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In the last century, fly-in were about flying. Unlike today’s events, which cater to passive participants there to shop and watch other people fly, the pilots who flew in honed their skills by competing in takeoff and landing contests, flour bombing/message drops, and poker runs, where the winner had the best hand—and closest actual time [...]
The message from the White House came and went so quickly last week that some people thought it was actually a mistake. But like the ghosts in A Christmas Carol, the release of a draft of The Transportation Opportunities Act (TOA), actually did happen and was probably not an accident as some insiders claim. Despite [...]
Going on a backcountry safari to explore the airstrips long ago hacked out of what became the the Selway-Bitterroot and Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Areas ranks second on my all-time list of best aviation experiences. (First was flying, with six other airplanes, a Glasair Sportsman 2+2 from Arlington, Washington, up the trench, to [...]
First there was fabric over wood and/or metal frameworks. Then were was metal over metal, which led to monocoque construction. Eventually, composite materials followed suit, complete with a subcutaneous layer of acoustic foam to keep things quiet. Paint protects and makes pretty the skin’s exterior; between it and a composite skin is some form of [...]
There is some good news to report as we approach the two year anniversary of the the Air France 447 accident in the South Atlantic during the late evening hours of May 31, 2009. An unmanned submarine exploration team headed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution – the same group that found the Titanic – [...]
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