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If you’re like me you never throw away a hat. Found this one today that has to be 25 ( thanks for the correction Glenn) years old. Thought Glenn might like to see it. Rich

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The question is, is ADS-B required in the 30-60 DME ring around the DC SFRA? I think no. The special trading course is required if you’re going to be in there and the speed limit is 230kts. Clearly ADS-B is required in class B and the mode C veil and other well defined places. But I can’t find...

Anybody ever fly one with the auto pilot? I think they used tru trak

https://archive.org/details/arctic-flight-1952-. I only watched the first few minutes. Some shots of the 170 on skis. Got this off the 170 forum

I have a friend looking for a Legend for personal use. 100 HP version. AL3 or 11. He has an ad on Barnstomers but no luck. They are tough to find right now. Beggars can’t be choosers but it would be nice to find one east of the Mississippi. We are on Long Island, NY. Appreciate any leads. I...

I’ve been out of the LSA world for a while but in the 2005 timeframe I was heavily involved the the folks at Legend. I seem to recall that any field repairs to any S-LSA had to be documented as done in accordance with factory instructions. So, for example even though in the case of Legend where...

Fifty five years ago today I climbed into a 1967 C150 with Al Werner DPE and when I got out I was a Private pilot. Nine airplanes later I’m wondering when to hang it up. I never flew for a living except to instruct for a small FBO after I retired from my “real” job. Come to think of it, that...

A DAR friend asked me to post this here. We have a situation where a guy wants to put an O-200 on a J3 because it needs an engine and he has a perfectly good O-200. This J3 has a wood spar wing. My DAR friend thinks this makes the only STC he could find not applicable in this situation. Is he...

Bosch SB9RU. There is a mechanic from away getting a 450 Stearman awake after a long slumber. He got it running today and has done a lot of work like all new hoses etc and some wiring. When started it was running only on one mag. In the process of trouble shooting while the engine was running he...

Another thread about some DPE troubles in Alaska got off in part discussing CFI renewals. I usually renew with a weekend course or used the Gleim course during Covid and the most recent one also. My question for the group goes like this: As far as I know there are three ways to renew. 1. A 16...

Couldn’t resist. It’s in the paint shop. I hope it’s there to remove this.

Stumbled across an episode of CHIPS on one of those cable channels that runs Medicare commercials occasionally interrupted by an old TV show. The plot took place at an air show at Rialto CA. Good air to air shots of Art and the Super Chipmunk. But the suspense comes when a Tiger Moth pilot has...

I’ve always wondered about this after attending a Cub seminar given by Clyde Smith years ago. He said the Type Certificate is the airplanes birth certificate. And it’s defined by all the drawings for the type. Ok, so that makes sense. You want different wingtips, you get an STC or a one time...

I know the owner has been on here before,so this is for him, and anyone else who likes a nice Cub picture. This is Donald E. Axinn (Don) on the day he took delivery. Probably 2000 or so. It was/is a 180 hp PA18-150 with a bunch of STC’s. This was before CC got their own TC Don ordered it with...

Once in a while I search Google for a number of a plane I used to own. I owned a Great Lakes 2T1A-1 for a few years and sold it around 2005. I came across photos of it when it was used in a photo shoot in 2016 for a wedding “save the date card”. I have no idea who the people are. I think the...

When I started the thread about fuel prices I had no agenda. But I also didn’t give any background for my statement that I “can’t justify it anymore “ I agree with EVERYONE who commented. Sorry it went off the rails at the end. My real issue is the broader one of struggling with deciding if...

Off topic a bit, but a friend just had a heart transplant and he is doing fantastic. Just amazing. He is a volunteer fireman in our town and apparently he’s getting some push back about being able to continue, not from the doctors, but from the fire department. He asked me the other day if a...

Our local paper had these pictures from 1947. A truck tire delivery from Patchogue LI to Sag Harbor LI, I guess about a one hour drive in those days. Billed as the first truck tire delivery by air in our county. Who knows? But fun to see. Thanks for fixing the title, SJ!

Or when the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing Capitol in DC evacuated because of an unknown threat aircraft. Turns out it was a US Army helicopter dropping paratrooper(s) into the Washington Nationals Baseball park for Armed Forces Recognition Day. I love it. Rich EDIT...