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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
May 20, 2015
[iframe width=”640″ height=”360″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/NbyW_QS8Ef8″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen][/iframe] See more stories from people fighting paten trolls at TrollFighter.com.
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 […]
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 […]