Aviation Safety

Tom George, AOPA  Fall has firmly arrived along with hunting season in most of Alaska.  Figuring out if the weather is good enough to fly, while always an important question, becomes a little more critical with the shorter days, cooler temperatures, and whatever else Mother Nature decides to throw at us.  Here are a few…

By Bernie Willis  How many times can you bend a paperclip before it breaks?  Does it matter if it’s a large or small clip?  If you bend it fast or slow? What you do know, is that it will break sooner or later.  Most of the materials in our aircraft have a fatigue life.  That’s…

By William Fell We all know that the soft iron of our engine cylinder walls rusts easily… And after our engines sit through months tied to the ground and not flown, rust accumulation occurs and mostly on the low side of the cylinder wall. Come spring and start up, the rings scrape away the rust…