Recent content by Mister Mystery Man

Ever ask why you should do ANYTHING to assist the Red Cross? Here's another story... I've heard hundreds of them and have several personal ones myself. Men in Korea being SOLD coffee on the front lines.... People in disaster areas being SOLD ice water..... A guy in my unit that...

I just got back from buying 100 LL at Crossville Memorial airport. Price? $5.25 per gallon. Looking at some net information, seems like a good price, comparatively speaking. http://www.100ll.com/ I also got some to put into a glass jug just to see what will happen and how long it might...

I'd think that Avgas would also have hydrocarbons too, so it ought to 'go bad' as quickly as MoGas unless there's less "stuff" in it to oxidize. There wasn't any absence of lead in the Super Shell that I pumped into my '59 Ford. And when I spilled some of it on my shoes, I had to leave them...

Yeah I know the experts say one year... http://www.eaa.org/autofuel/autogas/articles/1What%20is%20the%20shelf%20life%20of%20avgas_.pdf That's the official report. But I've seen aircraft that had set in their hangars for more than five years and they started up and ran fine when taken out of...

Hardly any rule that doesn't have exceptions is there? Kinda like " I before E except afer C ... and sometimes Y. (and maybe a few others) :wink2:

Yes, if you like BBQ... I agree the Boathouse is the place.

Answering the question, "What's the purpose of the rudder?" is kind of like asking the 3 blind men to feel an elephant and explain what the elephant is like. You'll get different answers and a lot of arguments concerning each person's impression and opinion. Here's a good explanation of the...

I liked it too in the summertime. But about the end of October you'd better zip up your insulated flight suit and light up a couple of Jon-E-Warmers to put in your pockets. I had a VW beetle with an exhaust muff heater that was a bad joke in winter. At least the VW didn't go 105 MPH with a...

Brian knows what he's talking about. True. All true. True on the 11 GPH also. I've owned two of them. The Franklin engine can be a PITA. Mine always leaked oil from half the gaskets... mostly push-rod tubes. No matter how many times you have them fixed they always leaked a lot of oil. I got...

I was just wondering what the consensus is on the Chinese Cessna? How’s it fly? From what I can see the 152 was a lot more airplane with more horsepower, more load and you even got a two-handed yoke. And all for considerably less that $150,000.

Speaking of flying low... yeah... I used to live near Grissom AFB (formerly Bunker Hill) and while out on a leisurely flight in my Stinson a group of A-10s would come zipping by... at my altitude! By the time I saw them there wasn't any way for me to maneuver in time to avoid them. (Made me...

I've often said that aircraft technology lacks the ability of landing on a wire ?

I never file... there isn't any state income tax in Tennessee.

He's claiming that he's not guilty... PERU — Lawyers for Shane Golitko, the Bunker Hill man accused in the stabbing death of Kokomo Scout leader Art Anderson, have received a delay in Golitko’s trial. Miami Circuit Court Judge Robert Spahr moved Golitko’s pretrial hearing date to Dec. 1, per...

I do recall one instance of a plane running out of fuel because the line attendant put the caps back on with the vents facing rearward and some of the fuel was siphoned overboard. Of course the NTSB said that wasn't the reason he ran out of gas. It was because he didn't do a proper pre-flight...