Recent content by David Lloyd

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    What was the first aviation related book that you read?

    Spent a week with my grandparents when I was about ten. Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship was on the bookshelf. My father and uncle probably read it, there was a date written in the cover, 1932. Sometime in the ‘60s I read the Reader’s Digest condensed version of Fate is the Hunter.
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    Magneto operation and constant speed propellers

    Agree, I think MP will stay the same. EGTs will go up if ROP, down if LOP. Airspeed or altitude will go down. Carb ice will cause a loss of airspeed or altitude and most telling, a loss of MP.
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    Today's episode of YGTBSM

    Maybe pie is different on the moon. But then, they're not from the actual Moon. I'm still hacked about French Fries. And French Toast. Where is Texas Toast made? Nuts, I'll be hearing the voices all night now.
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    Lets make Friday 'Joke Day'!

    Ouch. Ouch! Reminds me of my last tangle with the IRS.
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    Should I let this one go?

    I rented cars nearly every week for eight years at small and large airports. Lots of odd things happened but never was charged for a cleaning. Every now and then was charged more for an extra day.
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    some dude just passed out

    If you fan seven more victims with a pizza box, do you get a free pizza?
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    Standard Rate Turns without Turn Coordinator?

    The Garmin GI-275 and G5 only show a standard rate turn if the temperature sensor is installed. Need that to calculate true airspeed and the the standard rate. GI-275 Depiction is a white triangle on the attitude indicator that will move depending on TAS.
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    Lets make Friday 'Joke Day'!

    Who was flying, Abbot or Costello?
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    Lets make Friday 'Joke Day'!

    That guy had his head up his...uh, uh. That's not right.
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    Changing an IFR plan

    Center, 4PL requests change of destination to AXS and start down right now. Cleared direct Altus Quartz Mountain, descend and maintain 5000, do you require assistance? No sir, our dog decide he needs to take a dump. (Laughter), contact Altus Approach 125.1. ATC is pretty accommodating...
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    What was your earliest national/international memory?

    Her father is a regular poster on Beechtalk.
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    What was your earliest national/international memory?

    Don't remember tattoos. Maybe his grandfather.
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    Low Cost Rocket Engine!

    That brings back memories.
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    What was your earliest national/international memory?

    I remember our neighbor, Tom Lee bringing my mother some candles as our electricity was out. Pouring rain and wind was blowing. My father was on the road somewhere. October 1954, Richmond, Virginia, Hurricane Hazel. I was 3 and a half.
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    The illusion no one mentions

    About once a year I ride in the right seat with someone going to deliver an airplane or pick one up. From the right seat I wonder, why in the world can't that guy land on the centerline? Are wheels coming off when he lands crabbed like this? Only from the right see I get the illusion.
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