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This column is a continuation of previous columns about manifold pressure(MP), props, mixtures, and engine management techniques. They are listed here for your reference. Reviewing them might be a good thing to do before venturing further into this one! PP #15: Manifold Pressure Sucks! PP #16: Those Marvelous Props PP #18: Mixture Magic PP #19: […]

In my previous column, we explored a bit of the history of supercharging, some of the many variations, and some of the reasons for it. We touched lightly upon the turbochargers, which make it possible for an aircraft engine to produce a manifold pressure greater than ambient pressure,and thus more power. We also mentioned the […]

The recently proposed purchase of US Airways by United Airlines (UAL) opens many interesting questions for the airlines’ consumers, shareholders and employees. First and foremost, United and US Airways management will tell the world and the financial community how much synergistic benefit this merger will bring to the combined company. You will hear how revenues […]

It’sa Friday evening at the virtual airport and things are spooling down. Severalairplanes have departed with families heading out for the weekend. The studentshave pretty well finished up and I’ve plopped down in one of the big chairs tomake some notes on conversations I had over the last few hours. On arriving at the airport […]

Barbara Erickson London was bornJuly 1, 1920, in Seattle, Wash. Halfway through college she enrolled in theCivilian Pilot Training program. She was a natural pilot and workedquickly through her commercial and instructor’s ratings. She stayed at theschool and trained other CPT and Naval Transport Service students. In 1942, with the war in fullswing, she joined […]

Wepreviously discussed the subject of flying by “sight picture” asopposed to “flying by the numbers.” Now we will undertake to considerall the sensory cues that a pilot uses in manipulating the controls of anairplane and making the machine do what he or she wants it to do (or, at leastkeeping it from doing that which […]

Let’s get one thing straight right off. Texas is a big state. Big. The state motto is “Everything Is Bigger in Texas” and folks there are dead serious when they say it. Another motto is “Don’t Mess With Texas.” They mean that, too. I spent the longest two years of my life one day driving […]

AVweb Special Report: Air Race Classic 2000 – Sands to the Sea Flying At Full Throttle Only one thing is certain when 102 women climb into 51 airplanes in Tucson, Ariz., on a June day – in blazing 110-degree heat – and race toward the cool sea breezes of Hyannis, Mass., more than 2,000 nautical […]

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When I first started my business in 1988, I vividly remember spending several sleepless nights because I had to purchase a laser printer with a price tag of $2,000! A year or so after that I agonized over whether to buy a fax machine. After the fax machine arrived the floodgates opened. The next purchase […]