Maybe you night flyers may be interested in something like this to throw into the emergency kit: 5 inches overall, doesn't give the weight. Handcrank 2 minutes charges it for 30 minutes of light. 3 bulbs: can use 1 to save power or all 3 to get more light. 20 bucks US. Site will not display if...

I am a long term lurker and have a question regarding landing tailwheel airplanes in a crosswind. I have about 250 hours in a Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser. The other day during a very routine crosswind landing I started heading for the weeds faster than I new what to do. I had a fairly gentle cross...

The Magnificent ******* wrote: garbage deleted Dunno about the magnificent part, but you certainly are correct about the rest of your nom de plume. George Patterson The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

Yesterday a local aerial photographer came in just fuming. Apparently he was working within the Seattle Class B and called FSS to get an update. He had a squawk and was in touch with Approach, of course. Anyway, FSS told him that they could not find his flight plan and that he was required to have...

Stayed up late and watched all three hours of the SpaceShipOne documentary on Discovery last night. WOW!!! The imagery from within the craft during the flight knocked me over, and Rutan and company reinspired me. I told my wife that aviation produces heroes of the highest personal caliber...

Juan Jimenez wrote: Hey folks, check this one out... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3945035703&ssPageName=ADME:B:BN:US:1 The Lindbergh Foundation is auctioning a Retro Rocket that went into space in Spaceship One, the only one available to the public! The auction...

Hello, I am trying to gather information on the aircraft that exploded at Montrose earlier today. I did a search on a confirmed Challenger 602. I got a few hits but the best I could gather was that the craft rated somewhere between a Learjet and a Citation in nature which really doesn't tell...

The Rogue's Gallery is a website created solely so that users of rec.aviation have a place to post pictures of themselves and their airplanes. See it at: http://alexisparkinn.com/rec_aviation.htm Recent additions include: - From Carmel, Indiana, Jon Kraus and his terrific '79 Mooney...

Karl, your post makes no sense to me. Every landing I make, in my '64 235, is as soft as a baby's ass! True, many people don't know how to land it, as typical Cessna indoctrination won't do! The technique I use, is chop it (throttle), and drop it (steep approach), then a progressive flare to a...

Does anyone remember the flight school Jersey Skyports in Droyer's Point, NJ that was run by John Joseph Barteluce and Edward S. Binder?

If you do, I'd love to hear some interesting stories about my father in his Pan Am days. Thanks! --Tabetha

If you do, I'd love to hear some interesting stories about my father in his Pan Am days. Thanks! --Tabetha

If you do, I'd love to hear some interesting stories about my father in his Pan Am days. Thanks! --Tabetha

SAILPLANE RIDE GIFT CERTIFICATES - great for pilots, friends and prospective pilots. Over 500 given each year from Jean, NV and Cle Elum, WA airports. Silently ride the air currents over the airport for a one hour scenic ride into the desert or mountainscape ($175). (Price same for one person or...

SAILPLANE RIDE GIFT CERTIFICATES - great for pilots, friends and prospective pilots. Over 500 given each year from Jean, NV and Cle Elum, WA airports. Silently ride the air currents over the airport for a one hour scenic ride into the desert or mountainscape ($175). (Price same for one person or...

SAILPLANE RIDE GIFT CERTIFICATES - great for pilots, friends and prospective pilots. Over 500 given each year from Jean, NV and Cle Elum, WA airports. Silently ride the air currents over the airport for a one hour scenic ride into the desert or mountainscape ($175). (Price same for one person or...

I am not able to receive the newsgroups I normally get, but am getting other groups, when I try them. Is this message getting through? Write me off group at Ideas? Take out the junk. -- Jim in NC

Reminder about "Deep Sea Detectives" Monday night (November 29) at 9:00 PM EST on the History Channel. As previously announced, rec.aviation.piloting's own Roger Long is to be seen pontificating briefly at the end of the show. A good half of the show is about Admiral Byrd's flight over the South...

Jay, just cruising thru my Father-In-Law's copy of AOPA and saw the article that you were in. Way cool.... -John *You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North American*

I hope to fly from Arkansas to Oakland, CA later this month in my Cessna 172RG. I have never flown in CA or the west before. Can anyone offer advice on the appropriate route and stops? I understand there is a good southern route into CA. Thanks, Bert G.