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One A&P I know will do condition inspections on Experimentals, but only if they have Continental or Lycoming engines. My plane at the...

Got a triple!

The Catskills and the other mountain ranges along the Hudson River aren't big mountains, but they've been claiming lives in bad weather...

I put a Brigs & Stratton lawnmower engine on a bicycle. It was a vertical shaft, so I used the right angle gearbox from a self...

The fancier ones require power but the simpler ones often don't. As I mentioned earlier the one in our cabin has a turbogenerator to...

I had something like that, but I think it was a knockoff version, I don't remember the key switch. It was on my Schwinn Sting-Ray (with...

I have a fancy coffee maker that has a vacuum carafe, grinder and a timer, which I set it to start 10 minutes before I wake up so I have...

You can get shimmy even if you have a perfectly balanced (static and dynamic) wheel. But I agree that a dynamically unbalanced wheel is...

It doesn't matter one bit what "a reasonable person would agree". The only thing that matters is how the FAA sees it and you (and the...

Hey, my hair isn't white! Well, it has gotten kinda gray though...

Two cyanide pills and a hotline to Jesus? What kind of upbringing did YOU have? :) Ron Wanttaja

From age 4 (1963) I was allowed to roam unsupervised anywhere on our street (1/4 mile long,~20 houses). We moved when I was 8, my...

Back when SNL was great

Shimmy isn't usually caused by an out of balance tire; it's more a matter of the steering axis caster angle and damping.

Ah, FORTRAN IV. Type the program onto hundreds of cards, drop the stack off to be run overnight, pick up the printout in the morning to...