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None of my students ever looked like that. Most of them could spell better than that, though ...

J-3 Cub, yes. PA-11 Cub Special, PA-18 Super Cubs and all the rest are soloed from the front.

CSP was an extra-cost option on the PA-28-235 from the beginning up through the 1972 model year. It was standard equipment starting with the 1973 model, the first of the long-body 235s. According to the performance charts in the original (1963) Cherokee 235 owner's manual, the optional CSP...

The difference in length (2-1/2 inches) between the 140 and the 150/160/180 (1964-72) airframe is solely due to the sleeker fiberglass cowl and spinner introduced in 1964 for the "Cherokee C". From the firewall aft the external dimensions are the same. The Cherokee 150s, 160s and 180s built...

Trivia: The Aerostar was originally designed to be a complete line of airplanes, from a light four-seat single to a jet. Here's a mockup of the light single. And from the sublime to the ridiculous ... at one time Piper was messing with sketches of a proposed twin-engine Tomahawk!

I left a cancerous prostate on an operating room floor four years ago. That was followed up with nine weeks, five sessions a week, of radiation. After that I recovered well, with only minor annoyances as a reminder, and a return to the doc every three months for PSA tests -- the results of all...

PA-12 upgraded with an O-320 and PA-18 wings (with flaps) and tailfeathers (with balanced elevators).

I learned to fly in the mid 1960s at Fullerton CA. Less than two miles from the airport (and a real hazard to the traffic pattern) was the 700-foot-high transmitter of KFI radio, a 50,000-watt, clear-channel blowtorch. For those of us old enough to remember the little Cold-War-era triangles on...

Oh, you betcha! The first airplane in our family (1968-73) was a 1965 Cessna 150E. I got my commercial, instrument and CFI in it - and the toughest test of all, the first date with my wife of 50+ years. I knew the airplane had been exported to Canada decades ago, so when curiosity finally got...

If you intend to fly "in" the eclipse, keep your head on a swivel for traffic!! A friend of mine flew in the August 2017 total eclipse, over a remote area of north-central Oregon, and it was a madhouse of traffic.

Those Friday morning donuts and coffee at Lenhardt's had something to do with it, right, Bob? ;)

Greetings Bob! Great to hear from you. You're an inspiration to us all. Keep those reports coming!

Per Cessna aerodynamicist and test pilot Bill Robinson: -- Beefed up wings, struts (wider chord), and empennage structure to withstand the 6 g's positive and 3 g's negative required in the aerobatic category and the higher 193-mph red line speed; -- Large military-type seat belt and shoulder...

I'm so very sorry to hear of your loss. From your post and photos, it appears that you built a special bond together through your love of flying - as did my dad and I. As a dad myself of two sons both in their 40s, I cannot pretend to wrap my head around the extent of what you have been going...

If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium (1969 - Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane and a great comedy ensemble cast) is one of my favorite movies. It could almost be a documentary of my crazy five-week student tour just the year before :cool:. What a find -- That's quite the collection of flying...

Other changes ... -- Until 1976 or 1977, performance charts and airspeed indicators of nearly all new light airplanes were calibrated in miles per hour, with knots as a secondary scale, if displayed at all. -- Fixes on IFR charts were not limited to names of five letters, were not necessarily...

An independent meteorologist says what hit FFZ fits the definition of tornado. Radar had the classic "hook" pattern suggestive of tornado.

We're in the west valley, about 50 miles from FFZ. It was quite a show here, too.

I had to buy a fowl.

No, it was this one.