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OK, had to look it up. Comment card - first character was a C. Got the rest right. Amazing the worthless stupid **** you remember. But something you need to know? HAH! No way!

Because that is the field on the card where the actual FORTRAN code went - between column 7and 72 (iirc). 1-5 was for statement numbers, 6 was for continuation? 73-80 you could use to number the cards so the deck could be sorted if you dropped it. Forget how you made a card a comment card...

43.1 b this part does not apply to— (1) Any aircraft for which the FAA has issued an experimental certificate, unless the FAA has previously issued a different kind of airworthiness certificate for that aircraft;

Mostly done or just started? If I was concerned, I would ask the DAR that is likely to be inspecting it what he/she would expect. I believe the FAA suggests checking with the FSDO... https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_20-27G.pdf

All of you

"maximum stalling speed or minimum steady flight speed without the use of lift-enhancing devices"?

Worked across the partition from a guy who kept his answering machine locked up in a cabinet with the volume cranked up. Apparently he had a string of ex's... One would call and rant for half an hour or so - calling him names - saying what a crappy father he was - etc. etc. etc.

Typewriters and slide rules. But on the pay phone side... Getting married, wife is selling her house, I need to get some stuff over to the realtor. Hop onto my motor cycle, get about a mile, it dies. I reach down to turn the gas to "reserve" and, oops, already on reserve. No big deal, there...

A 3d printer is your friend.

True story: Driving in the right lane of the freeway - a pickup with ladder rack etc. comes down the ramp and merges right in front of me. Within seconds, off comes an extension ladder which lands right in front of me across the lane. No time to stop, swerve, whatever - just drove over the...

Dust and crap can sometimes build up in the detector. One may be better served by sucking with a vacuum.

NC = normally closed. When you put power to the avionics contactor it opens - if you follow the diodes (current flows + to - in the direction of the arrow) the avionics connector opens when the ignition switch is in "start" or there is power on the bottom pin of the external power connector...

Octane number is not a hard and fast property of any particular fuel. The result you get depends on operating conditions. Two fuels may both test as 100 octane under a specified test condition but may not behave the same under a wider range of engines / operating conditions.

Just think about how allowing random people to build airplanes at home and maintain them on their own would result in flaming death raining from the sky!