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  1. donjohnston

    Road Bump in Buying a Plane - No Place to Put It

    Yes, I have. What's your point?
  2. donjohnston

    Road Bump in Buying a Plane - No Place to Put It

    Actually you were. You mention "EAA chapter's" and "kits". While there are EAA members who are not building an E/AB aircraft, you specifically mention kits. If this doesn't address experimental aircraft, then what non-Experimental aircraft are a kit that is assembled???
  3. donjohnston

    Road Bump in Buying a Plane - No Place to Put It

    Since you want to be pedantic... E/AB aircraft don't get an "annual inspection". They get an "annual condition inspection". But even if we let that go, using your view, there would be almost no E/AB aircraft since they all require some level of assembly at the airport before they can fly...
  4. donjohnston

    Lindberg's Final Landing Spot

    I had never heard that either. Color me skeptical. Then again, the guy did lead a double life fathering a number of children with other women in Europe while married. One of them figured it out and once that cat was out of the bag the other were discovered.
  5. donjohnston

    April solar eclipse

    What I found interesting was that the forecast at Garland, TX was for 30-60% cloud coverage all day. Leading up to the totality, that’s what we were seeing. But as soon as we got to the total eclipse, the cloud cover decreased. By the time the eclipse was over, there wasn’t a cloud anywhere...
  6. donjohnston

    I survived the great earthquake of 2024!

    Last time I looked, Charlotte, NC was considered “East Coast”.
  7. donjohnston

    KWVI Watsonville MId Air, Multiple Fatalities

    After this happened, I looked at the guys previous flights. I found a number of flights where he flew into WVI doing a low approach at high speeds and then coming around to land. So this event does not appear to be isolated. So I guess it's possible he had a mini-stroke on a number of...
  8. donjohnston

    Cobalt Valkyrie

    Say what? If there were more weight on the nose gear, why do Long-EZ's have to retract their nose gear when parked so they don't tip back when nobody is in them? And I could lift the nose of my Velocity with one hand. I could never do that on my 182RG.
  9. donjohnston

    Experimental for my business travel. Yes/No

    https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/can-you-rent-experimentals-for-profit.76591/
  10. donjohnston

    Fisker is toast.

    Fisker made electric cars. IIRC, this was the second company under Henrik Fisker. So he's 0-2 in electric car companies. And a key fob is that thing which some (most now) cars have that let you unlock the car and start it.
  11. donjohnston

    Ship hit the span

    During construction they likely had it down to one lane.
  12. donjohnston

    Feline Infectious Peritonitis

    Did you also make this same post on the "Radon" thread? What about the "How thoroughly do you clean you grill" thread? I'm sure the "Bug proofing your home" thread really sent you into a fit. :rolleyes:
  13. donjohnston

    CAPS saves a family

    So the family isn't smart because the pilot isn't? If you get on an airliner and the pilot does something stupid, does that make you stupid because you boarded the flight?
  14. donjohnston

    runup area. WWYD?

    Even without all that other stuff, one of the things my first instructor told me is "Don't get in a hurry. That's how you miss something." I'm sure that during my training I took a ridiculous amount of time working my way through that Run-up checklist.
  15. donjohnston

    Masters of the Air--coming to Apple TV

    IMO, Ted Lasso is one of the best television series of all time.
  16. donjohnston

    Most insurable homebuilts under $30k?

    I don't know details about every kit, but I assumed that all of them had some parts that where built/fabricated by the company which would be difficult to reproduce. On the Velocity, the fuselage halves, windows and spars, for example. So I'm guessing that on the RV's you can order spars from...
  17. donjohnston

    NA: dog ownership + lawn care

    I can’t Like this post enough.
  18. donjohnston

    What a zoo!

    I hated doing my phase I flight testing in Sebastian. One time I waited almost 15 minutes to takeoff while 4 piper’s were doing touch & goes. And I couldn’t understand any of there radio calls.
  19. donjohnston

    Most insurable homebuilts under $30k?

    I can get just about anything for a Velocity. I still don’t see your point.
  20. donjohnston

    Most insurable homebuilts under $30k?

    So what's an "off the shelf" part that you buy for a "common" homebuilt that can't buy for a "less common" homebuilt?
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