February 9, 2015
This is an actual Patent: https://www.google.com/patents/WO2011149558A3?cl=en&dq=ininventor:%22Daniel+H.+Abelow%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mSHZVMmYKoufyAToq4G4Dg&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA Reality alternate WO 2011149558 A3 ABSTRACT The invention reconceptualizes current and new technology to provide an Alternate “human success” Reality […]
February 23, 2015
This adventure is LONG, and maybe boring, but full of information! Many might be bored and should stop now, but anyone interested in experimental aviation construction […]
February 27, 2015
So this is cool! Someone is finally doing a documentary about Burt Rutan! And (it gets even cooler!) it is being funded as a KickStarter project! […]
March 1, 2015
OK so I was flying West to East in the winter in my Columbia-400 and the Garmin-1000 winds-aloft page showed 100-knot tailwinds up high. (Real high: […]
March 2, 2015
So a thing I have been doing a lot recently is writing, testing, and tuning Xavion! Xavion is an App that I wrote to do everything […]
March 3, 2015
OK this one is boring, but if you like aircraft systems, then this might still interest you. This is my operating checklist for N844X! It just […]
March 4, 2015
This is very PRELIM performance for N844X. This is a Lancair Evolution, with a (non-standard) PT-6-42 engine. The engine normally used in the Lancair Evolution has […]
March 5, 2015
Apple says that iPads are good to at least 10,000 feet. But how much higher can they go? Xavion can detect and warn of cabin de-pressurization, […]
March 6, 2015
Well, I can NOT own two airplanes at once, so I am having to sell 428X. If anyone wants a single-owner, always-hangared, meticulously-maintained Columbia-400 (I think […]
March 10, 2015
So flying N844X is a different type of flying than I have ever done, and uses a rather large amount of fuel (25 gallons per hour […]
March 11, 2015
As many of you know, a company called Uniloc recently sued me and a number of other companies for “Patent Infringement”. (You can learn about it […]
March 17, 2015
Hello! Being sued for “Patent Infringement” by a company called Uniloc for USING technology provided to me by Google, I have become aware of the how […]
March 23, 2015
Check out Xavion at www.Xavion.com if you do not know what it is. OK done? All right. So all of my Xavion testing so far in […]
March 31, 2015
It’s always easy to ADD MORE STUFF to a design. The HARD part is TAKING STUFF AWAY. I remember the first time I saw X-Plane, and […]
April 2, 2015
OK so I just do not like any of the driving sims available for iPhone! The graphics are great on RealRacing, but the physics just are […]
April 13, 2015
Dear Senator or Congressman: Some years ago, living in a cheap apartment by my local airport, I wrote X-Plane, a flight simulator that has since grown […]
May 9, 2015
OK so a number of times when I have been flying N844X I have been flying along (usually climbing) and heard a sudden BANG! It is […]
May 20, 2015
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June 3, 2015
I am making a documentary about the United States Patent System. As part of my research, I have subscribed to a very low-cost service that shows […]
June 15, 2015
There is a pretty big argument going right now about Patent Trolls, and for many people, the fundamental point that it (very rightly) boils down to […]
July 9, 2015
As I have talked about Patent Trolling, many people have said that they just can not believe that it is really TRUE that lawyers just create […]
August 30, 2015
OK let’s look at what Patents are in the REAL WORLD. Space-X is currently building rockets that will soon be landing routinely on boats and other […]
August 31, 2015
Everybody always asks, and nobody ever understands, how the propeller beta and reverse models work in X-Plane. So here we go. Everything I am about to […]
September 2, 2015
We, at Laminar Research, are being sued by a company called Uniloc (just merged with a company called The Marathon patent Group) for putting X-Plane on […]