My Time Night Flying I have plenty of night flying time in my log book. Most of it was accumulated during my time flying for a regional airline several years ago. Probably 60 percent of my total...
Back Country Flying at Upper Loon Creek My son Corey asked me a couple weeks ago if we could schedule a trip to the Idaho backcountry and spend a few days camping. He was able to get some time off...
The Bumble Bee Airplane is the smallest piloted aircraft in the world, though it’s not the lightest. Robert H. Starr is not a name many will be familiar with. And yet, for an unfamiliar name, he...
The First President to Fly Pop quiz, hotshot: Who was the first man who held the office of United States President to fly in an engine powered aircraft? If you answered Richard Nixon, then I’m...
The Ornithopter and Us Man has always dreamed of flying. And stretching far back into our earliest recorded history, we can see references to attempts at flight. One of the more interesting and...
For sale, one Brewster Buffalo Last summer, divers who were cleaning up garbage off the coast of the Midway Atoll found the wreckage of a plane. After receiving a report of the sighting, a team led...
Al Wilson: Barnstormer Al Wilson, born 1 December 1895, was a true barnstormer. He spent his life taking part in stunts that would make a grown man quake in his boots. Born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky...
