Old Farmer Lang wanted to get out of the farming business and start an antique farm implements business. To do this, he wanted to put up a lighted sign advertising the business, but was told that the county zoning ordinance prohibited signs on agriculturially zoned land. The zoning board...

As I woke up this fine christmas morning to the sound of obnoxious lawn mowers, not just one, but a whole battalion of them, I can't help but wonder what happened to all the peace of quietness this day is supposed to typify. Whats up with this riutal of mowing your lawn early Xmas morning, in below...

Hello, I bought a small portable scanner that allows me to (only) listen to the channels listed in the book "Airport/Facility Directory" for the Northwest U.S. ("15 Mar 2007") My apartment is near the SeaTac airport in Washington state. I was planning on becoming a "student pilot" in a...

It was only a few years ago that I watched AOPA President Phil Boyer present him with an aviation award. I wondered then how much longer we were going to have him. I am old enough to remember the faded sign on his FBO's hanger "Flight Lessons. Guaranteed Solo $69.00". Back then,...

In the dark sky about 1,100 feet above Chicago's South Loop neighborhood 10 days ago, a Learjet skimmed a mere 200 feet directly over a Southwest Boeing 737 coming in to Midway Airport. The pilots had no warning they would come so close --800 vertical feet closer than FAA limits -- and they knew of...

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Electrically Powered Ultralight Aircraft Below is a report of an electrically powered ultralight aircraft. Further down is information about Sonex's electrically powered home-built aircraft, and below that is information about Royal Aeronautical Society's 2007-8 design competition (submissions...

View it he http://videoontheweb.faa.gov/aviation_industry/ADS-B.asx Initially, airlines will be exempt from ADS-B mandate (there is no plan to implement ADS-B for military aircraft, so they will remain largely invisible); General Aviation will be required to pay for ADS-B first. There are...

More metal fatigue. Our military might as well be a chapter of the Antique Aircraft Association in Blakesburg, Iowa... ********************************************************************************************************* Washington, USA - "Structural fatigue" (WAPA) - The US Navy decided to...

wrote in message ... For those that have their PPL, when was the last time anybody else did a turn around a point since their VFR training days? Any time you take up a new pax and they want to see...

Just watched a show on the Columbis disaster, and a question came to me. Why does the shuttle have to be travelling so fast to re-enter the atmosphere? -- Oz Lander. Straight and Level Down Under Forum. http://www.straightandleveldownunder.net

"Green Xenon " wrote in : Richard Crowley wrote: "Green Xenon " wrote ... The emergency doors of airplanes are coated with synthetic leather. No. Not here on planet Earth. Where are you writing from?

Hello, I know virtually nothing about flying, but am planning on getting a private flying license. I have already talked to a few of the schools in and around the Tukwila/Renton Washington area, and want to know which is the best all around school. (1) Pro-Flight Aviation Inc uses a relatively...

Has anyone interfaced an M3 with a PC? I have a Motion LS-800 running Jeppview Flitedeck. I had succefully interfaced it with my previous aircraft that had a Trimble 2000 Approach. Trimble uses RS-232 w/ King aviation data format for its moving map output. I used an USB RS-232 coverter and...

Hello, there is a brand new screen saver available on http://www.guyvan.com/telechargements/ Its about Florennes Belgian air force base with vintage planes. AND OF COURSE Its FREE

I don't buy lottery tickets, but let's just say I came up with a bunch of money. Enough to satisfy my aviation needs and wants. One of the airplanes on my list would be something like a Pilatus PC-12 - a big, pressurized, turboprop single which would be an outstanding X/C aircraft for any...

Don't know, but I sure hope so! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMg34Ijh-S4 The joys of sharing what we do...... Allen

Can you depart and spin from coordinated flight? Specifically a coordinated climbing turn? Several weeks ago I chimed in on an otherwise awful thread suggesting that if the ball was in the center the airplane would not spin. One of the posters ) responded that the...

Well, it has officially started. China has rolled out a new jet that is a knockoff from an American passenger jet. From AvWeb: Shenyang used much of the tooling left over from McDonnell-Douglas's aborted attempt to build MD-90s in China and the "new" airplane has the same cabin cross section...

I got this from Propwash: UAL/ALPA's Captain Mark Bathurst Is NOT Feeling The Holiday Spirit Captain Mark Bathurst, Chairman of the United Master Executive Council of the Air Line Pilots Association, had a few things to say, Wednesday, about United Airlines' Christmas holiday...