There's a lot of difference between "fit in there" and "comfortable". I'm 6-3 and about 220 with long legs and arms. I fit in a 6 or 7 just fine.....but after the first hour comfort is gone. There's no wiggle room. Your elbow is tight to the wall, the other one is tight to your passenger, and your h...

The root problem is the unthinking (and dangerous) inclination toward "secrecy" so prevalent in government these days. Why was there any need to keep this flight secret? They could have just as easily done a press release for the AM news; "The aircraft known to the public as Air Force One will make ...

Don't need to buy a special drill bit. Grab an old, dull bit you might be ready to throw away. Hold it parallel to the surface of a hone stone and drag down the stone so as to put a flat where there was a cutting edge on each flute. The flats should be about parallel to a plane in the long axis of t...

<<if using your method I add a plumb-line from dead-centre on the bottom of the firewall? >> I suggest eliminating plumb lines entirely. Mount a straightedge (aluminum angle, bubble levels, whatever) on each gear leg at the axle face. Swivel the legs so you have equal measurements across the fuselag...

Chad, you really can reshape that cowl so you don't have bumps. Sure would be a heck of a lot cheaper than a new cowl and prop extension. Consider a foam core overlay. I did one on an -8A so the builder could use a 14" aluminum spinner. Increasing the cowl nose diameter meant adding 1/2" of foam to ...

<<With one pump of the epoxy I had a huge amount of micro slurry by the time I was done. Oh well, its only money wasted (I haven't worked out an equation for how much $/pump epoxy costs me yet!).>> Hi Mike, Since you like glasswork, consider the purchase of a scale to mix your epoxy by weight instea...

Recall that Phil Boyer called Sen. John McCain "the chief congressional proponent of user fees.." (1996) Of course McCain hasn't been very flattering about Boyer. In a meeting of the FAA Management Advisory Council (2000) McCain told Boyer, "I seriously question your qualifications for this council....