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Biplane rigging question by
[email protected]
On Monday, February 5, 2001 7:59:03 AM UTC+11, Dick Ripper wrote:
I'm researching a personal project and have run across the following
statement which I don't understand and wonder if someone could explain it to
me:
"Most people don't know how to rig a biplane (I don't)
and this one is...
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Bill Boeing, Jr., son of company's founder, dies at 92 ... by
Larry Dighera
To:
Subject: Boeing Chairman and CEO McNerney Statement on William E. Boeing, Jr.
From: Boeing News
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 16:30:14 -0500
News Release Issued: Jan 8, 2015 (4:30pm EST)
To view this release online and get more information about Boeing,...
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Notam's ?? how are they enforced and by whom? by
richard
Wash DC's Notam is interesting to note as it specifically states basically
any type of unmanned remote controlled device is forbidden from flying in
the area.
Should I fly my drone in that restricted space, which law enforcement
agency has authority to cite me?
As I understand, only the FAA can...
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Drone Pilot Settles With FAA Over Video Flight by
Larry Dighera
Drone Pilot Settles With FAA Over Video Flight
http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Drone-Pilot-Settles-With-FAA-Over-Video-Flight223441-1.html
A drone pilot who fought a $10,000 government fine for filming video with an
unmanned aircraft in 2011 has settled his case for $1,100 without...
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video - pilot runs out of fuel, pops parachute by
Skywise
http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/01/26/vo-pilot-emergency-escape.u-s-coast-
guard
"The pilot of a single engine aircraft that ran out of fuel is safe after
ditching his aircraft more than 200 miles northeast of Maui,...
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February 2nd 15 08:53 PM
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FAA Proposed Drone Rules To Be Revealed Sunday by
Larry Dighera
Proposed Drone Rules Revealed Sunday
The FAA and Department of Transportation will hold a rare Sunday morning news
conference to release the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on the use of
small unmanned aerial systems in the National Airspace System (NAS). In an even
more rare Saturday night...
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NASA X: Unmanned Aircraft Systems-Transforming the Horizon by
Larry Dighera
Anyone with an interest in learning how the 20,000 drones (UAS) expected by
2020 will be integrated into the National Airspace System will find the
information in this Emmy Award winning NASA video informative. The various
NASA departments and people charged with the four main aspects of the task...
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Jetpack IPO Raises $27 Million by
Larry Dighera
http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Jetpack-IPO-Raises-27-Million-223610-1.html
Jetpack IPO Raises $27 Million
By Mary Grady | February 24, 2015
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Continental Motors Receives FAA Certification For 91UL Engine
Remote Control Tower To Be Tested In Virginia
Santa Monica...
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Headset Service - Lightspeed by
[email protected]
I have had good service from Lightspeed in the past, but have an issue now that I need assistance on. My headband is cracking and will break in two soon, as it did once before. They do not service 20XL units any longer, due to their age. If there is anyone out there with one that maybe the...
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March 21st 15 02:00 PM
by Vaughn
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Burning oil by
Dallas
Why do reciprocal engines burn so much oil?
I've always wanted to know...
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Dallas THE AGMSFS GROUP HAS MOVED AWAY TO:
http://forums.delphiforums.com/flightsimulator/start
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March 22nd 15 05:27 AM
by Dallas
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GA Priced Out Of The Market? by
Larry Dighera
One might infer from the following article, forecasting a down turn in
fixed-wing piston aircraft sales, that GA is continuing to slide further toward
extinction. With the inexorable increase in fuel prices over the decades since
I passed my Private check-ride, the increase in insurance premiums...
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NASA's Electric Airplane Project Moves Forward by
Larry Dighera
Mentioned in the NASA video at the YouTube link below are the reasons this
revolutionary technology are an exciting step forward for aviation.
* Four horsepower per pound are achievable with electric systems. This is
comparable to turbine engine performance.
* Ninety-five percent...
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Aerobatic training in Washington/Oregon by
Ben Jackson
I'd like to get some aerobatic training in the Washington/Oregon area.
I'm near Portland, but I'd be willing to fly a few hours out to another
airport. I don't want to fly in competition (or even solo for that
matter) just for fun. But I do want training (starting with spins, for
example) not...
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commercial in flight refueling? by
Skywise
http://www.space.com/29079-is-in-flight-refueling-coming-to-commercial-
airlines.html
errr....uhmmm... uhhh... yeah... right...
Brian
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http://www.earthwaves.org/forum/index.php - Earth Sciences discussion
http://www.skywise711.com - Lasers, Seismology, Astronomy, Skepticism
Sed quis custodiet...
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FAA Wants To Cancel 736 NDB, VOR/DME Approaches by
Bug Dout
Larry Dighera writes:
The FAA has published a list of 736 NDB and VOR/DME instrument
approaches (PDF:
Well, the NDB stations should disappear. VOR, no opinion, but they all
gotta go at some point.
As for solar flares, etc. OK, I'll take your word for it. Perhaps,...
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Identifying Uses of Municipal Airports by
W[_3_]
Is there a standard data source that would identify the sources of flights
into a small municipal airport? I'm trying to understand two things:
1) What percentage of the flights to and from the airport are from people
living in the vicinity of the airport versus people from outside the area
who...
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Report: Congress Could Pursue Privatizing ATC by
Larry Dighera
This smells like another Boeing boondoggle similar their push to lease air
tankers to the Air Force that resulted in the CEO being fired and the member of
the Pentagon who colluded with Boeing being jailed a few years ago.
Satellite-based ATC reduces air safety by reliance on feeble satellite...
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Airplane Dumped Poop On Girl's Birthday Party, Family Claims by
Must Have Been A Republican Plane
This gives new meaning to the term "party pooper."
A Levittown, Pennsylvania family says their daughter's Sweet 16
birthday party was ruined when a passing airplane dropped human
waste on the celebration Sunday evening.
Joe Cambray, the birthday girl's stepfather, said he was playing
some...
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Solar Powered Aircraft: Still Hobbled By Batteries by
Larry Dighera
http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Solar-Powered-Aircraft-Still-Hobbled-by-Batteries-224100-1.html
Solar Powered Aircraft: Still Hobbled By Batteries
By Paul Bertorelli
With Solar Impulse plying its way around the globe, solar-powered flight is
getting plenty of press, but there are dozens...
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