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Painting anythingwell-especially an airplane-is as much art as science. It takes experienceand skill to get it right and, in the end, the customer might not appreciate thework because many owners have never seen a good paint job. Yet it doesnt takea trained eye to separate good paint from bad, a well-detailed master work from what one […]
AVweb Special Projects Editor Dave Higdon adopted a Comanche 180 a few years ago. He approached the purchase with all the warmth of a bill collector. Efficiency … payload … performance … bang-for-the-buck. Now he’s fallen in love. If you’re not going to see A Christmas Carol this season, read Dave’s story instead and enjoy […]
Somewhere north of Cape Girardeau, Missouri … Normally, by this point on a trip like today’s my fuel situation never generates a thought. We’ve logged around 700 hours in the Comanche in the four years we’ve owned it, and we’ve flown this trip more times than any other; about 15 or 20 times in the […]
Thepreparation leading up to my first flight in a new aircraft design always renewsmy sense of adventure and stirs a bit of trepidation, as well. The promise ofsome new adventure, rooted in my hedonistic curiosity about airplanes, generallyoverwhelms any degree of anxiety attached to the coming flight. Nonetheless, arriving at the main gate of The […]
Lookingback, we waited far longer than wise to decide to equip our heads with active-noise-reduction headsets; even with a significant amount of sound insulationinstalled in our classic Piper Comanche, the physical impact of segments lastingthree and four hours usually left us tired beyond necessity. Money – actuallythe shortage of it, as is usually our case […]
“Life insurance.” These are two words almost guaranteed to glaze the eyes of even the most attentive pilot and cause many others to look for a way — any way — to quickly change the subject to something more stimulating — like wall paint or 8-track tape players. They conjure up, in my mind anyway, […]
It’s probably no coincidence that the publishers of the new nonfiction aviation book, Free Flight: From Airline Hell to a New Age of Travel, chose to release it at the beginning of the peak airline travel season. The book is written by James Fallows, and may become the book of choice this summer for frustrated […]
How frustrating this could be, my mind kept musing. Not three hours earlier the magnificent Three Sisters mountain peaks reached upward through clear skies toward the window seat of a Southwest 737 flying me to Portland International (PDX). No overcast blocked my view until we flew to about 40 miles south of PDX. But the […]
LATEST FROM GAMI! GAMI has received its long-awaited STC for the installation of GAMIjectorsTM on TCM IO-360 and TSIO-360 engines found on the Mooney 231, Piper Turbo-Arrow and Seneca, Cessna Skymaster (including Turbo and Pressurized), etc. Only the TSIO-360-MB engine (Mooney 252) is excluded from the STC. GAMI is also now offering GAMIjectorsTM for Lycomings! […]
LATEST FROM GAMI! GAMI has received its long-awaited STC for the installation of GAMIjectorsTM on TCM IO-360 and TSIO-360 engines found on the Mooney 231, Piper Turbo-Arrow and Seneca, Cessna Skymaster (including Turbo and Pressurized), etc. Only the TSIO-360-MB engine (Mooney 252) is excluded from the STC. GAMI is also now offering GAMIjectorsTM for Lycomings! […]
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