What I love about this funky illustration from 1960 Mechanix Illustrated is the carefree look on the passenger's faces even though they are pulling like 2 gees as their escape pod drogues away from the burning aircraft. http://glikglik.blogspot.com/2005/03/escape-pods.html

Here is a bit of aviation history. 67 years ago, on 16 December 1936 in Finland, Helsinki Airport at Malmi was first opened to traffic. Helsinki-Malmi Airport is possibly the best-preserved still active international airport left in the world from the pre-WWII era. The milieu of this...

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I'm toying with the idea of a trip to Australia for a few weeks. What's involved in renting a plane there with a US pilot's license? Is it possible?

As we did last year, AeroFile is celebrating the Holiday Season (and my Birthday) with a sale of sorts. From December 1 to December 24, 2003, when you order copy of "Military Aircraft Designations and Systems" we will pay your shipping. What a great Holiday gift. We still have some...

Can anyone help me with information on flying clubs in the Miami or Ft Lauderdale, FL, area, please? I am also interested in aicraft for rent, such as Piper Archer, Piper Arrow, Cessna 182, Bonanza and/or Saratoga (i.e. IFR capable, single engine, land). Thank you, Cameron P.S. you can email me...

Does anyone have any experience with running 100LL in a generator? I picked up a small and quiet (900 Watt) genny a week or so back for Oshkosk, and am considering the fuel options for it once we get there. The manual was of only minor help, mentioning a minimum of 87 Octane "unleaded". Its the...

I was looking at the FAA N-number database. Everything seems to have a mode S code, even a friend's balloon that doesn't have a transponder. Can anybody explain that?

Some familiar, some not so http://www.shartwell.freeserve.co.uk/humor-site/ground-crew.htm and the first ever air accident report http://www.shartwell.freeserve.co.uk/humor-site/icarus-accident.htm !

I'm interested in purchasing a package weather instrumentation system possibly with some other environmental sensory data packages ... any suggestions? It is for a small airport with moderate traffic. I am looking for manufacturer suggestions who are reliable with good accurate repeatable...

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I will be flying (IFR if necessary) to ALM from the west (Socorro) on a weekend. Does anyone know what routing to expect to avoid the many restricted areas of the White Sands Missile Range and Holloman AFB? N. Schwartz http://www.nsapc.com

Would like to hear from anyone who has a good set of Tomahawk gear axles and brakes Calipers for sale. Thanks in advance Spar

Say, there was a line of thunderstorms, and from the clouds one could hear a continual monotonous roar as if a jet plane or two were hanging stationary inside the clouds, for several minutes. Is this the sound of wind shear?

Hello folks, I will be in Paris in about a fortnights time and was hoping that I could hire an aircraft to do some private flying. Somewhere to the north or northeast in preference. The license side I have already sorted out. I have found a few aeroclubs in the area which seem to be OK, but...

I recently discovered a beuatiful little treasure in the form of a National Geographic from Sept 65, the majority of which is a huge article on the US Air Force at the time. The opening article was written by Gen LeMay who had just retired. It was SAC's glory days, there were 800,000 people in...

For the Canadian homebuilders or future builders in southern Ontario, the Europa kit plane factory folks will be attending the Aviation Expo http://www.canadianaviationexpo.com/html-frame.html (Canada's largest aviation show) this weekend on June 18th at the Oshawa Airport, with a tri-gear demo...

I'm going to be in plane camping at Oshkosh this year, and I'm wondering how I'm going to keep my camera batteries and iPod charged. I know from harsh experience that keeping the airplane master on to use a cigarette lighter adaptor runs down the plane battery pretty damn fast, so that's not a...

https://www.prosper.com/public/groups/group_home.aspx?group_short_nam... We are a prosper group looking to loan money to the aiviation community. Buy a plane , upgrade your or money for training. No collateral. Please log...

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