I'm prejudiced. Of course I'm prejudiced. In 5000+ flight hours, I've never come as close to a midair as I did at Oshkosh 1999. Oshkosh Tower: "BlueOnBlue Cessna, number three for runway 27. Ercoupe put it on the numbers. Flight of three T6s, cross over runway 27, right downwind for runway...

At www.rstengineering.com you will find a link to the Oshkosh Bound 2008 files. These files have the "Oshkosh Bound" posters for your windows, the frequency chart for the Oshkosh area (aviation, public safety, EAA & UW-O operations, and the like) and the Ripon-Fisk graphics. Please download...

Thanks for the invite to speak ... Jim here. With avgas at $5 a gallon and heading north, and with EAA taking a tack decidedly against the little guy in favor of heavy iron, and after 35 straight years of attendance at Oshkosh, and with all of the academic load I've taken on in the last year...

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...

I've got about 40 100 ohm headphone speakers that are surplus to my needs. Two of them in series make a very nice 200 ohm circuit that will work quite nicely on a 150 ohm radio headphone output. Where you get the headset hardware itself is up to you ... modification of a Rat Shack set of...

Termination of 121.5 MHz Beacons for Satellite Alerting is Coming Soon Notice Number: NOTC0981 On 1 February 2009, the International Cospas-Sarsat Organization (U.S. included) will terminate processing of distress signals emitted by 121.5 MHz Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs). This means that...

Cut that one a little close, we did we did. The Oshkosh Bound artwork for printing your own "Oshkosh Bound 2007" posters is up at www.rstengineering.com and then a link from the bottom of that page. Also posted is the updated graphic showing the Ripon-Fisk-Oshkosh transition. Please don't use...

I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that Gail and I are going to go from Grass Valley to Oshkosh (via Iowa City) next month burning nothing but ethanol-laced gasahol. The bad news is that we are going to do it in a Subaru wagon. Simple math. With the advent of gasahol the...

I'd like a consensus opinion from the newsgroup denizens who use any of the popular "fuel pricing" websites as to the one that they find the most accurate. My personal favorite over the last few years has been Airnav, but I'm willing to be persuaded that there is better. Reason being, about...

After 33 years in the hot sweaty UW-O dorms, Gail and I decided to venture far afield to see what was available in the area. One of our brethren in this ng emailed me about a very nice Bed'n'Breakfast he found in Waupaca. I checked it out and it seemed like a hell of a deal. $100 a night for...

As most of you know, after a fairly long 33 year attendance record at The Show, Gail and I decided that we could only afford one long trip last year and we had a "must do" radio show gig in Anchorage last July. Montblack got my dorm reservations and I just flat forgot to re-register for this...

With four hours to kill at JFK waiting to get back to SMF, I thought I'd listen to JFK ATIS. The second to last sentence has me somewhat puzzled. "...aircraft are requested to use the assigned runway for noise abatement. Advise the controller on initial contact that you have information...

I'm looking for the artwork to make Fudpucker World Airlines (Pulaski TN, Serving The World Since It Was Square) business cards. I've googled two sites, one on infininet from ~cuban8 and another one on an ohio net ~cuban8 and both of them seem dead. infinet gives me a "server not found" and...

For some reason my newsreader hasn't had a post in ra owning for about a week now. Is it just my newsreader/gatherer or is ra owning silent? Jim

I think most of you know that I've been operating aircraft ham radio mobile since the days of dynamotors and vacuum tubes (yes, I put a Heathkit "Twoer" in the Cessna 120 using a surplus wwii dynamotor back in 1968). For those of you who have been sorta thinking that some day it would be nice...

I have about three or four years of my monthly Kitplanes columns that have not been posted on my website for you all to use. I used to post them every month, but with dialup it was taking me (literally) hours to cut, paste, upload, resume ... for each article. I also had a wonderful volunteer...

I believe this fellow is back on the east coast somewhere. If anybody knows him, would you please have him get in touch with me by email at All the addys I have for him are 404. Jim

Ignore if you will for the moment 91.13, the catch-all "careless/reckless" provision that can getcha if you sneeze during the approach. Let's see if "idiot" was legal. What else can getcha? 91.103 might be a good start. Lessee, it starts off with a catch-all that says you have to have "all...

The Ground School is starting in March and I'm ginning up the flyer to post hither and yon to get the class filled. I've got some really bad clipart from the old DOS days of single engine propeller style aircraft. Does anybody have a pointer to some decent current clipart? Jim

The artwork for you to print out your own Oshkosh 09 Bound window poster is up at www.rstengineering.com The most visible poster is black printer ink on yellow or goldenrod paper. Have a cold one for me ... next year for sure.