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Stagnating economy may have been one possible cause. I did start investigating interest rates and they did spike in the eighties (see attached graph created from https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PRIME#) Aircraft being financed would put a crimp on sales during high interest periods. If, as is...

Here's a bit of research I did on the affordability of single engine airplanes from 1956 to 2022. I defined an "affordability" index as the number of years of household income it would take to buy a new Cessna 172 at the introduction price for the year of purchase. The numbers used were NOT...

He used to hang out in the Usenet soaring group which I read and occasionally posted. I recall having a discussion with him about Ralph Merkel's contribution to public key cryptography (If I recall correctly, Hellman said Merkle's paper on the subject was allegedly difficult to understand, so...

Just realized that the first sentence I quoted doesn't use the word "sectional" and indicates the audio includes the word VOR. The section above it says: Most VORs are equipped for voice transmission on the VOR frequency. VORs without voice capability are indicated by the letter “W” (without...

I did a quick scan of VORs in my area then spot-checked around the country and didn't see any with VOR after the name. Then I located and downloaded FAA data AIRNAV data files but they don't seem to have a field that designates VORs with voice IDs, unless it is buried in the type_code or some...

Local story of recent storm. Belle Fourche airport pummeled by storm damages three hangers and eight aircraft

Lycoming has a service letter on that subject: https://www.lycoming.com/sites/default/files/attachments/Engine%2520Preservation%2520for%2520Active%2520and%2520Stored%2520Aircraft.pdf They say: "Engine temperature and length of operating time are very important in controlling rust and corrosion...

Possibly a structural problem? The left wing appeared to be folding up and back well before the angle of attack got unreasonably steep. Once the wing started twisting back it appeared to force plane to pitch up steeply. I've seen those ag planes at work and they seem to fly similar climbs at...

Appreciate the clarifications re MEL. I think my original question was answered with the considered opinion "So per the 213(d) guidance I would determine it does not constitute a hazard and placard it INOP with a corresponding log entry. And given it requires no maintenance a pilot could...

The Cessna 150 was type certificated under CAR rules so a minimum equipment list would not likely exist (and I have searched.)

Their argument rests on flaps being secondary control surfaces rather than "instruments and equipment". And that seems reasonable since the article dealt only with the actual flaps. But in this scenario the flaps work, only the flap position indicator is inop. The flap position indicator itself...

The flap indicator on our C-150 is inop, though the flaps themselves work fine. What little secondary info I could find suggests that an inop indicator makes the plane un-airworthy, while ironically if the flaps themselves were inop a simple placarding would maintain the plane's airworthiness...

Never watched his videos, but from what I heard second-hand he often invented things. Yet he had some sort of non-trivial following on Youtube.

Looks like about 36% of airplane owners wont shell out a few thousand: From: What a difference ADS-B In makes—or does it? That article links to FAA current ADS-B equipage stats: Current Equipage Levels As of July 1, 2023 One local data point: The local flight school has two airplanes, only one...

There are vastly more birds than drones - but that argument was first made years ago and didn't affect the FAA's thinking at all. I haven't read a Nall Report in years, but I recall in many years that midair collisions were so few in number that they were lumped in with miscellaneous causes...

That's an unusual plot. When is the movie version coming out?

That reminds me of a 9 year old Weird Al Yankovic video I only just discovered this last month. Guess I'm falling behind on contemporary culture.

This guy captures my own observations of some of the science and technical articles in Wikipedia. It hasn't become unusable, yet, but caveat lector is essential.