"Brown Skies" will exhibit nightly activity at the United Parcel Service 'Worldport' located at Louisville International Airport within Louisville, Kentucky (USA). The entire fleet consisting of the Boeing 757-200PF, Boeing 767-300F, McDonnell Douglas MD-11F, Airbus A300-600RF, and the amazing...

Hi Everybody, I just moved to AVL and looking to get into some freelance instructing. But of course I need access to an airplane, so if anybody knows of one that I could instruct in, I would really appreciate hearing about it... Thanks, Jonah

Hi all. Looked around a bit for fuel efficient (big, commercial) airplanes. The best ones I found were the Tupolev TU-330 and the Antonov AN-70. They had cruising speeds/fuel consumption of 780-850 km/h and 118-125 g/t-km. Now my question: would lowering the cruising speed to e.g. 300-400 km/h...

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Hey, I was applying for a job as an ATCO, and have been given an invitation to the selection day, however on the application form there was lots of questions about vision - whether your short or long sighted etc, but nothing about colour blindness. I have perfect vision except for a slight...

Hi, I am looking for light isolating materials (termal and acoustical, but specially termal) for the interior design of aircrafts, and I'd like to know materials, makers, suppliers... thanks in avance,

I am after a simple W&B calculator for a PDA, with a few E6B calculations (density altitude, say) but nothing else. Try CoPilot, for the palm. It does more than just w&b, but you don't have to use it. IT is outstandingly excellent though. Jose -- "Never trust anything that can think for...

http://www.peter2000.co.uk/aviation/kln94-failure/ This unit has been working perfectly for four years, and works fine now. I had something like this happen to me on my first flight with such a unit (I've only used it a few times). It turned out to be that I had not turned the GPS on...

I'm considering to buy Gulf Eagle motor hang-glider. I would appreciate if anyone can share their own experience with that glider. Up to now all I have are infos from their web page (www.polarismotor.com). Is this the only one company on the world which produce that kind of hang-glider?

Which ultralight engine is consider to be the best for aerotrikes (hang-glider with engine)? Most common name I can find is Rotax from Bombardier, but I've heard for many alternatives like Hirth, BMW, Kawasaki, Harley-Davidson...

Could you please recommend me couple of the flight simulator software? There are a lot of simulators on the net, and it's not easy to decide which one to buy. Thanks.

hi, from the last issue of the Today=B4s Pilot i have 4 Voucher for free Landings. The holder of the vouchers is entitled to one free landing at the below named airfields. The vouchers are valid from 1 Sept to 30 Sept 2005. - Panshanger - Cromer - Peterborough Sibson

Peter wrote: Any data/manuals would be much appreciated. Check the Garmin website. They have most of the manuals for their products available in pdf for download.

Anybody have the pinouts for a Bendix Ignition Exciter, p/n 10-378340-1? Three pins, A, B, C. I think it's A= Ground, B=DC 7-30v, C=not connected. Also, does anyone know who can make me a custom harness for this unit? -- Get rid of SPAM like I did! http://spamarrest.com/affl?413905

Looking for two seats on single or twin bound for OSH, one for myself and one for my 12 yr old son, would prefer to ride with someone who will be there the entire week, willing to share gas expense and piloting duties, PPL, single or multi, taildragger endorsed, high perf and complex,...

I'm in the middle of cleaning the injectors of the engine on my BD-5J, and I was wondering if someone here has dealt with this issue before... I need to test spray pattern. The engine has 8 injectors. I know I can set up a rig where I pump fuel into the injectors, and perhaps use a piece of...

For those of you who may find a need for this (which probably won't be too many of you), I put my copy of a KR-20 marker beacon receiver install and op manual (with pinouts, that's why I put it up), on the site. You can download a small PDF file at http://www.bd5.com/kr-20.pdf Juan

I need qty 1 of Unison p/n 9048205-302 in serviceable, as-removed or new/new surplus condition.

The manufacturer is EYQUEM (French) and the p/n is LCS50 (could also be 3526). email me if you have one (bd5 at bd5 dot com)

x-no-archive: yes If you own a Garmin iQue 3600a (not the plain 3600) or a Lowrance 2000c, I'd like to hear your opinion and comments on these units... good, bad or neutral. email me at