courierguy

I'll respond to myself: losing weight pays in all aspects of flight, but so does improving the wings lift I suppose, (for sure). When building, I've...

Not when landing short, no?

That's what I was told, a Saratoga. I do know the fuselage skin was like tin foil, kinda surprised me what light gauge it seemed to be, gets the job...

You guys don't count. No N number visible, made sure of that.

I got a rare call for crane service on a Sunday, usually when that happens it's a overweight trucker stuck at the local Port of Entry until he gets...

I had similar on this mountain LZ, clear thru, taped it up with pipe wrap tape, used by well drillers for securing cabling to the drop pipe, great...

10 mph is what Joe Dory told me once.

I turned on the Sirius sat radio this morning, while cruising south at 7 K, about an hour before he eventually landed (good job there, it still...

If memory serves me right, I'd say glass, as there was a lot of real black smoke, can't say for sure but most likely.

Can't fault the weather, hot now but 61 this AM where I flew in SE Idaho. Yeah that is spooky.

Here in Idaho, a local businessman died a few years ago from a fire that started while he was fueling his boat on it's trailer at a gas station. That...

Not to start a thread drift, but it would seem that the chances of a lithium battery spontanously combusting for whatever reason, is right up there...

I have had great luck with the EarthX in my RANS S-7S for about 5 years now, the weight savings is huge and it cranks the Rotax faster. I wish I...