Here are the web sites of two guys from Northern California flying solo around the world. One, Dean Stahr flying a C-182RG Turbo, turns 80 in Nov. The youngster, Bill Randolph flying an RV-8, turns 77 this fall. My wife and I have talked to Dean on his satellite phone twice Dean's site...

Last weekend, we decided to celebrate my birthday and our anniversary, by flying down to D.C. to see the still-new flight musueum. Very worthwhile for anyone with any interest in aviation. I pinged Ron & Margy and despite their busy schedule was able to get together with them. For those paying...

Anyone have any experience taking small children flying for the first time? Did the kids start screaming the minute the wheels left the pavement or were they pretty calm? Bill

http://www.armyjeeps.net/b52g_bomber_link_simulator.htm H.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050504/ap_on_re_us/chicago_truck_scandal Maybe they'll finally arrest King Daley for willful and criminal destruction of public property? Supposedly, he's "hurt, embarrassed and disappointed" that there is actual corruption in Chicago! Imagine that? Ha! I hope...

A colleague today was describing a movie from "10-15 years ago", which included a guy in the belly turret of a WWII bomber whose landing gear had been shot off. His harness is also stuck. Being an artist, he draws a drawing of the landing gear, and the the plane lands on the "animated" landing...

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http://www.kmsp.com/news/story.asp?1645161 KMSP TV FOX 9 News (Tuesday evening, May 10th) (From the web link) Planes Collide At Twin Cities International Six people were hospitalized tonight after two Northwest airplanes collided on the ground at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. A...

If they file a NASA form, will it save their tickets?

Hi, i would like to know where i can get a flight operations manual for the boeing 474 airplane. No special intentions, i just love airplanes and i could use an old copy if you can. Nice bedside reading, and dreamin as well. You can contact me at http://www.igamis.com my account nr is...

I looked at the timeline of the 152 "Attack" http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=748233 (printed below) I have a few questions? given that the slowest practical weapon is about the speed of a 152 (100 kts) the slowest reasonable threat carrier moves at ~2 miles per minute questions 1. how far away...

For "The Pilot's"? http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/analysis/toons/2005/05/13/mikula/index.html Assholes.

Guys, this is pretty much farewell. As many of you know, Jane and I have been planning for some time to do missionary work in the Philippines. We are finally leaving on Saturday for two weeks of training and then directly from there to Laoag. We will not be back until December of 2006. I don't...

U.S. to Spend Billions More to Alter Security Systems http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000583.html

Some time ago I posted some information about an engineering professor at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering who had developed a new method for removing ice from just about anything using electricity to interact with the ice. I just found out he has a website and folks who are interested can...

I know this subject has been discussed before, but not in awhile. I am a current user of Destination Direct and Aeroplanner. While I really like DD, I am very displeased with their updates. They don't even support current TFR's over a planned route. Aeroplanner does allow this, but I don't...

Flyers, I finally had it with hangar rent increases and moved to a tie-down. So now I have a Ramsey ATV2500 wireless remote winch for sale on ebay.com. It is great for pulling a plane into the hangar. I used it for 1 1/2 years and it really saved my back. Here's the...

Pilot found dangling upside-down 2 days after crash Associated Press BOISE, Idaho - A pilot missing for two days was found alive, dangling upside-down in the wreckage of his single-engine plane in a heavily forested area. ADVERTISEMENT Paul C. Herr, of Pasco, Wash., was in fair condition at St....

We've been using www.youcanbookit.com for scheduling our airplane. So far it's been easy and worked great. The best part about it was it was a free/commercial based site. Unfortunately the site has gone down and the owner says it isn't likely to be put back online. What web based scheduleing...

Just saw the Bud Light commercial for the first time, where the pilot needs a Bud Light so badly that he follows a case of it out the door without a 'chute, leaving the sky-divers' plane pilotless. Has this one been around long? A-B gotta work in an F-16 into the next one, somehow.