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https://apnews.com/article/3df4ebd69fed235e5100cb78c8ee8983

Was a great day for soaring with good marker Cu. Looking south along the Palo Verde mountains. Hidden Valley airport to the right and Millar airport to the left. Looking north along the Sierra Estrella. The white spot on the main ridge to the right is called the "White Spot" by the locals...

Interesting - though I am always skeptical of this sort of claim. https://thedebrief.org/nasa-veterans-propellantless-propulsion-drive-that-physics-says-shouldnt-work-just-produced-enough-thrust-to-defeat-earths-gravity/

One minor nit. The phrase “dead reckoning” likely did not come from “deduced” but more likely from “dead right” and similar expressions, though this is a commonly repeated explanation. https://aeroxplorer.com/articles/before-gps-how-did-pilots-navigate-in-the-early-days-of-aviation.php

Superior WI which I know reasonably well being right next to MN. The Sky Harbor airport there is fun to land at - basically on a spit out toward the main harbor. https://apnews.com/article/b9bfcbf584d7e6987f65d0cc6d571bde

So I started some training in the Aeroprakt 22S this AM. It has rods coupling the steerable front wheel, the rudder, and the pedals, rather than a bungee. The speed with which you will start running off the runway after landing in a side-slip when you don't immediately change the rudders is...

Just finished this book by Captain Brown about his and Alcock’s flight in 1919 in a Vicker’s Vimy. They flew the shorter route from St. John’s Newfoundland to Ireland 7 years prior to Lindbergh’s famous flight. Crashed in a bog in Ireland. He spends some time taking about the future of...

This is a weird one. Sounds like mental illness to me and the age is about right for new onset. I love how they report that he had multiple books and writings about how to takeoff and land a plane - horrors! https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nathan-jones-alaska-airlines-open-cockpit-door/

Panel missing on landing. No injuries. Boy do I wish I had shorted their stock! https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/united-flight-from-san-francisco-medford-oregon-lands-missing-fuselage-panel-latest-flight-issue/

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mh370-search-debris-barnacles.html

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/business/ntsb-probing-stuck-control-incident-on-boeing-737-max/index.html

Pilot delivers baby during flight - https://nypost.com/2024/03/04/world-news/airplane-pilot-leaves-cockpit-to-help-deliver-baby-during-flight-to-thailand-born-in-the-air/

Certainly not a wise thing to do. But how many terrorists with a bomb are going to tell you the TSA missed their bomb? https://www.gatechecked.com/birthday-bomb-joke-lands-jetblue-passenger-in-jail-8661

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/26/former-boeing-employee-speaks-out-00142948

So I did a top overhaul of my Lycoming O-360 3 years and 250 hours ago. Now I have cylinder #3 with a crack at the exhaust port seal requiring a total overhaul of the cylinder. In people's experience, what is the most common cause of cylinder cracking?

The TSA fails to stop even casual passengers boarding without documents. What about determined terrorists? https://aeroxplorer.com/articles/tsa-investigating-woman-who-boarded-american-airlines-flight-from-nashville-to-los-angeles-without-ticket.php

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/an-american-spacecraft-successfully-lands-on-the-moon-for-the-first-time-since-1972-180983841/

Clemens Ciepek some years back put together this very interesting article and graphs comparing the risks of various recreational activities, including flying small aircraft and gliders. https://chessintheair.com/the-risk-of-dying-doing-what-we-love/

So I finished reading this book by the Longs recently. Apparently it was after this was published that the Date Line Theory was advanced for her disappearance by Smith. It was a readable summary of the trip and the evidence from the radio calls. I am very curious what shows up in a better...