Unusual Attitudes

Landing an airplane with the gear not securely down and locked is a dreadful experience, but pilots and passengers are rarely injured.

Things can get messy if you don’t have a plan for airsickness.

A story about flying clubs…and a true hero.

In my travels, I did stumble onto another memory: a house between Mooreland and Millville, Indiana, with a sign indicating it as the birthplace of Wilbur Wright before the bishop and his family moved to Dayton, Ohio.

I guess I first learned about formation flying when my flight instructor, Larry Whitesell, told a story involving—he thought—his buddy, Vince Wynn, who instructed for a school up the road, Cardinal Flight Training. When they’d spy each other in the practice area, they’d often join up for some formation flying. On this occasion, according to […]

Here’s to the friends who bring us into the aviation fold.

Reminisces of a fun and misspent life aloft.

The long rap sheet only tells part of the tale.

The historic airfield gets a major facelift.

It turns out that bad things happen in threes.