aircraft

Electric Flight
...ither here, or just around the corner. You could fly your electric paramotor, powered hang glider, light aircraft for hours and hours on a couple of dollars. This technology is empowering, rathe...
Glider Dolly
...e seen is the one sold by, of all places, Sporty's Pilot Shop. They have a dolly built to move powered aircraft that is meant to be used three at a time. One on each wheel of a Cessna, for exampl...
What glider if not a Speed Astir?
The Speed Astir is a fine aircraft. It is easy to fly and performs relatively well. The real problem with the Astirs is assembly. If you have the capability of leaving your ship assembled and you ...
Remember this one every time you rig or else...
...ying to correct glider before crash By Patrick Lester John Carlson also had trouble asssembling the aircraft the day it went down off Route 152 in Hilltown. HILLTOWN —The pilot who died ...
The Boy Who Flew With Condors
Re SoaringStar My first job out of college was working for Ted Smith Aircraft, and I was assigned to the Soaring Star project. I had the job of making the production drawings for the detail parts o...
headset question
...n it, that you can attach to the stick. I'm pretty sure something similar to this is available through Aircraft Spruce and Specialty, though I'm not sure of the prices. Try looking at: http...
Fatality at PGC
...ing off the full throttle position. The spoilers/brakes have the same function as the throttle in a powered aircraft (except you can't use them to climb). So it is probably a good habit to keep t...
Turbulator tape
...wing drops very predictably, whereas without turbulators, the stall was 'interesting' in that the aircraft didn't seem to know what to do, and wallowed all over the sky ! We also as...
New ASK 21 in may/june 2009
...9 Anti-collision paintwork on rudder & wingtips with luminescent colour (2-coat-paint) in RAL 3024 Aircraft completely painted with acrylic paint (2-component-paint) Pneumatic tail wheel ...
Racing the Diana (Long)
...oduction Diana at the Uvalde 15 Meter Nationals and would like to offer a recount of my impressions of this aircraft and how it performed against the best pilots and sailplanes in the United States. ...
Using Motor Gliders for Training
...n Acro with a Rotax Klapptriebwerk (retractable engine). Operating it for two years I decided to sell all 6 aircraft and keep the Grob going to a one man operation. Partially the traffic at my airport...
The Zephyr-6 Opening A Lot Of Possibilities
... A UK-built solar-powered plane has set an unofficial world endurance record for a flight by an unmanned aircraft. The Zephyr-6, as it is known, stayed aloft for more than three days, running throu...
For Your Information
...ts international operators to provide more data regarding their navigational equipment that might be in the aircraft. Many of the questions are related to the Box 10 and Box 18 on the international fl...
A Truly Innovative Way To Fly!
... unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, announced today that Cirrus Aircraft will offer Cirrus Perspective TM , Garmin's all-glass, fully-integrated flight deck...
Cool Podcasts From F-15
Real Podcasts of a F-15 pilot. Check the Airspeed  blog for great opportunity to listen to podcasts of a test pilot and lot's of cool stuff. I can't say that I know much about the world...
Funny airline stories
...ng from Ankara to Erzurum (and while the pilot went to the bathroom).  The co-pilot had control of the aircraft, but the teenager did have access to the controls.  In 1994 an Aeroflot plane ...
Electronic logbook review.
... for my teaching schedule, it provides an email interface as well as a web browser that I can use to access aircraft scheduling sites. His review is so passionate makes me wish i had one too. To...
Everything You Wanted To Know About SpaceShipOne
I usually don't write about space ships in this website but the coming of a new book that tells the story of SpaceShipOne "SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History" is a good enough reason. The ...
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