June 9, 2021
OK, this is just plain funny. So I’m sitting here going thru my email while I work, same as always, and I get this slightly-panicked email about […]
June 4, 2021
================================================================================ THIS REPORT ================================================================================ I have learned some things about how ice affects aircraft performance from studying the loss of N515DL, a Lancair Evolution recently lost […]
May 12, 2021
Patent Trolling’s twin: Copyright trolling I’ve covered Patent Trolling in some detail in the movie The Patent Scam. Today I’ll briefly go over a variation on […]
December 17, 2020
I drive a Tesla Model 3 Performance Edition and my wife a Tesla Model S. My car goes 0 to 60 in 3.5 seconds, which is […]
March 23, 2020
And now the Patent Trolls are coming after those trying to test for Corona Virus. So I was just interviewed on Patent Trolling on the Jordan […]
March 4, 2020
Hello! Some People Will Desperately Claim Anything to Deny Reality and Cling to Obsolete Prejudice. And here’s an example: Someone named Jason Baker recently wrote a blog […]
February 2, 2020
As we know, various real aircraft (including Air France 447 and now two Boeing 737s) have been lost due to simple failure of pitot static or […]
November 13, 2019
AVOID KANNAD ELTS! This is more of a pilot warning than an adventure. When N844X was built we dropped in a KANNAD ELT (Emergency Locator Transmitter) […]
November 10, 2019
The Pratt and Whitney PT6-42 engine makes 850 hp at sea level, and it just keeps dishing out that huge torque even at high altitude where […]
October 23, 2019
N844X is just not as fast as it used to be. Suddenly, my engine temperature is running 70 degrees C higher, my gas turbine is spinning […]
April 25, 2019
OK so one of the hardest things to do in civilian aviation is the instrument approach. The FAA lined up a bunch of fixes to each […]
April 24, 2019
I just got this from a customer named Adrian Clayton recently regarding FlyThisSim: Dear Austin, I hope you are well. Your name is ubiquitous with flying […]
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 […]
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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]