red line of 120 knots, and a maximum continous RPM...

what is a fender washer? in which situation is it used?

Firstly, I am new here although I've been reading for a few days. For anyone with more knowledge than I, I keep considering building a small 4 wing aircraft. Not stacked, but two up front and two in the rear. I have read frequently of problems supposedly resulting from interference of...

I thought I had this compressor power thing down to a pretty good science until they started screwing around with "rated watts" and "peak power" and all that crap that makes their compressor look really good until you go to use it. Back when we were using "real" horsepower I used a figure of...

I just found some more info on the RV6A that went down in Stanwood, Wa (30 mi north of seattle). The aircraft registration http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=154RM&cmndfind.x=15&cmndfind.y=12 Says the engine was an O-320 series. She told her husband just before the...