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35 AoA, your first post, the second on this thread, assumed the B1 was a badly crippled bird, for this crash to happen. No, in clear hindsight, it had a fatally crippled crew. The final report makes that clear. This is a rant. As far as over 90 to know of LeMay as a commanding officer, the...

The instructor that I trained with for my PPL obtained his Instrument rating when the Adcock ranges were still common, and he had to fly a beam across a crows foot station, and also fly an Adcock approach. Captain Miller refreshed the memory of that feature of some ranges. Back in the day...

It is fully clear that none of the personnel in the cockpit should have been up in a real airplane until they had additional training in a simulator. Too low, too slow, and no one looking at the guages, and nothing but white out there. I had several friends who failed out of military flight...

LeMay was a household name in he late 40's and early 50's. you do not have to be in your 90's to remember him.

#12 "Hard to believe no right engine damage when the right wing tip is bent upward…. ;)" Are you joking? Winglets, both wing ends. Right landing gear seems to be normal extension, unlike left one.

My instructor taught me to use AN navigation, which makes me really old. Allow for minor brain fade here. Old AN ranges created airways, and it was important to change from the outgoing range to the incoming range at the proper place, which normally occurred on an estimated time basis. If the...

Dan, you have an amazing reference library. Speaking from the point of view of one who had one, in a different field, and has recently down sized, do you have a recipient picked out to be the next owner? Are they enough younger than you to get a lot of use before they retire? They can end up...

One of the big advantages of an engine out "crash" landing is the engines have cooled, and there is no fuel for a fire. The hope of getting out with no enveloping flame is amazingly good. Decelerating with more than one tree strike helps too, as long as the strikes are off center enough that...

There will be more damage when they pick it up and move it. That tractor/forklift does not have tender loving care placards any where on it. The tail end seems to have some crumpling too. Structural repairs back there will be much more difficult, due to the long arm for any doublers or...

Without a PIREP, we are on the hook to find out for ourselves when we ignorantly try to deal with your unfavorite company. After a few months, we also will realize we are wasting time, and start over with finding a good company to deal with. Caveat emptor, there is a bad company out there, but...

The FAA issued that STC after approving a well documented application Search the FAA for that STC, and download the entire document. It will include the envelope for the modified airplane, and exactly that is the only valid envelope for your airplane. An envelope for an STC from a different...

Rewire that "Buy stock " button to zap your butt. That will train you from buying stock, instead of stock index funds.

Go where the brains of investing hang out. Plenty of amazing people there, stays polite with firm oversight by professional level volunteers. Same as here, there are a few less than brilliant posters, but they are corrected by those that are expert. They are biased toward Vanguard, but...

It may be relevant here, the slower the aircraft in front of you flies, the more severe the wake turbulence. If they were flying just to the right of the traffic ahead, and turned left to widen their track for spacing, as requested by tower, they may have entered the disturbed air. I was...

Congratulations! I read that book, found the information inside much more impressive than the picture on the cover

Our 1960 Cessna 150, and 1962 172 had glass, and I think our next one did too, but later ones had metal. Always drained some fluid on preflight. One required 2 people, as the drain was cable remote from the oil filler hatch, drained under the cowling, lazy check, drain until sure that the...

I have always used av gas for my generator, replace it with new at 4 years. The old gas is used in no road engines. In Alaska, av gas in 55 gal drums is stored for much longer, and used to fly. The downside of av gas is the lead fouls the plugs, they need to be replaced or cleaned after...

Do you have a gascolator? They are expensive, but have about a century of incremental improvement. They have the following advantages: Filter at the top Transparent lower container on most models, to see the water or debris, some are metal, must be drained to see what is there, or, not there...

Cut a notch in your outside door and screen/storm door, and just use an extension cord. As already pointed out, a battery with that high an inrush and initial requirement will necessarily be large and heavy.

Field may be the source. Either dirty sliprings or brushes. Is there a noise suppression capacitor on the field circuit? One way or another, the alternator is the most likely source of this kind of static. I believe that Dan Thomas has said that rebuild shops sometimes mis lubricate them...