Thirty Years Of GPS
I was just over 1,000 miles south of Honolulu on the second leg of a four-leg ferry flight …
Cross-Country Flying Stories
Cross-country flying stories from Bill Cox offer fantastic insight into what pilots face on long distance flights. Dig into our X-Country Log today.
The Search For Ultimate Speed
If you’re determined to make an airplane fly faster, traditional wisdom suggests there are three ways to realize that …
Flying For Sled Dogs
When I was a kid, a few years back, I always considered myself lucky to be growing up a government …
Piston Priorities
Regular readers may recall that I’ve logged my share of hours over various bodies of water, mostly the Atlantic …
Then And Now: Spiral Instability
Like many of you, I took my initial flight training in extremely basic airplanes—read, “cheap.” The first was a …
International Geographic
Sahara
When I departed St. John’s, Newfoundland, for Santa Maria, Azores, yesterday, the always-angry North Atlantic raged beneath …
When I departed St. John’s, Newfoundland, for Santa Maria, Azores, yesterday, the always-angry North Atlantic raged beneath …
The Joys Of Flight Testing
It was June 1991, and I’d been hired to fly right seat in the one and only Swearingen SJ …
Asleep On Autopilot
It was one of those nights the high plains of New Mexico are famous for. The moon was waxing toward …
The Romance Of Soaring
As I was about to climb into the front pit of the solid-silver, letter-opener, stiletto of a glider …
Not Really The Bad Guys
Incident 1
The flight from Santa Maria to El Paso had gone well, or so I thought. I’d picked …
The flight from Santa Maria to El Paso had gone well, or so I thought. I’d picked …
