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    Cowling Fasteners missing C172

    Is it just me or does the OP look like he has the cowl fastener, and he's missing the 172
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    When did the 337 Form first start being used?

    I just looked at the CD I got from the FAA on a 1946 Luscombe, in 1947 there is a Form ACA 337 (2-46), and the line on top with the large writing states: Major Repair and Major Alteration, so like Tom D. stated it was with the CAA and the FAA kept going with it, no idea what the ACA means, I...
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    Man builds and flys his own ViperJet Mk II

    I never built a jet, so don't have any idea about this, from the OP article: He did everything from metalwork to composting to bonding, where does the composting fit in? my wife is good at composting, maybe she can help me built a jet, maybe...
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    O-200 Centre Main Bearing Failure

    He was also at Slick mags for 20 years, has a lot to say about Case and Eisman mags
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    Students are now Learners.

    Yes and in Oregon, they got rid of the Blind curve ahead sign, so it would be despairing to blind people. I never thought a blind person would mind, be they didn't ask me.
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    "Please don't group numbers, we can't do that" - heard from the tower

    I've always wondered about the way numbers are spoken, why does 3 have to be tree, what can 3 be mistaken for, or having to say niner, what else could be mistaken for 9?, just wondering
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    Propeller Nick on freshly overhauled prop

    I remember CubCrafters having a problem with certain mags and the O-200 in the Sport Cub, something about torsional vibration that something didn't like, I had one mag die while ferrying it to a new owner, Gary
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    Propeller Nick on freshly overhauled prop

    I just saw on Katheryn's report were a Cessna 185 in Alaska thew a blade on take-off, the pilot got the engine shut down, but not before a mount mount broke, that was a close call, another matter of seconds and it could/would have been a 3 person fatality, interesting, it broke 1/3 of the way...
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    Students are now Learners.

    That reminds me of a time years ago, i went to pick up a friends J-5A, that had no electrical system, I took a handheld with me and called ground and told them, negative electrical system, the controller said "That's fine, taxi....", and as i started to taxi a ComAir airliner called ground, and...
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    Question for controllers

    I was on VFR flight following in TN, talking to ATL controller, when I said I wanted to change destination, he asked and I said I'd drank a lot of coffee, and he said thanks he had to ask, on with my flight, Gary
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    When a P-lead breaks on your magneto...

    I think what Tom-D is getting at and the question: is Mag A the left or right mag, just because it says left, the P-leads could have been unknowingly swapped at some point.
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    6-20-20 BE-77 East Tennessee

    We had some inclement weather," says the pilot Luis Andrade. "We got some instructions. I followed the instructions. We encountered a mountain and didn't have enough time to climb to go above the mountain and we unfortunately crashed." Seems factual, I wonder what his instructions were? Go fly...
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    Closed Sensenich C2401 spinner for C150

    Well mine is 8 inch diameter, sorry, gary
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    Overhaul needed

    seems like photoshop, we've popped a cylinder on an 1830, feather the prop, on the ground there was oil everywhere. Photos show a very clean cowl, don't think so, but I've been wrong before
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