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Tuesday, June 21, 2011 From The Editor: Moving On Up As pilots, we're constantly looking to challenge ourselves and learn more about flying. |
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 How Well Do You Know Your Airliners?Aviation enthusiasts worth their salt should be able to tell an Airbus from a Boeing. Here are some telltale signs to help you distinguish. Determining aircraft types isn't as easy as it used to be, when seeing a hump on the front meant it was a 747, and three tail-mounted engines indicated you were in for a noisy 727 departure. |
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 Light-Sport Chronicles: The “Stork” Flies AgainCome fly this head-turning replica of a unique, notorious German warbird Weird, cool, authentic, bizarre, eccentric, spectacular: so begins my Adjective Hit Parade to describe the Criquet Storch. |
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 From The Editor: When Weather Gets In The Way Each cross-country flight is an adventure, but when things don't go as planned, it doesn't have to become a misadventure. |
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 Emergency Maneuver Training Changed My LifeWhy spins and unusual attitudes are good for all of us While working as a waitress at the local airport restaurant, I met and married the owner of CP Aviation, Clay Phelps. |
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 Light-Sport Chronicles: Scoping The NumbersFigures lie, and liars figure, even with LSA accident stats Every year about this time, I like to catch up with Mike Adams, the ever-helpful Vice President of Underwriting at Avemco Insurance Company, to take a gander at LSA accident trends. |
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 From The Editor: Cross-Country No matter how much you love to fly, 14 hours of flight in one day is a long time. That's how long it took Cirrus pilot Matt Bergwall and me to return to California from Sun 'n Fun. |
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 Light-Sport Chronicles: The Great LSA Tour, V. 1.0When the mountain won't come to you, fly to the mountain "If the mountain won’t come to Muhammad,” goes the ancient saying, “then Muhammad must go to the mountain.” |
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 From The Editor: Super Owner Michelle Kole wasn’t sure what kind of airplane she wanted to own. |
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Light-Sport Chronicles: Flight Of The NavigatorSmall and feisty companies like 3Xtrim challenge conventional market wisdom 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. |
