Our resident air racer tests a pair of pants with enough pockets for any pilot.
Questions from the Cockpit: Daredevils and fools
What would I do if I let my outlaw wild side out? I’d fly through St. Louis’s Gateway Arch. You gotta admit: The Arch just screams “Fly Through Me!”
Altitude treasure hunt
To find the answer to her question, It was time to look beyond the FAA to understand the FAA.
Pilot Perspectives: Racing in the Long EZ
Dave Adams has given more than 1,000 rides, plus another 100 Young Eagles flights, “for the simple pleasure of spreading the joy of aviation.”
Questions from the Cockpit: Baffled by baffling?
How baffles work for general aviation engines is a lot more complex than most people think.
Questions from the Cockpit: High flight
If you like high flight, don’t pass up any chance to get a turbocharged engine.
Pilot Perspectives: Flying the ‘spaceship’
“Whenever I land at an airport the paparazzi come running.”
Questions from the Cockpit: A matter of law
In July’s column we took a look at why captains sit in the left-hand seat, which ended up generating a lot of reader speculation that it might have had something to do with right-of-way rules, which in turn generated a lot of requests that we look at the origins of today’s right of way rules. […]
Pilot Perspectives: Piloting a Pietenpol
“I love this machine as much as I can love an inanimate object.”