Comments for Project 7 Alpha

Comment on I went flying with my Daughter yesterday. by Chip

Chip — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:47:13 +0000

Thanks LaVonne;
Just got back from Pensacola, flew my little machine down for a vacation. chip

Comment on I went flying with my Daughter yesterday. by bornfamous

bornfamous — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:12:20 +0000

There’s nothing better than time spent teaching our children about the things we love. Thanks for this beautiful little story. Makes me smile.

Comment on To my readers: Back to the love of flight! by Chip

Chip — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:58:56 +0000

Hi Rick;

I will still do the industry/safety/crew comment posts. They will just be on a different site; brokenwing.tv it has a link here on 7A at the top. I thought the content more appropriate there. Brokenwing LLC was incorporated last year; all of the side stuff I have been doing finally started gaining so much momentum I had to divide my company for tax and liability reasons.

Brokenwing recently landed a large contract for a documentary; it is still under wrap at this time but hopefully more will be announced this summer. We have already generated follow on projects and thus with splitting my company I also started a new website for it.

Long/short: originally this site was started to get my book out there and as a site dedicated to the love of flight. I’m currently on my fourth book, and as they are published will tie this site to them.

My interest in aviation (and side jobs) caused me to move 7A away from it’s initial purpose, getting my book publicity and generating sales. In fact recently my IT manager, LaVonne, pointed out the more hits I got the fewer books I sold. In flight test the in-disputable “one for one correlation”!

So we decided to move everything but the literature and “Sea Stories” to the proper place, brokenwing.tv. Project7alpha.com will be for those who want to read about flying, especially historically based from the cockpit articles.

Everything else, including new stuff on aviation in the entertainment industry and more on flight test written by my partners, will be moved to brokenwing.tv an easy click away.

As a successful businessman yourself you know you have to target your audience. I hope you like both sites. chip

Comment on To my readers: Back to the love of flight! by Rick

Rick — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:22:23 +0000

Chip,
It’s a bit difficult to understand your change in direction here. I for one, and I think others, appreciated your opining on current events in aviation, particularly as it concerned aviation safety. Your dialogue regarding aircraft, airline practices, crew behavior, and convergence of inicidents leading to catastrphic incidents has been very informative. It appears you may be going in a different direction….so we’ll wait to see what that is and comment later when there is something to comment about. We wish you the very best with your ongoing efforts and interest in the momentum of Project7Alpha blog. Best,
Rick

Comment on Poland’s Presidential Crash: who really is at fault? by Chip

Chip — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:11:13 +0000

Hi Rick;
I suspect the cockpit voice recorder will also be released. I’ve been real busy working on a project I can’t talk about just yet. But it will be very interesting I promise. Thanks for continuing to read my site. chip

Comment on Poland’s Presidential Crash: who really is at fault? by Rick

Rick — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:09:41 +0000

Chip, Great, timely post. I was hoping you would comment on this incident. If Poland is such a great Democracy, the pilot should have had the onions to tell the President to back off. I am betting the Russians will release the ATC tapes.
Very intersting “added value” story as well.
Rick

Comment on Fly by wire; Airbus and now Toyota by Chip

Chip — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:08:52 +0000

Rick;
I think the real problem is arrogance. I saw the “father” of fly by wire interviewed on TV once. His selective memory and level of arrogance was staggering. No mention of the thousands that died because of his system. Just the standard engineer anti-pilot rant.

They do NOT fully understand interference amoung components; that is why they have you turn off every thing in the cabin. In flight test the first thing we would do; step one in a test program, was to hang the new device, pod, weapon whatever, and turn everything on. Just to see what would happen, many times systems would be effected. First you had fighters, then airliners and now cars. How do you get an electromagnetically sterile environment driving around any city in the world? You don’t. Cell towers, radio stations, TV, radar, etc, etc.

Thinking back to when I was flying over Bosnia one of the things that caused us head aches way back in the day was the automatic doors at grocery stores. It caused our software to ID an airborne threat.

Comment on Fly by wire; Airbus and now Toyota by Rick

Rick — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:24:08 +0000

Chip, Wow….that is a terrific idea! Work out the solution and you could sell it to them! I ran into a lot of problems a few days ago on a cross country with a new Cessna172SP with a G1000 all glass panel. The autopilot really worked against me because it was slaved to the G1000…which can have it’s own problems. I decided it was “inop” in my opinion and never used it again in a 6 hour journey. I worry alot about all these electronics. If I can lose a $500 Blackberry just because it was in the “vicinity” of a shower, there’s too much vulnerability with electronics in our world and in our future. Just my humble opinion. It is one reason I avoid airbus flying.

Comment on Continental CEO will cancel flights before fines by Chip

Chip — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:30:44 +0000

Hi Ruben; how have you been? It is indeed refreshing to see the truth.

Comment on Continental CEO will cancel flights before fines by Ruben Alconero

Ruben Alconero — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:05 +0000

Awesome, glad at least one CEO has the spunk to say it how it is.