"Ken S. Tucker" wrote in : On Jan 19, 4:34 pm, FledgeIII wrote: Ken S. Tucker wrote: On Jan 19, 3:26 pm, Mxsmanic wrote: Some Other Guy...

"Ken S. Tucker" wrote in : In my old neighbourhood them would have their faces washed with dog-****. Yeh.....Now this I believe..

After looking at Skycatcher quite a bit I decided it looks fine, nice, not great, just o.k. My dad was responsible for the "Texas Taildragger" C-150, 152, 172 conversions and I think the Skycatcher would look GREAT with a tailwheel. Then again, almost anything looks better with a tailwheel....

Eeyore wrote in : john bates wrote: *** I've heard of fly by wire but don't know much about it - What bugs me is that if it were just engine failure, that must mean that controls were not affected.

FledgeIII wrote in news:6ab7d2bf-0fd4-4cc8-a60c- : On Jan 19, 6:28 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Surprise Bertie Say Bertie...

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:01:53 +0000 (UTC), in the land of alt.usenet.kooks, Bertie the Bunyip got double secret probation for writing: "Ken S. Tucker" wrote in news:5b77e4d2-4e25-4e2a- : Saw you posted in SPF, way...

"David T. Ashley" wrote in : e)Landing gear damage ... somebody said the plane must have hit hard (high vertical velocity). Not necessarily true. Absolutely true.

Eeyore wrote in : john bates wrote: "Eeyore" wrote john bates wrote:

Eeyore wrote in : john bates wrote: The fact that some experienced people all mentioned the nose high attitude before a stall (Which was the case due to the very short distance it travelled on the grass)

"Ken S. Tucker" wrote in news:2505a7ec-fb86-4660- : On Jan 19, 3:09 pm, FledgeIII wrote: On Jan 19, 5:57 pm, "Ken S. Tucker" wrote: Whirly-Birds aren't quite the...

Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Eeyore wrote Windshear is AIUI all but unknown at Heathrow. It requires certain meteorological conditions that are exceptionally rare in the UK AIUI. Nope, wrong I'd be delighted to hear you elaborate on that...

Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Eeyore wrote The problem with Air Canada was partly due to unfamiliarity with the use of mixed imperial and metric measure. Plus an aircraft flying with inoperative equipment. Not an issue here. Nope.

Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Eeyore wrote in The BA crew would have had to ignore EICAS to have got caught out by fuel starvation. Nope. Are you saying that there wouldn't have been any low qty or low fuel

Bertie the Bunyip wrote: If. lke you suggested, it had been a minute earlier, Slough would look very different today. Call yourself a pilot do you ? They were nowhere NEAR Slough. It would have been Hounslow that'd have copped it.

Of the multiple VFR corridors do any stand out as more scenic? Ron Lee

Antique planes at an airshow were escorted to the ground because the King was visiting nearly 30 miles away: http://us.cnn.com/2007/US/10/08/forced.landings.ap/index.html Not sure how much of an airshow you can have if nobody is allowed to fly.

.....could be so entertaining. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz7FI_S0_NE -- Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. ~ Lenny Bruce

I live in Athens, GA near KAHN. On a nice weekend day GA activity is pretty heavy. On Saturday I was outside with my kids (6 and 4) while they were doing various things kids do, including drawing on the driveway with sidewalk chalk. I noticed a lot of planes in the air so I pulled out my ICOM...

Here's what can happen if you haven't set your altimeter correctly: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=alo_XWCqNUQ January, 2004, of the USAF Thunderbirds F-16 ejection at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. This compilation produced for AVweb by Glenn Pew (...

Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Eeyore wrote Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Eeyore wrote Explainer wrote: Pretty obvious from the descriptions of witnesses and passengers that at least one...