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I remember last year riding Qatar Airlines to the UAE and it went through Iranian (and Russian) airspace. Must be nice not having an N number registration.

Sounds like old GM engineers. I recall a few of their cars where you couldn't pull one of the spark plugs without removing the engine. At least my 1954 Buick Special only required a few extra parts on the socket wrench to pull that last plug. I haven't seen that beast since late 1979 and...

And it still is at various airports around here.

That assumes that the will requires a probate court. When I served as my mom's personal representative the estate was "small" enough that we did not need to use probate. My brother and I were the only people named in her will, other than a few charities. Once they had been paid and we (our...

The A1 was the latest M16 that I've shot, and it's been about 50 years since that.

Getting brass in your face was not fun at all. Fortunately, the military realized that about 1 out of 7 shooters is left handed. Starting with the M16A2 they added the block of metal behind the ejection port that is universal in AR15s today. I'm sure glad that my AR15 has one. It's been many...

I, for one, am not sorry the Army did not adopt the AR10. When I was a member of the Golden Gun Club (many decades ago) we had a member who was a class 3 dealer and brought a fully automatic AR10 to the range and let some of us try it. I remembered how the M16A1 threw brass in my face when I...

As long as it has the right paint job! Go Cougs!!!

The one time I was on Kodiak (1977 or 1978) we were doing a job for the Coast Guard. I asked them for a rental car and we had a delegation of Coasties waiting for us then our flight arrived. No rental cars on the island at that time, so they provided a pickup truck. The only request they made...

Our club used to have an Arrow. 1969 PA-28R-200. I gave up flying it when I got tired of my knees giving out after 3 hours. I'm not sure what the problem was, but after about 3 hours it was all I could do to crawl out of that plane. We sold it a number of years ago and now have a pair of...

You are correct. VB is much better than Tooheys. I haven't ridden Quantas in over 10 years, so I'll have to take your word on that.

That's the one. "It's Australian for beer!" BS.

From Australia, I remember one called Toohey's. "I'll have a Toohey's or two!" Not bad at all. There was another that you will not find in Australia, only in the US. It's been so long since I've had it that I don't remember what it's called. Their slogan in the US was "Its Australian for...

Yup. It's amazing that people with no skin in the game try to tell those who do what to do. I worked on Lower Granite Lock and Dam (the last dam in the chain that Lewiston Idaho a seaport) when I was an undergraduate student at Washington State University in the summer of 1974 and spring of...

I was wondering the same thing :-) .

Who was it that said, "If there is a doubt, there is no doubt"? You made the right call.

Must have had better seals than my 1986 Dodge van. The parting words from the salesman as we drove it off the lot were, "Don't put ethanol in it!" Shortly later California mandated "oxygenated" gasoline. That was their way of saying, "polluted with ethanol". A little while later I had raw gas...

I asked this question of our risk management people a number of years ago. I asked them which was going to do the most damage - my Jeep Wrangler or a C-172. Their comeback was "which one is going to make the 6 o'clock news?" I stopped my discussion immediately. We were prohibited from using...

I am a member of ARRL. Have been for decades. I am a member of their EMC committee and a TA. One of the duties of being a TA is that you get to review articles proposed by members for inclusion in QST or QEX. Is there an equivalent to a TA in the EAA? Not that I've heard of and, yes, I am a...

Regardless of the legalities involved, he was guilty of violating two rules with regard to safe handling of firearms that I learned as a youngster (decades ago). The first is that there is no such thing as an empty gun. The second is to never point a gun at anyone and anything you are not...