Hi Does anyone know of any books or articles about pilots who flew around Africa in the 1960s or 1970s? Regards George

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(article included in its entirety) His magnificent flying machine Jack Tiffany worked for a long time to see his Pitcairn PA-18 autogiro take flight By John Erardi | enquirer.com Jack Tiffany wanted this story to be entirely about the Pitcairn PA-18

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Can't Mooney keep a boss more than a couple years? Dennis Ferguson stepped down as of Sept 26. So this makes what? Two, three CEOs in the past 5 years?

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Mxsmanic wrote in : writes: Because it involves airplanes. Real airplanes. And what is a "real" airplane? A jet fighter? A Cessna 152? A UAV? A remote-controlled model? A glider? A...

Farnborough pictures: Russian air force aerobatic display team seeks help naming MiG-29OVT manoeuvres Russian manufacturer RSK MiG is offering the ultimate prize for the aviation enthusiast a trip to Russia and a flight in a MiG-29. The prize is*on offer to the lucky person who can come up...

This story reminded me of my time constructing the LAX International Terminal in 1983: ------------------------------------------------------------------- AVwebFlash Volume 12, Number 29a -- July 17, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ...

Described as "A new squadron to handle AFSOC's growing mission of flying small, civilian-style aircraft to carry special operations troops without attracting the attention that a C-130 does. " So we can be flying a "warbird" and not even know it! However, talk about bursting a pilot's bubble:...

Anybody have good information about this event? It's supposed to be the 22nd-25th at Wynkoop (6G4) in Mt. Vernon, OH but I am not having any luck tracking down an events web page for it. I have a friend that is just dying to see a biplane up close. -- Hello, my name is Mike, and I am an airplane...

Are there no several thousands of unused FEMA trailers paid for with taxpayer dollars still sitting in fields in Lousiana and Mississippi?

Any OurPlane owners/users that would like to share there experiences? Would you do it again? What is the biggest negative? Paul

("Ross Richardson" wrote) Where do you live in the Twin Cities. I used to visit Rosemont (Eden Prairie) often in another life. Northern suburbs: Blaine, Coon Rapids, Mounds View, Fridley, New Brighton http://makeashorterlink.com/?S1B323F5D Blaine ...to Eden Prairie (Or did you mean Eagan? Which...

This plane has some serious gyroscopic forces, even while the engine is warming up at the chocks. Throttle control by the mags sounds interesting in the sense of the curse "May you live in interesting times." KD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtprTL66-FY

I arrived at KTZR/Bolton Field/Columbus OH at 0930 this morning for what I was told would be a 1000-1030 arrival of the donated FedEx 727. By 1125, I could no longer wait (had to go pick up my son from summer school at 1145). As I was leaving the airport boundaries, I heard the crew call inbound...

Recently declassified guncamera footage from Allied aircraft in the European Theater during WWII. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=75277905547951258 AJ

I was flying though Driggs, Idaho at 1.5 feet last week in a rental car (2,500 miles in 11 days -- jeeze a plane would have been nice!) and was surprised at the very professional airport we passed. Several Biz jets, lots of big hangars, nice facilities. I was wondering what was in Driggs that...

May be doing some international flying soon and want to get started on my homework before doing so. When I was in college a professor showed us a website that did a good job of informing a pilot on the rules of flying internationally. It provided info about flight plans, airspace/airport fees,...

There was an incident involving an Emirates A330 at the end of last month. The local newspapers here were rather reticent about what exactly happened, although it was reported that the Vienna-bound airplane was in the air for about an hour after taking off and had returned to make an emergency...