by Isabel Goyer

At a media-only event at its Duluth, Minnesota, factory, Cirrus Design recently launched its single-engine, personal jet program by showing off a mockup of the airplane, which it calls “the-jet.” While the mockup revealed numerous details of the design, and while Cirrus was candid about all that it knew-and didn’t know-about the program, there remain […]

Some readers might remember that starting back about five years I wrote a series of articles about my experiences flying with two separate small airplane fractional ownership operations: OurPlane and AirShares Elite. The experiences were very positive, and I came to believe that shared ownership (as it came to be called) would be a major […]

As you’ve been reading, flying a jet single pilot is one of the most challenging piloting skills there is. It demands an unrelenting focus on the job at hand; the wherewithal to swap hats quickly; and the ability to use automation consistently and efficiently to ease the burden, especially during high-workload phases of flight. In […]

The Biplane Expo, held every summer in the northeast Oklahoma city of Bartlesville, brings together two-winged creations from every era of flying history. Flying traveled to the 2006 edition of the Expo to check out the wings and meet the people who keep and fly these magnificent machines, some of which represent one of the […]

Amid much fanfare at the Sun ‘n Fun Fly-In in April, Mooney launched its new Acclaim piston single. The ceremoney featured a surprise appearance by Mooney CEO Gretchen Jahn, who just before the announcement had snuck into the airplane and was waiting inside as the new model was unveiled. If it meets the manufacturer’s projections, […]

The winner of the 2005 Corporate Angel Network Raffle is Greg Cook of Makanda, Illinois. We can?t imagine a better story. The proceeds from the raffle benefit Corporate Angel Network, a non-profit organization that promotes and supports the transportation of cancer patients to remote treatment centers on corporate jets. CAN-member flight departments have flown more […]

Longtime Flying Magazine columnist Gordon Baxter, who passed away earlier this year, was inducted in November into the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston, just down the Gulf Coast from Baxter’s home town of Beaumont. Before a crowd of several hundred museum members and a […]

When the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) announced, in the aftermath of Katrina, that it was moving its convention to Orlando, to a date a week in advance of the previously scheduled show in the Big Easy, a lot of people wondered out loud just how the organization was going to pull off that feat. […]

AirVenture 2005 was a lot of fun.

Gordon Baxter, who for more than 20 years wrote the Bax Seat column in Flying, passed away on June 11th at the age of 81 from a respiratory illness. Gordon is survived by his wife, Diane, nine children, 16 grandchildren and a host of friends and admirers. A longtime radio personality and professional character in […]