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Article: Icing Awareness

Ten years ago, the...

Also labeled: Accident Statistics, FAA Regulations, Features, Flight Hazards, In-Flight Emergencies, NTSB Reports, People and Places, Pilot Talk, Safety, Weather Flying, Weather Skills, Winter Weather

Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: Questions! So Many Questions!

Also labeled: Features, LSAs, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: Retreads & Me

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Article: Always The Weather

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Article: Entering A New Era

finfIt was one of those cool fall mornings with low, scudding clouds. The kind where you keep blowing on cold, damp hands while loading the airplane and glancing occasionally at the leaden skies, the north country’s harbinger of imminent seasonal c...

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk, Flight I'll Never Forget

Article: From The Editor: Milestones & New Beginnings

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Article: 2008 Reno Air Races

In 2001, “the year that never was,” I was part of the initial attempt to race jet airplanes in the Reno Air Races. In 200...

Also labeled: Features, Flight Hazards, Journeys, People and Places, Pilot Talk, Safety, Travel, Guest Speaker

Article: Parachute Jump Operations

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Article: Decision Shock? Poppycock!

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Article: Adventure Is In The Eye Of…

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Article: Renewal

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Article: Guest-Speaker: The Next Space Race

NASA....

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Article: The Master As Student

With his big rawboned hand almost...

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Article: Citizen Near Miss

Pilots have a lot in common. They’re detail-oriented. They like direct routing and a good deal. But, most of all, they love adventure and the chance to go somewhere that few have gone before, especially in an airplane. I’ve often stared at the circled...

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Article: Of Bachs & Ganns & Fabulous Words

If...

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Article: Glass-Cockpit Blackout

The NTSB doesn’t just investigate...

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Article: Memories Of Africa, Part VI

In response to what seems like a...

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Article: Tech Talk: Garmin G600 Glass Panel

Also labeled: Avionics, Buyer's Guide, Glass Cockpits, New Products, Pilot Gear, Pilot Supplies

Article: From The Editor: The Sky's Not The LImit

I first met Lina Borozdina at Oshkosh in 2005, when Richard Branson and Burt Rutan announced a joint venture between Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites to manufacture a fleet of suborbital spacecrafts intended for...

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Article: True Confessions

If aviation...

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Article: From The Arctic To The Tropics

It’s cold. It’s white. And it’s north. (Very north.) Underneath us...

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Article: Oshwatch!

In a recent attempt to scare myself about how old...

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Article: The Stearman That Changed Me

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Article: The Post-Oshkosh Blues

As this is being written, it’s 7:45 p.m. on the night that the happenings i...

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Article: Weather Encounters

There’s never b...

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Article: Ode To The Fast Lane

I...

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Article: Tech Talk: Spot Satellite Personal Tracker

Also labeled: Buyer's Guide, Handheld Gadgets, New Products, Pilot Gear, Pilot Supplies

Article: From The Editor: Zivko Edge Phone Home

“Spot Check OK. Latitude: 37.7445. Longitude: -97.224,” read a text message on my cell phone, and I knew that contributor Bill Stein had made it safely in his Edge 540 to Wichita, Kans.,...

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Article: From The Editor: No Sleep Till Touchdown

I’ll never forget the first cross-country flight that I was on. I sat left seat as we departed the Los Angeles Basin, headed north for the coastal hamlet of Shelter Cove, Calif. After reaching cruise altitude, my right-seat companion, who was the...

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Article: Waking Up To Fatigue

The FAA is paying renewed attention to human fatigue in...

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