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I have quite a bit of flight time behind a two cylinder engine in a homebuilt Luton Minor, The engine was an Aeronca JAP. Low and slow!

In the UK many years ago, Douglas Bader and Johny Kent.

Need to trouble shoot wiring. No help in maintenence manual

I need to remove the instruement panel from my Grumman AA5, does anyone know of a "how to" article>

In 1957 the airfield was populated with sheep, they would just move out of the way of aircraft on approach!

It looks like it hit overhead wires and went out of control, why do the FAA allow overhead wires under approach and departure paths? He might have made it back to the field if it did not hit anything.

It was reported in the Sun Sentinel that a Vans aircraft on a flight from Spruce Creek to Boca has gone missing. As this is all over land, I would expect that someone has seen it or wreckage by now. The pilots license was said to have been revoked some tim ago, so that may be why a flight plan...

look at the flight schools at KHWO North Perry

I started counting backwards at 65, so now I am only 41! Well, you can do the math!!

The formation flew overhead South Florida today while I was monitoring ADS traffic, but saw no signal. Are military aircraft exempt from this requirement?

Air Harbor? Have a son who lives near there, small field with a sloped runway

Electric propulsion is on the way, would make this obsolete. But not for a year or two1

After my recent experience on American, I don't want to ever fly on that airline again. Should have been on a flight to CLT and then FLL on Thursday. Eventually made it to FLL on Saturday, with a connection at CLT that left only 10 minutes from arrival to boarding the last leg. Arrive at...

When I did my qualifying cross country many years ago, it was without radio or any electronics, just a sectional, compass and watch! How time change, don't know how I would do now if I had to do it again. Well, I would be in trouble as my intermediate landing was at Luton, then a grass field and...

I was told of an incident there many years ago when a Customs aircraft tried to intercept an incoming aircraft at night. It was not responding to radio calls and was not on a flight plan. The aircraft went into Ocean Reef and the customs aircraft landed in the opposite direction, went nose to...