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Article: Traveling By “Corporate” Airplane

I’ve owned personal airplanes almost since I earned my pilot’s license 43 years ago. I didn’t buy my first airplane, a Globe Swift, specifically for business (in fact, I don’t recall ever flying it in conjunction with a story), but most of the half-do...

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Article: The Country Pilot

Also labeled: Features, Flying Skills, Learning Center, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Safety, Tailwheels

Article: Protecting Kenya’s National Parks

I often wear a little leather choker with two bronze elephant tusks. I picked it up a few years ago in a Nairobi gallery called Matt Bronze, and it reminds me of the wild things that still live in Kenya.

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Article: Logging Time In The World’s Largest Airliner

I’m sitting in the pilot’s seat of an Airbus A380 surrounded by 10 flat-panel displays and more switches than I can describe. It’s the world’s largest airliner, and its size is staggering.

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Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: CSI Insurance: Excogitations On LSA Crashes, Part 1

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Article: Early-Morning Cockpits

As I was...

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Article: Why Retract?

My first airplane was a retractable, but it was sometimes hard to tell. It was a purely stock 1946 Globe Swift GC1B, and while the main wheels would retract—eventually—there often seemed to be little effect on performance. Though the airplane was a cut...

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Article: Ownership Made Easy

This...

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Article: 53 Years Later

I’m 77 and hold a commercial pilot license and an instrument rating. I’ve filled four logbooks. As a child, I made balsa-wood and tissue-paper airplanes. As a teen, I made gas U-Control model airplanes, and I used to ride my bike to the airport...

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Article: Profiles In Vision: Tom Peghiny

I like employing people and...

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Article: Return To Goose Bay

When I returned to Goose...

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Article: Sport Pilot Daze

Also labeled: Features, Flying Skills, Getting Your License, Jobs and Schools, Learn To Fly, Learning Center, LSAs, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Sport Pilots

Article: Pleasure, Pain & Southern Hospitality

Skylane 250CW, cleared to land, runway two seven.” Those words marked the start of my anniversary weekend in historic Savannah, Ga. The VFR flight to Savannah from Lawrenceville, Ga., on the morning of August 1, 2008, was smooth and uneventful, as was m...

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Article: Fly-In Dining Grows Up

Few...

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Article: Retreads & Me

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Article: Always The Weather

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Article: Johnson Creek: Backcountry Fly-In Mecca

Also labeled: Aviation Photography, Features, People and Places, Taildraggers, Travel

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...

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Article: Plane Living

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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: Memories Of Africa, Part VI

In response to what seems like a...

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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: Space Flight For Sale

While most little children...

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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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