Simulator manufacturer Frasca International celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. “I founded Frasca International in 1958 after working as a flight simulator instructor and maintenance engineer in the Navy,” said Rudy Frasca, president. The company has delivered more than 2,000 simulators to flight schools, airlines and the military in 70 countries around the world since […]
BAD ADVICE?
I believe Paul McBride may have given some bad advice regarding not pulling the prop through on engines that are not being used regularly (“Ask Paul: Prepare your plane for winter,” Nov. 9 issue). Unless Teledyne Continental Motors changed its policy recently, it “requires” the prop be pulled through every seven days or the warranty […]
HELP!
Can someone please help? I know of a crashed American DC-3 in the jungles of New Guinea and wish to know where we might find the plate with the manufacturer’s details and the aircraft serial number. If we know the aircraft number we hope to trace the crew and its family members in the USA. […]
MORE HELP NEEDED
We are restoring a 1946 BC-12D Taylorcraft and need a glare shield — the panel over the fuel tank that the windshield sits on and is connected to the instrument panel. If you can give us any help in finding this panel it will be greatly appreciated. NANCY MILWRICK, MANAGER Flying M Ranch Airport Lincoln, […]
STILL NO. 1
In Letters to the Editor of your Oct. 19 issue, Lou Drendal commented on Meg Godlewski’s article about the 35-ship formation at Oshkosh in your Aug. 24 issue (“The largest OSH formation?”). He suggested that I was “not even close to correct” when I said it “was the largest formation ever at Oshkosh.” He cited […]
MORE ON OSH FORMATIONS
Regarding the highest number of airplanes flown into Oshkosh, read “The Cessna 120/140 Story Book” by Dorchen Forman for a number never to be duplicated by one kind of civilian plane: 163 Cessna 120s, 140s and 140As flew in a trail into Oshkosh. All one kind of plane, within 15 horsepower of each other — […]
AIRPORTS UNDER FIRE FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE?
As an environmental health physician I’m aware of the association between noise exposure and high blood pressure (hypertension). People exposed to noise are more likely to have hypertension. European researchers have identified more hypertension in those who live near airports. My environmental medicine and airplane owner interests piqued when I recently found a Reuters news […]
FLYING A 1911 WRIGHT ‘B’ FLYER
I just want to share an experience I had in September of this year. I traveled to Dayton, Ohio, to see a replica of the 1911 Wright “B” Flyer aircraft and the museum that is at the Dayton Wright Bros. Airport. I understood that under certain conditions there was a chance of flying in the […]
the buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
“Counties have realized that if you don’t have a good-sized airport — one with at least a 4,000 to 5,000 foot runway — businesses will look at you and rule you out because you are behind the times.” — Steve Parker, deputy commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Aviation on the state’s push to open […]