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Article: Harry

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Article: Singapore By Bonanza

He was...

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Article: Air Show Roundup: Sun 'n Fun 2009

In spite of lighter attendance than last year, the 2009 EAA Sun ’n Fun Fly-In drew an enthusiastic crowd to Lakeland, Fla., for the week’s festivities. ...

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Article: From The Editor: “Student Pilot, First Solo”

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Article: The Proposal

As a dating couple, Brian and I often had to be very creative about finding time to spend together since I’m an airline first officer and Brian is the operations coordinator for Team Oracle. In July 2007, we were happily anticipating a week off that w...

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Article: Should You Reset A Circuit Breaker?

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Article: Smoke On!

It’s hot in this race plane…even at 1,000 feet…or is it just me? My mouth is dry and my heart is racing as I watch the competitor before me twisting his way through the track. ...

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Article: CSI Insurance: Excogitations On LSA Crashes, Part Deux

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Article: Glass Half Empty?

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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: They’re Here, Now What?

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Article: The Country Pilot

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Article: From The Editor: Low & Slow

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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: More Than Monitoring

While I was...

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Article: The Right Way To The Left Seat

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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...

Also labeled: Aircraft Bargains, Buyer's Guide, Buying A Plane, Features, Finance, Journeys, Learning Center, LSAs, Sport Pilots

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: From the Editor: A Diamond For A Pilot’s Pilot

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Article: Personal Aviation At A Crossroads

Five years ago, the first special light-sport aircraft (S-LSA) received its airworthiness certificate, opening up a new chapter in the regulation of simple personal flight. More than 1,000 of these factory-built aircraft and more than 8,000 former...

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Article: Survivable Ditchings

Without...

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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

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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: From The Editor: From Dream To Reality

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