Pilot Stories
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011 From Mountains To Deserts With massive tundra tires, a welded tubular steel fuselage frame and seating for five, the tailwheel version of Expedition Aircraft’s bushplane lives up to its formidable name: Bigfoot. |
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Flight Recorder For The Little GuyA partial solution to the flight-recorder problem that doesn’t cost a fortune I like to think pilots read accident reports out of a sense of self-preservation rather than ghoulish curiosity. |
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 Glass Versus Grass(roots)Mixing the extremes in aviation can be both fun and eye catching The contradictions between the Cirrus and my normal ride couldn’t have been more extreme if I had been in the space shuttle. |
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 Light-Sport Chronicles: 50 Years To SoloRounding the circle of life with the immortal Piper Club It’s the Babe Ruth of airplanes, the home-run standard against which we measure and judge all other airplanes whose company we’ll ever have the pleasure to keep. |
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 Midair Over The HudsonOne digit in a radio frequency might have made all the difference As a result of its investigation of the August 8, 2009, midair collision over the Hudson River, the NTSB says it’s time for the FAA to improve the information it offers to pilots about avoiding collisions. |
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 There And BackAround Australia, solo in a Jabiru I had long aspired to circumnavigate Australia, but time and opportunity had proved evasive until recently. |
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 I Did It!First solo in the Cessna Skycatcher LSA On a cool, crisp and calm October morning, I finally took my first solo flight. It was amazing! My journey to this point started almost three years before, in early 2007. |
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 SpaceShipTwo Takes OffIn as little as two years, private space flight may be a reality—and NASA won’t be I don’t know about you, but for me, flying in space has always been the ultimate goal. |
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 From The Editor: (Un)restricted It was still dark, and Van Nuys tower had just opened when we took off on runway 16R for a right downwind departure toward the Mojave Desert. |
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 Screen SaversSmall airports have personalities that big ones can’t hope to match Screen savers are a terrific invention—15-20 images of people, places and things that are dear to me rotate through mine like an automated scrapbook. |
