Becoming a Professional Airshow Pilot- It’s A Long, Hard Road, But Worth Every Step Throughout each article and interview I’ve read about becoming an airshow pilot, aerobatic champions say...
We Review Rod Machado’s latest eLearning Course, “Understanding Aviation Weather.” I don’t know about you, but when I was first studying for the private pilot written exam, it was...
Reno Welcomes Wayne Phillips of AOPA for an Air Safety Institute Seminar on Night Flying Recently, a friend and I attended our first AOPA Air Safety Institute (ASI) Seminar on night flying, and I left...
Though the Heinkel He 162 Volksjäger employed many features quite modern in today’s terms, it came along at the wrong place and at the wrong time. After the turning point called Stalingrad, the...
I admit to having gazed at N703 sitting nearby with a vague wonderment but without any thoughts of ownership. On short final to runway 13 at Dutch Harbor (DUT), my mind flashed briefly to Commander...
The Douglas DC-3 Doesn’t Know the Meaning of the Word “Quit” The same year the German airship Hindenburg crossed the Atlantic, the still-flying-today Douglas DC-3 was introduced to...
By the end of my first aerobatic flight, I realized my hands were shaking too bad to un-ratchet and unhook myself from the 7-point harness. A few weeks ago, Bryan and I interviewed Tim Brill and his...
Ensuring Flight Safety and Preventing Loss of Control In Flight is the Duty of the PIC A few years ago, the FAA emphasized “Runway Incursions.” There was rarely a flight magazine that did not have...
The Sopwith Camel Would Get Fighter Pilots “A Wooden Cross, the Red Cross, or a Victoria Cross” The featured image of the Sopwith Camels of the U.S. 148th American Aero Squadron at Petite...
