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"So I got me an office, gold records on the wall Just leave a message, maybe I'll call . . ."

Great, now what am I going to do with 5,000 "business" cards.

I made sure to land at an airport at least 51 nmi away, because, by my calculations, an airport that was EXACTLY 50 nmi away was, in reality, about 10 feet short because the "straight line distance" would, technically, be through the earth's crust and not at a safe flight altitude. :cool:

In WW2, the USAAF determined that a painted B-17 was slightly faster than an unpainted one and burned slightly less fuel - even though it was a couple hundred pounds heavier with paint - because it had smoother airflow due to a lower drag co-efficient.

My experience is that both handling and airspeed are best as one gets closer to the aft edge of the CG envelope. But, inexplicably, even with a 10 mph tail wind it doesn't make the Cub fly 10 mph faster.

What did the A-4 guy* say about adding simplicity? It's a door AND a stall warning flapper! *Edit: Ed Heinemann.

Be unique!

Train in a J3C-65 with full fuel, a picnic lunch, and a 200-ish pound CFI and you will experience flying near, if not at, max gross weight.

"Uncluttered" :)

"When empty weight C. G. falls within range given, computation of critical fore and aft C. G. positions is unnecessary. Range is not valid for non-standard arrangements." I ran the numbers anyway . . . true, unless I weighed something like 60 pounds and / or my passenger weighed 300. Let's see...

What I was trying to say is that a pilot needs to be aware of the normal performance of her / his aircraft. Sure, I weigh a lot less than my CFI, and could climb twice as fast flying solo as I could with him on board. But those are both "normal" rates of climb at different gross weights. Density...

At the risk of being a noob sticking her nose where it may not belong. No accident anywhere has ever been caused by an aircraft having a NORMALLY LOW HORSEPOWER TO WEIGHT RATIO. The airplane you are flying is the airplane you flying . . . 65/1170 is 0.55 HP/lb. No matter how you slice it, you...

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum (https://shipwreckmuseum.com/visit/admission-hours-location/) is located in the old Coast Guard Station at Whitefish Point, Michigan . . .. "The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her"

Chrysler lug nuts . . .. Well, half of them.

Gami gas has arrived... Well, that's a lot better than Gimli no-gas . . .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

Close Order Swanning About (1969) OMG!!! That was 55 years ago . . ..

So, I do not want to be presumptive, or to wade into waters over my head, but my CFI told me that the "legal" requirement (in 2024, for single engine general aviation aircraft that are not rented or used commercially) is that a "record" be kept that an IA signed the aircraft off as being...

IDK . . . 91 knots level, 124 in a dive . . . can people really go faster? 23012 . . . so many digits . . ..