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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: 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: The Solitary Goose

Article: Return To Goose Bay

When I returned to Goose...

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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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Article: Icing Awareness

Ten years ago, the...

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

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Article: Retreads & Me

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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...

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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...

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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: 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: 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: 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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