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 […]
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 […]
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: […]
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! […]
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 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 7, 2015
So I am spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees and years of my life trying to prove that Uniloc did not invent a […]
February 1, 2015
My favorite session at the old Mac-Hack computer programming conventions I used to go to was called “Don’t Do This It Doesn’t Work”. It was a […]
January 11, 2015
What if you took an 850-hp Pratt and Whitney PT-6a Turbine and put it on a 100% carbon-fiber airframe? What would happen? Well, this: A 5,000+ […]
January 5, 2015
Recently I have pretty much stopped watching fiction as it is largely a waste of time. We certainly don’t find out what is going on in […]
November 18, 2014
A B-17 bomber goes flying over my house so I run out the local airport to see it. Turns out you can buy a ticket for a […]
September 20, 2014
So it turns out that chimps are still being used for medical research. Why care? Certainly, they are often MADE sick and GIVEN diseases, for simply for […]
August 5, 2014
“Whatever goes wrong with tomorrow’s flight, it WON’T be access to data.” These were among my last words to my wife that evening as I settled […]
March 7, 2014
Is this an adventure? No. But I am publishing it anyway, because I care. (And I will never eat at Jimmy-Johns… I would rather go hungry) […]
December 18, 2013
X-Plane has done well enough for me to pay my bills, so now I am giving the extra back. Here are some of the projects that […]