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Article: The Nature Of Clouds

In my part of the sky—at least, the part I watch most often—we don't see many clouds.

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

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.

Also labeled: Adventure Aircraft, Adventure Flying, Aviation Careers, Aviation History, Aviation Personalities, Aviation Resources, Careers, Features

Article: The Journey Or The Destination?

Air shows are magnificent aerial productions. Performers travel from far to put on a display of skill, showmanship and passion for aviation. ...

Also labeled: Adventure Flying, Features, Flying Outside The U.S., Journeys, People and Places, Pilot Resources, Shows and Fly-Ins

Article: There And Back

I had long aspired to circumnavigate Australia, but time and opportunity had proved evasive until recently.

Also labeled: Columns, Features, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk

Article: Relentless Loses Prop!

When the propeller departed his Relentless 42 race plane, pilot Kevin Eldredge kept his cool and landed safely.

Article: Lessons Learned Part 2

After earning my private pilot’s license in Alaska in 1980, I wasn’t sure what was next. I loved to fly.

Also labeled: Adventure Flying, Aerobatics, Aviation Careers, Backcountry Flying, Bush Flying, Getting Your License, Journeys, Learn To Fly, Learning Center, Navigation, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk, Weather Flying, Winter Weather

Article: Lessons Learned Part 1

My first flight lessons might have been different than yours, but as with all pilots, those early experiences are still tattooed in my mind. ...

Also labeled: Adventure Flying, Aerobatics, Aviation Careers, Backcountry Flying, Bush Flying, Getting Your License, Journeys, Learn To Fly, Learning Center, Navigation, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk, Weather Flying, Winter Weather

Article: Airpark Living: Waking Up To Your Dream

If you’re serious about flying, at some point your dreams have wandered to airparks.

Also labeled: Aviation Resources, Best Buys, Buyer's Guide, Buying A Plane, Decision Making, Features, Journeys, Learning Center, Ownership, People and Places

Article: An Aviator’s Best Friend

Fifty years ago, I stood at the edge of space and jumped. This year, Felix Baumgartner of Austria plans to make a jump from the edge of space, but from a height that’s 20,000 feet higher—an altitude from which no human has ever successfully completed a...

Also labeled: Columns, Features, Guest Speaker, Journeys, People and Places, Pilot Talk, Safety, Adventure Flying

Article: The Chicago Air & Water Show

As a lifelong Chicago-area resident, I’ve had the pleasure of attending the Chicago Air & Water Show several times.

Also labeled: Columns, Features, Flight I'll Never Forget, Journeys, Pilot Talk

Article: Thar She Blows!

Nonpilots often ask me why I spend a good portion of my hard-earned income on flying. Nonpilots often ask me why I spend a good portion of my hard-earned...

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

Article: Helping Haiti

It started with an e-mail sent to my partner, Brian Reiff. Bahamas Habitat was looking for pilots with high-performance singles or twins to fly earthquake relief supplies to rural Haiti.

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

Article: Flying Into Isla Grande

Growing up in Puerto Rico in the 1950s, I lived at the top of the Hotel Columbus.

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Article: The Common Thread

You may not think that “learning to fly” and “mountain flying” fit well in the same sentence, but I urge you to reconsider.

Also labeled: Backcountry Flying, Bush Planes, Columns, Features, Guest Speaker, Journeys, Learning Center, People and Places, Pilot Talk, Safety, Adventure Flying

Article: Danny’s Dream

Why would any kid want to do that?” That was the social worker’s response to my offer to take any child flying for free—that is, any child who was a patient at the local cancer center for children.

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

Article: Speed Is Life

As a former SR-71 pilot, and a professional keynote speaker, the question I’m most often asked is “How fast would that SR-71 fly?” I can be assured of hearing that question several times at any event I attend.

