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Don't touch my junk!!

I still enjoy my Air Classics subscription. It usually does not annoy me the way FLYING used to. I also still, as a member, get AOPA Pilot - in spite of the fact that AOPA was on the wrong side of the recent efforts by UNC-CH to build a new "public" airport in Orange Co, NC. (AOPA was on the "let's secretly lobby a deal in the state legislature that none of the actual citizens of the county will know about in time.")

My only real disappointment with O'Leary and Air Classics was the time, several years ago, that they had a gorgeous color print of a wartime USCG Grumman Goose (JRF-2 or JRF-3) on the Title or Table of Contents page of the magazine. I wrote to "moleary" and asked him if an unmolested (by print on top of it) copy was available that would be suitable for framing. I explained that I was interested because of my association with Gooses via Antilles Seaplanes. He said "sure" and then I never heard anything else from him.

FLYING on the other hand used to annoy me regularly and so I had to cancel my subscription - in order to keep my blood pressure within 2nd class medical standards. It always used to burn me up that Richard Collins got paid (again) to reprint pilot reports that he wrote 20 years earlier. He'd add some used aircraft prices from the Vref aircraft "blue book" and call it a "used aircraft report." Apparently, such used aircraft were always as pristine and perfect as the day they rolled off the assembly line and mention was NEVER made of any kind of problem. Airworthiness Directives? Never heard of them.

The biggest spat I got into with Collins regarded some very uninformed comments that he made in regard to the 270 hp Lycoming TIO-540-AF1A engines that were (are? most have probably been replaced with -AF1B versions) installed in Mooney M20M TLS series aircraft. Apparently, Collins had heard that Navajo Chieftains have 350 hp TIO-540 engines, so he stated that the engines in the Mooney would last forever (or something to that effect) since they operated at reduced power compared to the Chieftain engines, "derated" as they are from 350 hp.

If he had bothered to read the TC (E14EA) for the Lycoming TIO-540 series engines, he'd have found out that those two versions have nothing in common. (Other than TC No.) In fact, the -AF1A series is derived from the -C1A series (250 hp) used on Turbo Aztecs. Guess what? They're not "derated" - they are boosted and work harder than their predecessor variants. The -C1A and the -AF1A are of the lower power "parallel valve" cylinder head configuration and the 350 hp TIO-540-J2BD engines have the "angled valve" cylinder heads - among other significant differences.

The only things actually shared in common between the AF1A and the J2BD are the TC number (E14EA), their total CID (541.5) and Lycoming gray paint.

Collins also used to whine that the TSIO-520 in his Cessna P210 never made it to TBO. I suggested that based on my many years of engine overhaul experience (repair station) his choice of using Phillips X/C multi-grade oil was not the best and that our experience showed superior results with AeroShell straight weight oils in turbo engines in particular. He wouldn't hear of it; his Phillips oil was not the problem and neither was his habit of leaning the turbo engine lean of peak. The book said it was OK, so he was going to do it - regardless of the fact that his engines never made it to TBO.

You couldn't tell him a darn thing. Apparently, he already knew everything there was to know.

Well, enough of a rant. To get back on topic, apparently many of you think highly of Warbird Digest. I'll have to check it out for myself. Thanks for the tip.

Since we're on the question of magazines...
Anyone know about "Airtime Publishing's International Air power review" ?
(those grey books that sometimes were at news stands, that came quarterly
or so?) I had a subscription, I think I received items through issue #25
or so and I think that was it.. I was watching for a renewal notice but I
don't think I got one.. and it seems to have gone away? Their website is
back on issue 21 or so.. and very outdated.. I tried email and phone with
no answer... I enjoyed the magazine, and even its predecessor the
red classics version for wwII planes...

Anyone know anything?

hh

ps. and no, it didn't turn up in the search link gary pointed out.. ..

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"The best way to control the future is to create it".

You might want to re subscribe. Collins has been gone for a bout a year now. His column is gone, his airplane has been scrapped and I haven't seen any articles at all lately. He said his farewell.

John

I remember some of his faithful followers calling for his 210 to be placed on display at the Smithsonian

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Don't touch my junk!!

How about we trade that historic 210 for a certain F-82, that as sad as it sounds, would look better with a tramp stamp on it.............

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Matt Gunsch, A&P, IA, Warbird maint and restorations
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Lynn