Meet Our Editors
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Senior Editor
 As a teenager Robert Goyer worked with his folks at their small chain of FBOs in Southern California, where he earned his private certificate (before the advent of GPS) in between flipping burgers, pumping gas and turning wrenches. He even commuted to work from Apple Valley to Barstow Daggett Airport for a time in a Cessna 152. Robert started in aviation journalism in the late 1980s, writing, photographing and more for a number of small sport and general aviation titles, including Air Progress and Affordable Flying magazines. He came aboard at Flying in 1995 as associate editor and was named senior editor in 2000.
A commercial land and seaplane pilot with multiengine and instrument ratings, over the years Robert has flown more than 150 different types of homebuilt, ultralight and general aviation aircraft (including a few he says he wished he hadn't!). In addition to writing and photographing feature stories on a variety of subjects, Robert closely follows trends in aircraft electronics, aircraft ownership, light-sport aircraft and the very light jet segment.
Robert lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, two sons and a rescued Aussie Shepherd named Django. In addition to all the other cool airplanes he gets to fly as part of his "job," Robert regularly tools around the country in a PlaneSmart Cirrus SR22 out of AUS. His other interests include old trucks, distance running, roots music, good wine and the fine art of fastpitch baseball.
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West Coast Editor
 Lane Wallace, a VFR pilot and both the West Coast Editor and a regular columnist for Flying, learned to fly in 1986 after seeing a low-flying yellow biplane fly by overhead one day, and her love affair with aviation continues to this day. She traded work on a collection of old airplanes for flying lessons and bought a half-interest in a 1946 Cessna 120 soon after getting her license. She bought her current airplane, a 1977 Grumman Cheetah, in 1998, but old taildraggers still claim a special place in her heart.
Before writing for Flying, Lane wrote for a number of national and international magazines and publications, including AOPA Pilot and Flight International. Her work has also appeared in ForbesLife magazine, and she was a featured contributor on Microsoft's 2004 Flight Simulator: A Century of Flight release. She has also written six books for NASA, including a book for young people, Wild Blue Wonders: Exploring the Magic of Flight, that was published by the Experimental Aircraft Association in 2001. In addition, Lane has written and co-produced a number of video programs and documentaries, including a three-part series on the human adventure of test flight that aired on The Learning Channel in August 1999 and the Telly Award-winning documentary Breaking the Chain in 2006.
Lane writes a variety of feature and news articles for Flying. But her Flying Lessons column each month is where she writes about the parts of flying that are closest to her heart—the people, joy, learning, laughter, magic, passion, adventure and living that flying offers to those who are willing to trade the security of the ground for the classroom of the sky.
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