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And when the same exact engine fails, you know what happens.

Cirrus did not build the emergency recovery system either. They were just smart enough to install it, so you don't have to find an empty street with no power lines.

Well, I head that Mark Brandemuehl had legs and hands amputated after the engine grenaded in his brand new Ultra and he put it down on a street in Phoenix past June.

Of course sales indicate value. I would be flying Cirrus if I had the money. I'm only stuck in Mooney because I'm poor and I want the knots.

It depends on the body type and perhaps specific options, such as seats, and maintenance history. I am way more comfortable in M20E than in C177B. Cardinal is just cramped for me. I imagine it may feel better for pilots who are shorter but wider than I am at 6'5" tall and 36" inseam.

I had a corrosion on an upper stringer in M20E and somewhat to my surprise, Mooney sold me stringers. In the same instance, my expert repairman found a corrosion on the a spar cap, while the wing was torn apart for stringer replacement. It was less than 10% depth, so we cleaned it out. But the...

I've been at Lago for 2 years now and not seen a single deer. Haven't had a problem with wind either.

Not exclusively, I'm sure. For example, a university is based at Cedar City, Utah, with a fleet of SR20s in red-orange livery. Their flight line had maybe 5 or 6 of them when I taxied by.

The advent of SR20 TRAC spells the end of the SR18 program, in my mind. Which is too bad. But then Mooney M10 didn't make it to production either (although it was unveiled to the public). In memoriam, an SR18 prototype in May 2018:

Beechtalk people say that he was walking and communicating after the crash, but succumbed to burns later. The Aerolite 103 uses a typical cylindrical tank that almost all legal ultralights use (except Belites, because James Wiebe is convinced that plastic tanks are safer).

I was just going to write that Panthera does not really exist, when someone landed one gear-up (way to advertise for Cirrus, BTW): https://sierra5.net/novice-novo/novice/item/3379-v-portorozu-letalo-pristalo-na-trupu?fbclid=IwAR3LCAyTzfcZokMpHZl-sSeVydXRic5Vy0-_usPgZz_XhPN8Lp39VYgBL78

In addition to what everyone is saying about the following aircraft being responsible for its own speed, there's absolutely no need to feel sorry for a Mooney. A Mooney flies great when slow, and there's no problem slowing it down either. There is one exception that I found for my M20E: if the...

The climate of American Southwest makes pipelines visible for decades, even if the pipeline company does not care about clearing anything at all. The vegetation is sensitive to the disruption during the construction of the pipeline, I guess. In fact when the pipeline clearing is grown over, the...

Someone on PoA ought to buy this one and then kvetch how poorly it's slapped together https://www.controller.com/listings/aircraft/for-sale/67871587/1989-mikoyan-mig-29

Thanks, I see what happened. My hangar mate had an Esqual, not LS-1. It had a slightly shorter wing than LS-1, so it was faster (before later Lightnings started coming with more powerful engines).

I'd like to get a Great War vintage Winchester 1895 (either 30-06 or 7.62 Russian), and an Eddystone. For the short guns, I feel like I want a racier gun than my Glock 42 (modded with Fraurem sport grip, Vickers sights, etc.). My wife has a Walther Q5 that makes me envious. I thought that...

Good call. When Henry cloned Browning BLR, they fixed some of the issues. In particular, the trigger no longer moves with the lever. They also dropped the stupid folding hammer. Basically the updates that Browning should have done years ago. That said, the original BLR comes in a wider variety...

Lightning is rather rare.... I heard there were only 6 made before the production switched to LS-1. You aren't in New Mexico at Mid-Valley by any chance?

The practical ceiling of the MiG-29 is about 17 km, so I suspect a conversion error.

Because of the changing makeup of the population of the British Isles, the IQ is catastrophically declining across the board, so the government is acting, usually in partnership with the industry. Another example of this trend is the proposal to color-code the nutritional value of groceries. The...