Our annual SERTOMA Fly-In Breakfast will be held at the Iowa City Airport (KIOW) this coming Sunday, 8/28. Breakfast will begin at 7 AM, and usually serves till 1 PM or so. Mary and I will be at our booth, handing out helium balloons to the kids, brochures and coupons to the adults, and holding a...

***** "The place where you get out of my car," I said. "The people who Joshua come from," I said. "They're called the Yherajk. In t heir natural form, they look like Jell-O globs. People will be terrified of them. But if they could see them in human form first, it would make it easie r. We need a...

http://makeashorterlink.com/?D5D326EAB Maybe after this incident the Canadians will stop making their world-renowned aerobatic team fly around in antique aircraft? -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination"

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Couple wins lawsuit against the city over airport noise Deanne Simmons and her husband were awarded $5,000 to put new windows in their home after suing over airport noise. ABC13 Eyewitness News (8/25/05 - HOUSTON) - A north Harris County family took the city of Houston to court and won. Steve...

This survey is a follow-up to Jay's 396 thread. As Jay pointed out, the display is too small to adequately present all the information available in a useful format. So the question is: "What is the minimum useful display size adequate for a portable GPS with the features found in the Garmin...

In September 2004 issue of AOPA Flight Training, Mark Cook has an article, "No Fueln' Around". Under the "Selector boy" side article, he mentions that he runs some of his tanks dry in his Bellanca Viking. In at least one of John Deakin's articles (http://www.avweb.com/news/columns/182044-1.html),...

I'm at the end of my rope for these headsets. I bought them about 5 years ago and they worked pretty well. I particularly liked the workmanship and the way they folded up. 9v battery in the ear cup was nice too. This it the second time I've sent one of the them in when the ANR function just...

From the displaced TV executive, to a state attorney general!!! Bravo to the AG for refusing to take this punk's calls! A one-year law associate could tear this absurd argument to shreds in about 5 minutes, never mind a state AG. Way to go Phil! "From your professional experience," Boyer said,...

My wife and I are going to Baja this October. Last night, I was invited by friends for a fishing trip to Baja this September. In the past, we only visit Baja no more than once a year, and single entry permit works just fine. Since I will do more than one trip this year, a "Multi-entry Permit"...

I'm looking into Westwind Aviation in Phoenix http://www.flywsa.com/ But I wanted to know what everyone thinks of these prices. Private Pilot Course 8 Weeks long Ground School (60 hrs) 40 Hours Dual Instruction in Cessna 172R/S 10 Hours Solo 172R/S 1 Multimedia instruction kit

PA-32 crashes near Brandywine Airport (N99 Pennsylvania) and kills 2. The airplane was observed to have the gear up on final. Not too sure what happened here. Did the plane go-around after a prop strike? There seem to have been a lot of fatal aircraft accidents in southern Chester County...

Hi guys, I'm in a little bit of a quandry and I'm looking for some help in unravelling this little tapestry of trans-border red tape. I'm a Canadian citizen living permanently in the US. I hold a Canadian Private Pilot's license (night endorsed), and I received a US reciprocal license in 2000...

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Hi -- I'm currently building a virtual model of Zahn's Airport (Amityville, NY -- closed in 1980) and am looking for anyone who might have old photos, maps, charts, airport directories, or memories to share. (I've seen the pages...

The useful consciousness time as it reaches its high-altitude minimum is mostly the transit time of the already oxygenated blood that just left your lungs on the way to the brain at the "moment" of pressure loss--when that low oxygen blood gets there, your conscious brain cells, which have some...

You get rid of one, and another pops up! http://www.ainonline.com/issues/08_05/08_05_senate_03.html

Hello all, I need a four-place/station/headset, battery-powered , intercom. It must be delivered no later than Aug 30, 'cause I'm leaving on a trip the next AM. Yes, I have Googled a lot of sources and I'll be on the phone in the morning. What I need from you guys and gals is info on one or more...

In accounts of the crash of the Cypriot airliner in Greece, all I've read say that loss of cabin pressure could not, by itself, incapacitate the pilot. Yet, I was once told by an ATP that at 40k feet (admittedly this plane was at 35k) O2 supply by itself will not suffice to keep you conscious and...

Did anyone else catch the History Channel's "Modern Marvels: The F/A 22 Raptor" last night? What an amazing plane. The Air Force did a head-to-head combat exercise, one Raptor versus EIGHT F-15 Eagles. The Eagle pilots were all experienced combat pilots, all with time in the Raptor as well -- so...