Recent content by jnmeade

I made quite a few mods as I built my 2015 year S-7S so my construction is not typical, I suppose. As I recall, the kits were complete as you stated. Two fellows with lots of experience built S-20's at the same time I built my S-7. One was an experienced aviation engineer and built his own...

I built and fly an S-7. 2015 kit flew it in 2022. I'm happy.

Well, when we get a market for >250hp drones, we'll maybe see some new engines.

There are some with pan head with star or torx but hex drive is hard to find. https://belmetric.com https://www.mcmaster.com https://monsterbolts.com

In a recent presentation by a bank it showed several examples of USPS employees being charged with various kinds of fraud involving checks in the mail.

You'll answer several of your questions yourself if you do a good study of the various definitions of Pilot In Command.

I'm adversely affected by the thread. Oops, of course I meant adversely impacted. No one says affected anymore. (No one says effected, either.)

A draft bill in the Iowa Senate proposes to raise airplane registration fees by around 50%. The first year fee used to 1% of the manufacturers list price; under the proposal it goes to 1.5%. Top fee goes from $5000 to $7000. A new $500,000 aircraft fee used to be $5000, now it would be $7000...

I just bought a mini 6 for the first time. I'm not an iPad user, though there are a couple around the house that the wife mostly uses. My mini 6 seems to me to be short on battery life, but I'm neither an expert nor experienced in it.

Hmmm. Does Pahrump have a helo pad? If it does, I bet it's free.

Oh, I thought this thread was about the Sapporo incident.

I thought there was a law against gas stoves in New York?

I'm 80 and I've never changed tractor tire settings for row crops (especially corn). They used to be 40" (so horses could walk between them), then 38" or 36", then 30" but once set they stayed because your planter was set. Now there are a very few corn planters that are narrower. You don't...

If you want something that has some excitement, try the cattle business. Same boom and bust, adrenalin and boredom, about a seven year cycle. I had a student ask me what he should do to get ahead in aviation so I told him to go to dental school. He looked at me aghast. I said, "think about...

Remind me to tell you about the time I landed on a farm field and found out about half-way down that an irrigation pivot pipe was running across the runway.