Recent content by Graueradler

I guess I'm just a heartless old farm boy but pets didn't get vets. Farm animals got vets. The pets had a better life than they would have otherwise because they had usually been set out by someone on the highway and we fed them. They usually didn't live long enough to have old age problems...

Higher tire pressure has a major effect on increasing hydroplaning speed. If you are landing regularly on wet runways, that may be a consideration for you. I don't remember the equation but I think it is a square function.

Agreed. Not contrary to what I said

If city imposed fees are feeding the city and not the airport and if they have accepted FAA grants, they are violating conditions agreed to when they accepted the grant. The FAA gets very upset when the city milks the airport. Airport income has to be used for support of the airport.

Mitzi - Not aviation related but I think is German for "Kitty"

That is the one but no more info than was in the newspaper.

I was expecting to find a thread on this event from a few days ago but a search doesn't turn up anything. Is there none or am I just not finding it? According to the newspaper, pilot from Russellville, AR taking off with only one person in the plane. He is in a Springfield, MO hospital.

The calculator spectrum for my career didn't include the abacus but it did start with the slide rule.

The "unit circle" (radius = 1) does a great job of giving physical meaning to all these trig numbers that are otherwise just numbers

I do.

He visited here a few years ago. Had the gall to post negative feedback on the internet after he left.

I think that I saw this plane at Russellville (KRUE)years ago. If it wasn't it, it was its twin. It was obviously memorable.

Well, it is fixed but it was PFM. I worked through several things with no success. Just now tried it again and it is working correctly.

I live in Arkansas. Can't say for sure if there is such a state law or not.. It surprises me. Arkansas is local option by county and I live in a dry county but every other restaurant has a license as a "private club". I don't eat out much so maybe I just haven't ran into such a law. I think...

I have tried typing in the URL "Ancestry.com" with the same result. Doing a google search on "ancestry" and then clicking on the search results gets me to some of the subsets of the site but can't transition with in the site to about half of the sections. All the computers are using the same...