Since I'm tired of reading questions about the development of anti-matter-powered Beechcraft ejection seats, I thought I'd toss this topic onto the newsgroup's platter: North Korea. In pondering why we (the US -- and the World) haven't responded more forcefully to the North Korean nuclear tests,...

I never read anything about this Scott Petersen murder trial before. I saw a headline about a "GPS." I started to read it and I guess the guys car had a GPS in it and the prosecution is trying to place him at the murder scene. Well the defense attorney is saying the GPS is inaccurate due to a...

This may be just a bit OT, but good news anyhow. First indications are that NASA has successfully flown the Phoenix spacecraft to a soft field landing on the surface of Mars. Historically, the odds of success were not great. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/index.html Vaughn --

Should military hardware be permitted to operate over the heads of citizens in the CONUS? So, the USAF is permitted to fly UAVs in training missions over populated areas? ...

From elsewhere to someone else from someone who was there... =============== George: The next time you bring something over from the CPA, bring THE WHOLE THING, please. Had you bothered to wait a little bit, you would have found that you were reading Jay's opinion, not a real news story.

I see on the CNN Web page not one but two reports of GA plane crashes. General Aviation isn't inherently dangerous, so the large number of crashes can only mean that there are lots of bad pilots and poorly-maintained aircraft out there. And the accidents that occur as a result are ruining...

So I've decided to buy a plane (in July of 2007), and I've come to a dilemma. I learned to fly on a Piper Arrow and very much like that plane, though I haven't flown one in over a year, what I have been flying is a Cessna Cardinal 177 RGII, very nice plane, great handling and a pleasure to fly as...

From the Cushing (OK) Daily Citizen: Trouble ahead over small plane fees By Randall Turk THE NORMAN TRANSCRIPT (NORMAN, Okla.) NORMAN, Okla. - A political dogfight is looming over Washington, D.C. skies this summer as a financially troubled airline industry attempts to shift some of its...

This morning I received a letter from Transport Canada informing me I am being fined $250 for not filing a flight plan. I had flown from Minot, ND to Regina, Canada on July 30, 2005. I had meticulously planned the flight using the AOPA webpage on the subject (got all the radio station permits,...

Looking at the design of the C377, it seems like it should have been more of a winner. Why did it flop? Dallas

Question from a new flight student (whopping 7 hours!) I was looking at the AOPA airport info. ANP and W29 don't list AWOS or ATIS freqs. That seems pretty critical. So - where does one download "better" info so you can get local weather

AvWeb is reporting that "an alarming number of aircraft" are in poor mechanical condition. I must admit that their assessment matches my own observations. Some of the planes I see regularly flying are almost scary -- and some of the planes I've seen in hangars and on ramps I can only pray never...

Do real aircraft abruptly pitch upward on take-off during rotation, or is this an artifact of my simulator? I find that I must put the stick forward slightly as soon as the nose rises, or I risk a tail strike. This is especially true on small aircraft, such as the Baron 58. Large jets seem to do...

http://www.thegaryhouse.com/aircraftdamage/ I was down in a remote area of Mexico this last weekend and a truck backed into my aileron. I was lucky that the driver had a sat phone and I was able to call an A&P to come down to Mexico and swap it for me. However, all the local pilots, and the A&P...

What I see in the literature seems to vary between warnings against spending too much trim or flying with trim tabs, and not ever trimming the aircraft at all. So how much and when should I trim? I understand trim to be a convenience, so that a pilot doesn't have to constantly maintain force...

But since that subject (and my opinion on it) has nothing to do with piloting I'm not going to share it. I hope by making this posting that I can hint to others that they direct their opinions on that subject to more appropriate forums. Jim "naive and hopeless optimist" Logajan

In another post about the fabulous new Udvar-Hazy Center (part of the National Air & Space Museum), frustration with not being able to fly into this terrific new facility was evident. I personally find it appallingly ironic that museums which purport to glorify flight are not accessible...

It's easy enough to establish measurement stations on the surface to measure wind, temperature, visibility, etc., but what is the normal way for meteorologists to measure these things aloft? Do they depend on PIREPs, or expendable/recoverable probes and balloons, or satellites, or what?

I have always had a First-Class medical, not because my aviation activity (PPL/IR) requires it, but mostly in case I don’t get in to see the doctor in time, so it derates to a second class instead of leaving me grounded. That happened this year for the first time, because my doctor told me she...

2600 miles -- in two days. Whew! We're back from the Reno Air Races (two days early, sadly, to get out ahead of a winter storm system that rolled into the Rockies on Friday afternoon), and I'm here to tell you: Reno ROCKS! I've never seen anything quite like it. In Reno, aircraft engines that...