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General Aviation

Mike and I swapped text messages and decided we would get some flight time this evening. Mary was down with a migraine and its best for her to slee...
Almost seven decades has passed but Abe Shamis has lived with a constant reminder of the day his B-17 was shot down over Austria during World War I...
This is a horrendously long video cobbed together and shaking all the way to the end. I'm pretty sure if you're not in the video you ain't watchin...
This year's Annual Inspection, now completed, was an unusual one. And I mean that in a good way. There was very little "emergent" work resulting fr...
I finally found time to finish the part 2 video on the Formation Flight Training. Actually, I was on a Newark to Hong Kong flight that was 15.5 ...
On Friday, April 27, 2012, the Space Shuttle Enterprise was brought up from Dulles to New York City to its new home at the Intrepid Air and Space M...
After two cold and snowy winters in Europe, 2012 seems to be milder. What does this mean for airport managers who plan investing i...
I'll just link to Jake's blog because he does a much better job than I...When he says the plane is unbroken for the first time, that's a bit overst...
Eddie Van Halen ca. 1977 via Wikipedia by Chris Findley, CFI, CFII Pilots are perfectionists –the good ones anyway.  They’re the ones y...
In the last post in this series I discussed some creative financing plans to help people reduce the high upfront cost of getting a pilot license. ...
A while ago I was contacted by Glen Maxson; he's a retired Information Technology engineer from Intel who has started a website specifically abou...
I mention in my book about my childhood interest in Astronomy.  After I lost my initial telescope in a fire during my time in college, I went witho...
In my list of little victories I am proud to have defeated my addiction to watching blog traffic statistics every day. To be fair, visits to this b...
With so much other stuff going on, I haven’t updated my flying blog in quite a long time. That doesn’t mean that I haven’t been f...
If you are like me you listen to a plethora of aviation podcasts. I think some of the best aviation news comes from them and they st...

Mayday over the Mississippi

Link to excellent interview with pilot that successfully managed a complete engine failure... in IMC!