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So the threat of litigation has pushed good old American ingenuity and know-how off the table?

I wonder what the cost of all that might be? Might be more than they can stand. Getting qualified engineers now won't be easy, and the...

The reason they failed is because they moved to Chicago and let accountants design the airplanes. They should move back to Seattle and...

They will teach about Boeing's downfall in all the most prestigious MBA programs for decades to come. Naturally, they will conclude...

Might be a good idea to get the elevator rigging checked. If it's a couple of inches away from the firewall, it's likely getting too...

Valve sticking is usually caused by valve stem clearances being at the minimum, not loose. It takes only a tiny bit of oxide and varnish...

The prop shop doesn't have to do it. A mechanic with a decent pair of eyeballs and the dimensions for that prop can do it. Some prop...

Periodic prop removal and inspection would catch this stuff before it trashed the prop. I don't think our Canadian five-year corrosion...

But six airplanes hardly qualifies as this: There were more that 44,000 172s built. Many of those have been or are used in flight...

If it wasn't locking properly, the AD was not complied with. What appears in the logs is not what is necessarily true in the airplane. I...

Here's the older PDF version of the Skytec troubleshooting guide that was replaced by the Skytec webpage that Dan linked to above. Handy...

Which is why so many mechanics don't do it. They somehow got through their training without any real grasp of electrical principles...

By "calibrated" I mean tested and certified to a national standard. Even those old analog meters varied somewhat. When you're setting...

NO. Do it in the order shown. Saves time. Read the details in the website. Voltage DROP measurements are what we use to find the tiny...

In Canadian law we have this: (b) At intervals of not more than 5 years, the propeller shall be removed from the aircraft and inspected...