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January 26, 2006

ANN's Daily Aero-Tips (01.26.06): Hung Starter

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Aircraft starters use a lot of electrical power. Because they are air-cooled (they do their work before the oil is flowing) they get very hot. If a starter runs for more than just a few seconds at a time, it will overheat—damaging the starter and possibly “starting” a fire.

Aero-Linx!

For those of you who believe SETI has already found something and our government is hiding it, here’s some links to Area 51 and Area 19 (you DO know about area 19, right?)

Airport Watch AOPA has partnered with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to develop a nationwide Airport Watch Program that uses the more than 650,000 pilots as eyes and ears for observing and reporting suspicious activity.

"You get on an airline, you think it's going to be regulated and safe... this accident was just a ticking time bomb. When I quit there, I quit because I [feared] that they would kill somebody." Source: Former Sonicblue pilot Shaun Crowe-Swords, on what he calls the airline's "atrocious" safety record in the time he flew for the Canadian regional carrier. Crowe-Swords cited a time he flew a Piper Navajo for the carrier, as oil literally poured from one of the engines, to the CanWest News Service. As was reported by Aero-News, one of the airline's Cessna 208 Caravans went down Saturday, killing thre