Teen pilot from Indiana survives crash landing on first solo flight
Associated Press
April 9, 2004
FAIRFIELD, Ohio -- Knocked off course by a tail wind and running out of gas, a 17-year-old pilot flying her first solo flight picked out a farm field for a crash landing.
Her single-engine...
Anyone else think that allowing users to delete their own thread kind of dumb? It would be nice if we had the ability to lock it, but to allow the user to delete a thread and take all of the posts with it, seems kind of selfish.
Don't know if anyone else around here feels that way.
Here's to a bullet-free wedding day
Dave Barry Humor
It's wedding season again. You can tell because the average bridal magazine currently weighs more than the average bride.
Bridal magazines are massive because they carry enormous amounts of advertising designed to convince the bride-to-be...
Came across this website during my web travels has ton of videos. Include some intresting older ones made during World War II.
http://www.archive.org/movies/movieslisting-browse.php?collection=prelinger&cat=Aviation
That's the link to tha aviation section from there you can get to most of the...
As much as I hate crash reports, this one is so unusual it's almost funny.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&ncid=816&e=4&u=/ap/20040123/ap_on_fe_st/jail_plane
Jesus Christ, just when you thought the anti-GA stories were over for a little while after the Dan Rather story, now two plane crashes in a matter of three days. 1 Dead in the Clearwater crash, and 2 dead in the Venice crash. Of course the channel 8 news was showing the distraught home owners...
What better way to celebrate 100 years of flight than to basically ground all Part 91 aircraft within 25 nm?
http://tfr.faa.gov/TFR/jsp/save_pages/detail_3_1835.html
1 dead 1 injured.
Was a demo flight to sell the aircraft, a 1957 Aeronca. The buyer is dead.
Edit: Opps forgot the link http://news.tbo.com/news/MGAFKMENUND.html
I have recently started a new project in honor of the century of flight. Heres a little peek at it.
I am attempting to archive some of the various news articles on the advancement of flight. These two are the earliest that I can find.
This one is the first mention of the Wright Brothers...
My company is thinking about buying a light twin to use on trips, particularly to the out of the way airports.
I was thinking something like a Baron. We want 6 seats, or 4 with descent cargo capacity. And range enough to go TPA to Atlanta with reserves.
I personally want something relatively...
I know speeding has been discussed on here before. But one wonders how useful speedtraps are to deter the bad driving habits that cause accidents.
Yesterday as I drove to work Sarasota to Tampa (about 50 miles) I saw about a dozen state troopers, I normally don't even see that many in a month...
Most of us have seen the pictures of the divers jumping from 727, and Connies, I was wondering is it possible to jump from a 717. I noticed on my latest flights that it has a rear slide.
Theoretical of course, just my self trying to fill the void as I had 6 crying babies around me.
In honor of our favorite wacky Iraqi, Baghdad Bob, being found alive. Here is another piece of Iraqi Propaganda.
http://nuke.lazyeights.net/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownloaddetails&lid=17&ttitle=Iraqi_Army
This is off my new website, not quite done yet.
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