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At first glance the newly certified Mooney Ovation3 looks like just another Mooney (which, granted, is a little like saying “just another Porsche.”) But behind the familiar long-body lines are a couple of big changes. Even before the Ovation3 came along, these airplanes were fast, and over the past few years they’ve gotten faster, and […]

“There’s a reacting side of the brain and a thinking side of the brain,” insists Clinton Anderson in his training DVDs. Anderson is a “horse whisperer” who demonstrates his Downunder Horsemanship on the RFD cable channel and in his series of DVDs. I’ve been using Anderson’s training techniques to work with Miss Biscuit, my three-year-old […]

Now that I’ve officially become a senior citizen it’s probably long past time for me to decide what I want to do with my life. I could have used some help deciding when I was younger. For 21 years, Columbia-Greene Community College has been helping students consider their options by hosting a “career day” for […]

In retrospect, I don’t know why it took Sir Isaac Newton so long to figure it out. Long before Newton published his groundbreaking first law of motion in 1687, I have to believe that cottage-wives and at least a few Middle Age parents had learned full well – through firsthand experimentation and experience – that […]

I have been flying my homebuilt for more than four years now, and have been recording performance points on almost every flight while looking for ways to reduce drag. The homebuilding community is full of stories about huge successes in drag reduction, but I think those guys must be starting with Wilgas. It turns out […]

We were headed back toward Austin’s Class Charlie airspace from our demo flight out to the west in a Commander 115, though it wasn’t just any Commander 115. At the time it was the only one like it in the world. The frequency was pretty quiet. We were at 5,500 feet, about 25 miles out […]

At 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 12, 2006, I steered my parents’ Subaru Outback into the parking garage beneath the Belaire building on 71st Street in New York City, right by the East River. The traffic was bad, with police blockades still in effect and looky-loos and camera crews still clogging the sidewalks. But we […]