Is anyone else secretly glad...

"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Anyone else see the current article on the G1000 in Flying Mag?
What a panel!)


Yes, and I thought it was very impressive. One thing I noted, that I
thought they made a great decision on, was making the user interface for
the GPS the same as the 430/530. Learning the operating concept and paging
structure for these systems has got to be one of the biggest challenges,
and for Garmin to realize that they are the default "industry standard" has
got to make the transition a no-brainer.

Mike

"Pat Thronson" wrote in message t...
What approx. agl was AF1, any videos?

Well the sucker is big, so it probably looked lower than it really was. I'd guess about 1000'

in article , G.R. Patterson III at
wrote on 1/12/04 10:31 PM:



K9 Lover wrote:

Of course, the greatest irony of all is that Richard Pearce beat them by the
best part of a year.

Prove it.

His actual name was Pearse, not Pearce. He himself conceded the first
"controlled" flight to the Wright Bros., since all of his early efforts
ended in crashes.

The most difficult thing about ascertaining Pearse's accomplishments is that
there is very little reliable eyewitness testimony. It seems to be limited
mostly to locals and schoolchildren who happened to be watching, and they
can seldom agree on exact dates.

K9 Lover wrote:

Of course, the greatest irony of all is that Richard Pearce beat them by the
best part of a year.

Prove it.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

"K9 Lover" wrote in message
...
Every flying magazine felt compelled (naturally) to write extensively
about
the Wright Brothers for the past year, to the point where I simply
didn't
want to read another article about them... Each magazine seemed to be
struggling to top the others in hyperbole and hoopla, and I guess I
experienced "Wright Overload"...

Of course, the greatest irony of all is that Richard Pearce beat them by
the
best part of a year.

And Gustav Weisskopf (Gustave Whitehead) by 2 years. Maybe.

http://www.deepsky.com/~firstflight/
http://www.brucemuseum.org/whitehead.html

Paul

I got a review copy of One Hundred Years of Military Aviation, or some
such title from Naval Institute Press. I asked the book review guy at
Air & Space if he wanted a review. He replied: "I'm pretty much
hundreded out."


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In article 8%xMb.33441$8H.76115@attbi_s03,
Jay Honeck wrote:
...that the 100th anniversary of flight is finally past?

Why no, Jay, you are not *secretly* glad, you just posted it to a huge
forum! No, I'm not secretly glad, yeah, that's the ticket.

--
Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/

What else is there to do in the bathroom?

That's known as the "Library" in our house! :-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Why no, Jay, you are not *secretly* glad, you just posted it to a huge
forum!

Perhaps that should have been written in the past tense, eh?

Well, all I know is this: After reading 100+ articles on the anniversary,
and writing some of my own, the whole "100 Year" event seems to have been
just like a long family visit:

"Glad to see it come, glad to see it go..."

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

(Dan Thomas) wrote in message . com...

Where do you guys get all the time to read so many magazines? I
quit trying a long time ago, especially since most had articles about
stuff I could never afford and will never fly. I prefer to read
textbooks that teach me to do better the things I CAN afford.


I used to subscribe to 5 or 6 aviation mags during my 1st 10 yrs. of
flying. After awhile, I started to notice that I was basically
re-reading the same old articles over and over (not another pilot
report on the '75 Cessna 172!).

Now I just get the GA News and the mag that AOPA sends out.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)