Recent content by Warlock

I had an fuel injected IO 360 you basically had to sacrifice a virgin to get it started some times particularly on hot days if you did not relight within 20 min…only other option was a flooded start if it acted that way…

Open Pilot and Named insured (added) are totally different things…just realize the difference in coverage when there is a loss.

I had an AH-1 Cobra in my first platoon with the last three 007…we used to check in with ATC with the call sign Army Ball 7…otherwise with the last three on all other aircraft…never thought much about it.

Maybe you could contact the Army Aviation Museum at Ft Novasel (Ft Rucker of Past) and they could help…they have those type of records.

Ron my post was about how NASA has lost its way…and focus…to worried about DEI and not on pure engineering and science…I am a child of the Apollo project and came to this country with my parents shortly after Kennedy’s Rice University speech as part of the brain drain. I grew up in the manned...

Specs were probably written during the time when NASA goal was Muslim Outreach…and nobody blinked an eye…NASA has been wandering for a while…

Just announced their sending Starliner home empty and Elon gets the save…

We’re still in the VHS vs Betamax phase…the suit issue has been known at least around here forever…JSC community where I live…but yes this is a NASA failure in reality.

I cannot imagine not getting that thing on the ground making chips like that and knowing it in the Cockpit…I spent half my military career recovering aircraft making chips that line aviators landed as soon as possible due to chips…most were not on airfields. Very specific post chip protocols for...

I think you will find insurance companies will drive requirements…more regulation is probably not the answer…but I’m sort of a libertarian…so less is more to me.

Trying to stay flying as a commissioned RA Army Officer, I reverted to Warrant Officer for five years and then reverted back to a Reserve Commission officer. Later I declined promotion twice to stay in Aviation Units and flying positions…some think I made a mistake retiring as an O-4 , but I...

Until you have a TS you don’t get the static cone graphic…

I as well would pick a Mosquito…my Uncle I never met was lost in the Balkans near Banja Luka in 1945 supporting a Russian offensive…my Gran had a picture of him in the cockpit and it was my first connection with military aviation as a child…if this was not the case I always thought a P-47...

My 180 Arrow with a scimitar prop cruised at 140kts at 7-8k and cost differential was a couple of hundred bucks vs my 160 HP Warrior that I owned at the same time. It had more useful load and swinging the gear and constant speed prop made it more efficient and made the cost difference a push…I...

I was around Crescent lake in mid April…it was still covered with ice…lots of elevation on both sides…so sad.