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Kenmore Air Harbor, many decades ago, had a customer service..........to where they would ground run customer's floatplanes in the parking lot in the winter. They stopped doing that a few years later after all those engines rusted out.

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Beechcraft was TOTALLY complacent about the breakup problem......so was the American Bonanza Society. Then, the president of the Bonanza Societies "V" tail disintegrated..........and finally, Beech made a strengthening kit. The straight-tail Debonaire is a MUICH better design

There is no perfect record.....and some years ago I tried to research it......But 350 Bonanzas have disintegrated in flight. It wasn't until the president of the Bonanza society failure that Beech reluctantly made the tail mod............which is only somewhat of a fix.

Actually a Cessna 185 floatplane.

I have an acquaintance with "V1V2R"

I wanted to be a Cub Scout. But they wouldn't let me unless my mother agreed to be a den mother......or whatever you call that. She couldn't......as she traveled the world with my father for View-Master.

Thanks, John H............your charger is in the mail today!

I got two engineering degrees with a slide rule!

A slight puff of wind will deflect a piece of paper MUCH more than a rock. That's why Va is lower for the paper.

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Thank you.....Sir!

The reason they failed is because they moved to Chicago and let accountants design the airplanes. They should move back to Seattle and let engineers design the airplanes.

Mount Everest has been climbed without oxygen, but it's rare. As of January 2024, only 221 people have summited Everest without supplemental oxygen. Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler were the first to do so on May 8, 1978, by speeding up their climb and spending as little time as possible at...

I dumped AOPA when they dumped the "red" board.

Hey, Fab! Yes, the 296, 396, and 496 are powered by a special battery.

Some of you have bought my charger. I made 1000 of them and sold about 800 @ $39.95 plus $5.95 for shipping. They are getting a little long in tooth, but STLL a wonderful GPS. If you would like one CHEAP..........Send me $30 and I'll ship it out. Cash, check, gold, silver, bitcoin......etc...

In 1967, I landed my Super-Cub on "Spirit Lake," next to Mt St Helens. A USFS guy there gave me a "ticket!" On the way home I tossed it out the window, and to this day I am waiting for the cuffs.

Great airplanes have two things in common.....Performance and Looks. The Vashon has the performance...........but lacks any good looks. Here is what is I mean..

I knew Molt Taylor......at the Longview Airport. As a young student pilot, I used to stop there. I flew Wally's T-Craft out of the now-long-gone Evergreen Airport in Vancouver. Molt was always a pleasure to talk with.