Letters

Have anyone of you any concerns about the Yakima Airport in Washington State and the big new office development along the departure end of the flight path? I think the airport manager is more interested in getting revenue for renting the airport property than in what the sound of airplanes will do when the offices […]

NOT MY KIND OF NEIGHBOR I am a pilot, aircraft owner, aviation enthusiast and member of EAA, but from what I’ve read about this issue (New Jacksonville law targets homebuilder in Florida city, Sept. 8 issue), I don’t think I would want Mr. Kraut living next door to me, either. John Bradberry Sulphur Springs, Texas

GOOD ADVICE I would like to commend your publication and give a special thanks to Paul McBride, who gave me good technical advice regarding the storage of a Lycoming engine in my Piper. JOE CASEY Prior Lake, Minn.

THANKS TO REGAL AIR Many, many thanks to Regal Air for once again welcoming those of us who had to evacuate our planes from Harvey Airfield to Paine. We were greeted at the tarmac and directed to tie-downs. Some of us were even given a ride back to Harvey in one of Regal’s vans. This […]

TWO ENGINES ARE BETTER THAN ONE With regard to Richard Greene’s comment about why he decided to purchase the single engine D-JET (Why I decided to buy a D-JET, Nov. 3 issue), I would like to point out that I have personally deflated the Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) specs for turbine engines over the […]

FAA EFFICIENCY? To Charles Spence: I’m sure your Capital Comments column (Fair is fair? FAA, airlines continue blitz for user fees, Nov. 17 issue) went to press before the story by AOPA came out in its internet newsletter on Nov. 24. You know the one where it was pointed out that the FAA had almost […]

Well, Tom, I learned a couple of things (I’m almost 60 and started flying in 1965) from your article “Old School Flying.” 1. I never knew it was illegal to prop an airplane. 2. I’d never heard of the crank in the middle of a Piper instrument panel. Back in the 1960s, we had a […]

Your article on “Old School Flying” in the Oct. 20 issue was great! You know my affinity for the classic airplanes so this article really hit home. I went with a friend to pick up a new Legend Cub and fly it home a few months ago and it was a fun trip, flying low […]

I was reading your editorial (Knee jerks: The selling of fear in America, Nov. 3 issue) with interest and approval until the part about populists and socialist media – then I sort of choked. It is true that most of our fellow aviators are wildly conservative, and love to hear generalizations about socialist media, but […]