The Great Ongoing Aviation Thread (general and other) (Part 1)

Here’s a fresh Dope topic that might be of interest to this audience:

I haven’t fiddled with it … yet.


As to airshows: Been a long time since I’ve been to one, or to a fly-in. Too long. My late wife was non-flying USAF and interested in airplanes. But it’s been a dozen-plus years now since she was last healthy enough to want to spend a day wandering around an airport in the sun. Subsequent ex-wives and ex-GFs weren’t into airplanes.

Airshows are not rare around here. The truly amazing SUN 'n FUN Aerospace Expo - Lakeland, FL is about 200 miles one way from me. But it’s a 6-day shindig, so the driving isn’t too disproportionate. If one could withstand 6 days of concentrated GA. Or more like if one’s SO could.

My current GF worked for the airlines in a non-flying role and is a bit of a plane nut. I think airshows are part of my near future. Yaay!