1. Go on a diet 2. Define a gallon of 100LL as weighing 5.82 lbs instead of the usual 6 lbs - Mooney did it. Is this legal/valid? If so, why don't all manufacturers do it? Hilton

http://www.wfrv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=0d5fd653-6d41-461b-9885-fd0ca17e627c OSHKOSH (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration says one pilot is confirmed dead today after two planes collided while landing at EAA's AirVenture. The FAA says the accident with the two P-51 Mustangs...

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How do these arrogant, self-serving, simpleminded politicians manage to get elected? Doesn't Senator Stevens realize that his token exemption will be overturned as soon as the bill is enacted? Doesn't he realize that he has become the first evidence of the user fee proponents' divide and conquer...

I managed to close the door of an SR22 after it popped open in flight without landing. The trick is to slow to 90 knots and then give the door handle a good yank. It worked for me. Just in case anyone was wondering.

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

After all, there are plenty of reasons not to: 1) Congested skies 2) Stressful arrival 3) Camping discomforts 4) Avgas prices 5) Giant arachnids 6) etc. 1) Well, don't you enjoy looking at other airplanes in flight? You'll see

Oshkosh 2007 Redux Having just enjoyed a beautiful, uneventful flight home last evening, I'm sitting in the afterglow of Oshkosh 2007 with my cup of coffee, wondering how it could have gone by so quickly. The week went by in a flash of noise and spectacle, with quiet mornings spent near Atlas'...

The People and the Party Having flown in together, we camped with a great group of folks, many from the rec.aviation groups, as well as the Cherokee Chat. The daily ritual soon settled into a pattern, with some of us eating a big breakfast off-field at either LeSeur's or the Hilton, skipping...

Cirrus Design is entering the LSA market. At 9:30 this morning they unveiled, appropriately hidden beneath a parachute, their Cirrus SRS. The aircraft will be produced in conjunction with Fk Lightplanes based in Speyer, Germany, with production facilities in Poland. The aircraft is a low-wing...

Two days ago, while returning from the east coast on a business trip, I heard an exchange between a plane going to OSH and the controllers in Michigan. We were at 10,000 in an out of IMC and doing a large deviation to avoid a line of thunderstorms. The pilot going to OSH asked for an IFR...

One of the best things about Oshkosh is the sound of those big radial engines. Does anyone know if any of the 18-cylinder compound radials is still flying, and if so, where? If there was one at Osh, where was it?

Some have posted here that we no longer need FSS and all the bungling associated with the Loc-KMart transition. I disagree. While DUAT/DUATS, AWOS/ASOS and aviationweather.gov provide excellent graphics, text and aural reports, we still need trained, live briefers to interpret the local...

The Boeing Company http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/index.html Boeing Flies Blended Wing Body Research Aircraft CHICAGO, July 26, 2007 -- The innovative Boeing Blended Wing Body (BWB) research aircraft -- designated the X-48B -- flew for the first time last week at NASA's Dryden Flight...

Here are a few questions about OSH that I have not been able to answer: 1. Do they close the airspace tonight (Sunday, last day of show), or does the airport revert to 24 hour operation? 2. How long can you camp in the North 40? What if you simply *stay*? How long until someone comes out and...

I may be flying into Republic airport to pick up a gift. It looks like there's a landing fee as well as a ramp fee. With luck it will be a ten minute stop. Any recommendations?

I'm a 10 year lurker in this newsgroup and, like most, time gets in the way of my flying and/or posting here. But after a week at OSH (missed the party AGAIN, but this time, I didn't wander around not finding it :) ) and a newly re-instated medical, I've been invigorated and am ready again to...

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)

The other day I shot the VOR approach into SMO for the first time in low actual. I've often looked at that approach as one of the most difficult I've seen published so it was interesting to actually try it. The weather was 008OVC with something like 3sm HZ. I touched down about 3/4 down the runway...

I'm going to park my airplane for a night or two at the Aurora, Oregon airport (UAO) in a couple of weeks. I've only been there once before and parked for a few hours in front of the Willamette Aviation FBO. They were super friendly but didn't have a place to tie down; I rolled it off the...