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Since waxing came up. I'll mention Plane Perfect...

In the Chicago area that service was mostly provided by banks. I definitely remember hearing, "The official York State Bank time is..."

Yeah, I laughed at that. That was a scary stunt! I had never heard of him before watching that video, now I want to be him...

Love this! Every saturday this channel publishes a video about stuntmen, CGI, or other aspects of movie making. This weeks was helicopter stunts.

Keith Richards longtime guitar tech is a good friend of mine and that's his favorite song. It's always a blast flying with him and hearing story after story about his time on the road.

Looks good on you though...

I'm very happy with my Best Tug also. Used ten or so different tugs over the years. You can get cheaper ones, for sure! And it might even be rational to deal with the hassle and fit and finish since you only use the tug a few minutes a year. But I like that my Best Tug "just works" and doesn't...

When I did my IFR, in Chicago, not only did the school fly IMC, but we had to deal with the very real possibility of picking up ice. The moment a single plane got any ice, the entire fleet had to return. But otherwise training continued. This was great. I was actually in a plane that picked up...

Been a rough couple days there apparently. Spirit, Jet Blue and American all report taking fire. Flights are now stopped. https://wapo.st/3YKpMM7

THIS WAS FUN! Being a small time video maker is usually a great complement to aviation as it's also a very effective way of turning dollars into dust. But this trip was totally worth it. Because of my channel, the Tora Tora Tora crew reached out and asked if I was interested in doing something...

Can't hurt to call them. One of the very, very few advantages of being in a hobby/industry with such low volumes is that you can get the top dog on the phone, shoot your shot and see if they bite. Otherwise, bear hawk is an experimental maule for all practical purposes.

Nope. Experimental amateur built. Was built during the great recession by a guy that used to work at the factory. So it's got most of the benefits of a factory build and most of the benefits of experimental. I don't think it's a terribly repeatable goal based on the fact that there are only a...

Avemco was always the most expensive quote I got back in the day. The quote you got is basically what I'm paying for a one of a kind experimental. Maules tend to have a premium on insurance. As someone else suggested, have a broker shop you around.

My factory maule was about 4.5% of hull with Old Republic My experimental maule is about 6% of hull with US Specialty I was zero hours tailwheel when starting with the factory Maule. I am well over a thousand hours experience today. I like Maules a lot and you can see me flying them in my...

The drop zone I went to a couple times for tandems shuts down the engine on the passenger side of the plane. There is no reason for the pax to go to the other side of the plane. At a bare minimum, this allows the pilot the advantage of having to only monitor one side of the plane. In practice...

Amen. My son was with me earlier this summer and we landed 25G40. We weren't off the runway yet and he said, "well that was sporty". "Until we are in the hangar, this isn't over", I replied.

Since getting noise cancelling headphones and listening to podcasts on my chores, I haven't been salty about mowing even a single time. If I'm doing the lawn, it takes 40 minutes or so. Adding the trails makes it a bit over two hours. It's been game changing.

Yeah, I mean a good survey would be interesting. But it would be an enormous amount of work because it would have to be by airport and take into account size, heat, power and whether or not it's shared. Probably some other stuff also. I've paid as little as $125 (current) and as much as $450...

Yeah, it's been discussed here several times. tl;dr Anywhere you would want to base, you can't afford. Anywhere you wouldn't want to base, you can rent super cheap. There are exceptions. But that's the rule.

My O-540 did it a little. My IO-540 does it basically every time I pull the throttle out quickly enough. I guess the physics must be something like, "the same fuel is being pushed in for a moment, but without enough throttle there isn't enough O2 to burn it all, so it passes into the exhaust and...