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Do airplane owners listen to the Propellerheads?

Since we're ressurecting this thread, any other opinions or real-life experiences on running these higher pressures?

If practical (and if you don't suspect a battery contactor problem) connect the pack to the battery. It's a known good electrical path (design-wise) to crank the engine. Ground power connections usually have longer cables and additional sources of resistance that might make starting more...

A bit of side-loading can also cause a tear in the tube. Or just the way the tire flexed and pulled on the tube on touchdown. I usually carry a 12V compressor with me. I've used it once to pump up a tire, waited a few minutes to gauge the leak rate, and then flew home. A bit of a thread...

Was flying a 150M at a flight school a few years ago. Started fine, taxied fine. Nice, smooth idle, no morning sickness. Got to the run-up area, reved up the engine, a few seconds later, before I even had a chance to cycle the mags, the engine starts missing and shaking badly. Nothing we tried...

05/00/2025??? Is that FAA's version of a cold day in Hell?

This guy used to drink champainge from his shoe after winning a race. Occasionally he would coerce other people on the podium to drink from the same shoe.

Interesting. They didn't seem to be too concerned about the icing, at least not enough to even tell ATC they needed to get out of it NOW.

Butch and Sunny are probably a bit annoyed right now.

It seems (to me) that refiners and distributors don't want to go with GAMI's formula, or even Swift's. Is it that they don't want to pay their licensing fees, or is it that the profit margins are lower? No idea. Also, the end user will always look at the price he pays at the pump. There is an...

You told me this was going to be an 8-day trip, now we'll be stuck here for 9 months.

Trevor Jacob isn't on PoA

A woman astronaut calls base: - Houston, we have a problem. - What is it? - Nothing...

Clay/stone tablets. Only way to make them last forever. Even paper will degrade. Joking aside, order the mature technology storage medium of the day and copy the digital files onto it. Keep the previous medium it was stored on. Research required storage conditions for the current medium and...

Most of them are designed with a very low Cd in mind, and run on low rolling resistance tires. Chances are they could do 110 and still put some power back in the battery.

Preliminary report: https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/194668/pdf Key points: The airplane then flew south to North Palm Beach County General Aviation Airport (F45), West Palm Beach, Florida, where it performed a touch and go landing. During the...