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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.
Last summer, I was sitting on a beach thinking about my upcoming 50th birthday.
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.
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.
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.
On an overcast, humid June day, I top a high dike built to prevent the Susquehanna River from flooding William T. Piper Memorial airport.
We’re threading our way through the majestic Teton Pass—a flight of four Aviat Husky aircraft and a pristine, Yakovlev Yak-52
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.
Air shows are magnificent aerial productions. Performers travel from far to put on a display of skill, showmanship and passion for aviation.
Join the Plane & Pilot team for a behind the scenes look at putting together an air-to-air photo flight.
Sixty miles northeast of Los Angeles, restricted airspaces R-2508 and R-2515 cover Rosamond Dry Lake, home of Edwards Air Force Base.
Go behind the scenes on an air-to-air photo mission!
Number One’s three-blade prop begins to turn-cough-turn. The engine whines, whines, then belches out clots of smoke as the big Wright Cyclone thunders to life. Joe Colmer, 93, feels the rumble through the metal seat.
The Canadian Forces Snowbirds Demonstration Team performs at the 2010 Reno Air Races.
Astronaut and Reno racer Robert “Hoot” Gibson takes Plane & Pilot on an exclusive tour of the Unlimited Pits at the 2010 Reno Air Races.
After losing the engine in Voodoo, a P-51D Mustang, racer Will Whiteside makes a safe landing on Stead Field’s Runway 14.
When the propeller departed his Relentless 42 race plane, pilot Kevin Eldredge kept his cool and landed safely.
I always seem to be in the wrong time warp. I was born too late to fly fighters in WWII and too late for the space program.