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In California, wishful thinking is the law. I heard of one small municipal airport that received a million-dollar Federal grant. What did the city decide to spend it on? Charging stations for electric airplanes.

Crashworthiness as an aircraft and crashworthiness as a road vehicle are not exactly the same thing.

Ah. My bad. I guess I was assuming he'd departed from TVL. Flightaware track shows he'd gotten up to 9500' enroute.

Ugh. Mixture would have to be perfectly set and airspeed nailed at Vy to get any climb at all in those conditions.

KTVL 011753Z AUTO 04008KT 10SM CLR 23/09 A3032 A PA-28-235/236, or a Turbo Arrow? No sweat. Even a properly-flown and properly-functioning PA-28-180 should be able to handle it. I'd probably wait for cooler weather to take a 140 in there.

A few rental cars stored just south of Phoenix, May 2020. I want the white one in the middle - can you get that one out for me?

Best museum on the planet for golden-age general aviation is the Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum at Hood River, Oregon (4S2). Most of the extensive collection is airworthy, including a 105-year-old Curtiss Jenny. https://waaamuseum.org I was just there again a few weeks ago, and...

RIP indeed. He was a riot in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming. My high school theater arts instructor was a good friend of his, and on occasion had him come out to the school to talk to the students. Photos from 1967:

Here at Goodyear AZ the United Airlines "Aviate" academy uses "Varney" for their Cirrus fleet -- homage to Varney Airlines, a UAL predecessor company. I was hoping they'd use "Marvin", as in UAL's old nickname "Marvin Mainliner".

You want 'old'? I still associate Hertz with O.J. running through the terminal ...

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Very nicely done! Thanks.

I had one of the early Stratus units with a black case, and it overheated all the time. I velcro'd a thin piece of scrap white foam-core to the top of it, and it worked fine.

My late father's sense of humor. It had been his airplane, and there was no way I was going to remove that placard, nor the one on the pilot-side yoke (under the iPhone): "No Screaming".

This was April 20, 2015, 8 am local, northbound through the Dragon Corridor. I was solo in my 172N, 180 hp. Minimum altitude southbound through the corridors is 10,500'; northbound 11,500'. In the cool of the early morning that should be within the capability of a 180 hp 172. In the summer...

I had a '78 Cheetah, with the Bill Scott HC STC. When solo or with one passenger I often cruised above 10,000'. It took time to get there, but did well once leveled off.

The error is in believing that individuals in academics are inherently more noble and immune to enlightened self-interest than are, say, home solar salesmen, trial lawyers, or any other calling.

The 182D (1961) and earlier are nothing more than tri-gear Cessna 180s, with the 180's delightfully lighter handling (compared to later 182s). They have manual flaps and an adjustable stabilizer for pitch trim, rather than the fixed stabilizer and elevator trim tab found on the 182E and later...

I remember a go-around in Atlanta one foggy January night in 1991. It was on an Eastern L-1011, just two weeks before the airline shut down, so nobody was in a particularly good mood. Plus, EAL mechanics were picketing when we boarded in San Juan PR. Departure from SJU was two hours late, and...

Story goes that if a US pilot announced on the PA that he was going back to the terminal because of a li'l ol' warning light on the panel, the passengers would be screaming and crying and clutching their teddy bears until they could evacuate the aircraft. In Soviet Russia, the passengers would...