A few days after the 9/11 attacks, Urban Moving System's Israeli owner, Dominick Suter, dropped his business and fled the country. He was in a hurry to flee America that some of Urban Moving System's customers were left with their furniture stuck in storage facilities. The five Israeli army...

The most memorable SR-71 quote that ever heard was: " This plane knows when you are looking out of the window " Larry Dighera wrote: Submitted by: "Martin X. Moleski, SJ" Written by Brian Schul - former sled (SR-71 Blackbird) driver There were a lot of...

We had two interesting encounters with birds on our back and forth trip from Atlanta to College Station, TX over the weekend. The first one occurred when we were about 10 miles south of Easterwood field, located in College Station. In the distance, I picked up a large bird at our altitude...

Hi All, There is a long discussion ongoing in rec.aviation.piloting about what causes lift on a plane. You can read from the link below. Please note that about 80% of the post are mostly ad hominem attacks and should be ignored. There are some small bits of real...

From The Sunday Times October 21, 2007 A sneak peek at the A380 Anyone with a tenner can join the mile-high club, if they're prepared to fool around in a low-cost airline's smallest room. But this week we found out the price of doing it in style: about £4,000. That's what it costs (for two) to...

There is a presidential TFR in Cincinnati on Monday, right smack in the middle of my planned flight route. The notam says the inner 10 mile radius is a no-fly zone, and the outer 10-30 miles radius can be flown with an active VFR or IFR flight plan. I always thought TFR was restricted entirely,...

I just heard from my first Private applicant. He passed! Maybe I should quit, now that I'm batting 100%. :-) -- CP-ASEL, instrument, CFI

Four months late due to software integration and other issues: Republicans and Democrats criticized BOEING CO. (BA) and the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday for a belated, glitch-plagued security pilot program being set up along 28 miles of the Arizona-Mexico...

Saint Alphonsus Liguori says, "Each human life, in being given a Soul, connects the Soul to The Divine in a manner, way that is obvious, and yet cannot be seen, because the Soul makes the individual think on a higher plane, of the importance of human life, and that it is the only living matter that...

not, to date, anything this bad. From Chicago Tribune: "A "firm landing" of a United Airlines plane Tuesday evening at O'Hare Airport sent two people to the hospital with minor injuries, a United spokesman said. The individuals injured in the 8:30 p.m. landing were a passenger and a flight...

I flew into College Station, Texas on Saturday for the Texas A&M/Kansas football game. When I spoke with the preflight briefer, he informed me that the TFR around the game would close the local airfield from 1 hour before to 1 hour after the game. I have no idea how that played out, but I know...

The Real FAA Management Story For a millennium, the world has been plagued with stupid people corrupting society and *******izing the value of life for all of mankind.The intellectually handicapped have been reproducing at a substantially greater rate than those with a fully functional...

This could be huge http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2007/09/17/2003889769.pdf

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/10/19/bc-plane.html 1 dead (pilot) 2 injured. -- Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/ Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; give him a freshly- charged Electric Eel and chances are he won't bother you for...

If anybody went ot Oshkosh and got a picture of the S-Ray......Would you please send it along? Thanks, skywagon185 at msn dot com

I just upgraded to a 496. Is there some great software to transfer my user waypoints and routes from a 396? Thanks, Karl And a little SPAM he I hope this doesn't upset MX and Burnbutt. http://tinyurl.com/2tg4pt

The New York Times today has a feature article on general aviation and the quest for burgers: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/travel/escapes/26burger.html

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We're headed from Atlanta to Houston tomorrow and the winds will be pretty strong right in our face. The usual W- E flow is compounded tomorrow by a low in the Memphis area, causing a much stronger than usual flow from the SW. Despite all that, it looks like we can keep the headwind component...

Eeyore wrote in : Craig wrote: I thought two sub-fired SAMs caused TWA 800. LOL !