Last year marked the first annual Legacy of Speed Unlimited Air Racing Calendar. Done in cooperation with the RENO AIR RACE ASSOCIATION, the full color calendar, which runs from the Air Racing new year of September to September, features historic, never before published photos by noted Air Racing...

I have access to a plating facility (aviation, but it's a jet engine rebuild shop) where I can get my wing fittings plated. My understanding is that 4130 cad plating is just that, cadmium and nothing else, but this shop does it's cad plating by a coating of nickel first and then cad plating.....

Having spent 4-1/2 hours removing and 1 hour replacing a leaking split seal on the front of my flanged crankshaft C-85 , my first flight today still shows leakage.... Never really doing those old Chevy two part split seals well, I guess I'm still inept G. I think I'll be able to better the...

2007 was a different Oshkosh experience for me, from previous years. http://new.photos.yahoo.com/landof10klakes/albums/ Look in album: OSHKOSH 2007 (1st report) 1. The Offer One week before OSH, I was approached by Golden Wings Museum and asked if I would drive out a trailer full of "stuff" for...

I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that Gail and I are going to go from Grass Valley to Oshkosh (via Iowa City) next month burning nothing but ethanol-laced gasahol. The bad news is that we are going to do it in a Subaru wagon. Simple math. With the advent of gasahol the...

Has anybody here heard of VW aeroconversions by a company called metric A/P? Any experiences good or bad? I haven't been able to find them on the Web. -- FF

San Diego enjoys the nation's highest prices for gasoline and electricity. Now we appear to be going for the record in pokiest mail delivery. Yesterday's mail (Saturday, 4 Aug 2007) included letters from Port Angeles, Washington, and Riddells Creek, Australia. Both were post- marked 30...

Anyone looking for an EA81 Subaru engine to convert? I have a free-turning long block (no water pump or oil pump or intake) that appears to be clean and in reasonably good shape - no history for sale in Waterloo Ontario. If interested let me know NOW (before Wednesday night) or after Aug 19th....

Maybe it's just me, but I was there Mon-Wed and it seemed that there was a lot of empy space. Instead of parking the planes back to back they where just wing tip to wing tip. I also noticed that you could grow crops in the ultra light area. I was very interested in looking at a two seat LSA that...

http://www.avweb.com/newspics/FAA_service_fees.pdf Register your plane, $130.00 Process a medical, $42.00 (each time!)

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/oshkosh_2007.htm Pix from the Fly-In Pool Party, the Rec.Aviation HOPS Party, and Airventure. It was one for the books, guys. Enjoy! -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993

I have run across someone who insists that 6061 T6 is not "aircraft grade aluminum". He claims that there are no certified parts made from 6061. I find that hard to believe. Aren't there certified aircraft with welded aluminum frames? -- FF

pump is IN OP for a few more days. today is thurs.

...Spun in down at Dayton. Now all the masters of disaster have gone to the great airshow in the sky... Blue skies forever...

Here are my qualifications: - Two-seat - Either RTF or the type of on-site builder assist where the aircraft is flyable in under a month! - Rotax 912 powered (no other modern aircraft engine has impressed me enough with its reliability).

I created a minor firestorm last year by posting some negative comments about Arlington. It is apparently not a good thing to criticize a volunteer run event. But anyone that knows me knows that my comments are intended as constructive criticism. This year, I'm going to send my criticisms in...

this is cool http://www.solarimpulse.com/

See: http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm#d Well, it wouldn't work for me but the idea might be developed into a pre-solo trainer. . A one hour duration could translate into 45 minute instruction sessions costing $50. Dunno...might work for a flight school. No cross country, of course. That...

I have some older Plexi aircraft windows where the paper protection has been on for a very long time. Some of the paper has shrunk and cracked into strips, but is stuck well onto the plexi. I tried water to soften it, but to no avail. Any suggestions?

What a shame...pretty amazing set of pictures... http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=e0b8b45d-175d-47fe-a063-7ad4367b4d28& http://tinyurl.com/ypxybw (I know many folks thoughts about this web site, so please, no flames)