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****Part 2 of a 3-part series on the AirShares Elite small-airplane fractional ownership program, here on flyingmag.com.**** What’s the ideal airplane? For most of us, it’s the one that goes a few knots faster, travels a little farther or carries a bit more weight than the one we’re currently flying. As in the rest of […]

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Download our Flashback articles: 25 Years ago… March 1979 • A Call for reasons on the FAA Plan • Spins • FAA Fleet • Flight Training: Advancement Demands a Planned Approach 50 years ago… March 1954 • Dollars in Dixie Air • Geronimo! • Genealogy of American Aircraft • You Can’t Burn Water • Home […]

In some ways, the land is still as I remember it. Emerald-green hills dotted with darker green pines, eucalyptus, rimu, kauri and tree ferns flash underneath the airplane as we circle over the rolling landscape that stretches southeast from New Zealand’s largest city. It’s been a long time, so I can’t place the exact locations […]

As I have noted many times, the advances that have taken place in piston airplane development over the past 25 years have been portable. New avionics, better interiors, more powerful engines, improved propellers and even air conditioning can usually be installed in an existing airplane, as well as a newly manufactured one. This evolutionary process […]

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