Pilot Proficiency

In our FBO Spotlight series, we’re highlighting FBOs around the country that have received rave reviews from our readers. This latest Spotlight is brought to you by Newlan Parker, who has recently flown into Magic Valley Regional Airport in Twin Falls, Idaho, in a Cessna 206. Here’s what he had to say about the airport’s […]

Talk about a quick trip back to the top of the hill. In a video posted to YouTube a few days ago, U.S. Ski Team member Reese Hanneman can be seen being towed up a mountain somewhere in the Alaska Range behind an Aviat Husky. Hanneman tweeted a link to the video and the Alaska […]

In remembrance of the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum in Upstate New York is reintroducing a very special airplane — a replica of a 1917 Albatros D.Va., built in the 1970s by the Aerodrome’s founder Cole Palen. Palen created the replica from measurements taken from an […]

Renowned Reno air racer Lee Behel attempted three record-breaking flights in the past week in Mojave, California, flying his sexy single-place GP-5 race airplane. While the results have not yet been officially confirmed, the initial numbers are impressive. Behel attempted three records, which have been recorded and are under review by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale […]

It’s almost 8 a.m., but darkness still clings to the edges of the frozen prairie. The sun has risen somewhere above the impassive overcast, but here the only herald of morning’s coming is black sky fading to battleship gray. The dim light reveals a bleak landscape, flat and nearly treeless. The wind whips and howls […]

If you have always dreamed of owning an unique airplane, one that nobody else in the world has, this is your chance to fulfill that quest. The Aerospace Museum of California is selling its 1932 Curtiss-Wright Travel Air B-14-B Speedwing, N12332, one of two biplanes of the kind produced by the early airplane manufacturer. The […]

I purchased 3723V, a 1976 Cessna 150M, to help defray the cost of acquiring my instrument rating and to build time. After earning the rating, business took me to Phoenix, and due to the desert heat and the thermals, it soon became apparent that I needed a turbocharged airplane. So I sold 23V to a […]

This month’s Jay flight simulation scenario from Redbird Flight Simulations features the notorious “Hell Stretch” over the Allegheny Mountains to Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Users will get the chance to take off on an airmail flight in a Curtiss Jenny and navigate through the formidable route just as aviators did before the days of automation, when pilotage […]

There is nothing like an accident to make you think about changing your flying ways. After Martha and I had our accident, we urgently wanted to avoid another one, but we didn’t intuitively know what to do differently. We did know that somehow our attitudes about risk-taking had to change. It was pretty clear that […]

Mooney Aircraft is celebrating its comeback to the industry with an unusual promotion. The Kerrville, Texas-based company has announced an online auction called “First to Fly” to sell the first Mooney Acclaim Type S produced on the recently modernized production line. The auction kicked off on April 4, during the Sun ‘n Fun show in […]