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Featured Columnists  What Really Kills Airplanes Airplanes can live such extraordinary lives; it seems that many will never die. Martha Lunken reminds us frequently that 70-year-old DC-3s are still flying and ... October 2009 How Pilots Think About Risk I have come across a bunch of reporting on psychological studies of how humans perceive, or at least how they choose to deal with, risk ... September 2009 We Need 3-D Safety The new automatic flight control systems in airplanes ranging from fixed-gear singles to business jets are just amazing. I never imagined I would see such ... August 2009 Getting the Lead Out For many years airplanes have been the only transportation vehicles still allowed to use leaded fuel in the United States. Even NASCAR transitioned to unleaded ... July 2009  Honoring the Sacrifice For those of us who donned military uniforms during the Vietnam venture -- either voluntarily or reluctantly -- and came home to a less than ... October 2009 Let "George" Do It I admit it, I'm spoiled. For a 33-year-old airplane my Cessna Cardinal RG is very well equipped. Fitted with a Garmin (née UPS) GNS 480 ... September 2009 If They Build It, They Will Come There's no question the future of general aviation is at a waypoint. Parasitic drag resulting from new and inconvenient -- if not onerous -- regulations ... August 2009 Hey, Let's Make It Another Day! "Whoosh!" Blustered the gust from the Amtrak Metroliner as it roared past the railroad crossing in my dream. I'd managed to incorporate the sound into ... July 2009  A Short History of Airfoils Let's be frank. We don't really need airfoils. Model planes with flat sheets of balsa wood for wings fly nicely; so do airplanes made of ... September 2009 The Travels of Mr. Fowler The Fowler flap was invented around 1920 by one Harlan Davey Fowler, an engineer who was then in the employ of the U.S. Army. An ... August 2009 The Unbearable Sadness of Airports After I wrote (Technicalities, April) that BR in the metars stands for brume, which is French for mist or fog, a reader, Bob Bartch, with ... July 2009 Pusher Pusher Our Flying Mail column is an equal-opportunity zone. Truth and falsehood mingle freely there.In the April issue a reader, Hal Stiles of North Miami, Florida, ... June 2009  A Minute Here, an Hour There Jack Benny, the legendary comedian, was asked once about the secret to being funny.Benny looked away to his right.Beat.Benny cupped his chin in his hand.Beat.Benny ... October 2009 Omaha Beach, Normandy, France A cold, raw rain falls, disturbed by winds that occasionally must push 20 knots. It is 58° and the visibility appears to be less than ... September 2009 The Real Reason for the Private Jet Despite efforts by the National Business Aviation Association and some aircraft manufacturers, little success has been achieved in changing the public's mind about private airplanes, ... August 2009 Old Friend Just coming level at 23,000 feet, I bring the props back to 1900 rpm, double-check the altitude with the copilot's altimeter and the Garmin 430, ... July 2009  The High Cost of Low Experience The year was 1979. I walked into a gray and sterile office below the gates of the relatively new Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. Less than a ... October 2009 Three Captains/One Cockpit At first glance, my schedule for the month of January indicated that I was to give a line check for the captain named on a ... September 2009 Heroes Behind the Heroes Easter Sunday had begun as just another holiday to spend relaxing. Connecticut was finally beginning to show consistent signs that spring would actually occur. With ... August 2009 A London Superbowl Snowstorm Chess Game After writing the title for this month's Jumpseat column, I chuckled to myself. I hadn't meant to create a tongue twister. But the title summarized ... July 2009  Precious Cargo Being an aunt is not the same thing as being a parent. Aside from some obvious differences, including the level of exhaustion involved, the two ... October 2009 Turkeys From Turlock I don't know who came up with the idea of the advertising jingle. But whoever it was, they were clearly some kind of demonic genius. ... September 2009 History Made Personal It never ceases to amaze me, the difference it makes when any event, fact or statistic hits close to home. You can know 50 people ... August 2009 Uncertain Storms It's funny, the things that stick. Every day, people make comments to me. Whole conversations ensue. Years and years of words, sentences, stories and dissertations ... July 2009  Why I'm Not a Junior Leaguer One evening in the late '60s, probably after a few "ginskies" in the Sky Galley bar, Ebby and Walter Rye decided to buy a curious ... October 2009 Cloud Flying My 1956 Cessna 180, 72B, "wintered" in Piqua, Ohio, while Mark Runge worked his magic on the annual plus some spa treatments and minor cosmetic ... September 2009 A Sucker for Southern Hospitality It was late March, when Midwestern flatlanders flying over the Appalachians to Florida for spring breaks or a week at Sun 'n Fun have so ... August 2009 Making DC-3 Pilots Legal Oklahoma City FSDO needed a DC-3 "specialist" for certification flight checks with Cascade Airlines, a Part 125 operator who, curiously, didn't actually operate in Oklahoma ... July 2009 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 NEXT |
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