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TeenFlight Celebrates Milestone

It’s a rainy October evening at Pierce County-Thun Field (KPLU), a non-towered airport located approximately 40 miles south of Seattle. About an hour before sunset, a group of teens show up at Hangar Number 6 and immediately get to work.  These kids are part of TeenFlight and they’re building a Van’s Aircraft RV-12.  The program […]

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High Finances: Stocks or Savings?

We’ve decided that the returns a pilot can get by investing in things like stocks and mutual funds are far better than the meager interest rates paid by savings accounts. If the advantage of investing is so obvious, why do savings accounts even exist? The answer is simple: risk. Savings Security The U.S. government insures […]

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Taking Wing: Senior Airline Pilot Moments

It is a beautiful starlit night deep in the Bahamas’ Exuma Cays, warm and soft in the light caress of the easterly trades. I am sitting on a white-sand beach moodily lit by the flicker of a driftwood bonfire, sipping a dram of aged rum, and taking an occasional pull on an aromatic cigar. Piper […]

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High Finances: Wait, The B-1 is Like Investing?

How is the B-1 like investing? Let’s start with the backstory. The B-1A was an awesome jet designed to fly at Mach 2+ at high altitude before dropping its nukes. President Carter killed the program in the 1970s, but President Regan brought it back in the ‘80s as the B-1B. In the intervening years, Soviet […]

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