The Boeing 727: Magnificent Memories After 48,060 landings, 64,495 hours and 3 million passengers, the first Boeing 727 (-100) to ever fly, recently flew its last trip to Seattle’s Museum of Flight...
Mooney M20: More Speed, Less Fuel By Crista Worthy with Don Lojek Mooney aficionados tend to come from that portion of the pilot population that values speed over nearly all else. A friend of mine...
The Legacy of the Rutan Brothers Nearly a century after the Wright Brothers made aviation history (or should I say, started it?), another team of brothers continues to make contributions just as...
Birds and Planes Don’t Mix My scariest bird strike (yes I’ve had a few) was probably back in 2008. I was on final approach to Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan in an F-15E during sunrise. A kite (the...
Why Are Pilots Like That? Have you ever talked to a cop who is off duty? There’s something there…it still seeps through. You can’t quite put your finger on it, but he seems cop-like...
Exploring the Role of Female Pilots in Aviation Visiting the Ninety-Nines Museum On a recent trip to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, I stopped into the Ninety-Nines Museum, a museum dedicated to the history...
All About the Mi-26 If you follow the aviation industry at all (and if you’re reading this, you probably do), then you know about the U.S. Marine Corps’ latest helicopter addition: the CH-53K King...
All About the Kitfox By Crista Worthy and Don McIntosh My husband and I are both pilots and have always traded off flying duties. We flew a Cessna 210 for a decade but sold it to finance a new...
Piper Arrow: Continually Refining a Winning Design Airplane manufacturers often find that one of their designs “sticks” to pilots, and they take that winning design and modify it, continually...