Also labeled: Columns, Features, Guest Speaker, Journeys, Learning Center, People and Places, Pilot Talk, Safety, Fighter Jets

Article: Caravan To Seoul—The Prequel

If you saw Jurassic Park, then you may remember the scene where Jeff Goldblum describes chaos theory as a mathematical discipline where the results of any given problem are never totally predictable, no matter how carefully conditions are...

Also labeled: Columns, Features, Journeys, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: Air Capital Tanker Chase

As a flight test engineer for the Boeing Company assigned to Wichita, Kans. (“the Air Capital”), I’m among the fortunate people who truly love their work. ...

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

Article: Air Shows As GA Rallying Point

As much of the aviation industry suffered through the effects of the historic economic downturn during the last year, the air show industry experienced double-digit growth and, in some markets, record attendance.

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Article: The Little Runway That Started It All

People often associate memorable flights with a particular aircraft or airport. Others subscribe to the notion that the journey is more important than the destination.

Also labeled: Columns, Features, Flight I'll Never Forget, Journeys, People and Places

Article: P-51 At Twenty One

As the fighter taxis by, the sound of 12 hot-water Merlins crescendos, crackles and pops as the early-morning sunlight glistens off the silver paint highlighting the name Glamorous Glen III—the markings of Chuck Yeager’s Mustang from the 357th Fighter...

Also labeled: Advanced Ratings, Classic Airplanes, Features, Fighter Jets, Journeys, People and Places, Warbirds

Article: My Secret

I have a secret that I’m going to let fly with the aviation community. I have a secret that I’m going to let fly with the...

Also labeled: Columns, Features, Guest Speaker, Journeys, Learning Center, People and Places, Safety

Article: Backstage With A Rock Star

“Rock star.” It’s a phrase you frequently hear when talking to Kirk Hawkins, founder and CEO of Icon Aircraft in Los Angeles, Calif. (function(){ var flashvars = {affiliateSiteId:"85996", widgetId:"108329",...

Also labeled: Features, Journeys, LSAs, New Products, People and Places, Seaplanes, Adventure Aircraft, Aircraft, Aviation News, Aviation Personalities, Backcountry Flying, Buyer's Guide, Floatplanes, New Aircraft, New Airplanes, Sport Pilots

Article: Cross-Country Cubbing

Some things in life make sense. Others do not. For instance, flying a 65 hp, 75 mph cruise J-3 Cub 650 miles from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania does not, by most definitions, make sense.

Also labeled: Columns, Features, Flight I'll Never Forget, Journeys, People and Places

Article: Reflections On Inner & Outer Flight

Why are we so fascinated by flight? What draws us to it? What makes flight so special? Why are we so...

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Article: Best Of The West!

One of the great benefits of general aviation is having easy access to spectacular destinations around the world. One of the great...

Also labeled: Decision Making, Features, Journeys, People and Places

Article: Days Of Celebration, Days Of Dreams

We may well mark 2009 as a dramatic evocation of past and future, a time when the traditional veneration of past achievements and the bright and amazing promise of future technology both occupied center stage.

Also labeled: Air Shows, Features, Journeys, Learning Center, New Products, People and Places

Article: A Sentimental Journey

I took a short flight recently, one not normally worth mentioning around the hangar. But ’twas important to me—an attempt to relive the good old days of flying, that is, the ’60s and ’70s.

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

Article: 2009 National CFI of the Year

Recently, a VFR pilot flying a Cessna 172 departed after dark in VMC and flew into IMC. Shortly after takeoff, the pilot reported an electrical failure to ATC, but continued into a thickening blanket of fog.

Also labeled: Features, Guest Speaker, Journeys, Learning Center, People and Places, Pilot Talk, Safety

Article: Stick Time In An F-4 Sim

As a twenty something, I figured that the only chance I would ever have of getting into an F-4 Phantom cockpit would involve a successful run for Congress, followed by finagling a seat on the Armed Services Committee.

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Which of the following military aircraft do you think is the sexiest?

P-51D Mustang
B-2
SR-71 Blackbird
F-16
F-22

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