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Got grandkids yet? When you do? Grandma will want to live near them. Tax consequences aren't important. Neither are you. Just sayin'. My...

The tide changed a year or two ago when natural gas surpassed coal and became the majority fuel source for generating electricity in the USA. At...

I wonder if that's a factor on Nunavut's oil pressure issue? Wrong gasket? I'll pick up two Casper gaskets from Spruce tomorrow. Specifically for...

The hardest parts to paint are sharp edges since paint crawls away from edges. VGs are just about nothing but edges. Shooting a primer coat helps the...

It seems unlikely that Cessna incorporated Y harnesses into anything in the '50s but if there's a hard point there? Why not use it? We think...

Do B&C adapters require a specific gasket? I believe B&C and Casper are different.

Why ABWs? Parts availability literally across the runway. Standard brake parts available everywhere. Ease of switching back and forth to 6" wheels....

Skis? I don’t know anything about Beringer gear but it appears skis would be a problem.

Maxpulse has settings for alternating or simultaneous flash with multiple speeds for both. It also allows steady on for either or both lights, and...

Garmin instruments use bluetooth to share information with other devices, like iPads. These new instruments will allow an owner to easily retrofit...

We make improvements to affect a result. Theorize-experiment to validate. With respect to engines I've had an interest all my life and a very...

Consider the space and how you utilize it when choosing a heat source. Radiant is great when standing underneath it and then you get cold when you...

I recognize that stuff. it's tough. I dug one up with a loader a couple of years ago. After that it's amazing how diesel fumes smell like natural gas!

I heat my 55' x 60' x 14' hangar with a single high-efficiency gas fired unit heater. It's -22* outside this morning and I was walking around the...

Re-read post 45.

Where's the science?

That it couldn't identify north played a big part. And that before being installed in an airplane. This talk about a compass being more reliable...

I drank the kool aid. I bought a SIRS panel mount compass for the Wildcat. Junk. It went in the trash before it went in the plane. Don't believe...

What a leap for Continental. Cold air induction from the top. Exhaust out the bottom. Common sense in Mobile! I saw on the Skywagon site that some...

My Pponk has had the primary jet adjusted for more flow 4 times. At the end of the day fuel flow is about temp management, both for CHTs and ambient...

What's you amended data tag say it makes?

My Apple watch has a compass! ;)

In most cases it’s more about the pilot than the plane. The day I sold my PA-12 to Scooter was the day that plane started landing slower and shorter....

Huh. None of my carbureted airplanes or any other internal combustion engines has been set up to run properly in -40* (or -24*) and I'd bet that's...

My take on it- Trim for a speed higher than you expect to touch down. Use the stick to hit the target touch down speed. That way you can relax stick...

I'm curious about where you park/hangar around College Station. Not prying about yours in particular, but general interest. My office is about a mile...

Little chunks of Snickers bars. They last forever.

Nothing to do with a magnetometer and an ADHRS unless Simon Barr-Sinister controls magnetism. Compass schmompass! :)