While I am sympathetic to Cessna 140 owners wishing to fly their planes as Light Sport Aircraft, I ask a larger question — why can’t I fly my 172 as an LSA? That is to say, me and one passenger, day VFR? I am 6 foot, 3 inches and weigh rather more than the “average” […]
Opinion
TOO MANY ERRORS
First let me say how I enjoy reading your magazine, but the June 22 edition has some errors that I cannot leave alone! The Stinson article is one of them (A good flying airplane: Raised around Stinsons, Don Baggett finally gets one of his own). The V-77/AT-19 was indeed manufactured for the British, where it […]
ROBYN ROCKS!
“Fear, full frontal nudity…and real estate” by Robyn Sclair in the July 20 issue is one of the best, funniest articles GANews has published! As a faithful GANews reader, I always look forward to the mail when “it is that time of month.” I then proceed to stay up too late and read from cover-to-cover with […]
ATC facilities falling apart: Leaky roofs, asbestosand snakes just afew of the problems
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Air traffic control facilities are in such bad repair that the FAA told Congressional investigators that it estimates the backlog of maintenance costs is between $250 million and $350 million — yet the last two years the administration has requested less than $60 million annually for maintenance. A Congressional committee’s oversight and […]
B-17 IS THE GREATEST
My vote is the B-17 Flying Fortress (The Greatest Airplane Ever, June 8 issue). This airplane was derived around 1934-1935 from the DC-3 when we needed longer range. (When we needed longer range for the Pacific, we built the B-29.) The B-17 was a beautiful machine and to the surprise of many people it was […]
THE BEST PART ABOUT THE DC-3
I’m a retired USAF fighter pilot of over 20 years and flew most of them in the inventory from the F-80 to F-105/106 and F-4E. I have also flown many other military and civilian aircraft from the J-3 Cub to the B-52; and several flights in the C-47. What I wanted to inject is no […]
Flying the B-25
Last summer broken bones grounded me. This summer I am making up for lost time by not only doing as much flying as I can, but also flying as many airplanes from my “wish list” as possible. You already know about one of them – the DC-3 (Living the dream: Our reporter flies a DC-3, […]
IF IT AIN’T BROKE DON’T FIX IT
Concerning your article on Lockheed Martin’s debacle on our flight service stations (Frustrations abound on FSS, June 8 issue), I, being from the country and spent a lot of time hunting, had an old saying: “Don’t shoot a running dog” or in city-folk’s language: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” We had an operating […]
UNLEADED AVGAS: YOU’D HAVE TO BE INSANE TO OPPOSE IT
Your fuel and lubricant expert Ben Visser recently wrote in his column that it would be insane to try and develop an unleaded replacement for 100LL (Unleaded avgas: You’d have to be insane to try to develop it, June 22 issue). What’s to develop? Leave out the lead and 100LL automatically becomes 95UL. Since virtually […]