Uncontrolled Airspace
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"Miss Steery" UCAP418

How to not shoot your prop off... Columbian airliner may have run out of gas... US Major Airlines reach milestone... Cool AirVenture 2016 announcement... Remembering John Glenn... We (mostly) like the FAA... This and more in Uncontrolled Airspace. Recorded December 10, 2016.

Posted: 2016-12-23 | Recorded: 2016-12-10

• You'll Shoot Your Prop Off! Jack ponders the mechanism that allowed WWI fighters to shoot through the prop arc. (00:00:11)
  • Sometimes also called a Synchronization Gear
• High-tech Fuel Gauges More conversation on simple mechanical methods found in aviation (00:06:40)
  • Champ fuel float
  • Panel mounted sight gauge
• Intros and Chit Chat (00:11:20)
• Tragedy in Columbia LaMia Flight 2933 goes down in the mountains. The boys discuss this and other examples of fuel exhaustion crashes. (00:14:00)
  • Avianca Flight 52 crash
  • Varig Flight 254
• Speaking of Airline Safety: It's very good in the U.S., according to Patrick Smith of "Ask the Pilot" (00:22:05)
  • The last crash of a U.S. mainline passenger flight: American Airlines Flight 587
  • The last crash of any mainline passenger flight in the U.S.: Asiana Flight 214 crash at SFO
  • The last crash of a U.S. mainline cargo flight: UPS Flight 1354 crash in Birmingham Alabama
• Oshkosh Blues! EAA and the U.S. Navy announce the Blue Angels to fly at OSH17 (00:25:35)
  • EAA's video announcement
  • Blue Angels 2017 schedule at Milavia.net
  • SUNnFUN International Fly-In Expo
  • AERO Friedrichshafen
  • Aviation Electronics Association Expo 2017
  • Helicopter Association International Expo
• The Hurricane Hunters are Coming! NOAA to move staff and fleet to Lakeland (00:29:40)
  • NOAA Hurricane Hunters Aircraft Operations
  • Thanks to AirportDude in the Forums
• Godspeed John Glenn Last of the Mercury 7 astronauts has gone west. (00:34:10)
  • John Glenn's NASA bio
• Foaming at the Ramp More airport sliming from fire suppression systems. (00:39:45)
  • Video of suppression foam tests, accidental discharge, hull firefighting
• Bad Boyz, Air Cav, and the FAA - our Favorite Aviation Administration
• Shout Outs
  • Rod Rakic and the folks at OpenAirplane - 100 Participating Rental Locations in the US!

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