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For a second there, I thought the subject line said "Can Boeing spell 'Jeppesen'?"

They are different.

Boeing kind of has the inverse Midas touch, they ruin everything they touch. They bought up a bunch of defense guys as well (Autometric and the like). I don't know if having Textron buy us was any better. Boeing completely hosed up the "Future Image Architecture" which essentially was a...

Most of my "yellow tags" are just pieces of 8 1/2 x 11 white paper these days.

If I'm understanding things correctly, push DIRECT and then the DB key and then select where you want to go.

Others have addressed what the estate law issues are. As ar as the FAA, while the aircraft registry people are (perhaps rightfully) sticklers for details, I've found that they do answer correspondence so you can certainly ask them exactly what they want to see to change the registration...

Some guy in a jet made a low pass over an airstrip. (This was before the Trevor Jacob nonsense). The claim was he had no intent to land and came within 500 feet of the people on the strip. I think the one I'm remembering was this one...

Radio master = Avionics Power Switch. Apparently the guy who wrote the POH and the guy who screened the panel labels weren't synced up.

Well, not quite. The project was launched in 1952 and the first test flight of the 707-120 took place in December of 1957. It was certficied in September of 1958.

That's the problem with redundent systems. If you don't have any indication (or fail to notice it) that one of the redundant items fails, you don't know until they both fail. Learned this when I ran a large statewide educational network system. Even our dual ignitions we test them from...

Not saying that it applies here, but there are some that are just investor pits. Anybody remember Moller's Skycar? He's been at it for like 50 years. Settled with the SEC on his claims back in 2003, but is still at it.

Well, I think you're recollection, may be a bit tainted. From the start of the drawing board until certification received was typically a bit over five years in a lot of the last century designs I'm aware of. The certification environment certainly has changed over the years on the...

There's two things you need to learn. The first is the classic "partial panel" where the turn indicator is the only gyro instrument you have. Yes, that sometimes leads to ludicrous contrived situations when you have electronic instruments or even electric gyros (my instructor put covers...

Are we talking about the jet low pass case? That was because there was no attempt to land.

Water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this Earth's surface is water. Why do you realize that 70% of you is water? And as human beings you and I need fresh pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.

That was probably pretty close to when I took my written as well.

I've been an "observer" a few times on some guys flying formation. The good ones are quite impressive. I did get to fly with two of the RCAF Snowbirds and learn some formation (enough to know I suck at it). Of course, when we took off as a flight of two, Naughty said "I thought you didn't...

I was paying $225 for a small T-hangar with sliding (manual) doors and concrete floor (and one electrical outlet) at CJR when I moved out of there in 2014. My hangar now is done paid for in 2008 and attached to my house.