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At 23:55 05 April 2020, Gregg Ballou wrote: ...Yearly flu has a higher body count... Quick update: In the six months since the first US deaths in early February, deaths from Covid-19 are now around 150,000. --Bob K.

I am thinking about doing a refinish on my Ventus C. I am wondering if wing templates are available? Also I'd like to cut down some of the cost by doing most of the grunt work myself. Under the watchful eye and coaching of a knowledable refinisher. Is there anyone I can go to who would could...

I am searching for a replacement circular pop out window in the slider vent window on our PW-6 sailplane. The support hinge arm fractured at the pivot bolt hole. The round pop-out is about 2.25" round. Cheers, Mike

http://www.jpj-sumperk.cz/?page=flying What is "The station wagon class" ?

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I have a flarmcore connected to an LXNAV Flarmview 2 and an Oudie 2. When I thermal with another Flarm glider, the Flarmview alerts me to its presence and then stays quiet. The Oudie 2 makes a continuous aural alert and displays a red traffic warning. It will not stop. The only solution I have...

For those who own Ventus Cm: have you ever measured the voltage on the starter when it is running?. Mine, with fully charged battery, while electric starter is running, voltage on battery fall out to 10volts, and on starter I measured only 6 or 6.5 volts. I have a voltage lost of aprox 2 volts over...

The wind direction/speed info on our butterfly vario is only working intermittently. When no direction and value is given it just shows WIND N/A. Sometimes it shows STILL AIR. All other functions seem to work just fine. Any ideas much appreciated?

I've updated the Butterfly traffic display firmware; fixed a number of bugs and it now works properly with newer FLARM protocol. Lots of Butterfly displays were purchased with the initial batch of USA PowerFLARM cores. Special thanks to Kirk, Dan, Uli, and Cliff for the help testing numerous...

Yesterday I landed the Pawnee and noticed a guy standing next to a vehicle speaking with one of our tow pilots. The closer I got I could see that it was a spitting image of one of my late old friends. I could hardly hold back my comments, "you look exactly like your father", it was the son of E9,...

Sandhill Soaring Club, located in Southeast Michigan (~30 mins from Ann Arbor), is resuming its winch launch operations... glider pilots who would like to receive fight instruction on the winch and get their winch launch endorsement are encouraged to call or e-mail John Harte at (248) 755-7574 /...

Do any of you tow guys out there know where to find a muffler for a CallAir A9-B? I'm pretty sure the exhaust system is the same for either engine that came with the A-9B. It's probably the same for the A9-A as well, but I'm not sure. This particular airplane has a Lycoming IO-540-G1C5.

I have been having a lot of trouble lately getting SeeYou to boot up on my computer. Naviter suggested I disable antivirus and try using SeeYou Cloud. They like to suggest the cloud. I prefer that the actual software just work, but I feel I am getting old fashioned. Has anyone else had trouble...

I’m building a 1-pc canopy for my HP-16 and I like the 303 Mosquito hinge method of unequal length arms. I’ve seen photos of the canopy but don’t understand what prevents the fwd hinge links from sliding fwd in the slot prematurely and striking the fuselage. Do the springs that assist in...

Landing after a nice cross country, I had fortunately come nearly to a complete stop when the brake cable yielded at the brake handle. The wheel brake has never been one to stand the glider on its nose, but perhaps I was subconsciously attempting to do that .. ? Upon brake cable I nspection, it...

An interesting article found on a parachute vendor's web site. - John ================================================== http://www.parachuteshop.com/service_life_limits.htm Parachute Service Life Limits

Hi Bro I am in need of solution manual for Aircraft propulsion, Saeed Farokhi Flight stability and Automatic control, Robert C Nelson Help is appreciated.

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This looks very nice, fairly new. I don't know anything about these planes; can you soar them or do you need to be under a Cu-Nim to go XC? Nick T