For the past few weeks, I've been obsessed with manipulating the newly- available (from the FAA) raster sectional images. This is all new to me so I've just been banging out code trying to get something reasonable. The code is *horrible* and I don't recommend it as anything beyond an example of...

This is a longshot, but I have a quesion concerning the DC-7 that tech manuals and archives I've searched have failed to answer... When the _very_ early DC-7's were delivered to United and American Airlines, there was a small "scoop" visible just behind the main air intake on all four engines. The...

What was the length of the runway Lindbergh used at the beginning of his 1927 flight?

According to FAA regulations, is there any restriction on the horizontal separation of aircraft? I was unable to find anything in the FAA regs: http://www.airweb.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgFAR.nsf/MainFrame?OpenFrameSet Part 91, Section 111 ("Operating near other aircraft")...

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I converted all of the sectional map chunks http://aviationtoolbox.org/munge/mosaic from 24-bit to 8-bit (palette) color. Putting them all into a single zip file, they compressed to 1.9GB (2013432788 bytes). http://aviationtoolbox.org/munge/chunked.zip (To get a single uncompressed 8-bit color...

Hello For further details check out: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2208480111&category=419 Regards Phillip Rhodes (american-flying-legends)

well, I'll be in the Seattle area next week for some job interviews and it would be real nice if I had the opportunity to check out a couple of FBOs or flying clubs in the area... here's what I am looking for (based on what I am doing these days): I mostly fly cherokees, but would also like to...

As we did last year, AeroFile is celebrating the Holiday Season (and my Birthday) with a sale of sorts. From December 1 to December 24, 2003, when you order copy of "Military Aircraft Designations and Systems" we will pay your shipping. What a great Holiday gift. We still have some...

The many tributes to the recent retirement of the Concorde SST have been quite moving over the past few weeks. The following file is a 2 minute movie produced by British Airways in 1998; This is one of the most moving films I've ever seen- The impression one takes away is that the supersonic craft,...

New web page Please support the effort to preserve the Launch Umbilical Tower which is now in the Bone Yard http://www.savethelut.org Daniel

The Cottage, Cat Island Bahamas Ideal for Private Pilots, Cat Island is just 325 miles southeast of Miami. Hawk's Nest airstrip (5000' packed coral/limestone) is just over a mile from the cottage. The Cottage is a great place for a vacation "Away from it all". Cat Island is one of the outer...

1956 Tripacer PA-22-150 Out of Anual. Will deliver. $15,000. 1200 SMOH Contact Jim @ 667-0611 Pictures may be viewed at http://community.webshots.com/user/J1mandlor1 Lori Fields email by removing $

Jet fuel used be be JP-4 (I believe there was also a JP-5, perhaps others), and is now Jet A. What are the differences?

Hi. Sorry I was not more informative. The airplane is located in the Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina area in the United States. I posted this ad for the owner and did not put his email address in the ad either. If you would like to contact the owner of this airplane by email, remove the...

Hi people! I'm looking for manuals of any type of aircraft, specially in multimedial format (ex. pdf files, docs, txt, etc...).Where could I find them? Do you have some to send me? Bye bye MC, Milan, ITALY

1956 Tripacer (PA-22-150). Needs Annual. 3,100 TTAF. 1183 SMOH. Overall condition is fair to good. Paint/Fabric fair to good. Mechanically in great shape. Everything works. Airplane was recovered in Ceconite about 15 years ago. Will need to be recovered in a few years. All compressions in the...

One Reporter's Opinion: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Flight (1903-2003) by George Putnam Friday, Dec. 6, 2002 It is this reporter's opinion that in the hustle and bustle of our busy lives today, always on a red-eye to somewhere, we take flight all too much for granted. In commemoration...

Recently I've been working a lot on manipulating the FAA sectionals I purchased. http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA_sectionals/ I've been amazed by the hundreds of people who have downloaded this data. There's apparently some interest in it so I'd like to solicit input on some of the projects...

Please excuse the cross post, but the topic might be of interest to several groups. I'm wondering whether providing light aircraft transportation services (people and/or cargo) and consulting to small businesses is likely to be a successful approach to setting up a very small aviation business. In...