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Israel said Feb. 2 that Iran had been working on developing a missile capable of striking the U.S. at a military base rocked by a deadly explosion...

Went on a flight over the Sierra crest today looking for ski lines. Tahoe just received around 4-5 feet of snow in the alpine. The weather has not ...

Pedra do Ouro é uma pequena localidade (e também uma grande praia ...) pertencente à freguesia de Pataias, no concelho de Alcobaça ...Pedra do Ouro...

Mike and I once again swapped text messages and it was decided we would make a lunch run to Chester County, KMQS.  I gave Mike a heads up I wa...

In our Belite ultralight aircraft, we occasionally make and use a carbon fiber / plywood laminate.  This makes a very nice looking and stron...

Foreign countries routinely bring criminal charges against pilots after an accident. But in the US, criminal charges are very rare. And that's a go...

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 have no standing to remark on a book about flying in Alaska. I have not endured the awful cold, withstood the cutting wind, peered into the froze...

Many people have given up on the Air Miles program because they don’t feel that they’ll be able to attain enough miles to earn a free f...

Saturday I drove out to KH. Phil was still there after a test flight. Joe had replaced the intake rubbers and this seems to have stopped all of t...

After spending entirely too much time in China during the past month,  I was finally able to squeeze in a good IFR x-country trip.  Th...

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 about ...

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...

GRT Avionics debuted Sports Sex, Electronic Flight Information Systems (EFIS) for light sport and experimental aircraft. It has features such as EF...

I did my FAA commercial two years ago in Florida. I fly a Cirrus SR22 normally, which I regard as 'complex' because of its sophisticated avionics a...

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...

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