The Pilatus PC-6 Porter: Designed to Do It All If you watch movies or TV at all, you’ve probably seen “the Porter” in action, taking off and landing on remote dirt airstrips in far corners of the...
The Beechcraft King Air Still Reigns Supreme After 50 Years “Sorry, I know it’s two-thirty in the morning, but we have an air ambulance flight request from Flying Cloud to Walhalla Airport in North...
Flexibility: a Hallmark of the Cessna 206 Stationair By Larry Taylor with Crista Worthy Remember the station wagon? Much prized by growing families, station wagons filled American roads in the 1960s...
Piper PA-18 Super Cub: The Shortfield Takeoff and Landing Champion By R.K. Dick Williams with Crista Worthy Mention the words “bush plane” and the image that pops into most pilot’s minds is the...
What is the Difference Between the Piper Apache and Piper Aztec? Is it a Piper Apache PA-23? Or a Piper Aztec PA-27? Or PA-23 Aztec? I guess technically all three designations are correct with the...
Piper PA-34 Seneca: One of the Last of It’s Kind The Piper PA-34 Seneca has a fairly interesting development history, starting out as a tri-motor and now serving as a popular light twin-engine...
The Cessna 182 Skylane: Jack of All Trades By Galen L. Hanselman with Crista Worthy They say every airplane is a compromise, and perhaps no airplane makes more compromises—while also delivering more...
The Birth of the Robinson R22 Helicopter In the early 1970s, Frank Robinson had a vision of business executives commuting between their homes and workplaces in small, light, affordable helicopters...
The B-17 All American The Truth Behind the Tall Tale Wings ablaze with gunfire, the Messerschmitts pilot aimed his fighter directly at the nose of the All American. The crew aboard the B-17 Flying...