A Bird’s Eye View of the Cessna 152 The relentless sun rose in the summer sky, reflecting off the tarmac as Chase trotted toward the Cessna 152 flight trainer. The little workhorse aircraft wore...
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...
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...
The Cessna 185 Skywagon Has Proven Itself for Over 50 Years By: Crista Worthy with Steve Durtschi We’re not sure any other airplane quite matches the Cessna 185 Skywagon’s ability to lift its own...
Cessna 180 Skywagon: The Pickup Truck of the Air By Crista Worthy with Jim Davies If you are a fan of the larger Cessna taildraggers—the 180 and 185—you know it gets harder to find a good one each...
The American Champion Decathlon: the Sports Car of Singles By Crista Worthy with Rich Stowell American Champion Aircraft (ACA) currently produces FAA-certified light aerobatic and utility aircraft for...