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According to my WWII sources at the plant the turrets were deleted from the bulk of the production. They claimed the first thing the Japanese...
Check with your CFI. He may want you to send in an application he has with his name on it. If his students sign up for the (free) six-month...
A prospector walked into the office of the new bush pilot in town and asked him to take him and his supplies to his cabin in the boonies. He...
At the costs you quote, the $600/hour the local AT-6 charges seems a lot more reasonable. He'll do anything you and the airplane can stand, and...
The TBMs were built at the Trenton, New Jersey, Plant of Eastern Aircraft Division, a consortium of a couple GM factories for the purpose. My dad...
If you have one of these and don't have the manual, here's the answer. The first assumption of "automatic" conversion between nautical and...
I don't think it is density altitude. There are windows for that. Originally I tried to see ft converted miles or kilometers to feet. No dice....
Long story, but I foolishly sold my brand new Jeppesen E6B and recently replaced it with a "vintage" "Dalton Dead Reckoning Computer", also marked...
"I used "0 mph" to indicate no speed. If there is no speed, there can be no acceleration." Actually, I think Newton gets in the way of that...
Part of the problem with understanding what seem contradictory in maneuvering speed is that of following the established definitions involved. By...
Try this one: http://www.aopa.org/members/ftmag/article.cfm?article=829
Mark: That site is unbelievable! I could spend hours (probably did). The primary stuff is wrecks (of course) but the Japanese air show is not...
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/wasp/wasp31.htm Herself (PDF):...
I will always remember the "cars crushed thin as a dime" in the Oakland earthquake! Anybody who ever saw a junk-yard car-crusher operate (even in...
The base unit is aluminum, the slide some sort of fairly durable composit. It has seen some significant use because the small "knobs" on the...
I recently picked up an older E-6B marked "Weems System of Navigation (A Division of Jeppesen & Co)". Even after a thorough cleaning, the...
