A Flight I'll Never Forget

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Take in unique flying experiences as told by our authors. Unforgettable Flights will take you inside the cockpits of fighter jets, on board legendary aircraft, and to spectacular locations around the globe.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011 Pressure’s On...Or Is It? Diving into the aerobatic box for the first time It's 95 degrees, and sweat is dripping down my face. The box suddenly seems impossibly small.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011 Sharing General Aviation The $418 hamburger that was well worth it Working for Uncle Sam in Naples, Italy, prevents me from often seeing my family in the U.S.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011 Destination Unclear A solo adventure in the Alaska bush The little Piper PA-22 lifts off in a fraction of the runway at Council (K29), 60 miles east-northeast of Nome in western Alaska.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 Always A Student Reflections of a first solo flight, thousands of hours later Would today be the day? I had been taking lessons for several weeks, and I knew that one day soon, my instructor Andy would get out of the airplane, and let me fly solo. I had even worn a special T-shirt for the last three lessons, with the hope that each time, I would get to solo.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Canada By Cub A teenager’s 3,000 nm solo journey from the Yukon to Quebec I’m the kind of guy who’s not scared to try new things. When I would fly my RC plane, I always thought how nice it would be to sit behind the controls and have freedom.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011 There And Back Around Australia, solo in a Jabiru I had long aspired to circumnavigate Australia, but time and opportunity had proved evasive until recently.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 Puerto Rico To Provo More than three decades later, a dream comes true At age 34, I added a flying trip to my dream list. It was a fly-in of 20 planes to Providenciales (nicknamed “Provo”) in the Turks and Caicos, an archipelago of nearly 49 islands and desert cays just 35 miles southeast of the Bahamas.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010 Where General Aviation Shines The rewards of sharing flight with loved ones Shortly after getting my pilot’s license in 1992, I took all of my family members up, one at a time, for an aerial tour of Jacksonville, Fla.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010 Open-Cockpit Chills Bitter temperatures and a race against time It was discovered last September that my open-cockpit biplane, a Starduster Too, needed an engine overhaul.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010 Taking Command Of Your First Plane The Bellanca that could not be resisted It started at Disneyland, holding my daughter Elena’s hand, when my cell phone rang.

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