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    Lancair Super ES down at Oshkosh. Two dead.

    https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/403643
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    Lancair Super ES down at Oshkosh. Two dead.

    This is the story I saw: https://www.newsweek.com/oshkosh-plane-crash-oshkosh-air-show-wisconsin-eaa-1928718
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    My flight lessons

    Congratulations! Do they do any traditional rite like cutting off the tail of your shirt?
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    UPDATED: Officials identify pilot in fatal crash at Palisades Reservoir

    Here's one guy's debrief on what he believes happened.
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    Price discrepancy in generator to alternator conversions.

    These all appear to my layman eyes to be the same generator to alternator upgrades but the price differential between Aircraft Supply and the other two retailers is simply too large for me to believe they are selling the same thing...
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    Landing of Falcon Heavy side boosters

    Always kind of neat, in my opinion.
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    My flight lessons

    You mean these guys? https://dogcopilot.org/ If so, seems their "about" web page has some of that info (enough flying to transport 1000 animals a month.)
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    Fake metals in airplane parts thanks to China

    Some thoughts: Counterfeit auto parts are a fairly lucrative target market if my searches on "counterfeit auto parts accident statistics" are any indication. All the articles warn of their dangers, at least one claiming an epidemic of accidents, but did not provide a source for that claim and I...
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    Painting a yoke?

    Just a followup: I've got several changes in the works for the plane now and decided to order leather covers with PTT buttons stitched in. I need to have the PTT wired into the system but while waiting to have that done I took a try at attaching one of the covers to the copilot side to see how...
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    C150L Aerobat arrives in Arizona

    Good to see it arrived safely. I see they put the wheel pants/fairings on!
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    My flight lessons

    My modest advice (I'm not a CFI - just a low time pilot): Make sure the trim setting is near the takeoff trim setting when you are abeam the end of the runway on downwind. After reducing throttle to about 1600 RPM it will thereafter slow to about 1500 RPM. I have found that the RPM setting is...
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    My flight lessons

    I had about 20 hours in single engine airplane when I soloed in 2010. However, I had accumulated roughly 12 hours (41 landings) in gliders in 2008. I had spent the summer of 2008 learning in gliders and the instructor felt I was resdy to solo on the next weekend. But her full time job as a...
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    Film on the C150 Aerobat

    The C-A150L has this placard in it.
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    Tomato flames critique.

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    Tornado video, Greenfield Iowa

    Recent video of a multi-vortices tornado near Greenfield Iowa that suffered heavy damage and fatalities from a tornado (not sure if it was caused by the one in the video.) Audio is distracting IMHO.
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    Aurora forecast for Friday night

    Looks like it may be visible in the northern states tonight: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-experimental
  17. J

    New home office chair

    Would be more authentic if another chair is attached on either side that contain mannequins that hog the armrests and otherwise intrude on your space.
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    STC-PMA approved - available with or without the STC?

    Belated report on the bus voltage reported by the uAvionix AV-30: it appears it is reporting about 0.5 to 0.6V low. My multimeter shows that much higher when measuring at various points behind the instrument panel and at the cigarette lighter.
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    STC-PMA approved - available with or without the STC?

    The regulator arrived this morning and was already installed and tested by the time I saw your post. The mechanic said the old regulator was only delivering 12V or so. I had already agreed with him on replacing with the solid state regulator rather than adjust or repair the mechanical one. The...
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    STC-PMA approved - available with or without the STC?

    Late follow-up: No parasitic drain detected on the battery. After the charger reported it was fully charged I disconnected it and a multimeter measured 13.23V across the battery terminals (not considered valid meaurement for various reasons, but decided to do it anyway.) Fifteen hours later it...
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