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More or Les. Better ping-pong balls than King Kong balls.

Flaps modify lift, and their use may change aircraft attitude. Sounds like control surfaces to me.

"Never send for whom the klaxon tolls -- it tolls for THEE, you idiot!"

Wow, sorry I missed all of this, but you really can't imagine how amusing it is to read this whole thread as a single item. I see an income possibility here -- I'll file a class-action suit, and get Abby to donate a lot of money to it. XDDD Now he has an RV? What he needs is a Schweitzer...

Wing warping and rudder control were used and reported on by John Montgomery in 1895, long before the Wrights "developed" them.

Not the ones which hit steel poles. Which is probably why they don't put a lot of steel poles in front of cars when they are doing 100 miles per hour.

This is a return to the thrilling days of yesteryear -- several of the Mitsubishi Zero models had folding wingtips, for a similar reason (to fit the elevators on early IJN aircraft carriers).

That was back when you actually had to STUDY to reach the eighth grade.

By the same reasoning, a plane with empty fuel tanks but a jerry can of gas in the baggage compartment is "fueled up" . . .

Actually, the Feebies use several different pistols and calibers, the standard being the .40 Short & Weak, but the full-house 10mm Auto is still approved and popular. Pocket pistols have their uses, but I hold the doctrine that there is only one justification for shooting another human being...

Nope, but it's about the only way to conceal my Tanfoglio 10mm. My rule is simple. If I choose to carry, I carry. If the weather calls for a coat, my pistol is concealed. If the weather calls for a T-shirt, my pistol is carried openly. One thing which rarely affects my decision is worrying...

Yeah, like I said, COPS. Oh, wait, you're talking about the people who don't want to wear a coat when it's 90 degrees out . . ? Yeah, how stupid is THAT???

Re: 45th Cirrus CAPS (Parachute) activation in Aus and the best footage caught to dat The bottom line is that it's nice to have the option. You can decide not to use the chute if you have it, but you can't decide to deploy it if it's not there.

It seems to be the law that everyone respond to "Any aircraft in the pattern, please advise" . . .

Then I suggest that you contact the Hemlock Society and get their guidebook. The fact is that, if you sold the plane, got the money and transferred the documents, rolling it one inch out of the parking place is GRAND THEFT unless you can prove that the legal owner has authorized you to do so...

Don't know about it and don't care whether he's guilty or not. There aren't too many character flaws for which mid-air impact are the appropriate response. And, no matter how or why Ron may have been briefed on this, I doubt that anything in his briefing claimed that the Phantom pilot was...

And it is NOT the law in Colorado, where he apparently learned how to handle guns. The Feds have four more words in theirs. I'd be willing to bet that you don't know the difference between every law in your state and in Federal laws. Yep, sure are a lot of stupid cops out there.

Tehachapi and Banning can get some pretty serious turbulence going in summertime. My practice is to try to avoid anyplace that has more windmills than houses. By "going to Palmdale and turning left" most of that mess is avoided, you avoid the 75 miles of east-west corridor into the LA Basin...

The only two Tempest products that I will put into an airplane are plugs and oil filters. Both are the best in the field, and both were designed by other companies.

Steingar: I carry a gun routinely, because I believe that I may need it. You don't carry a gun, because you don't believe that you might need it. I can be wrong every day for the next 40 years. You can only be wrong ONCE.