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This was a thing in the 1930s. The only instrument was a venturi driven Turn&slip indicator. Now those wood and fabric gliders were slow and had a stable spin, so if things went to hell, you just spun out of the bottom of a cloud. Eventually, people realized that there was no performance gain to...

Composite gliders have been around for 60+ years. It is not uncommon that tails get twisted off or landing gear is torn off during landings on unimproved surfaces. These aircraft are routinely repaired. There are approved inspection methods etc. So if the repair was done by a appropriate shop...

I had a GMRS license for a few years, never got any equipment and allowed it to expire. A few things that are interesting about GMRS vs. ham: - you can use it for a business purpose - all members of your family (but not your employees) are covered under your license even if they are not under...

I am looking forward to moving to AZ and getting one of those xeriscape yards with gravel and a few cacti one of these days.

Have a Yeti 10oz tumbler for my single cup coffee maker. Works great, except it doesn't fit into the cup holders on my car.

We had a partner in that age bracket and found ourselves in a situation where we needed to change companies (as our insurer dumped its entire book of aviation business). We were unable to get coverage at any price from the usual suspects for a A36TC with 5 partners and one over 70. Avemco had...

Anything the .gov pays for. My first thought when hearing that they had a flight school is that 90% of the students are going to be VA or GI bill of some type.

Their public safety radio systems suck ;-)

I have a 2016 Frontier SV with the V6 and stick shift and it has been trouble free. It's a very dated design with hard plastic interior and cloth seats, but its a truck, so thats ok. They updated the Frontier in 2022. Dropped the manual transmission option but it looks a little bit less dated...

Lose the entire basement for 50 bucks a month ? That sounds like a terrible deal.

Had the inspector miss a bad roof on one house I bought. Had the inspector miss a bad roof on one house I sold. I guess that balances it out. One inspector gave a whole write-up on a broken casement window lift spring but missed the cracked foundation (and not cosmetic shrink-cracking, the real...

Looked through the logbooks of an old Cherokee 140. A terse entry sometime in the first year of its life: Replaced tail plane assembly in accordance with Piper repair manual using PN from attached list. Someone had used the plane to chase starlings out of a safflower field and snagged a...

Yes. Assuming the correct nozzles got installed. A few percent difference in energy content.

I found that it's getting harder to find comfortable cargo pants. I mostly sit for work so I prefer cargo pants . Short of buying them at a uniform store (EMS pants), I don't see them much in stores.

You mean like people not listing their pronouns and stuff ?

Lun classs Ekranoplan:

Dornier Do31 VTOL Dornier Do28 'Skyservant' utility aircraft: RFB 400 'fantrainer' (a bit like the edgeley. This was supposed to be a training platform for centerline thrust transition): The RFB X-114 prototype. A type of surface effect vehicle (similar to the russian Ekranoplan)...

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Yes. This was MD wing. I switched to ND wing and we had 10% of the buerocrats and none of the obvious self dealing.

I have seen that connected people closer to state HQ got priority over pretty much everyone else for paid-for flying. Dunno whether they were former military, but for some reason it was always the same two old guys who hogged every repositioning 'mission'.