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Featured Columnists  The Simulator Yardstick The most frequent complaint I hear from pilots transitioning into turbine airplanes, particularly jets, is that the simulator doesn't fly like the airplane. All say ... December 2008 What Is a Revolutionary Airplane? Oshkosh is the place to see and hear about new airplanes, many of which propose to revolutionize a category, or even create a new category ... November 2008 Staying Sharp While Flying Less Everybody is flying less these days. Flight time in piston-powered personal airplanes is probably off the most due to the high fuel prices, but the ... October 2008 Oshkosh Is More Important Than Ever General aviation has always been divided, or bifurcated as the business school types would say. One group flies for personal travel and recreation, and the ... September 2008  Tooting and Waving It's a lot like the early days of the Volkswagen. In the late '50s when you drove a VW Beetle and you saw another one ... October 2008 Attending a Masters' Class Traditionally, a master class is given by a recognized expert in a field -- usually music, but also painting, drama or any of the arts ... July 2008 No, No, I Won't Go! I didn't sleep very well. I kept going over the DUAT weather briefing in my mind trying to make it read better than I knew ... June 2008 Bully on the Block Just when I thought it was safe to get back in the pattern and that pilots were finally taking to heart proper radio discipline, I ... April 2008  The Old House I have visited a certain old house on the south coast of Massachusetts almost every summer for the past 20 years, and have known Sam, ... December 2008 In Search of the Neutral Point Four of us were invited to a friend's house in Northern California, a 10-hour drive from Los Angeles. "Could we all go up in your ... November 2008 Total Electrical Hangar wits at a loss for an original joke sometimes fall back on the time-tested quip that a liquid-cooled airplane makes as much sense as ... August 2008 The Bernoulli Brigade It must be a perennial embarrassment to high school physics teachers that cheap balsa gliders -- to say nothing of folded-up pieces of paper, or ... June 2008  Two Days in the Life of Bill Settle Since 2002 the bestselling certified single-engine airplane in the world has been the Cirrus SR22. More than 700 new Cirruses have been sold per year ... August 2008 Grounded by Fuel Prices The price of gas, the price of gas. The shaky stock market and the hammered housing industry. These are the circling vultures of today. Suddenly, ... July 2008 Get Back to Work and Stop Dreaming Getting a type rating or passing a check ride are certainly satisfying and, most often, fun exercises, but they don’t make a pilot out of ... May 2008 Weather and Static Systems “Three things in life are overrated,” I was told in medical school. “Home cooking, out of town sex and the Johns Hopkins Hospital.” Envy was ... January 2008  Operating Experience for Two One of the cool things about my new position with the airline is that the job is rarely routine. The trips are different. The people ... December 2008 X-Treme Training Wedged into a middle seat of coach, I attempted to concentrate. A 767 operating manual sat on my lap. It was as good a time ... November 2008 Just Say 'No' It was late fall. An unusual weather system had impacted the New York area. The system brought with it some scattered convective activity and high ... October 2008 Seaplane Airline I had no preconceived notions or expectations as I rolled into the parking lot at the northern end of Lake Washington. The Seattle sky was ... September 2008  A Profusion of Thrills "This turn's going to be tricky," Luke says as he surveys the 90-degree angle onto Runway 18/36 at Oshkosh.I glance around the Mustang speedster convertible ... November 2008 Where Eagles Dare The first thing that hits me is the silence. As Jacques Brun and his D140 Mousquetaire II disappear into the distance, it is suddenly very, ... October 2008 A Quiet Revolution It was the simple, declarative tone of the statement that caught me. I’d volunteered to judge applications for the Ninety-Nines’ Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Fund, ... May 2008 Turbulence in Congo Click here to see the "Turbulance in Congo" photo gallery“If we’re lucky, we’ll actually see the volcanoes today,” Cindy Silong says as we make our ... March 2008  Cold Weather Story That year winter arrived on the heels of a cold front that marked the end of an interminably long and hot Ohio Valley summer, one ... December 2008 Am I an Oshkosh Wimp? Every once in a while life intrudes on this love affair I have with airplanes, and I feel like that bewildered soldier at Little Big ... November 2008 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 NEXT |
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