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Probably most here have seen airplanes that have been sitting on the ramp for years--flat tires, peeling paint, bird's nests, etc. I know of a few at my home field that have languished for over ten years. I expect they're now nearly worthless, even as salvage. Anyway, I'm sure anyone...

I'm guessing somewhere near Launceston, Tasmania. Tim

Columbia, CA airport has a rather nice campground, although I have never stayed there: http://www.airnav.com/airport/o22 Both Furnace Creek and Stovepipe Wells airports in Death Valley Nat. Park have nearby campgrounds, but the camping is VERY low quality, with campers packed like sardines. On...

Watsonville CA (KWVI) is one of them. Although there were airfields in the area before the war, the current airport was built in 1942 for use by the Navy for training and positioning aircraft to be flown out to carriers offshore. I have found WWII-era graffitti and even a 50 cal machine gun...

Wow--I have two of the things, although not brand new. Well-used, in fact, to this day. To tell the truth, I'd rather have them than the money. Hewlett-Packard doesn't make nice calculators any more, or anything nice for that matter--one of the saddest Silicon Valley stories ever. Tim

Since the thread has devolved into a ****ing contest, I have not read the whole thing so I don't know if what I have to say has come up. The first time I changed my oil, I removed all the cowling, etc. When I told a friend about it, he said, "That's nice, but why didn't you just use this...

There must be a rule that journalism majors are prohibited from taking math, physics, chemistry, or any other science classes. Tim

Since it was a towered airport, the safe thing to say would have been something like "Ground, this guy can go ahead of me if he likes." Tim

Do you speak Russian? Evidently that's a dash cam requirement. Tim

I don't have any pet people, although sometimes I would like to. Tim

A programmer who works for Microsoft would bring back a dozen eggs, and two of them would be broken. Tim

As long as you don't call a military trainer a warbird. Tim

If they're fixing the thing on the fly, they should also fix the part that says I am airplane. Tim

Rather than pushing, how about pulling the plane in with a winch at the back of the hangar? Tim

So could it be motor oil? How clean is the oil in your engine right now? Maybe you've been pranked. Back when I was sailing, I heard of people leaving a handful of miscellaneous hardware at the base of some victim's mast. Tim

Not familiar with your landing gear configuration, but if the strut was leaking, wouldn't there be oil on the tire, too? Tim

That sounds like an excellent technique. From what I have seen, though, you probably are the only one in the universe who knows about it. It's too bad, because more often than not (in fact, virtually always) I see chains hanging off wings with tons of slack, sometimes even with chain resting...

+1 Half inch nylon three-strand--done. I think it's somewhat bizarre to tie down airplanes with chains, which seems to be nearly universal at airports these days. If it gets windy, you might as well be out there banging on your airplane with a slide hammer. Oh, I guess if you get them good...

When I was training for IR, I was told that failure to ID a navaid was an instant bust. Go figure. Tim

Yep--there're more pics here: http://www.borekair.com/fleet.php How the hell did you know that? Tim