Taking Wing

The last post reminded me of another post I wrote over three years ago entitled "Good Captain, Bad Captain." At the time I was a ...

The traveling public's aviation knowledge often seems to be solely informed by 50 year old black-and-white movies. I can't really bl...

Walk through any airport anywhere in the world and you will find pilots trudging through the terminal with their rollaboards and flight kits...

I got into flying at a very early age. I'm not sure exactly how old I was when I abandoned my interest in trains for an obsession with a...

For the most part, I don't particularly care where I lay over. I bid my schedule primarily for efficiency, number of days off, weekends ...

In the summer of 1993, a family friend took me flying in his 1946 Piper Clipper. It was only my second flight ever, but I was already mad ab...

An old aviation axiom is that when considering how aircraft stay aloft, one should forget all that garbage about Bernoulli and Newton - airp...