Photographer Ken Tape continues his quest across the Yukon aboard a 1947 Piper PA-12 ski aircraft, this time clamping down vice grips to prevent an hydraulic fluid leak before chasing after a pack of stray (but professional) dogs.

Spud Gun Fuel Crisis, Solved
Here at PM we’ve been playing with spudguns, those armaments of the starch-loving, in which a Yukon gold is blasted from a homemade cannon at hundreds of miles an hour. These are flex-fuel munitions: they use anything from Static Guard to hairspray, but Right Guard has always been a spudgunning favorite. Several versions of the spray-on antiperspirant contain propane-or at least they did. A few days ago, however, I went to four different ammo shops (i.e. drug stores), reading Right Guard labels, and didn’t find a single one with propane. More research discovered four facts. One, Right Guard stopped using propane several months ago.

Band of Gypsies: Aerotrekking Across the Arizona Desert
The days here start early. I’m up at 3:30 a.m. on my first morning with this areotrekking crew-which goes by the name Sky Gypsies-and out to the hangar near Tucson, Ariz., at 4 a.m. to preflight the vehicles. Here, in June, kite wing pilots fly early and fly late: Searing midday heat in the Southwest produces thermals-sudden updrafts that can lead to dust devils and sand storms. Glider pilots hunt for those pockets of lift, which hoist them like elevators. But as the heated air shoots upward, it grinds and tumbles along the ground, creating scary conditions for anyone soaring a few feet off the deck, as kite wing pilots are want to do. And that’s where we intend to be.

Game of the Day | Hopeful Yankees take step forward
Hoping to begin a long climb back into the AL East race, the New York Yankees took a crucial step in the right direction Monday night. Alex Rodriguez homered for… Manual lawn mowers making a comeback Manual lawn mowers, long the 98-pound weaklings of the tool shed, are pushing their way, or, […]

An insightful insider s look at Warren Zevon
Even by rock-star standards, Warren Zevon was an Exhibit A crash case waiting to happen (”trouble waiting to happen” was a typical Zevon lyric). Scholarships for Military Children Scholarship, scholarships, military, military children, military kids, scholarships for military The Scholarships for military Children Program was created to recognize the contributions of […]

Child injured in fall from apartment window
The seattle Fire Dept. says the toddler was missing for about an hour before she was discovered in a flower bed below the window of the apartment on Delridge Way SW. Monsoon Wedding Monsoon Wedding Monsoon Wedding is a return to form for Mira Nair, director of 1988’s Salaam Bombay! […]

Titusville workshop scheduled - trap-recovery plan
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