Ben Younger

The path to innovation is sometimes lonely.

The decision-making process for the layperson who is deciding whether to fly with a friend is a complicated one that reveals a lot about the individual.

When confronted with an inoperative autopilot, a pilot is grateful for recurrent training on his instrument rating.

At a certain point, when a pattern becomes so repetitive with zero deviation, you stop looking for the change. It’s confirmation bias at its worst.

While consensus is good, in an airplane inflight, where things are moving in real time, it’s an autocracy and there’s only one decision-maker that counts.

Airplanes, dirt bikes, and snowboards help keep his life moving, just how he likes it.

When buying an airplane, emotions can outweigh logic.

The work of fanatical artisans wins over ‘fast and cheap’ every time.

The author’s loyal companion loved flying until she felt “real” turbulence.

For as long as I’ve been eating solid foods, I’ve had a dream car—and the conviction that it would one day be mine. It began with the Lamborghini Countach, which was first produced in 1974, when I was 2 years old. I found it a few years later in a MotorTrend magazine my father left […]