Uncontrolled Airspace Episode #262 "A Fine Time to Leave Me Loose Wheel"

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Auto vs. Boeing crash… Chart data to move behind paywall?… Odd Chopper crash. Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Podcast. Recorded November 15, 2011

Jeb Burnside, Dave Higdon, Jack Hodgson

Direct link to mp3 audio file of show (right-click to download/save).

• Ramp Rash: Airport van hits parked plane in China
  • Jack's Archer vs. Jeep story
  • Dave's Tale of the Too-Tall Gator
• Intros and Chit-Chat
  • The first guest intro: Royce Ehrle
• Live from the Palazzo: Jack's Vegas view
• Tip o' the Wing: Jim Greenwood, Gone West
  • Jim's citation from 2004 Kansas Aviation Honor Awards (scroll down)
  • Oral History: Jim Greenwood YouTube interviews
• Bargain Bird? Dave likes a Navion, but Jeb has doubts…
  • Trade-A-Plane search on "Navion" (Dave's 1946 Navion listing was gone)
• You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Loose Wheel! Dash 8 loses wheel on takeoff.
• Burt Can't Stop designing… Burt Rutan designing "combination wing ship and seaplane" in his retirement.
• No Chart Data for You! FAA to charge companies, deny individual access
  • Petition FAA to reverse this policy on whitehouse.gov
• OFLOTW: All walk away from helicopter's "hard landing". apparently with only minor injuries.
  • The aircraft rolled on landing, and was destroyed in a subsequent fire.
  • NTSB Preliminary Accident Report
• UCAP Listener Survey! Please take it (once…) Survey Link
• It's a Car! It's a Plane! It's a UCAP listener who works for Terrafugia!
• Shout Outs
  • Steve Nusbaum, for “flying the airplane” while having a heart attack. Sadly he has passed.
  • Bill Doty, 2011 Hidden River spot landing winner
  • UCAP listeners who attended the UCAP meetup at Barnes (KBAF) on 11/5/11 )and to the cool military aircraft that were there!)
  • Petition to reverse nav-charts data paywall. (see story/link above)
  • Civil Air Patrol, 70 years old on December 1!

• Guest Intro: Royce Ehrle
• Guest Disclaimer: Michael Clark
• Closing Theme: “Sledgeflattener”, Thomas Dolby

Episode 262 Timeline