Search results

The cannibal chief had the missionary in the soup pot. The water was getting hot, and the missionary was trying to get out of his predicament. It seems that the chief's latest son was born albino, and the chief, naturally, suspected the Anglo man of the cloth of messing around with his wife...

Hi, Y'all! We'll be having our sporadic fly-in, community appreciation day at Edenton's Northeastern Regional Airport, North Carolina, on May 16, 2015, rain date May 17. We will start things rolling with a 9am FAA Wings-credit seminar on NonTowered Airport Operations. And coffee and donuts...

Our family raised a beautiful English Lab, 16 months of puppy-chewing, housebreaking, loving, obedience training, and we had a ball with him and his impish sense of humor. He was our 25th exchange student, a wonderful dog, and as soon as he had flawless public manners, we would put his guide-dog...

Camping is free at KEDE, Edenton, NC, and there are restrooms, a shower, a pilot's lounge, and WiFi in the terminal building. Enterprise will bring you a car to pick up at the desk by prior arrangement, or you can take your chances on the courtesy car. The historic little Colonial town is...

Great ideas you have here. CAP is a super organization, if you find a squadron with good leadership, not too much military drill sergeant stuff. The EAA has a great summer camp at Oshkosh, and many active chapters earn points by flying Young Eagles, that go toward scholarships to give kids in...

"Oh, Lord, it's hard to be humble When you're perfect in ev-er-y way...." :lots of eyerolling smilies: Ohhhh, mah hee-row," she simpers breathlessly. "An' Ah'm so cute an', like, gullible... So y'all are flyin' y'all's very own jets? That is SO cool, an' everything...Pawdon me while I...

Hi, I'm late to the party as usual... I have a turbo Mooney with a GNS530W, and an old,but serviceable KT76A. Despite this bird's innate capability, I rarely bust the flight levels. Does the highly-touted GTX330es buy anything the much-cheaper slide-in KT74 doesn't? Confused. All either...

I have a radio in my Mooney. Several,in fact. Yet my use of these marvelous gadgets in a standard manner has not prevented several near misses, when pilots in equally well-equipped aircraft weren't using theirs or paying attention. One of those recent ones was absolutely my fault...I was flying...

Amazing. My primary flight instructor, splendid pilot, admonished early and often, "Bernoulli had a lot more to do with aviation than Marconi did. Fly the airplane, Girl, not the dang radio! Look out the window! Never assume that just because you made a radio call that anybody heard you!" He...

I have several theories. First and favorite theory is that our friend "Pete" here is actually some regular who got to drinking with another regular, and made up this cock-and-bull story about bombing his oral, to see how their POA buds reacted. Over 400 posts? Win! Second theory: this kid is 15...

If the last twenty line people I have had dealings with were paid according to their level of service, their attention to detail, their delightful friendliness to a couple of grannies, they'd all be millionaires.

I just returned from two weeks of touring much of the US as a competitor in the Air Race Classic, and I have to say, the line personnel were, without a single exception, the most professional, most accommodating bunch of gentlemen I have ever encountered.

It could be, by drawing calm attention to the idiocy in Darlington County, AOPA has already served a useful purpose in punishing Darlington County for the astoundingly stupid actions of its LEOs and court. People around the United States are now ridiculing and castigating this sheriff and his...

I am so weary of having to give the intro course to understanding ADHD to people whose wee little minds are already made up. I'll leave it at this: It you haven't dealt with ADHD up close and personally, as a parent or as one so afflicted, kindly spare me the wisdom of your superior...

Dear Husband and I are departing coastal NC this morning, headed, eventually, for California by Mooney. (We're seizing the chance while we still have a working credit card, a good airplane, and a valid medical-- this might be our last chance to cross the big rocks, who knows?) First stop will be...

I always feel a little uneasy with heavies too close in front or behind me, but there was this one time....a bunch of years ago, we were on short final- sandwiched between a long descending line of big guys, to the right runway, and my middle-sized son squalled from the back seat, "MOM!!! LOOK...

Add to the list: Adult diapers on very old ladies dying of terminal cancer. Wheelchairs and walkers 5 ounces of shampoo. 4 ounces is fine. Multiple bottles of 4 ounce shampoo fine. Any ziplock bag containing the above toiletries BUT the required quart size. Underwires. Steel shanks in...

The important consideration isn't (IMHO) so much the legality of cell phone use, but the wisdom of letting passengers call the shots. The love-sick (p-whipped?) cell-phoning passenger who suddenly 'had to get home by 4' was a distraction, caused the pilot to become angry and forced a needless...

I'm glad to say that hasn't happened to me. When I fly kids who WANT to fly, they are always excited about the view, the altitude, the speed. They're taking pictures of themselves in the airplane, they're asking questions about what we're doing, what all the gauges mean, and they're saying, "You...

Are you an EAA member, Kimberly? If so, a Young Eagles flight is a way-cool way to take a kid for a short airplane ride. (It doesn't cost anything except for EAA membership, and EAA sends you a packet of stuff to give kids (age 8-17, IIRC) - like a real logbook, lots of propaganda and...