Comfort/noun:
A state of physical ease and freedom from pain or constraint.
The easing or alleviation of a person’s feelings of grief or …
Contrails
Browse Contrails, the end piece of the magazine, where youâll discover unique voices from pilots who reflect on the inner details of flying life and find deeper meaning in what it means to be a pilot
Terror In The Flare
Like life, flying delivers roiling mixtures of expectations vs. outcomes that drive and nurture learning, improving, failing, winning, hoping, striving …
Observation Dreams
11:50 a.m. Wind nearly straight down the runway, from 150 at 25, gusting to 31. Visibility, 10 miles …
Proceed To PANIC
I remember the early days, staring at a paper Twin Cities sectional, dreaming about places I still might go.
Leave …
Of Pancakes And Planes
Breakfast, it would seem, is the preferred way to celebrate the Fourth of July in these parts. The firemen put …
Call Of The Heart
It was a desolate and alien place, looking more like a photo from Mars than any place that could be …
All Joy
Curt Brickman is 57 years old. When I meet him, he’s wearing jeans, hiking shoes and a dark blue …
Ravens
I’ve been fascinated by the flight of birds since I was a child. I’m hardly the first young …
Radio Flyer
The weather is not good tonight. Here at the Dakota border, the real temperature is 22 degrees below zero, wind …
Ways & Means
Life-changing moments form memories in vivid Technicolor. That’s how I remember the moment that changed my life.
The …
Finding Page
Imagine a wonderful day for flying. Clear sky and just enough wind to keep things stable and fun. Harvest time …