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Gary, Thank you so much for the kind words and wonderful recommendation. It was a pleasure meeting you last week. When a customer gets excited about learning, it makes my job even more gratifying! Whenever you're down at ILG again, please stop in and say hi. Sometime this fall I plan on...

Hey everyone, I'm doing this as a favor for a guy that I just met today. His name is Brian Sutton, and he's the owner of UCU - Unique Custom Upholstery. He's making a go at starting his own business. He was recently employed at Dassault Falcon Jet here at Wilmington, and left there to start...

Hey Jason, Thanks so much for the kind words. I'll always work my tail off for you guys whenever I can be of service. That XM weather is nice, isn't it?! Sorry I haven't been on here much this past week ... been getting hit with a ton of VFR and IFR certs. Business is good, so I'm a happy...

Geez, I hope not. My wife's over in Afghanistan already as it is. I could see her being diverted somewhere on her way home to maintain C-130's somewhere else. Also, I'll run the chance of getting called back in if our forces are stretched too thin (which they are already.) I'll keep my...

The second and third aircraft in the photo gallery (MiG 23 and MiG 21) are both aircraft that Dave Cannavo brought in to the U.S. If you click on the link for Pic 2 of the MiG 23, you can see Dave's big Italian head and mustache filling the cockpit. Joe Gano, the owner of both aircraft, is a...

Well, we have one of only two flyable MiG 23's in the country right now, and it actually flew today for the first time in 5 months. Pretty exciting to see! The landing was somewhat scary .... left main gear hit first, bounced forward, landed on nose gear second with both main gear off the...

Decommissioned as in no longer in service with the British Armed Forces. It's been retired. I showed this one to my boss, Dave Cannavo, who brings alot of Eastern Block aircraft into the U.S., and he could probably procure the engines and what not to get it certified here, but he won't touch...

I heard a while back that Jackson was going to be getting C-17's. Quite an amazing aircraft if you ever have the chance to tour one. I have 4 hours stick time in the right seat .... but wait a minute, I'm not a pilot, right? A different story for a different time!

Close .... It's a full EFCS (Electronic Flight Control System) fly-by-wire primary with a mechanical backup mode. The mechanical backup is paralleled with the "force mode". Triple redundant.

Here's a better picture of the C-17 flight deck with flight control stick. The box that it's mounted on top of is called a CSSA (Control Stick Sensor Assembly). It contains four sets of LVDT's (Linear Variable Differential Transducers) that can detect the force applied in all 4 directions on...

Sounds good, Steve. Nice website, by the way! Is your last name See? If so, your instrument panel is very nice, but it's missing something .... oh ya, a 480 w/ a MD200-306 CDI! The 823 is a nice looking aircraft (somewhat of a Mooney rear end, which I like as well!) Are all model 823's...

I hear ya, Tony and Missa! I feel like Delaware is under attack by mother nature! Luckily our hangar door faces the right direction to get a breeze going through.

He's #1! I really dig his flak vest.

I used to inline skate all around downtown (King, Meeting, Market) during the day, and then pack it up and head to Isle of Palms at night on the weekends! I haven't been back there since one of my Air Force buddies got married there in 2000. I'll have to make a trip down sometime soon. So...

Thanks for the greeting, Jay! Even though I'm no longer in the military, my wife is still in the Air National Guard here in Delaware, and as a matter of fact, just left this past Saturday for Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. She'll only be gone for 30 days, but any time spent in that hole is...