Witmo

Huh? I was responding to John Collins who claimed that a Bonanza could not successfully land with the gear and flaps down from a normal...

But a "normal pattern" doesn't preclude using the engine so why couldn't an A36 make the runway from a "normal pattern" with the gear...

Don't Bonanza A36s have engines? Even without an operable engine, I suspect more than a few commercial pilots could demonstrate a...

List of ADs? The fact that the annual was signed off is certification that the ADs have been dealt with. The only thing that could...

I don't agree that stuck valves are always caused by worn out valve guides/stems. Excessive deposits in the guide will stick the valve...

What do you expect the controller to do other than grant the request? If the pilot were to declare an emergency, he can pretty much do...

Could be the explosion took out some flight controls. Looked like the left aileron might have departed. Nothing the crew could have...

Every NRA basic gun safety class emphasizes, when handed a firearm, regardless of who handed it to you, YOU will check the firearm's...

I don't know if this was mentioned earlier but the entire camera crew had walked off the set earlier that day (before the accident)...

Don't forget the invasion stripes!

I would think that retired fighter pilots might gravitate towards aerobatic airplanes where they could fly upside down and pull some...

I'd suspect a lot of it is just the small sample size you're observing. The glider club you are at happens to have a lot of former...

Not sure I get the comparison to a glider and fighter. Just because there’s a canopy and a stick doesn’t make it a fighter. They’re...

I’ve got probably 300 hours behind a Rotax out of 6500 hours of single engine time and I’d LOVE to have an STC to throw one on my Luscombe.

The Continental claim of 100 HP is at 2700 rpm. I've never flown a Cessna 150 that could achieve 2700 rpm in anything but a dive so the...