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Have to do a lot of work up in Canada lately and find myself commuting up there weekly. Checked the options- United (pass), Air Canada, maybe, what’s this? A little airline flying Dash-8’s? Porter Air? Tried it and loved it! Every seat is an aisle or a window, friendly staff, a Dash-8 overhead...

https://www.manassasairshow.com Driving to this not flying but it looks like lots of fun!

Regional hegemony, invasions of countries, and extra-judicial killings aside, you have to give credit where credit it due: Russia has been turning out some top shows lately that highlight achievements in Russian history. Watched a show "Salyut 7" last night on Amazon Prime about a 1985...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/979818757/finding-meyers-missing-hercules 6000 pounds does not seem like very much money for what they are trying to do, I am thinking of donating just to be able to read their log. Might be a story in it somewhere, one that you tell in two timelines-the...

Hello we just flew to and back from Morocco on a Morocco Airlines Boeing 787, and I wonder if any one has any specs or a place to point me to get more info-- (1) we cruised at 41,000 feet on the way there which seems higher than most transatlantic flights--wondering if it does in fact fly...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-kansas-water-park-death-charges-20180326-story.html This is a horrible tragedy but it seems like it was waiting to happen. The story says no engineers were consulted in building the slide an apparently no pilots either, because one look at it...

I decided to replace the nonskid on the wing (pic). Has anyone used this nonskid (other pic) or have any other recommendation? And is it a safe asumption that I need to strip the old nonskid and paint down to bare metal? Any how-to wikis much appreciated!

I came into possession of a large amount of strain gauges and I wondering what to do with them. Thinking about putting them into a wheatstone bridge and making a scale. each gauge is rated to 50 kg so was thinking of making 5 bridges which would weigh 1000 kg. Is there a market for weighing...

This ia now on Amazon Prime and a great watch. When did we stop referring to women pilots as Amazons of the Air? Surely we have lost something.

I am curious if other pilots find FDK as chaotic as i. Flew into there yesterday to drop off some dogs for PnP. Had not been there since they got the tower. When I approached there was a fellow doing 360s, for some reason they let me in ahead of him. On landing I got a taxi vector for 3...

Booked a flight on Spirit, had to cancel, their terms of service said I would incur a $90 cancellation fee which I expected, what i did did not expect was they tacked on $40 of taxes and did not refund the rest but offered me a credit for a future flight which was useless to me. So I contested...

I had a brake piston overtravel due to worn linings 600 miles from home. Lost all hydraulic fluid because the o-ring came out. The shop where I was at had new linings and I got those in ok, but they would not touch the rest, they told me it would take 8 hrs to bleed them. So I flew home with no...

I had a chat with a fellow at uavionix last night, I am interested in their wingtip and tailtip mounts for UAT ads-b out. They sell a self contained unit that replaces the left wingtip light or the rear tail light. They are selling a unit for non certifed a/c this Fall but hope to sell the...

Front Royal (FRR) had a very nice local air show today, a nice small town vibe. A flying circus troupe of Stearmans and an excellent show by a fellow in an Extra 300 but the flight I will always remember was this flying lawnmower. It is an RC plane but as you can see it looks like a lawnmower...

Landed at Allegheny County in Pittsburgh for a business meeting. First, a B17 did a fly by and landed, stayed there a while but did not open up for tours. Then a biz jet pulled up to the FBO and a fairly muscled fellow climbed out, did not know him from Adam but my business partner did, he is...

This is at the Grants-Milan Airport in New Mexico, exit 79 off I-40. They restored both the 1929 Beacon used for navigation and the 1953 FSS station. well worth a stop or landing.

Used to fly into this all the time to visit my brother at Ft Campbell, there was nothing there, self serve gas and that was it. Flew in yesterday and I was blown away by the new FBO, it is clean and bright and new, the upper floor has a display of aviation art, was met by a bright young girl in...

I will probably attend this if the wx is good--looks like a neat lineup: https://www.manassasairshow.com/

I found out the hard way that it is very easy to inadvertently create a service on AWS that will accrue significant charges, even under the "Free" tier. Logged in a single time to see how it worked & got a bill the next month. I would have expected some alert that I was going into the "pay"...

I have been meaning to stop in Dubai to see the Burj Khalifa but this might really make me visit--it would be cool, just once to ride in one of these: I wonder if we will see it at Oshkosh? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/world/middleeast/dubai-passenger-drones.html?_r=0