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WOW

I was just thinking that about the tower and the other aircraft too. They were all rattled whether it was their fault or not. I would think they were done for the day.

Perfect! I bet it helps more when up high in a 737 too more than a Mooney. Nonetheless… I’m going to keep doing it. I also do it as I’m passing through a green light…. Just in case the other guy is screwing up. My grandfather used to say / don’t be right and dead.

I do f know what airline procedures are and I don’t know if it helps but it can’t hurt. Whenever crossing a runway despite instructions to do so I always look left and right just like at a stop sign in a car - just in case. I’m not sure if it helps if I would see an airplane a mile or two away on a long runway - but it can’t hurt. But minimal effort. e

How close did they get with Delta on take off roll to AA?

I agree completely. I know it would ruin the wonderful flying characteristics and surely be impossible within a certified scenario, not least of which significantly increased stall speed, but it surely would result in a faster airplane. I was just pointing out something for curiosity sake.

Clip the wings - shorter wings less drag. Just don't tell anyone...

How hard?

I wouldn’t be so sure. I wonder if some townships operating an airport might opt for swift for thinking of the renewable energy source branding since it comes from switch grass / without thinking if that the large fraction of their the aviation engineering forced detail that fuel sales won’t be able to use it.

The Lake Wobegon effect - "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average"

My father used to have a joke for that: "Other than that Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"

I think that was historically correct and standard practice. I saw another movie - forgot the name / where they were doing the sage thing in exploring Greenland.

Wow / no kidding?!!

All this said - I did not buy my airplane thinking it was an investment, but because I wanted an airplane. I bought it almost 13 years ago at the height of that 2007 financial crisis when airplane prices were fantastic. But more important, the school I had been renting from at my home rural field had gone bankrupt so it was either buy my own or quite flying. That said, looking at airplane prices today, I would likely at least double the purchase price I bought for. That doesn't mean I made a profit since, because I wanted to own a nice plane and I've enjoyed doing so, I have improved my plane almost every year and in so doing, spent a heck of a lot of money on all sorts of things, paint, interior, avionics, and so on and so on, besides general maintenance. Still this ownership is quite different from a car because my car looses a big chunk of value as soon as I drive it off the lot new, and then it looses value every year until I sell at about 10 years. Whereas my airplane has gained a significant amount of value. So I would say I lost less owning an airplane than I would have by buying a series of cars every two years like most of my friends. Not counting fuel. Not counting hangar (no own counts renting their parking place for their car). So its different from owning a car. And also in many ways it is different from owning real estate.

Hah! Gotcha! But my 27 boat isn’t a motor vehicle. It’s a carbon fiber rowing scull… it’s 11” wide 27’4” long and weights 31lbs. but a race car sounds fab! actuslly this evening I got on a kick of wondering if I could get blimp flying lessons in 2023. I haven’t found a way yet…

Oh wait / I have a 27 foot boat.

If I didn’t waste my money oening a cool airplane I would find some other way to waste money instead. A boat. A vacation home. A big model train set.

On this topic - I have been watching this evening, Amundsen: The Greatest Expedition https://www.amazon.com/Amundsen-Expedition-Pål-Sverre-Hagen/dp/B08YCZSLPX about the Norwegian guy Amundsen who is credited as first to the North Pole AND the South Pole in the 1920s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Amundsen And also in there are depictions of two of his ill fated attempts by air - twice by airplane and once by airship. Both airplane trips had troubles, one with severe icing which in the 1920s style airplanes, ... they weren't so good at ice. I was amazed at the bravery, fearlessness, stupidity to try and fly to the North Pole in an old school airplane. No Nav equipment. No de-ice equipment. crappy ancient early engines. Poor quality fuels. Icing is eventually what got him.

Funny. my eyes were so drawn to the weather I didn't even notice the cars.

That's right - I had said something in reply to ScottFromIowa - but I have no idea anymore what it is that I said - since I dont have perfect recall of every post from almost 10 years ago.

Chicken? Or Egg?

I agree with this key part of what you said. In the 1970s when all the cars were burning leaded fuel, and all the houses were being painted with leaded paint, and there was still plenty of leaded pipes sending us water, we were all exposed to lots of lead. And especially for children, its no doubt really nasty stuff with some really horrible possible outcomes for children. Now it is quite low, and the pain of bring it to absolute zero is quite hard. Thus your phrasing - illogic or zero tolerance. As I understand (not being an expert) the greatest risk to children, is sporadic, which is when certain children may live in a house that has old flaking lead paint they may eat. Something to be guarded against on individual basis. And even more rarely when there are still some lead pipes either in a house or a municipality (aka Flint). I would not be worried about bringing a child on a piston airplane flight. For the lead.....

I wonder what is the highest a piston engine airplane ever flew? The P51 had a service ceiling of ~42,000. Did people actually go that high?

Good luck and enjoy this next phase of your life!

Maybe its the stress of trying to manipulate people to close their airport and thinking they can control their environment and people around them that leads to bad diet?