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    Juxtaposed Threads Thread

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    Major cellular outage

    That's what they want you to think ...
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    Major cellular outage

    What if my vehicle's extended warranty expires before this gets fixed??
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    Henning gone west

    "Interesting" persona online, very pleasant fellow in person. Had a beer with him in a little pub in Coronado CA in 2007.
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    Randy Sparks (1933-2024)

    This one hurts. Not only was Randy Sparks, who died Sunday at the age of 90, an innovative and creative genius in the music business, he was a close friend. Randy was a prolific songwriter and up-and-coming folksinger in the late 1950s and early 1960s, performing in clubs and venues up and...
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    Helicopter Crash, no Injuries-Mars

    The nearest A&P ...
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    High Tech War Fighter Downed (on the ramp) by Low Tech Wrench

    This was USAF. Happened right here in the neighborhood, at Luke AFB.
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    Daily Pic

    A little different view for Arizona -- a cloudy morning for a local sightseeing flight west of Phoenix. You might have seen the national TV ads recently for United Airlines' "Aviate" academy. It's based at my home field GYR (Goodyear AZ), having taken over the facilities and Cirrus SR20...
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    1969 Cherokee 140 cruise speed??

    GAMA member manufacturers agreed to standardize on knots in the mid 1970s. Piper switched to knots as the primary scale on the ASI and in the performance charts in 1977, the last year of Cherokee 140 production.
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    1969 Cherokee 140 cruise speed??

    Looking forward to the first report!
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    Daily Pic

    New Years Eve in Arizona ...
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    "November"

    While flying my Citabria I've had controllers address me as "Helicopter xxxxx." Now I know a Citabria is slow, but ... Actually the issue is that the Citabria's type designator is 'CH7A', which at first glance looks like it might belong to a large helicopter.
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    "November"

    I've heard a lot of pilots of experimentals who think that "Experimental" should be used on the radio instead of the aircraft type. Not so; FAR 91.319(d)(3) only says the pilot "must notify the control tower of the experimental nature of the aircraft." Funny story about that ... AerSale has...
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    Juxtaposed Threads Thread

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    Cessna 150 or 152, which would you rather have?

    My first flying lesson was in a '61 150A; first solo in a '67 150G, and private pilot checkride in a '68 150H. Then we had a straight-tail '65 150E in the family 1968-73. I got my commercial, instrument and CFI in it ... and the toughest test of all, the first date with the young lady I've...
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    Aero Commander twins pros/cons

    At one time the Aerostar was intended to be the basis for a complete line of airplanes, from a four-seat single (1967 mockup here) to a jet.
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    Cessna 150 or 152, which would you rather have?

    The Cessna 152 came about because 80 octane fuel was going away, and Cessna anticipated that a steady diet of 100LL in O-200s would spell frequent plug fouling. Several other types switched to higher-compression engines at around the same time and for the same reason (e.g., C-172N, C-182Q...
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    [NA] - Movie Theater Volume

    What ... ?
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    Old Flight Test Photos

    That's a 1960 Cessna 210 (first year of 210 production), and a 1964 Dodge. The Dash 80 as seen here is different from its first flight (7/15/54); it now appears to be wearing JT3D turbofan engines and the wing looks more like the 707-320 version, with greater chord in the inboard portion.
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