So, this site has been very busy during this time. Because of this especially the top ten at the top of the page might stay the same for awhile simply because of how much traffic they have seen.
When you have a website like this one you never really know what makes your website viral. However, one interesting thing is this article:reprint of: Drones very small to large
is now the most read article of all time at this site.
For a really long time this article was the most read of all time:
Cessna 152
Then this article rose to the top around this time last year I believe:
Anthropogenic effects:Human impact on the environment:Wikipedia
This last article was amazing how universally the appeal of this article was for months worldwide. Because of my stats page I can watch where people are reading around the world and nothing was more universal in taste than this one.
- reprint of: Drones very small to large
- Anthropogenic effects:Human impact on the environment:Wikipedia
- The ultra-lethal drones of the future | New York Post 2014 article
Cessna 152
One of the reasons Cessna 152 was popular so long was that I soloed in 1987 in one and I have also flown many other planes during my life like a Piper Tri-pacer, a Grumman Cheetah, a Stinson and other planes along the way.
Though the first plane I was allowed to fly I was 8 in Santa Fe I didn't take the plane off but only was allowed to pilot it after takeoff and only then at a certain altitude. So, I was told to keep the plane at that altitude but that I could fly anywhere I wanted to as long as I kept the same altitude so I did.
I was about 10 or 12 years old the next time I was allowed to pilot a plane and we were flying from Yucca Valley where my father's best friend owned 2 1/2 acres with a cabin on it in towards Los Angeles to Encino Airport.
He taught me while flying along Interstate 10 north of Palm Springs to 'Crab into the wind' because if I flew straight ahead in the cross wind we would have been blown into San Gorgonio mountain at 11,000 plus feet and crash because we were only 5,000 to 7,000 feet I believe then while flying.
So, crabbing into the wind is a way to move where you want to go in a cross wind without crashing sideways into a mountain or other plane. So, you head the plane 1/4 turn into the wind but you are still flying where you want to go. But, the stronger the wind the more you have to crab into it. Otherwise you will be so far off course you will be in trouble or you will crash sideways into a nearby mountain. You have to look at the ground below you to make sure you aren't still going sideways while you do this. So, in this sense flying a plane in a cross wind is more like sailing a boat in the ocean than anything else.
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