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From Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes:  

We're 4,000' over the cold, cold, Pacific on an IFR flight into Monterey (KMRY) from Oakland (

Today I took a close family friend for a local flight from CNB9 - CNY3. On route we decide to fly along the Wasaga beach shoreline to see the beaches. The beaches were pretty much empty( I guess b/c i

There I was fat dumb and happy. This was to be my first arrival into Honolulu/Hickam AFB as a pilot flying. I had ta

In an astonishing departure from computer traditions established in the 1970s, new Transport Canada licences use mixed case to list the qualifications and restrictions on the right side of a pilot lic

The guys are joined this week by EAA Radio's Afterburner Al. They also get a brief visit from listener "MadMax" who checks in live from the Reno Air Races. They talk about flying high-end flight sims,

This is one of my all time favorite shots of my B36 from a few years ago.  The B-model really held a lot and we traveled many miles in it.  The boys have grown a bunch since, and we outgrew that pla

According to the latest news from AOPA’s webiste, one prototype Cessna 162 Skycatcher, the Cessna’s LSA, crashed 30 miles away from the factory, in Wichita. The pilot ejected himself, and

Morning rainbow

I had to write about this. It is kind of funny, but still gets to me a weenie bit! Bf keeps making comments about a few girls he keeps seeing at work occasionally… He comes home and raves abo

During her 2007 annual airworthiness inspection, Yellowbird was diagnosed with a cracked engine crankcase. The treatment required removing the engine and shipping it to an engine shop in New York wher

METAR KBMI 292056Z 22006KT 10SM OVC016 M01/M04 A3007 RMK AO2 56013 T10111038 SLP203 Translation: Wind: blowing from 220° at 6 knots; Visibility: 10 statue miles; Sky condition: overcast at 1,600 fee

Just a little thought in the same vein as this post, from Oh the life of a pilot's wife.

On the day my

I'd been wrestling with this post for several weeks, never quite satisfied with the results. Then I happened to read this post