Lonnie Mings submitted the following photo and note: “My wife’s first ride in our 1983 Beechcraft Sierra. Leaving home in Panama City, Florida, heading to Tallahassee to watch grandkids graduate from the University of Florida in Gainesville.” Would you like to have your photo featured as Picture of the Day? You can submit it via […]
A different kind of scholarship
If just 10% of active CFIs took on the challenge of training one student a year for free, that could result in as many as 5,000 new pilots each year.
Pilot flies to all 108 Oklahoma airports
“With some airports very close, switching frequencies, finding the airport, and scanning for traffic kept me on my toes.”
The sky was his church
“My grandpa told me the sky was his church, the place he felt the presence of a higher being.”
P-51 reunion planned for Oshkosh, along with tribute to Bud Anderson
The World War II ace will be saluted during this year’s Oshkosh.
Association teams with flight school to offer scholarships
Deadline is May 10 to apply for the scholarships.
Post-maintenance flight fatal for pilot
Probable cause: The pilot’s failure to identify the alternate runway, to perform a timely precautionary landing, and to maintain airplane control. Contributing to the accident was the failure of the left engine due to oil starvation for reasons that could not be determined based on the postaccident examination.
Picture of the Day: Rarely seen
Ricardo Kabalan submitted the following photo and note: “We were flying an air ambulance, a Piper Seneca III, crossing the Colombian Andes Mountains and this active volcano (Nevado del Huila) was welcoming photos. Rarely seen without clouds.” Would you like to have your photo featured as Picture of the Day? You can submit it via […]
Golden Knights Gusto
What’s it like to go up to 12,500′ with the Golden Knights?