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Wonder how long this will last.....

Just had to check the hangar :) Yep, still there.

Wanna sump the tanks on this one?

I must be old! In the early 70's I trained on the AN/MPN13 (USAF) and that is how I lost most of my hearing with the cooling fans going. When we upgraded to the AN/MPN14 we thought we had gone to heaven.

20 some years ago I was checking out a partnership. I did fly the plane once and was not impressed, one radio not working, nav side on the other radio not working, attitude indicator took forever to come up and was slow and there were other problems with the plane but they seemed happy with it...

Not a crew scheduling problem but this thread makes me remember once I was waiting at the gate, we were the last flight out and we were already late. Gate agent had told me we had 8 passengers connecting from our mainline carrier that had just got to their gate. I decided to wait for them and...

I lean towards the theory he did not know he was involved in a midair. I think he only knew that the ass of his plane went left for a second but he was able to straighten it out. The Metro is a noisy airplane with Garrett turboprops he would have been wearing a DC type headset (guessing) and...

In my days of watching approach radar scopes and working in control towers (over 30 years ago in the Air Force) the radar sweep would take approximately 4 1/3 seconds per sweep. Maybe their equipment is faster I don't know. Now thinking as a tower controller by the time you realized the Cirrus...

Read it again. I missed that sentence the first time. Thank you.

I'm wondering about the airlines landing at BOS. Will this jack up there fees? It says not less than a thousand dollars. Will there be a sliding scale due to size and/or weight of aircraft? I live in New Hampshire. Years ago I used to fly to BED go to the aero club and could walk over to...

Money is what generates lift. ;)

https://www.panam.org/pan-am-inspirations/634-saga-of-the-pacific-clipper

Was preflighting a C150 in 1970 for my second flight as a student found a SK 3/8 socket set still in the metal box laying on top of the cylinders. Everything was there, all sockets, extensions, ratchet, etc. Asked around whose it was nobody owned up to it now use it working on my own plane...

Happy President's Day!

I've known several pilots that when Eastern and Pan Am went under they were hired on by other airlines. They refused upgrade when their time came for seniority reasons. As one said he's not going to sit reserve in upper Sloberland for the rest of his career.

It will probably be investigated for the simple reason after some shootings and other crimes that have been committed that the authorities had prior knowledge they don't take chances anymore.

A friend sent me this email covering a little of Boeing's history. A sad, but familiar, tale of modern day industry. The Coming Boeing Bailout? Let’s start by admiring the company that was Boeing, so we can know what has been lost. As one journalist put it in 2000, “Boeing has always been less...

Looks so much better than then one I used to fly checks in. Loved that bird it was fun to fly.

Many moons ago was a some function a woman asked my wife what I did for a living. When my better half answered I was a pilot the woman became unhinged saying things like don't you worry about him chasing flight attendants, etc? My bride answered that I fly cargo. Didn't stop her a bit as she...

Wonder how he's gonna log that landing.