GAN contributing writer Amelia Reiheld participated in the Air Race Classic with partner Linda Keller. Here’s their latest blog post: It wasn’t a flawless race, it wasn’t without its challenges, but we got here to Mobile, safe and sound, and even though we weren’t able to leave Borger, Texas, until noon, we crossed the finish […]
The route to real training reform
GUEST EDITORIAL By RADEK WYRZYKOWSKI, founder, IMC Club Success can be measured in many different ways. When it comes to the recent and very timely Society of Aviation and Flight Educators (SAFE) Pilot Training Reform Symposium, I confess to having mixed feelings about what was achieved. I do need to start with a sincere thank […]
Flying in the Air Race Classic
GAN contributing writer Amelia Reiheld and her partner, Linda Keller, will take off in the Air Race Classic June 21. We’ll follow their adventures online, but first a look at how the partnership began: What have I gone and gotten myself into this time? It started simply enough. Complicated things usually do. I heard via […]
Coast Ranger #1 still flying high
By DAVID NIXON Back in the 1950s, if you wanted to build your own experimental airplane from a “kit” with all the plans, builder instructions, and parts provided, you were out of luck. This was the era of the scratch-built experimental airplane. If fact, you were lucky if you even had formal plans. Fast-forward to […]
Escaping a downdraft
By BILL SCHROEDER, MCFI The sky is clear, visibility is unlimited, and the early morning air is cool and calm. You decide to take that trip to the mountains that you have always wanted to do, but never seemed to have the time. You will be taking off from your sea level airfield and flying […]
Jurassic airplanes
By DAVID NIXON Maybe there is a little bit of the Stone Age hunter in me that makes me always on the look-out for airplanes in out-of-the-way places. I don’t really want another project. I have enough to keep me busy, but you never know if you’ll find something that someone else needs. I become […]
Trimming trees
GUEST EDITORIAL By Matthew Kiener “Any new ideas regarding the trees?” someone asked. A group had gathered to discuss, among other things, the trees at the end of several New Jersey runways, forcing the implementation of displaced thresholds. These trees are on adjacent properties and oftentimes the land owners are less than receptive to our […]
Ring Tail debuts
Takes ‘outstanding award’ at Sun ’n Fun By MARK STULL Lucky Stars III is my eighth original ultralight design, but my first with a tractor engine. It was a worthy challenge, significantly different from my previous designs, and includes a couple fun and interesting experiments. First flown in January, it was fabricated almost entirely from […]
It’s a small world
The past meets the present for a mechanic at a small GA airport By DAVID NIXON When you are around old airplanes you can’t help but feel part of the fabric of the past. When you grow up in a family that has old airplanes, that is even more apparent. When you work as airplane […]