How People Like Yourself Are Changing the Aviation Industry
OpenAirForEveryone About 10 years ago, I set out to write a book. It sort of started as a family joke when I was a kid and my maternal grandfather proclaimed, “If I wrote a book about my life, I’d have to sell it as science fiction!” Over the years, I amassed a number of interesting stories and … Read more…
As a flight instructor, we routinely inundate our students with emergency procedures. File a flight plan, carry appropriate survival gear and equipment, properly preflight and check all systems, use your seatbelt, fly the airplane first, aviate, navigate and communicate, find the best place to land clear of obstacles, use emergency checklist if time permits, crack … Read more…
I remember when I was in high school. I loved to sit at the flight simulator on the PC and explore the different airports and cities. I wondered if they looked the same in real life. What was it like to fly in a real plane? At a family picnic, I saw a small airplane … Read more…
We all know the airplane was ‘invented’ in the USA. However, this is only partially true. The scientific discoveries that led to the invention of the airplane date back centuries. News and information back then travelled slowly. As all the pieces were coming together in the late 1800’s, several countries had already been working on … Read more…
It isn’t very often that you get to write about your own death. Ok, spoiler alert, I didn’t really die, in or out of the airplane, but I did get to experience what it would have been like if I had. Here’s what happened. In 2006 I owned an RV-4 aircraft and was recently between … Read more…