What are the kit or plans built planes that people use for aerobatics?

I have no flight experience, but I'd like to persue some kind of career as a pilot. My problem is that I have two DUI's and I don't know how that effects my opportunities. Does anyone have any knowledge on this subject? I'm 23 years old and I don't neccessarily have to be a commercial pilot, but...

I tried to go to the AOPA Flight Planning web page today, and found that the only option remaining is to download a Microsoft-only application. This seems annoying. Sure, I was able to go directly to the duat web site, and it was fine. But I'm a member of AOPA, and they've eliminated a benefit...

http://news.airwise.com/stories/2004/02/1077659102.html An assailant stabbed to death the air traffic controller who was on duty when two planes collided over southern Germany in July 2002, killing 71 people, Swiss police said on Tuesday. The 36-year old Danish national, whose name was...

Hi all. I'm a 39 year old guy who has loved flying and dreamt of being a pilot for a long time. This year I finally realized that I had more than enough money to start and figured I owed it to myself to book a discovery flight with every intention of seeing it through to my private pilot's...

Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Dudley Henriques wrote in : Owner wrote: "Ken S. Tucker" wrote in message news:ba21ea5f-fc9b-41b5-9b8c-33784b7e9533 @s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com ... On...

Under what conditions, if any, would you explicitly tell ATC that you are rolling, that is, actually rolling on the runway for take-off? I hear this used occasionally, but I don't know if there are any formal circumstances that merit it, or if it is just at pilot discretion, or what. It is...

Since it is possible to fly without voice radio equipment, and given that (if I understand correctly) pilots are supposed to have their altimeters set correctly to a reference located not more than 100 miles from their position, how does an aircraft without a radio keep its altimeter properly set...

The FAA is about to make it a whole hell of a lot harder for people to build safe amateur built aircraft. Richard VanGrunsven, founder of one of the most successful kit aircraft companies, has written up a warning and a call to arms about the issue. You can read it beginning on page 3 of this...

There is a CRANKSHAFT GEAR RETAINING BOLT AD 2004-10-14 effective June 25 2004, pertaining to certain types of Lycoming engines, which redefines "prop-strike" and states: "(e) Compliance with this AD is required as indicated before further flight if the engine experiences a propeller strike after...

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/forecast/MapClick_spa.php?site=DVN&map.x=121&map.y=125 (or http://tinyurl.com/39s8j5 if that URL wraps...) Does anyone else find it disturbing that the National Weather Service in the United States is paying out taxpayer money to a government employee to create a...

So oil is now over $40/barrel and this is being blamed for the fact that gas is now over $2/gallon and avgas is well over $3/gallon. As one news report put it, oil is the most expensive it has been since the 1970's. Ummm, anyone remember what the price of gas was in the 1970's when oil was pushing...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050504/ap_on_re_us/chicago_truck_scandal Maybe they'll finally arrest King Daley for willful and criminal destruction of public property? Supposedly, he's "hurt, embarrassed and disappointed" that there is actual corruption in Chicago! Imagine that? Ha! I hope...

The latest Military-Civil MAC occurred Tuesday, January 18, 2005. The military pilots stated the Air Tractor impacted the right side of their...

We can only hope. I have found out the Truth. William "Billy Bob Bear" Bottoms, ex aviator/drug smuggler was ordered to Cease And Desist from posting to Usenet. It seems that Jacqueline Bottoms name was associated with Bear Bottoms notorious Usenet posting history and this denigrated her status as...

YAWS (Yet another Weather Site) is accessible from WAP phones: http://activitae.com/wap PDA/Smartphones: http://activitae.com/pda Read about it: http://activitae.com/yaws At the risk of appearing to spam, kindly allow me to re-publicise this free site, bereft of both adverts and pop-ups, to help...

http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=1840777 (link at top of page)

Other than the 'holier than thou' aspects of taildraggers and their pilots, what are their real advantages? Has it to do with prop clearance on unimproved fields, or fatter mains being better in that same environment? Does anyone know if, with the same level of experience pilots, they have a better...

On Sun, 01 May 2005 20:00:07 GMT, "Ed" wrote in :: -1G is nothing more than hanging in your belts during level inverted flight. Isn't also the maximum negative G limit of a C-150 operating in the Normal category? If so, the only...

40 years ago today I was ferrying a F-89J from the Maine Air Guard at Bangor, ME to the Oregon Air Guard at Portland OR. Chugging along at 20K, keeping under the big jet stream blowing east, I was about 150 out of Oklahoma City, my next refueling stop, when ATC came up on frequency and announced...