Personally, I’ve often wondered how an airplane would be designed if Orville and Wilbur had started their efforts today.
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A global company with a grassroots presence
While ASA is a company that sells to pilots around the world, it is also a small, family-owned U.S.-based business.
Forget the $100 hamburger: Flying to play disc golf
Taylorcraft pilot Kevin Brooker combines two of his passions: Flying and disc golf.
Because flying is supposed to be cool
Over the years, pilots have come up with a number of ways to block the sun on the flight deck. Knowing there was a better way, airline pilot Lenny Abraham came up with Just Plane Shades, which are now available for a variety of general aviation aircraft.
Family brings the future into reality
The Wright brothers did the impossible, which then became the improbable. Eventually transitioning into the realm of the mundane with flights being so common, safe, and affordable that virtually everyone you or I know has flown. That wasn’t true when I was a kid. It was absolute fantasy when Orville was a child.
ASA releases new resource for CFIs
Aviation Supplies & Academics (ASA) has released “The Pilots In Command Student Workbook,” a free instructor resource for CFIs using the book “Pilots In Command: Your Best Trip, Every Trip” for their courses.
Keep the antiques flying!
Welcome to Antique Airfield in Blakesburg, Iowa, home of the Antique Aircraft Association (AAA). The organization, whose motto is “Keep the Antiques Flying,” hosted its 70th national fly-in Aug. 29-Sept. 4, 2023, and I was here to take it all in.
10 tips for a successful introductory flight
Many comparisons can be drawn between an airplane and a snake. One of the more benign is how getting close to either both fascinates and frightens people all within a heartbeat. I’ve raised snakes and flown airplanes and over the years I’ve learned that there’s just one goal in introducing either to the public: Make people want to have a close-up experience with them again.
There’s an acronym for that
Aviation is awash in acronyms and abbreviations. Thankfully so. To spell out the entire word, term, or phrase the acronym or abbreviation symbolizes would be unwieldy. But some pilots, and even CFIs, think we use too many acronyms.