Hello! Here's a bit of aviation-historical news: http://www.pelastamalmi.org/en/bulletins/wmf2005.html . Historic Helsinki-Malmi Airport, Finland, has been reselected to the global List of 100 Most Endangered Cultural sites by the World Monuments Fund. A landmark from the dawn of commercial...

Astronaut charged with kidnap attempt By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. - A NASA astronaut charged with attempting to kidnap a romantic rival in a love triangle with another astronaut was allowed to go free on bail Tuesday on the condition that she not contact the alleged...

Had to replace the cast iron/steel/whatever cylinder (Piper part 65319) on my cherokee a couple years ago because of a crack (which later was an AD, but my A&P caught it early). The shop presented it to me with the comment "it'll make a *great* lamp base!". Well, not for me. I don't think any of...

Flying is a dream for most people. Why not share our passion with them by sharing our air pictures? http://www.airpictures.net is a completely free and open gallery where anyone can add his or her own air pictures and make them available to any visitor. Pictures can be protected against illegal...

Flying is a dream most people can't share. Why not share our passion with them by sharing our air pictures? http://www.airpictures.net is a completely free and open gallery where anyone can add his or her own air pictures and make them available to any visitor. Pictures can be protected against...

Dear friends: I want to send you a link for a photo of an Air Europa B737-800 at the final approach to the 03 runway of Lanzarote Airport (ACE), Canary Islands. It's not St. Marteen but it is, at least in Spain, the most spectacular approach over the sea. I invite you to come to Lanzarote if you...

I was impressed when I found this one. A guy named Mark Ecko penetrates Airforce 1 security, makes it to the President's plane and spray-paints it with Graffiti, wow, and was not busted. He could have easily attached anything he wanted to. In this case it was only black Spray-paint. You got to see...

A friend sent me this website, showing a KILLER Bonanza! http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/1953.htm

A340 VIP : http://www.airliners.net/open.file/446503/L/ Airplane.

Here is some source code in java for a remote compass display. I wrote it so a cheap gps and old laptop could do something useful in a plane. The cheap gps usually has no remote antenna, so the gps is remoted to say, the window area. It is a low budget version of the old style DG. And the nice...

A new wiki is available at http://aviation.freeprohost.com/ (until we get a better url) as a meeting place for all things aviation. Please populate it, I guarantee it will be useful. Use this topic to give feedback on the website, improvements that could be made, etc. Thank you.

Hi, I'am ex Air Force mechanic ( 10 years experience on fighters)who hasn't touched an aircraft in some 15 years(went to work in the computer industry, was good while it lasted ). For various reasons( would like a steady job with benefits, enjoy working with hands, challenging work suits me, love...

Hi all, I'm thinking of going back to school for AMT. Just wondering if all the schools are pretty much the same, or if some are lots better. And do employers really care. Or if anyone cares to comment on their own training -- what should I look for in an A&P program, what sort of experience...

hey im looking for a good newsgroup or webpage that has alot mechanics keeping in touch.Anyone have any good ones?..maybe forums?

Is there an airshow around? A pair of them appeared to have taken off in formation and headed back toward the airport.

I was sitting on a Northwest Airbus A-330 a few Sunday's ago at Tokyo Narita airport waiting for everybody to board on the flight back to Seattle, when I noticed something strange with the ailerons. Both ailerons were at their full downward deflection at about 30 degrees. Things like this can...

The A-4 Skyhawk was an attack aircraft designed to operate from US Navy aircraft carriers. Some of the A-4 Skyhawk variants served with Blue Angels, the Navy's flight demonstration squadron. Warplanes.com offers the A-4 Skyhawk model aircraft flown by the Blue Angels. The model aircraft was made...

A300 from Islandflug Cargo in Luxembourg operating under Cargolux flight number Pictures under http://decker.antoine.free.fr

Anyone out there know the aprox time to change an engine on a A310-300??? and associated time to test before return to flight?? Many Thanks Andy

Hi there! Can some of you help me, I wonder about the avionics of the A380. Is the "avionics philisofy" of the A380 really different from the the one used on the other airbus aircraft? What are the mean changes in avionics? Or can we compare the systems with the A340 systems? Thanks for your...