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Meg Godlewski

Around the world in a KR2

By Meg Godlewski · November 15, 2015 ·

“My plan is not to plan.” These are the words and advice that Colin Hales offers to would-be adventurers who are toying with the idea of flying their airplane around the world. “Just get in your airplane and go — figure it out along the way,” he adds. Hales, 45, who hails from Oxfordshire, England, may sound like […]

The Groppo Trail: The LSA world’s best kept secret

By Meg Godlewski · October 28, 2015 ·

The Trail is available as a ready-to-fly LSA with the Rotax 912 ULS. Price with the standard panel is $74,900, while it is $77,900 with the electronic panel.

Teenager restores vintage plane to award-winning condition

By Meg Godlewski · October 1, 2015 ·

Most people spend their teenage years planning their future. But Dillon Barron, who just turned 20 in June, spent a good portion of his teen years with an eye to the past as he restored a 1950’s-era Cessna 170B to fresh-from-the-factory condition. Dillon and his father Mike made the trip to this year’s SUN ‘n FUN […]

Flying Just Aircraft’s SuperSTOL Stretch XL

By Meg Godlewski · September 17, 2015 ·

How do you improve on a popular backcountry aircraft design? If you are the folks at Just Aircraft, you make it larger and with the ability to support a more powerful engine. That best describes Just Aircraft’s SuperSTOL Stretch XL. The red high-wing, tailwheel-equipped airplane mounted on tundra tires stole the show when it debuted […]

Educating the public — and pilots — about RPAs

By Meg Godlewski · June 9, 2015 ·

Can you imagine ordering an aircraft off the Internet, then learning to fly it by trial and error without knowledge of physics, weather or airspace? That’s what’s happening when people buy Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), also referred to as drones or unmanned aerial systems (UAS). These non-commercial RPAs can range in size from under five […]

Wrong frequency, wrong runway

By Meg Godlewski · May 29, 2015 ·

The student pilot reported that he was flying the Piper Cherokee from Oklahoma to California in pursuit of employment opportunities. During that trip, he attempted a night landing at an unattended airport in Cottonwood, Ariz., in order to refuel. During the approach he was unable to activate the runway lights via radio. He made one […]

Solberg Airport wins in court

By Meg Godlewski · May 28, 2015 ·

Score one for Solberg-Hunterdon Airport (KN51), the embattled privately owned, public use airport in Readington Township, New Jersey. On May 4, Superior Court Judge Paul W. Armstrong dismissed the township’s lawsuit to acquire the development rights to the airport through eminent domain. Eminent domain is the power to take private property for public use by […]

VFR into IFR kills two

By Meg Godlewski · May 28, 2015 ·

The private pilot had logged 175.7 hours, including18.1 hours in the Cessna 182 prior to the crash. He obtained an abbreviated weather briefing, filed an IFR flight plan and took off on a cross-country flight to Fredericksburg, Texas. The pilot was accompanied by his wife. The purpose of the flight was to celebrate their wedding […]

Slow approach leads to fatal stall

By Meg Godlewski · May 27, 2015 ·

The private pilot of the Cessna 170, 59, had logged 476.2 total flight hours, including 432.1 hours in the Cessna 170, including 3.75 hours in the previous 90 days. A friend of the pilot said he saw the Cessna 170 enter the traffic pattern at the airport in Auburn, Calif., but didn’t watch the full […]

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