Aviation Travel
Whether you're flying to one of your favorite vacation spots, or to a remote airstrip high in the mountains, aviation travel is an experience unto itself. Browse our aviation travel section and capture the atmosphere of adventure flying.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Amelia Earhart: A Modern AdventureSeventy-five years on, a modern-day Earhart retraces the footsteps of a legend This contemporary Earhart is re-creating one of the legendary aviatrix's flights: the leg from Oakland, Calif., to Miami, Fla., where she announced her ill-fated, round-the-world attempt in 1937. |
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Live With Your AirplaneAn overview of residential airparks and fly-in communities There's nothing like being able to walk out your back door to your hangar and into your airplane," says Spruce Creek, Fla., resident Jack Hirn, summing up the number-one reason that the residential airpark lifestyle captivates pilots of every stripe. |
Monday, December 5, 2011 Trans-Africa AdventurePart I: Southbound—From London to Cape Town in a Robinson R44 Last summer, I was sitting on a beach thinking about my upcoming 50th birthday. |
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 Bahamas 101: Recipe For ParadiseFlying to the Bahamas is the stuff of dreams and is within the reach of nearly any pilot and aircraft We're skimming low over the Atlantic Ocean, some 80 miles southeast of Fort Lauderdale. Below us is a giant marble—brilliant glass with swirls of every shade of blue and green you can imagine, and flattened so it stretches as far as the eye can see. |
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Fly The Bahamas! There are few places that go better with flying than the beautiful islands of The Bahamas. |
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 100 Years Of Naval AviationPart I: The West Coast’s only strike-fighter wing, Naval Air Station Lemoore, trains F/A-18 pilots for the runway at sea He did so in a 60 hp Curtiss Model D, which was constructed from spruce, bamboo and doped linen, and had a maximum speed of 43 knots. |
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 30 Ways To Make Your Pilot Certificate SizzleStretch your wings with these ideas to put excitement and challenge into your flying I’m still amazed when I land. I sometimes sit in the cockpit, as the gyros wind down and the prop clicks to a stop, and wonder at the magic of it all. |
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 Piper Cub HeavenSentimental Journey 2011 at Lock Haven, Pa., where it all began On an overcast, humid June day, I top a high dike built to prevent the Susquehanna River from flooding William T. Piper Memorial airport. |
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 Backcountry OdysseyA group of Husky Aircraft takes on the rugged Teton Mountains We're threading our way through the majestic Teton Pass—a flight of four Aviat Husky aircraft and a pristine, Yakovlev Yak-52 |
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 Launchpad PatrolA one-of-a-kind perspective on NASA’s shuttle missions 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. |
