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I haven't seen anything about the proposed EPA/United Nations proposal regulating aircraft emissions... As input is also coming from the nutballs at Friends of the Earth I expect proposals about small aircraft as well as jets. Chris

To my friends in Britain, in person or in spirit; have a Great Day! Hiperbiper the POM

I got a freakin Navion at an auction the week before Christmas. Never wanted one. Never flew one. Never even read about 'em much. But I have a soft spot for old airplanes that just need TLC but are in danger of being hauled off to the scrap yard...and such was the case with my newest bird. Last...

I've spent the last few weeks helping the owner get his new airshow mount ready for FAA inspection. It's taken Jeremy 5 years to put this bird together. He got it back from the paint shop in Florida in July. Quite an upgrade from his Skybolt... We intend on firing the motor (Monte Barrett...

Under $2000.00 and uses your current transponder. Only 978 mhz as of now and no mention of wifi connection... I wonder if the faa will let navworx off the mat now...:O Chris

...and it came with two airplanes!o_O An old friend had decided to hang up his headsets and sell his planes and hangar but wasn't wild about going thru the hassles of selling the planes (not always easy) and then cleaning up 30 years of cra...ah...treasures (REAL PITA) and then selling the...

Today I did something I ought to be ashamed of... A friend of mine (APIA) called me and asked for help with the FWF wiring on a Bellanca Super Viking. He had replaced the engine/prop due to a nose gear collapse. We had gotten to the point of hooking up the battery and testing to make sure...

Yesterday evening a friend called to report a Bo down @ DTN. One person shaken up and wet but otherwise OK. The plane was seen and heard by several people to come over the approach end of 14 at 50' with the engine popping and sputtering. Gear and flaps were up. It was getting lower and slower...

As I finish up my A&P courses at the end of this month I was commenting to the House Commander about needing a new project to hone my new-found skills on. What is required says I, is a simple fun project to replace the J5 I was going to buy in June (deal went North:mad2:). To my eternal surprise...

Going to look at a J5 Cub tomorrow Tomorrow I'm off on a quest to buy a low-n-slow to play with. I found a nice 1941 J5A (in a stylish Cub Yellow) with a freshly overhauled C-75 almost 400 miles from me. I'm flying over tomorrow morning; If the inspection goes well I'll do the money swappin'...

Had a good time last weekend doing an EAA display at the annual Barksdale AFB Airshow. The F22 Raptor was un-freakin-believable! The Thunderbirds were...well,,,The Thunderbirds!:goofy: Matt Yonkin in his Twin Beech doing the night acro was fantastic!:D Rob Holland, Mike Goulian, Kevin...

After November of 2012 I decided to get off the treadmill and so I closed my business' and retired. After gazing at my navel lint for a few weeks I decided to finally get my A&P ticket as I loved working on airplanes (and racecars,jetskis, etc.). So I signed up for a non-degreed A&P program at...

As I have just spent 1 hour under a Piper Lance panel tracking down a problem with the panel lights my frustraions are as follows: Damn the injuneer who designed the Piper double stacked CB panel. Damn the knucklehead who used a transistor in a lighting circuit when a reostat would work...

Back in 2012 I decided (after the election) to get off the treadmill and do something I'd always wanted to do: get my A&P certificate! I had worked around (and for) several A&P/IA's for 6 years at DTN doing mostly electrical stuff but helping friends on LOT's on Experimental stuff (as well as...

I finally shot a Utube video in December and thought I had posted it to both sites I visit but alas I muffed it. So here it is; proof that a Hiperbipe with a loose nut behind the stick CAN do acro (or something like it). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efT-swMgCD8...

What happens when the Big, Bad Mooney Ovation gets the hots for the little Ercoupe in the back of the hanger... The Mooney M-10! Eewww... Chris

Is there a reg that forbids a non-pilot taxi-ing an airplane in a non-movement area, private strip or uncontrolled field?. What about across a movent area with tower permission? Assume the intent is not flight. Just point A to point B. Also assume this is in reference to CFR14 only; no insurance...

Though not normally a fan of the Rust-Pickers; a buddy sent me this video of the Blues that I had never seen before...whatever their Bullshine, these guys are Top-Notch! http://www.dump.com/2011/10/26/raw-cockpit-footage-taken-during-a-blue-angel Chris 6/2/2012 The video has been moved, on...

I look thru the NTSB aviation data site on occasion and have noticed more and more accident data for Countries other than the US. Is there a good reason for this or is the explaination as simple as "our Gubberment needs to collect this data so we're gonna' need more funding for the NTSB..."...

I went out to fly last night for the first time in 2 weeks and after a preflight in which I saw nothing amiss I belted in and cranked up. Shortly after startup got a BIG whif of fuel in the cockpit. I shut down the engine and de-planed. Long story short I had fuel coming out of the side of the...