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Airplane tears off winglet on jet bridge by
Mxsmanic
Original article (in French):
http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/un-avion-heurte-une-passerelle-a-orly-07-07-2010-992696.php
Excerpts (translated):
Passengers on a flight operated by Turkish low-cost carrier Pegasus were
unable to take off from Orly Wednesday afternoon. One of the wings of...
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Where to post questions? by
WhenTurtlesFly
'Cause I have one- Filed to cruise at 8500. Two GPS's (old simple one in the plane and my new portable) say I'm at 8500, but pressure altimeter says I'm at 8000. I of course set my altimeter to departing airport elevation, which should calibrate it to current pressure and nonstandard...
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Solar Powered airplane by
a[_3_]
You've all by now seen the news articles. If not, look at
http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/07/09/solar-impulses-maiden-flight-successful-solar-powered-plane-completes-first-journey-26-hours-after-starting/
Its four engines, each about 10 HP, were spinning pretty big props,
the article says 3.5...
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July 11th 10 05:20 PM
by a[_3_]
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Navigation strategy on a short flight by
Mxsmanic
From Phoenix to Casa Grande in a Cessna 152 in my sim:
The aircraft contains only a single VOR, without DME, and an ADF.
There are a couple of VORs nearby, including PXR at Sky Harbor, and Stanfield
about 8 miles southwest of Casa Grande (connected by V105/J92). There's also a
NDB at Chandler,...
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Airplane tears off winglet on jet bridge by
a[_3_]
On Jul 8, 2:42*pm, VOR-DME wrote:
In article ,
says...
The Greeks clearly altered the position of the jetbridge in retaliation for
Jenifer Lopez's concert in Turkish Cypress.
Since this is a...
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July 8th 10 08:06 PM
by a[_3_]
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Add your own 'lessons learned' by
a[_3_]
This one did not break my airplane, but. . .
Landing in a cross wind at an uncontrolled airport -- it might have
been Urbana IL, not sure. Anyhow, there was a large barn not too far
from the centerline on the upwind side of the runway. I pretty much
had most of the rudder in, maybe 5 feet agl,...
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Ideas for an unusual aircraft ID? by
Morgans[_2_]
Today, an aircraft went over that reminded me about a post of a couple days
ago, when a poster talked about the awful noise a Beech Starship made, as it
went over.
I had a remarkably similar experience with my sighting today.
I heard this plane coming straight at me at around 3,000 feet and was...
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Dick Marlow's accident in July 2003 by
rkane33
Does anyone have updates on the family's condition. (Couldn't find this
discussed through Google)
I met Dick on my way to the Arlington Washington Airshow in 2002. He was
very kind to me and let me stay on his property at the Grass Valley
Airport.
I lost the card he gave me which had his website...
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July 5th 10 06:27 PM
by KLM
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Use of 121.5 ELTs to be illegal in U.S. in about 60 days. by
Jim Logajan
Within 60 days of being published in the Federal Registry, use of 121.5
MHz ELTs will be forbidden by a re-write and re-title of
47 CFR section 87.195:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-10-103A1.pdf
"The manufacture, importation, sale or use of 121.5 MHz ELTs is...
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July 3rd 10 04:14 PM
by Sukesh
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Why don't more Young Eagles become pilots? by
Mxsmanic
A continuation rate of 0.26%--not very encouraging. An interesting article:
http://www.flyingmag.com/blogs/flying-lessons/why-dont-more-young-eagles-become-pilots
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making a comeback by
Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe
Me, not this newsgroup...
New (to me) airplane is paid for (LSA amateur built taildragger (Merlin
GT)) and waiting for me to get current to come get it. Hangar is sitting
empty.
The instuctor thinks next time round I should be in good enough shape to
sign off - my airwork is good - had some...
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Annual inspection? What's that? by
Agent Gibbs
"That being said, I think we've all learned a valuable lesson here.
Whenever you spend $4 million on a jet, make sure it works first."
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Scottie-Pippen-is-a-little-less-broke-these-days?urn=nba,252310
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Mark
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Pilot Certificates by
Bob Moore
wrote
As a matter of minor interest, there's an interesting logic trap in
play here. I think it is safe to say all holders of the airline
transport rating also hold commercial certificates at least in the US.
As I have pointed out before, ATP is NOT a rating, it is a...
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Landing skills by
a[_3_]
OK, we've all heard the "It's a good landing if. . ."
a -- you can walk away from it,
b -- the airplane can be used again.
When the several of us do proficiency rides with each other, we try to
refine that a bit.
My working definition is
c -- if both throttle and yoke move back monotonically...
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Italians take note: An American in Paris thinks poorly of yourworkmanship. by
a[_3_]
Mxsmanic
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Boeing has discovered that the Italian firm to which it subcontracted
construction of tail assemblies isn't doing the work correctly,
putting the 23 aircraft it has already built at risk:
http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/post/2010/06/boeing-halts-787-test...
No surprise...
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