Happy New Year All, My first fight for 2008 was,wheels up and no longer sliding, at 07:54 this morning for a duration of 24 minutes. Winds; west 17kt gusting...
I was reading UL flying magazine, and saw that Cessna will be making their Skycatcher 162 in China. Apparntly the deal has been signed. Does that mean it will...
OK, so I'm using 40:1 oil ratio (Pennzoil air-cooled oil) per the Cuyuna ULII-02 manual. However, I'm toying with the idea of installing an automatic oil...
... Cuyuna ... in the ... injection ... it's fixed ... calculating ... I would recommened running 50 to 1 in the 430 even without injection, I have Cuyuna...
From my Jan 08 column, Aviation Digest, excerpted: Chinese Copy Seems as though it wasn’t too far back that the term Chinese Copy meant something wasn’t...
Column written a month ago. And some gremlin extracted the two apostrophes (wasnt s/b wasn't) somewhere in (outer)net space between Winchester and MA. ...
I believe we may have lost the Cold war against the communists. We had better be careful, if they quite shipping items to us, we will be sitting around naked,...
The Chinese (and Koreans) are doing to Japan what Japan did to the US a long time ago. Japan sold electronics at a loss to put US electronic mfgrs out of...
Now if Rotax decided to manufacture their 503 in China and then sold it for $3000 less in the US, would that be a bad thing? Walter ... made ... the ... pay ...
In a message dated 1/1/2008 6:37:55 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, wklatt@... writes: Now if Rotax decided to manufacture their 503 in China and then...
No, because the Notax -- er, ROTAX -- is already known to be an unreliable, disposable, evolutionary dead end. That's not the same thing as seeing a plane with...
Yup we got us a made in china plane by a US manufaturer. Ain't life in the USA grand??? What the hell ever happened to pride??? Cessna sure sucks the big one...
Don Zank
donzank@...
Jan 2, 2008 7:38 am
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... If you mean China, there aren't any communists there anymore...they are all capitalists, now. And apparently better at it than we are. Look at the US...
... Sure - I'm still here. Just pre-occupied looking for a job (lost mine in November) and took a few weeks off to visit folks and friends during the ...
Broommail@...
Jan 2, 2008 10:54 pm
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... Well it's really kind of one of those good news/bad news things when you try to look at all sides of it. what you call the "real world" here (and a lot of...
... for establishing decent working wages and conditions up through WW2, but AFTER that they've evolved into bloated, corrupt, autocracies that has bled...
I grew up in SC in the 50's where most jobs were in textiles. The local women sat at sewing machines and worked up to 12 hours a day. No AC, just a few floor...
Michael: I strongly suggest you pick up a copy of Wealth and Democracy by Kevin Phillips. You may find it very enlightening. Bob Blu Centennial, CO ... working...
You both have some valid insights, but each seems to be overstating their case. In either case, our major export for many years has been the greenback dollar....
though I see good points on both sides..... I would like to know how any of this is going to help me get enough air speed to fly my MXL with a 15 hp 4 stroke...
I have a Spitfire on floats which has now become a "project." I don't have the time to work on it to qualify for ELSA before the deadline, so I guess it's...
Yep. The conversations do wander off subject, don't they? I posted several months ago that I had bought a powered paraglider which is definitely ultralight. I...
... how any of this is going to help me get enough air speed to fly my MXL with a 15 hp 4 stroke engine. ... Keep it light, no donuts for you either, and have...
... The price of aluminum is up now, so shouldn't be too bad on your pocket book,,,,,,,,, but if you ahve been reading these groups, you also realize that ...
I've yet to understand how taking hard earned wages out of a consumers pocket,promotes further consumption by that wage earner.Big business will have nobody to...
Jonnyjmpup@...
Jan 3, 2008 7:54 pm
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N61560 is now a real AIRCRAFT. It was as easy as sticking a bunch of stickers, and labels on it, and having somebody spend a couple of hours on the inspection,...
Now all you have to do is keep your license up to date... :-) Congrates on getting the registration. Yes it is mostly paperwork but it is nice to have it done...
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