Aviation History
Article: When Airplanes Collide: Avoiding The Unexpected
It’s ironic that most general aviation pilots consider a possible engine failure as their greatest fear.
Article: 30 Ways To Make Your Pilot Certificate Sizzle
I’m still amazed when I land. I sometimes sit in the cockpit, as the gyros wind down and the prop clicks to a stop, and wonder at the magic of it all. ...
Article: Piper Cub Heaven
On an overcast, humid June day, I top a high dike built to prevent the Susquehanna River from flooding William T. Piper Memorial airport.
Article: Launchpad Patrol
There appears to be a bank of sea fog rolling in off the Atlantic as we're cleared for a predawn takeoff on runway 09 at Titusville's Space Coast Executive Airport in Florida.
Article: A New Era Dawns: Electric Flight
Fantasy time: A shadow flashes across you as you walk toward the airport cafe.
Article: How Well Do You Know Your Airliners?
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.
Article: Robinson In The New Era
In American Indian lore, the coyote is a mythic totem, known variously as the prairie wolf, God’s dog and the trickster.
Article: Pilot Outlook 2010-2029: A Shortage Looms
Like the pendulum on a giant grandfather clock, the availability of aviation jobs goes back and forth in giant, lazy swings.
Article: Sebring 2011: Rays Of Hope Ahead?
The year’s first major aviation show, Florida’s U.S. Sport Aviation Expo, went off swimmingly, if a mite frigidly in January, with good attendance, thanks to show organizer Bob Woods and his friendly volunteers.
Article: Making History
Sixty miles northeast of Los Angeles, restricted airspaces R-2508 and R-2515 cover Rosamond Dry Lake, home of Edwards Air Force Base.
Article: The Last Time
Number One’s three-blade prop begins to turn-cough-turn. The engine whines, whines, then belches out clots of smoke as the big Wright Cyclone thunders to life. Joe Colmer, 93, feels the rumble through the metal seat.
Article: Gathering Of Mustangs
It’s perhaps the most iconic military airplane in t...
Article: Mar-Apr 2004 On The Radar
What began only a...
Article: 60 Years After
Paul Tibbets joined the Army Air Corps at ...
Article: The Aviation Storyteller
For Greg Herrick, collecting airplanes seems...
Article: The Odyssey Of Glacier Girl
1942: A flight of six P-38s and two B-17s departs Sondrestrom Fjord, Greenland, for Reykjavik, Iceland, on their way to the WWII European Theater of Operations as part of Operation Bolero. It’s an ambitious project, initiated by General Hap A...
Article: Howard Hughes
This past December 2004 marked the...
