September 2007
Dangerous Past by A.F. Ebbers (Silverhawk Books, 2007, ISBN: 9780978948238). Unknown assassins are stalking airline captain Frank Baden, and they’ve got a deadline by which … Read More “September 2007”
Dangerous Past by A.F. Ebbers (Silverhawk Books, 2007, ISBN: 9780978948238). Unknown assassins are stalking airline captain Frank Baden, and they’ve got a deadline by which … Read More “September 2007”
Oil is to an aviation piston engine what blood is to the human body: a crucial element in keeping it alive. Read More “Caring For Your Aircraft”
We thought we were doing something really clever when we came up with the “10 Sexiest Airplanes” idea. It wasn’t until we delved into making up the list that we came face-to-face with the need to define the term “sexy.” Read More “10 Sexiest Airplanes”
Somebody at the L.A. Times has got a sweet tooth for the flying car, specifically the Terrafugia Transition SLSA-legal “roadable” airplane. No less than six … Read More “Roadable Airplane, Meet Mainstream Media”
Here’s a black-and-white statement that’s more fact than opinion: The rudder is easily the least understood and most misused control in an airplane. Read More “What‘s The Rudder‘s Real Purpose?”
I’ve been privileged to call Rod Machado a friend for the last 20 years. We first worked together during the launch of ABC TV’s Wide World of Flying TV series back in the mid ’80s. Together with host and ABC senior VP Phil Boyer (now president of AOPA), director Dave Jackson (now president of King Schools), TWA captain Barry Schiff (now retired) and later, warbird enthusiast Jeff Ethell (sadly, no longer with us), Rod and I enjoyed seven happy years of playing to the TV cameras. Read More ““Plane Talk”From Machado”
Dan Williams has always been interested in aviation. âI had my first flight lesson at 18, but I had no money to finance further lessons in college,â he recalls. Though he maintained his interest in aviation, it wasn’t until the end of his first marriage that Dan could get back to flying, only now he was also interested in a project working with kids. So when he met Stephen Walker, owner and director of Avionics West, Inc., at Santa Maria Airport in California, the two bonded over their love of aviation and their mutual desire to get kids similarly interested and involved with flight.
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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-dozen airplanes I’ve owned since have been employed primarily in pursuit of profit. Read More “Traveling By “Corporate”Airplane”
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