Unusual Attitudes

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.

For more than 80 years, Runway 21R, one of the original paved runways at Cincinnati’s Lunken Airport, has withstood generations of student pilots.

As a child, I thought Christmas Eve was hands-down the most magical time of the year, but December 24, 2021, was over the top. That morning I became a “real” private pilot…nine months since the revocation of all my certificates and ratings. Though I could pursue getting all of them back, at this time in […]