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My senses sharpen when I look at the logs that have the signature and license of the ap or - ai scrawled so they are illegible. I pass. I always ask the person working on my plane to print name, number clearly. Many lousy mechanics out there with the demise of GA. Be careful.i never bought a...

If you like war movies you may like to read "with the old breed" . A stunning account of marines fighting the japs on Guadalcanal. The author was there, very young. He was very lucky, went home, went to college and taught. Could not put it down.wow! I thought this was going on the movie site. Sorry!

not having a radio and using it correctly is really not too bright. At a smaller non towered airport you can get bumped off or kill someone else, or both. I've owned several small aircraft without electrical systems. Installing an external antenna is not difficult for a good mechanic and the...

Ho was educated in France. He was a nationalist not a communist and wrote to Harry Truman saying he really admired Thomas Jefferson. After ww2 he expected the French to get out and they would run their own country. Not so. The French had rubber plantations, etc. refused to leave and got their...

Years ago, all this was carefully explained by my instructor. At a towered airport you asked before doing anything and usually you used the taxiway. Why not? At a smaller one runway airport you simply swung around as you radioed your intentions and back taxi. They don't mention this anymore!?

The f35 is stationed in Arizona for further testing I think I read. I do know that their total cost is now around 1.5 trillion dollars. Conceived in 2000 it's still got a lot of problems.expensive flyby.m

I was taught to land short to take advantage of the nearest off ramp , to clear the runway quickly as possible, to facilitate the next aircraft that might be in the pattern. Being " ornery" is pretty immature unless it's a small airport with only one runway.

I've owned a cub , 2 140s and two taylorcrafts. Also a champ. All took over one day , usually two or three, maybe a week. Reasons usually included mechanic did not have replacement part, found muffler to have a leak, had to take off and repair, rubber shocks that bolt to engine mount not in...

If for instance it was a car, of course it matters.

I have never flown a metalized tripacer. Don't know how much weight it adds. Sounds like it's been tied down outside a while . Not good for any airplane. Engine time is high but depends on how it was flown and by how many people. It's a coin toss. Could be ok, could be bad.

What the media really did was follow trump and simply report what he said, what he did, and what his followers said and did. Mainly, they simply let the cameras roll. It was a real dog and pony show. Reagan or Eisenhower would not have stayed in the same room with him much less have voted for him.

When was it recovered? With what? Has it sat outside for a lengthy time! All very important! are you going to hangar it? You should if it's in nice shape. I flew them years ago. It's a Piper pacer with a nose gear. It will carry four adults but not obese adults, and gets out well with two...

So....the regulations imposed on Wall Street will be removed. So it will encourage hedge funds, banks etc. To go back to they're old ways. It makes another 2007 a sure thing. Once again privatize profits, socialize loss. Just like last time in 2009.

Yes! the pacer is a BUY! be hard to replicate it for that money. Nice flyer and easy to fly. The 180 maybe, depending on who did engine and very careful prebuy. Great airplane, lots of fun.

After the debacle of 2000, much ado about really "cleaning up the voting system in America" 23 states still have no paper trail!! No way to really check the results! Much more important than the very very few fraudulent ballots cast . Voter suppression is another much larger problem.

I'll stand by what I reported. The 100th and others had many Gregory peck types, one belonged to a friend. His father a west point grad flew in the 100th , 25 missions, married a British girl, was sent home due to bad missions and mental brake down. He was then 24. Sat at home and stared out the...

Freeway is 2400 feet. How many hours do you have? Any taildragger time? Ive owned a luscombe 8a back in the days. It's 65 hp. , slow to climb and in summer, with two people , very very slow to gain altitude. I also owned an F model, 90 hp which is much much better and lot of fun. The 8a has no...

Your whining again. Go to Medical school, start a hedge fund. Etc.

Totally different war and enemy in first gulf war which was fought in the desert by an inferior enemy. Vietnam was fought in the jungle by very determined enemy who was willing to fight ten more years if necessary. We were in over our heads. We had no business going there. Same with Iraq. A...

12 o'clock high was taken from actual happenings that occurred when the " bloody 100th " based in England, flew missions against Germany. They suffered tremendous losses . The book B17 by Edward jablonsky , tells in detail , a lot of what occurred , the pilots, POWS, etc. great book. This movie...