Letters

I believe Paul McBride may have given some bad advice regarding not pulling the prop through on engines that are not being used regularly (“Ask Paul: Prepare your plane for winter,” Nov. 9 issue). Unless Teledyne Continental Motors changed its policy recently, it “requires” the prop be pulled through every seven days or the warranty […]

Can someone please help? I know of a crashed American DC-3 in the jungles of New Guinea and wish to know where we might find the plate with the manufacturer’s details and the aircraft serial number. If we know the aircraft number we hope to trace the crew and its family members in the USA. […]

We are restoring a 1946 BC-12D Taylorcraft and need a glare shield — the panel over the fuel tank that the windshield sits on and is connected to the instrument panel. If you can give us any help in finding this panel it will be greatly appreciated. NANCY MILWRICK, MANAGER Flying M Ranch Airport Lincoln, […]

In Letters to the Editor of your Oct. 19 issue, Lou Drendal commented on Meg Godlewski’s article about the 35-ship formation at Oshkosh in your Aug. 24 issue (“The largest OSH formation?”). He suggested that I was “not even close to correct” when I said it “was the largest formation ever at Oshkosh.” He cited […]

IF SEEING IS NOT ENOUGH Pilots will tell me that I cannot believe my own eyes, and that planes overhead are much higher than they appear from the ground. I have found that difficult to swallow, so I have fallen back on what I know to be true – trigonometry. If I observe a plane […]

I sure enjoyed your article on my home airport, Falcon Field (“What’s in your hangar? Officials at Arizona airport crack down on inappropriate uses,” Oct. 19 issue). The hangar leasing situation there has been a mess for many years, due to a network of “good ol’ boys” who repeatedly skirted the rules. Corinne has been fighting […]

Re: What’s in your hangar? I read your article in GANews and the same thing happened in Vernal, Utah, this summer. The whole thing resulted in a giant conflict with pilots, hangar owners and renters. The airport manager wanted to search hangars, which he could because the land is owned by the county. However, at […]

[Editor’s Note: This letter was sent to Sen. Max Baucus (D-Montana), initially.] I am writing in reference to the proposed new U.S. Customs and Border Protection rules per NPRM USCBP-2007-0064. These rules would be very burdensome, costly and impractical. It is obvious the author(s) have never flown a small airplane out of or back into […]

The article about the Mustangs and Legends was very good and enjoyable to read (“Gathering of Mustangs and Legends, Where World War II airplanes and pilots met again,” Oct. 19 issue). I attended the air show and it was probably the best all-around air show I have visited in a long time. It was well […]