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  1. PeterNSteinmetz

    Tribe trying to ban flights below 20,000 feet

    It does seem sort of crazy. I have to wonder what the politics of this are. Poor owner probably just has to buy another ship for now.
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    Challenger 40th Anniversary

    False memories are quite common actualLy Grant. I imagine you saw video of it later.
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    A piece of the Gimli Glider

    So my wife bought me for Christmas a coaster made from a piece of the fuselage of the Gimli Glider. Fun.
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    Bought a Bonanza S35

    Just a regular T-hangar, so only one airplane and some additional shelves and equipment.
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    Bought a Bonanza S35

    Finally got hangar JJ09 at KFFZ for this bird. I think I have been on the list there close to 3 years.
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    Houdry and high octane aviation fuels

    Interesting article about invention of the process to produce high octane fuels - https://www.inventionandtech.com/content/wizard-octane-0
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    Velocity V-Twin - Nashua NH - 17 Dec 2025

    Just pilot on board and non-fatally injured. https://apnews.com/article/new-hampshire-plane-crash-26a664667bc4acc28d527acd6b53dbb9
  8. PeterNSteinmetz

    “Understanding Flight”

    Here is a nice video of a talk by one of the authors that covers many of the main points
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    “Understanding Flight”

    This is a great book which explains the underlying physics of flight from an intuitive perspective. Very accessible no matter what your comfort level with math. https://a.co/9zlDYDV
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    Yikes - parachutist caught on tail

    https://apnews.com/article/australia-parachute-entangled-ff6a37bbeb8af80718114a9b379b7b49
  11. PeterNSteinmetz

    Equivalent horsepower being produced by Santa’s reindeer?

    Christmas is approaching. We need to get started on this. I see two possible paths forward: Compute the likely horsepower of a reindeer. Computer power required for flight of the loaded sleigh.
  12. PeterNSteinmetz

    Want a derelict 747?

    Strange re-use https://luxurylaunches.com/other_stuff/kuala-lumpur-airport-abandoned-boeing-747-12062025.php
  13. PeterNSteinmetz

    Tribe trying to ban flights below 20,000 feet

    So the FAA is not letting the tribe know who is supposed to have authority over airspace. https://avbrief.com/faa-urged-to-act-on-seized-airplane/
  14. PeterNSteinmetz

    Air India 171 Boeing 787 - 12 Jun 2025 - Ahmedabad India

    Squabbling between the investigators - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/11/28/us-fears-cover-up-air-india-crash/
  15. PeterNSteinmetz

    Brief History of aviation?

    Not really strictly the beginning. Cayley designed the primary set of wings and controls we use today in 1799 and flew a man carrying glider in 1804.
  16. PeterNSteinmetz

    MH370

    New search this year - https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-missing-plane-mh370-search-what-to-know-88ecaee897bbb17a5b62a097ae40db0b
  17. PeterNSteinmetz

    E-6B missing?

    Funny - at first I thought you meant you had lost your old flight computer.
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    Equivalent horsepower being produced by Santa’s reindeer?

    A question for the season. What is the approximate power in horsepower being produced by Santa’s reindeer to pull his flying sleigh?
  19. PeterNSteinmetz

    Better would be eliminate 3rd class medicals

    Even better for GA pilots would be to simply eliminate 3rd class medicals for private pilots. There is no evidence they improve the safety of flight and are just a historical leftover from WWI and the first chief medical officers. Let PP fly with driver’s license medicals like SP...
  20. PeterNSteinmetz

    Beacon above Holman Field in Saint Paul MN

    And a bit more about the route - CAM 9 http://www.dreamsmithphotos.com/arrow/airmail_routes/route_01_10/09/cam_09_c_tc.html#sylvan
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