I glanced in my copy of Hansen's "First Man, The Life of Neil A. Armstrong" and happened on a passage about the background of the Apollo pilots charged with landing the LMs on the Moon: six of the seven chosen were naval aviators (Armstrong,Conrad,Shepard,Young,Cernan). Only one was US Air...

Following the Boeing 777 accident at Heathrow last week, the American Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has just released an Airworthiness Directive (AD) with the following title:- (Note that the engines referred to are SPECIFICALLY Rolls-Royce which will be a major blow for the Derby...

"Ken S. Tucker" wrote in : On Jan 26, 7:43 am, "Ken S. Tucker" wrote: On Jan 26, 7:00 am, FledgeIII wrote: On Jan 25, 9:50 pm, Kizzy...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ Todays "Astronomy Picture Of The Day" - it changes daily so this moonscape is only on today Friday 12/14. Man, what a panorama! And it's not OT, as Frank Sinatra crooned, "Fly me to the moon".... Cheers'n beers.. )

I recently found my mother's name in the FAA registry as a PP-SEL. I knew she had taken lessons and she had a Piper Cub solo certificate, but I was unclear if she had gone all the way to the certificate. It's pretty cool to find out your mother was a pilot. I'm trying to envision what the...

Mxsmanic wrote in : Margy Natalie writes: Doesn't hurt the gear at all, it was designed for it. Maybe. But if you should hit a big rock hidden in the grass ...

I went over to the student board a while back. Someone, who I believe was not yet even a student pilot, was all on about how spins should not be allowed because they were too dangerous to be taught. That's a complete and total crock. Airplanes are suspended in a 3D space, they can be in any...

On the San Francisco TAC, I see lots of black asterisks just off the coast. I can't find them in the chart guide or in the map legend. What do they represent?

Many years ago me and a group of friends from college took a canoe trip from the dam at Lake Whitney, Texas for several miles downstream back to where we rented the canoes from. On this pleasant trip I noted that the valley the Brazos River sits in is quite wide, certainly wide enough for a Cessna...

Being a new pilot I don't know much about the BFR process. Over Xmas I was chatting with my pilot Brother-in-law about my new status as a pilot when he stated that he thought he could just go to the local FBO and rent an aircraft himself. I said yes and reminded him that he'd also need a medical...

So I gave up the idea of air taxi or instruction to get to MTH - based on trying to skirt rules (Something I don't want to do) and complication (schlepping luggage from commercial terminal to GA area) all with a 3 and 5 year old in tow. ;-) I ended up driving (ugh) and got stuck for 1.5 hours...

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wrote in news:23e736d2-3743-4ab9-be9d-e3d15bf7ce36 @q77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com: It is amazing that so many people just do not understand that all the murderers who go on shooting rampages and kill students and others are doing it for the sole purpose of discrediting the...

Local internet service providers may consider blocking an American from taking part in online discussions following one of the worst cases of "flaming" seen in this country. A mysterious figure calling himself "Bertie the Bunyip" has upset local Usenet newsgroups after a bizarre campaign that has...

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Minnesota flight instructor who notified his bosses of student Zacarias Moussaoui's suspicious behavior received a $5 million reward Thursday from the State Department, two government officials told CNN." The good guys won one. So, I wonder what kind airplanes he's...

For whatever it's worth, I located the crash site from the coordinates given in the NTSB preliminary. The North Town One Departure from KVGT from where the airplane left calls for an overflight of the LAS VOR. The crash site is only half a mile from the direct course from LAS to L00, the...

Here's an intriguing take on what might have caused the 777's engine to shut down. A dramatic pic of the moment of impact included... http://thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article711639.ece Ramapriya

I was reading my new Flying magazine today and it had an article covering the decline of the 310/Seneca type light twins. It pointed out that the performance ground previously addressed by a twin piston is now covered by turbine powered aircraft. Being new to flying myself vs riding in a fast bus...

Without warning or reports of turbulence, an Air Canada flight en route to Toronto dipped and rotated violently, on early Thursday morning, causing injuries and confusion among passengers and the crew. Strangely enough, flight experts are still unsure about what caused the accident. "What...

Below is information about the Cirrus SRS Light Sport Aircraft copy and pasted from the links provided. Is the Cirrus SRS Light Sport Aircraft going to be the Cessna SkyCatcher killer? http://www.cirrusdesign.com/future/srs/default.aspx Though the SRS has a low price tag, Cirrus hasn’t...