September 3, 2015
On September 12, 1932, a man named Leo Szilard was wanted to walk across the street in London. But the “walk” light across the street was […]
September 4, 2015
Lancairs and Teslas are two of my favorite things in the world. But you know the old thing about chocolate and peanut-butter: Combine them and they […]
September 5, 2015
Since 1958, scientist Charles Keeling has been measuring atmospheric CO2 levels from an observatory on Mauna Loa in Hawaii. Those measurements are still going on today. Here […]
September 6, 2015
OK this is an unpleasant title and an unpleasant discussion compared to flying, but like: ->Thorium Nuclear Power (and it’s ability to save us), ->Patent-Trolling (and […]
June 14, 2016
OK plenty of stuff has gone wrong with my Evolution (N844X… Google it for pics), but the only way any of this can be WORTH IT […]
July 1, 2016
OK we are starting to overhaul X-Plane.com and cleaning out some of my old left-over posts there, but some of this stuff is a little bit […]
July 1, 2016
An old bit of X-Plane.com soon to be tossed in the trash we we update the site to be more professional, so I save the post […]
July 1, 2016
OK I am cleaning old posts out of X-Plane.com but this is one that I never want to forget, or for that matter for anyone else […]
September 12, 2016
I recently sold N428X, my Columbia-400 (once N844X, my Evolution, was ready for flight). The buyer had his agent ->inspect the airplane, ->inspect the various paperwork […]
September 12, 2016
So people say that turbine engines, compared to recips, put out lot of power, but use more fuel. That’s sort of like saying that the Titanic […]
January 5, 2017
New flight-modeling stuff done recently for 11.00: Thanks to a few hundred hours of flight experience in my Lancair Evolution so far, I am really improving […]
June 15, 2017
OK so about two weeks ago I was flying along at 16,500 in N844X coming out of a pretty major airport and an MD-80 sailed silently […]
August 15, 2017
So there is this IDEA of people making indi-style documentaries about their own experiences or knowledge areas. But how do you make a movie? I mean, […]
August 21, 2017
OK so we all knew the eclipse was coming and I planned to se it from the ground because why not? The total even would last […]
October 7, 2017
OK I was off to Vermont on a business trip where a bunch of things would go wrong with the trip and here they are. Each […]
May 7, 2018
OK it turns out that my teachers in college, a ton of engineering textbooks, and the internet in general all seem to understand what wings do. […]
September 27, 2018
OK so one of my fondest memories so far in N844X was zooming up to high altitude to see the solar eclipse with some friends: It […]
September 27, 2018
OK when I fly with my Garmin G900x I get Sirius-XM weather in flight and it is amazing: I can see everything before it happens. BUT, […]
November 8, 2018
OK this may be boring as HECK for almost everyone reading this so… SORRY! If you do NOT own an Evolution or Turbine single then maybe […]
February 7, 2019
OK some of you read the post on my work on the electric VeTOL project AVA: That showed the airplane, but what about the AVIONICS? Avionics […]
February 21, 2019
So we all know that Apple collects insane numbers of patents. Including a PATENT FOR A PAPER BAG: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/20/apple-patent-recycled-paper-bag But how is Apple AFFECTED by patents? […]
March 4, 2019
So there I was, coding X-Plane and Xavion same as always when I learned that a B-17 was touring the SouthEast and stopping into my local […]