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Personalities In late February, 600 of Gordon Baxter’s friends and admirers gathered at the Holiday Inn in Beaumont, Texas, for an 80th birthday tribute celebration in his honor. Flying readers perhaps know Baxter best for his much-beloved “Bax Seat” column, which ran in Flying from 1971 to 1998 and made it common practice for readers […]

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Corporate Angel Network (CAN) had the most profitable year in its history last year, although it’s important to understand that the concepts of profit and loss are measured in very different ways for this organization. For the last 22 years, CAN has been helping cancer patients, many of them children, connect with business aircraft operators […]

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the prototypical business turboprop, the Beech King Air. The airplane, to our knowledge, is the longest continuously produced civilian turbine aircraft. (The Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules is the only turbine aircraft that has been continuously produced for longer.) It was in August of 1963 that Beech Aircraft announced […]

Download our Flashback articles: 25 Years ago… May 1979 • On Top: Great Debate by Richard L. Collins • … The V-Speeds by Peter Garrison • The Gado Group by Robert B. Parke • Bax Seat: The White-Knuckles Treatment by Gordon Baxter • Plucky Pierre by Len Morgan 50 years ago… May 1954 • Port […]

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