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Much has been made of this Labor Day Weekend event: near Ottumwa (OTM) Iowa, the Antique Aircraft Association's "Annual Meeting" Who's in? Jonathan

Show of virtual hands - who wants in for this fly-in? Jonathan

I heard the Nordo News Today, oh boy. Julie Boatman has left AOPA effective January 2nd, She, along with Alton Marsh, kept AOPA Pilot magazine from going too far astray from GA, and helped make that magazine the finest of all for a precious few months. The latest issue of Pilot did a Moose...

Gentlemen: This Forum allows you to attach tiny photos of yourself (Avatars, in the parlance of the Internet) to your profile which show up when you post. As I understand it, this capability is for Club members only. Yes, it's a pain to cull a 80x80 pixels portion of a photo of you. My Avatar...

Hmmmm....Robert has done a nice job of implementing new forum software for the new year. Very clean and no doubt more spam resistant, along with Avatars and a new emoticon or two. Now that we've either survived or enjoyed the holidays - or both - I want to turn my attention to the Triple Tail...

For those of you who have never heard of Paul Berge, he's - IMO - the finest and wittiest contemporary aviation writer. After I gave him my usual dose of faux criticism because he chose the Champ as the best of the old school LSA eligible airplanes over the Luscombe (Berge owns a Champ) in the...

Okay, I've had enough - enough - of this. We need an air force, people. We sit here hoping, like kids at Christmas, that something we want will come along to elevate our sine qua non winged machines to their proper status. Until we show ourselves, however, nobody will give a damn about our most...

I don't know how many of you guys get AvFlash email, or read the AvWeb web site, but lately it's been bothering me. They have a feature, FBO of the Week, where readers submit names and descriptions of some FBO near Olathe where the people are soooooo nice. The implication, as we all know and...

One little discussion...just one...of matters beyond the machine itself, and silence resumes. People who fly THESE airplanes, our airplanes, the ones we fret over, work on, find someone who can comprehend them , if we cannot, we few, we band of triple tailers - a group incapable of being a...

Brothers in Bellancahood: I was reading the latest issue of AOPA Pilot - one particularly slanted to expensive stuff such as "budget buys" in NEW airplanes, "stepping up" to twins (was Avgas $1.65 when they wrote that?) and...well...it was a pretty annoying issue, Rod Machado's column...

It's awfully quiet in here....too quiet. Did aliens snare all the triple tail pilots? Did the FAA, employing the power of the Patriot Act finally discover that we're slipping an extra sawbuck to all those AMEs? Did the price of Avgas suddenly make you wish you had a Cub, Champ, or Luscombe? I...

Much of this is lifted from the documentary, Thunderbolt, but the rest is also exciting. :!: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2ad_1192434292 Jonathan

60 years ago, today: http://www.edwards.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123071181 Now what did I do with those Peten wheel pants? Jonathan

I was trying out of those Wx Worx sat boxes yesterday. I have no idea why I buy this stuff, or why I use those Control Vision contrivances but I do (rather, I will soon have used to buy them). It didn't work, of course but I discovered that the wee remote antenna wanted to leap onto anything...

I don't know how many of you consume aviation books like a group of guys eating corn chips and salsa while waiting for their food to arrive at a Mexican restaurant. I'm guilty of both. Thus I'd to start a topic on this. First off, we all know the masterpieces...Fate is the Hunter, Darkness at...

Kindred Spirits, In the latest issue of our Newsletter, I asserted that upgrading a Cruisair or Cruisemaster to IFR standards was a fool's errand. In retrospect, though, I never asked how many of you with conventional landing gear Bellancas fly IFR or if any of you fly "hard" IFR. Do you use...

As I said, Larry, the Cruisair is the sweetest ride. I had to go with the 'Master, however, because I could not find a Cruisair that was right, and I finally lost patience....and *you* know all too well how much I've paid for that impatience <sigh>. The Crusairs I looked at while shopping...

Folks: I've directed this fellow, Daryl, to this list, but I wonder if the collected wisdom here could answer his major questions. Jonathan Thanks for the reply. So what SN is yours? I have N512A (SN2065) and I have known this airplane since 1963 when my Dad bought it. I still remember...

I've recently relocated from Snohomish, WA to Charlottesville, VA. My buddy, Russell, was going to ferry my RuseMaster here, as I did not have the time to do so (starting a new job and all). The "new" power pack failed...this time with the gear stuck DOWN thank goodness. It seems the pack I...

Amigos: I've taken a job in Charlottesville, Virginia. I have hangar space set up at OMH, formerly W93. This means I will miss the Boast Coast Fly-In, but I will make the one in the east. I will also have the ability to torture Lynn with my various Bellanca problems :) Vamous a continuar...