Can anyone explain bug smashing? I can drive my car around for a month, often at 80 mph on the freeways and maybe get two or three bugs on the windshield. Yet an airplane has every leading edge covered in layer of dried bug in a matter of days. Wouldn't you think there wouldn't be any bugs up...

He was able to start the engines and roll for a while along the ground, but couldn't steer and ended up in a soybean field, after doing $160,000 of damage to the twin-engine aircraft: http://www.theindychannel.com/news/14747901/detail.html?rss=ind&psp=news

Schwan's Corp. (parent company of Red Baron pizza) announced today that the Red Barons are permanently grounded. After 28 years of sponsorship they are redirecting their marketing efforts away from air shows. RED BARON SQUADRON GROUNDED The Red Baron Squadron, a team of four vintage Stearman...

Plane out of annual YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Got to commit aviation!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQHa0Gohgmc is the two touch and goes earlier today. 85 degree temps and fall leaves doesn't compute in my brains, nor does wearing summer clothes on December 8th STILL compute after 7 years being down...

Al(Race Card) Sharpton and Jesse (Race Warlord) Jackson OK so called Mr.Civil Rights Icons Where ya at???? http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316101,00.html I bet the Jungle Apes get off

http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=24383 Be sure to check out his pictures!] Expanding My Flying Comfort Zone by Ron Lee Prior to getting my RV-6A I had perhaps 250 hours over 20 plus years. My cross country experience was limited. I did not like to talk to ATC. I had never...

That was the NOTAM for all of our local airports yesterday. With the winds gusting to 20 knots, at a 60 degree crosswind, the thought of landing on ice-covered runways sounded like...fun! But then, we live in the Upper Midwest, so we're a bit odd that way... ;-) Off to the airport we went --...

Study: High Risk of Catastrophic Runway Collisions in U.S. Airports WASHINGTON — There is "a high risk of a catastrophic runway collision occurring in the United States" because of faltering federal leadership, malfunctioning technology and overworked air traffic controllers, congressional...

Expanding My Flying Comfort Zone Prior to getting my RV-6A I had perhaps 250 hours over 20 plus years. My cross country experience was limited. I did not like to talk to ATC. I had never flown in the mountains in all the years I had lived in Colorado and less than ideal/good weather flights were...

My brother recently lost a friend of his in a diving accident. And my brother, as a former sailor on the wreck that the accident happened on (HMCS Cape Breton), a local PADI dive instructor and an expert in deep diving techniques, had to go in to find the body after the RCMP tried for two days and...

Political Correctness is killing our Government(Ex. Katrina, two lost space shuttles, 9/11, etc. etc.) There is ONLY one way to save our critical Government functions in America from collapse ONLY one way FOR ALL SAFETY AND HUMAN LIFE CRITICAL FUNCTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AMERICA...

What the?!?! This is exactly the kind of sensationalism that whuffos like to push. If this would have been recreational golfers returning from a weekend away, would this have been a golfing accident?

I do! Cessna wins Columbia Bid Cessna Aircraft will acquire the assets of Columbia Aircraft of Bend, Ore., following a successful bid for the firm in U.S. bankruptcy court on Nov. 27. Cessna says it wants to "broaden its single-engine product portfolio." Cessna's winning bid was $26.4 million,...

Due to the substantial change of technology advancements, so many things appear to have changed all around us. In recent years, the ease of use of wireless data transfer has been furnished due to the newer technology of Bluetooth... http://personaltechinfo.googlepages.com/bluetooth_gps

Here is the answer (well, closer than a guess) to my questions about pilots: See: http://www.prb.org/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleHaveEverLivedonEarth.aspx Using these numbers (through 2002) the best estimate is that 106 billion humans have ever lived on this planet. If we use the estimate of 5...

I was reading Bertie & Dudley's analysis of some low level aerobatics gone bad. They used a fair amount of terminology I wasn't familiar with. What are the classic books on aerobatics?

Took the airplane up to 16.5K today to see what she'd do and have my first experience sucking oxygen. It is truly satisfying to sit back and watch the airplane hold 800 FPM all the way up. Performance was a bit better than book: 164 KTAS at 27" and 2400 RPM, 14.6 GPH, 50 deg. ROP. I'm in love...

My and my friend are landscape photographers needing to do a photo shoot over the Marin Headlands GGB area. The requirements a 1) There will be two of us (photographers) 2) Need to be over the area +/- 10min of sunrise 3) Need to open windows to stick the camera lens out 4) Need to do this on a...

Check out the occluded front on this thing that is starting to hit where I work.

Anybody have the link to the FAR that states what the requirements are for IFR approved GPS's and the database currency for those units.