What is Hypoxia, and What Causes It? True or False: As a general aviation pilot who never flies above 10,000 feet, you don’t need to be concerned about the effects of hypoxia. The answer is false of...
Bringing You the Lowdown From the 2016 Sun N’ Fun International Fly-In and Expo The 2016 Sun N’ Fun International Fly-In and Expo is a pilgrimage for over 200,000 pilots and aviation...
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...
