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What is foot ball??.. and what is a Super Bowl?.... If it goes 200 mph and at least turns left I'm interested... Otherwise it is a waste of time. It is the best weekend to go out to the sand dunes and ride the quads!...

ACF-50 corrosion treatment inside the fuselage and wings / tails... pull the wing / tails tips and make up a sprayer to apply it inside... may have to vacuum out some dirt and wasp nests first... and then wipe up the oil as it leaks out the seams for weeks... meaning it is getting between...

There currently are sensors and cameras that are the same or better flying in the RPV aircraft that we build... they stay aloft a lot longer, and at a much lower cost. and Pilots with their sensor operators are safely in a Conex box somewhere out in the desert. Not getting shot at..... Fun...

Yes the Archer II and above has the 2550 gross, but the older 180's were 2400 to 2450. The POH that is with my plane is for a Cherokee 180 "E", with the listed gross weight being 2400. back in 1971 when the change was made, there were not a lot of Archers around!.,.. Would sure like to have...

The paperwork states " All parts required to converted to a 180", and the new weigh and balance uses 2400 gr weight, so that is what I plan for ... 1296 empty weight so there is enough to make this bird really useful. The one thing that I'm not sure on is what nose strut is in the plane, and...

I'm up for renewal this summer, and thinking about the direction to go... my primary Doctor is against flying.... along with motorcycles, snowboarding, snowmobiles, quads, Jeeps, anything motorized actually... and shooting sports!... so it is a no go with him for the new process... I guess...

2500 for a Fisher 303 is a good price... the motor is ok, not a ton of power but will pull it around... I like them and would also like to get something like that, or an Airbike, to just kick around the clouds in ...

swap it for an O-360, and have an WarArcher.... better performance.... more load capability, it's all good.

Ziptie a Harmonica to the fan support of his car... when the fan comes on it starts "singing"..

I had the same fear of stalls early on also... I hated doing them, and always pushed away from them. It als make s a difference in what type of aircraft your in... PA-28's are mushy, and not a fast clean brake. my current aircraft is nose heavy, so stalls are really mushy and a non-event...

It was stated that he had over 4000 hr, and that he was going to Riverside to start training as a traffic reporter in the air for an AM radio station.. Bad deal all around. I have flown out of Cable a lot, finished up my flight training there and the departure to the north to over the dam is...

Yesterday I drove for 7 hours to take some things to the Grandkids.. and today drove back home.... All the time looking up and wishing I did not have a trailer behind the truck, as flying up would have been GREAT!... Can not fit a Piano in the back of the Cherokee. Driving is good but...

I sleeved a set of calipers for a friends Jaguar a bunch of years ago.. works great, but it was a show car so not used much. easy to do...

It would be nice to see a photo of the plugs... I changed out the plugs in my plane last month... 3 Champion fine wire and 5 massive, all worn out.... with Tempest and it runs so much better....

Now that's a mooney with some leg room!... My wife would even agree with it!.. on another note, the only thing about training in the Mooney is more $$$.... would love to have my Dad's old M20K.... great plane!

That's what I did,,.... just reported needing glasses on the next medical... Except that there was 20 years between medicals!.. Sure good to be back flying again.

The City of El Monte had a counsel meeting with a map showing the El Monte airport as a sports park... thinking that the space would be better served as a soccer park.. They said," it is the citys airport so the city can say what to do with it"... Not so, county property and a county...

Sounds to me like the engine was running rough, and he needed to find a place to land and check the mixture setting,,, say an airport with operating aircraft and thinks, " good, there is a place to stop and check out the plane"...

When I wanted to get back into flying, I was going the LSA direction as I was not sure I could get a medical... So I went out and started flying a Warrior just to get back into the air, then an LSA plane... CTSW, I really liked the Warrior, Did not like the CTSW as the controls were not...

20 years ago when I stopped flying, I was IFR.. ( I Follow Roads), had a chart out and would look for landmarks to fly to, when getting to one, would then find the next one out 30 to 50 miles and go to it... Now I fly the "the line",,, and when on the line look for a landmark and fly to...