Recent content by Jim Logajan

Joe, Prior to Peter owning the plane it spent a year being leased to a Rapid City, SD flying club I started: https://pactolaflying.club/2023/02/04/plane-being-offered-for-lease/ I'm afraid I was responsible for damaging the left wing during a taxi (wing went over a pickup truck's roof), but...

I recall being 40 years younger. I was in the University of Minnesota's Tate Hall physics library (or periodicals) room when I heard about the disaster. Went over to the Coffman Memorial Union building to watch the TV news reports.

A while back I saw this pilot's original video of a cockpit opening during aerobatic maneuvers and her handling of the situation. This video is her recent self-analysis of the biases and muscle memory that she believes lead her to make but overlook signs of a problem during her preflight.

Will the hangar fit only the Bonanza?

The first recorded manned balloon flight was in 1783. The first recorded manned powered airship/balloon flight was in 1784 with the first powered airship/balloon flight across the English Channel in 1785. So excluding unmanned flight, aviation (if defined as involving human transport) began 119...

Unless that guy is getting secret intel from current squadron members it seems hard to say anything is amiss since the plane could have kept its transponder off for the remainder of its flight and landed someplace else on the planet. Plenty of hot-spots around the globe lately.

Next time I’m in town visiting relatives I need to visit that site. The last time I was in that area my wife and I had lunch with my oldest brother and his wife at Holman’s Table, a decent restaurant in Holman Field.

Interesting. A bit of searching indicates it is known as the Indian Mounds Park "Airway" Beacon.

Congratulations on completing it this decade! :cheerswine: ;)

Was browsing the legend for low altitude IFR charts and I wondered why they still included brown for LF/MF airways. Wikipedia reports the four-course radio ranges were allegedly decommissioned by the 1970s. Well according to this site the notation is still used for some NDB routes in Alaska and...

Of course its possible, just not probable. IMHO of course. The first airport controller in the U.S. was a man with flags at the privately funded St. Louis Airport in 1929. A radio equipped control tower was established the next year at Cleveland. The first (non-radio) airway control (enroute)...

The problem is they could keep the plane under some other pretext so as to not conflict with Federal law. Or they could just keep the plane under their current pretext - who would be in a position to force return of the plane to its owner?

The Xenforo system checks new posters against the StopForumSpam database and flags them for review by moderators. I saw the user as one the new users who were flagged as known spammers and had the system auto-delete the user and all their posts.

Wall Street Journal article on toxicity of contaminated bleed air: https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/air-travel-toxic-fumes-64839d6e?st=LFMBdG&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink