Recent content by Jim Logajan

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

I think this "gifted" link should work (I'm a subscriber to the WSJ and the article provided me the option) https://www.wsj.com/world/ukraine-russia-drone-hunting-e2fea5fc?st=yQPDCn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Because I was already over my original budget, I chose not to add the expense of fuel senders so the CGR-30P wont be tracking actual fuel quantity, just estimated based on consumption. One will still need to glance up to the cockpit ceiling where the fuel gauges sit at the wing roots to check...

Well, over six months later I gave up getting on the schedule of the local avionics shop and managed to get a quote back from an avionics shop in the Denver area. The quote proposed a start around September 15. Their hourly rate appears to be above the national average, so that may be why I got...

Both aircraft in the DC collision had transponders on and were tracked by web sites that gather such data in real time and both were in radar controlled space overseen by a controller in communication with both aircraft, so anyone who wanted could see them come dangerously close. Lastly, Flight...