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Triptiks. Spell check does not recognize that word. 1963, my wife and I went to Missouri, San Francisco, Salt Lake city, Yellow Stone, and home, 3 books of Triptiks from my mother's account. A steno notebook of notes on the trip. We left without a credit card, but $500 in hundred dollar...

Dan Thomas was making $24 a day, and dual in a 172 was $24, so a days pay per hour. 1973. DaleB, Army E3, $360 a month, 1979. Me, army E2, $80 a month. Flying lessons in a Piper J3 were $10 per half hour. Bought 4 half hour lessons, half of my months pay. 1957 1952, graduated from High...

There is a gap between the front and back sections when you bend 90 degrees at the hip. Just make sure your dingleberries are inside before standing back up.

How many see your flags a year? My son says about 6 to 8 a year, beside family. He has pictures too, of all his relatives. My father died while working at the Louisville Naval Gun Factory, his picture is just as much valued as the grandfather who did not die in service, but has no flag.

The first iteration is seldom perfect.

Get a good nights sleep. Relaxed and alert are a good combination.

Rules that are comprehensive enough to exactly describe all possible in appropriate activity are so long that no one reads them, so back to square one. Simple rules that are general and somewhat vague, so that the moderators can make judgement calls in the context of the thread are to be...

I think the last 5 years are a poor time to look for important trends. Working from home pushed up the activity of many of the posters here, and on my other sites as well. As the members slowly returned to offices, the opportunity to post diminished.

Caution. For those that need instruction, here, this is a dirty joke. Do not read further if you re easily offended. Don't waste good fuel, swing back higher, and pull the toilet dump handle. Blue bombs away.

I am active on 4 forums. I have had a whopping 2 posts deleted, one of which was here. That is a 20 plus year accumulation of posting actively. The tiresome personal point of view back and forth threads annoy me, but I simply quit following those threads. In general, the deletions seem...

RGB is undoubtedly right. I believe I remember a bar, but did not see actual gambling activity. It has been over 30 years since I went there, and just spent one night. We spent half of that time at the airport talking to pilots.

In the morning the air would be cooler, and good visuals of the runway, rather than being invisible after the hump. Both airplane and pilot performance should have been much better. Places to sleep, the Casino runs all night, get an alcoholic drink, spill most of it on your handkerchief, and...

Dividing up the items from a family estate, my son called for the casket flag of his grandfather. No fight, we are a friendly family. He has it hanging in large a north facing window, and after years, it is getting sun faded. I suggested that he preserve it from the reflected sun damage. His...

Why did they shut down both engines They knew they had a battery problem, they had a charger on board, and an extension cord. This version does not have an attempt to repair the original aircraft, so simply shutting down the engine on the passenger door side should have been safe. Restarting...

What test procedure does GAMI require for assuring the tanker of their fuel meets their formulation, and is not degraded by residue in the delivery tanker? I have learned first hand that a full tanker of high quality, and necessarily ultra pure liquid may be rendered dangerous by the presence...

American Society for Testing Materials, ASTM, is a quality assurance organization. You create a chemical product, and market it. They provide testing specifications and procedures that assure that you get what was created, no matter where you buy it. All aviation fuel in the past had ASTM...

And some people think flight reviews are a waste and insulting.

When quite young someone read "The little Engine that Could" to him may times. I THINK I CAN, I TINK I CAN, I THINK I CAN.............. Fuel near empty, I think I can get home. Plane climbing slower than expected, I think I can find a low enough place to get over the mountain. Un...

It was a scorching hot Sunday summer afternoon. My instructor and I landed in a 4 passenger single engine Piper, and took the keys and TT numbers to the desk. The manager on duty told my instructor there was one of the school planes with an engine problem, and needed a ride back to the home...

Instructor flies to the island with a student. After landing they find a problem with the plane, call shoreside for help, presumably the common owner. Owner hops in the Beech twin, with an instructor, and a student, and maybe some tools and expected parts to fix the first plane. KEEPS THE...