I finally got a defective Cobra Ramp jack apart, without shaped charges! 01's advice helped a lot. My wife doesn't allow shaped charges in the basement, either. I have found a few potentially correctible problems inside, and wonder if there may be a market for jacks overhauled to much higher...

Fight for Flight: Gliders Oppose Research Facility By HEATHER CHAMBERS San Diego Business Journal Staff The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine will seek final approval next month to build a $115 million research hub on the Torrey Pines Mesa, one of seven proposed stem cell research...

http://www.modelflying.co.uk/news/article/mps/uan/617 DG-1000 - When Simon Cocker builds a glider, he builds a GLIDER! As his account of this awesome 1/2 scale soarer project testifies. Someone in the UK seen this? Frank Whiteley

For sale, like new (2005) National 425 Premium parachute with sheepskin back pad and zippered carrying case. Blue, with B12 snaps. $1250 plus shipping w/ fresh repack. cell 262-745-2019 Kurt

update - all number crunching is pretty much complete. Here's what i have written elsewhere. all plots are available at: http://picasaweb.google.com/abcondon/CherokeeII# I have many other plots in my monster excel file. If you're curious about other performance characteristics, let me know and...

Okay, neither my flight manual nor maintenance manual say what kind of fuses I should be using between the batteries and instruments. The printing on one looks to be T500L250V, which I understand to mean 0.5 amps, slow-blow, 250 Volts. (It's 5x20mm.) I know that to protect my wiring I need...

All, My wife has a conference to attend in San Francisco between Christmas and New Year's Day and I'm being dragged along as "arm candy." (I learned that term from UH.) Any chance of wave activity within the San Fran area? What about Williams or even over to Minden. Does the wave appear out...

Ok, the thermals have headed south, the wave has not kicked in big time yet, so what do you to with your equipment while waiting for soaring season to kick in again? Why you invite someone from Travel Nevada to go for a ride, of course. And they enjoy it (ever doubt that for a moment?) and post...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFBUv-QYU6M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcTeut1wE2o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ2EX2aJ910 comments from manufacturer below: in last 3 months I flew about 60 Hours with 304S jet. Present time are a technical characteristics OK.

http://w3n-a.blogspot.com/2008/12/secondary-stall.html This stall is called a secondary stall since it may occur after a recovery from a preceding stall. It is caused by attempting to hasten the completion of a stall recovery before the airplane has regained sufficient flying speed. When this...

The Junior Calendars have been reduced in price just in time for the holidays!!! Oversized Wall Calendar - 11x17" pages - $28 Wall Calendar - 11x8.5" pages - $20 Discus 2b "XX" Poster - 11x17" - $10 These great pictures were all taken by junior pilots and all profits will go to help the...

The KS Duo will be making the competition circuit next year and seats are available at the following contests: Seniors (Mar 8-14), Region 2 (Mifflin, May 24-30), Sport Nationals (Elmira, July 21-30), R4N (Fairfield, October dates unknown). R9 Parowan is filled. The cost is a $200 contribution...

Page 27 of the December issue of Soaring magazine shows a pic of an LS-10 at the 2008 WGC seemingly very low over the ground and "about to touch down" . The picture does not show the landing gear down. Does anyone know the outcome of this particular landing ? Cheers, Charles

Dear List, It is time to replace one of the battery packs for my sailplane. I currently use packs consisting of 7 2.5V SLA batteries to make a 14V pack. This has worked very well for me in the past but the AH on these cells is somewhat limited. I would like to ad a transponder and possibly some...

Does anyone know who wrote the vector wind / relative wind software for the Cambridge 302/303 system? I can't seem to get my questions answered by Cambridge. I have some issues with this system that look to me like a software problem. -Evan Ludeman / T8

I have a Filser ATR 500 that can be hard to read under some lighting conditions. I'm not using the display backlight. I'd be grateful if any ATR 500 owner who has tried using the backlight can tell me if its worth disturbing the wiring harness to turn it on and if so, is there a further benefit...

For a little gas on the fire...I'm curious. Besides the P-124 Aviator by Rigging Innovations: http://www.rigginginnovations.com/products/aviator.htm or having Softie put a ram air in one of their harnesses, what other square emergency rigs are out there as options and which do you 'squares'...

I've dispatched this question to the dealer and factory, but need to troule-shoot quick so trolling here. I have a 2008 Schleicher ASG29 with confused instruments following some repair work. My question is, in its factory configuration, are the three lines from the multi-probe free of joints,...

http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=nVDqjGeiHGQ enjoy...

Well its wintertime in the northern hemisphere. The Cherokee is tucked away in its trailer for the winter and im going through withdrawal. Thankfully, I have flight club. anyone else been playing? http://www.danburton.net/hg/hg.htm the URL changed a bit from last year I think. and it seems...