http://www.tomshardware.com/column/20040430/index.html A Cessna 172 and Piper Cherokee go on an aerial hunt for WiFi access points over the L.A. basin. They find over 4500, and and successfully run Netmeeting betewen the aircraft.

....wasn't anything bad. She's managing a golf tournament almost directly under the final approach at Aurora in Oregon. She called a little while ago all teary-voiced in excitement because a certain B-24 just roared over her head. While she was on the phone, a B-25 passed over. Apparently...

A little background: my wife *DOES* get motion sickness. She's been going along with my airplane building project for many years now and over time has grown comfortable with the concept that building an airplane isn't so hairbrained after all. I've made sure she's been informed of all the...

I loaded up the AOPA flight planner last night and notice a large area in mid western California that had a TFR. The shape was odd, and it was way bigger than anything I had seen. I read the text and it was controlled by the USCG, but I could not find any reason for the TFR. Anyone have any idea...

I read a while back about Evergreen's 747 fire bomber. Saw some impressive pictures of a test drop too. Recently I saw another pic on airliners.net of a converted DC-10 also performing a test drop. Considering the massive weight of the water involved, (the 74 carried 24,000 gals. @ 192,000lb) how...

Why is it gliders have such long slender wings? Would longer chords give as effective lift to drag ratios at typical sailplane speeds, is the wingspan just a more effective way of finding small thermals? My first thought was a long wing would induce more drag at the many edges, but clearly that's...

So, Wichita, Kansas seems to be blessed with a lot of airports and the sectional chart looks pretty busy. To the east of Wichita Mid Continent (ICT), there is Col. Jabara (towerless), Beech Factory (private field w/ tower), McConnell AFB, etc. McConnel's Class D just grazes Beech's towered...

Why do people respond to post by people who are obviously simple minded , inept, clueless, morons, and or trolls? I'm reminded of a saying I once heard, "when you argue with a fool the by standards can't tell the difference." -- Chris W

To add to the list of jokes about my home state of NJ,..... The news reported that over 30 cars were stranded on the side of the road after they filled up at a Lukoil station and received "Bad Gas". Now some would think that turning your airplane into a glider in midair might be better than being...

KHFD; "Beware closed field 1 1/2 m NE". I presume it must have been a NOTAM also -- (but it's not there anymore). That field has been closed for 10+ years, and they just started appending this to the local ATIS. Haven't heard of any incidents, or changes to that closed field.

I read an article in a recent issue of BUSINESS/COMMERCIAL AVIATION. The article discusses the current electronics flight displays and the symbology used for course guidance. The article "explains" why we see the acryonm for Highway-In-The-Sky instead of the other reference, Tunnels-In-The-Sky. The...

PLEASE SEE SEPARATE THREAD EXPLAINING THESE POSTINGS (DIDN'T WANT TO POLLUTE THIS ONE) Why We Fly :

This started on a Mooney list. I cannot for the life of me (and an engineering degree) figure out why a turbo normalizer would be any easier on an engine than a regular turbo. Is this just marketing crap from the turbo normalizer people? Turbo'd engines cost more to run because of the increased...

Once upon a time, very long ago, Santa was having a very bad Christmas. The reindeers had gotten into the eggnog and got themselves quite drunk. Rudolph's nose was bright red, and the reindeer were tangled in their traces. Then as Santa was loading presents on to the sleigh, the runner broke off...

Are VOR's all MH based? I was flightplanning the other day (I must be one of the few poor souls left who flight-plans by hand... I guess I just haven't been flying long enough to get sick of it yet, I consider my flight planning to be 'part of the experience') And I got to thinking- Why in gods...

9/18/2006 - LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. (AFPN) -- Pilot error caused a B-1 Lancer to crash while landing on the runway at a forward-deployed location May 8, 2006, according to an aircraft accident investigation report released here Sept. 18. The co-pilot suffered a minor back injury and the other...

Why are so many things abbreviated in NOTAMs and other similar documents? Even words that aren't very long to begin with are often abbreviated, saving only a letter or two. I can't think of any situation today in which bandwidth would be so severely limited that saving a letter or two would make...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113590319247634291.html?mod=travel_left_column_hs Interesting article that has application in aviation outside of security screening. It might be a reasonably coherent explanation, for example, of why it is so difficult to pick out another plane from ground clutter,...

Below is what was published today on the moderated piloting group, "Pilots of America". As you may recall, this is the piloting group that Dudley Henriques, myself, and a host of others have switched to, now that the cross-posting trolls have emasculated this once-hallowed group. Over on P of...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V06LBgfuxgA Watch it all.