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Maybe it was one of the 737s or 757s in the SAM fleet. The maintenance on them is contracted out to the airlines.

Hitting the gravel and 'soft' wall in the track overrun helped with the survival factors.

It depends on what it is coded as. I've found the self serve pump coded as 'Automated Gas Dispenser' gets the 4%, but when it is 'Fuel Dealers - Fuel Oil, Wood, Coal, Lp Gas' it gets the 1% everything else category. I forget what another coding was I've seen, but it fell into the 3% travel...

Santa Clara County (RHV and E16) doesn't want to sell fuel, they want to give the airports to the developers. When they banned 100LL and switched to 94UL, they also switched to having the county sell the fuel directly instead of selling through the FBOs. This was so that the FBOs will make...

They do an open cockpit day a few times a year. Something to check for if you're planning a visit.

I haven't heard any interference. Where were you located when you've heard it?

Sounds similar to a mower/plane collision at Frazer Lake in 2015. In that accident, the mower driver wasn't listening to the CTAF while having a conversation about issues with the mower, and the limited visibility from the Ryan made it hard to spot the mower...

Lawrence Livermore National Labs (LLNL), just east of LVK has the same warning over their main campus. The area where they do their 'energetic' research is in R-2531.

I had a passenger walk in to a prop one time, thankfully with only minor injuries since it wasn't running. We had just pushed the plane back into its spot, which was slightly slopped. I asked my friend to chock the nose gear while I kept the plane from rolling. Coming in edge on, the prop was...

What sort of odor? Maybe some Jet-A or other fuel was left over in in the transport truck or somewhere else along the way. I've never done the test, but conventional wisdom to test for Jet-A in avgas is put some on a piece of paper, and if there is an oily residue after it evaporates, it is...

Depending on how crappy the power is in your hangar, watch out for the amperage rating on the compressor. I have a hangar all the way at the other end of the row from the breaker panel and before I got my own compressor, I tried using my buddy's ~10gal one. It tripped the breaker instantly. I...

Endeavor did JFK to LGA VFR on a reposition flight awhile back. VASAviation got the audio of the confusion of JFK Tower and NY Tracon.

I've had GoPros shutdown from too much cool air. The fact the OAT was 15F might have something to do with it....

As of four years ago, the Museum of Flight had their own parking area and a gate you just walked into the parking lot from the tiedown area. You just had to call museum security to come open it to let you back in. Number was on the gate.

Of the planes I've flown, MFB has one with 61 different pilots, another with 53 and then a few in the 40s and 30s.