Eight Enlightening Travel Tips for the 21st Century Traveler
Senior contributor Bill Cox made his first international trip in 1977, flying a new Piper...
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Read MoreThey’re the words every instrument pilot dreads: “Cleared for the back-course approach.” Yes, I...
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P-51 Thunder Mustang. Photo by Chris Leipelt The sound is unmistakable. Today, I’d recognize that...
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Lightspeed Zulu aviation headset. Photo courtesy of Lightspeed Aviation I was tired. No, beyond...
Read MoreFormation flight needn’t be terrifying or dangerous, provided you stay loose Spitfires in...
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P-38 Glacier Girl on display at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012. Photo courtesy of EAA Famed airplane...
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Later this year, JP Media LLC will publish a book by longtime pilot and writer Bill Cox entitled “My Sky: The Flights & Times of Bill Cox.” It will detail his lifelong travels as a pilot, in the beautifully scripted way in which only Bill can write. This is Chapter 1.
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This 1979 pressurized Cessna 210 owned by John Wingfield was our June 2019 cover plane. Photo by...
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One of the consistent positive reviews always goes to the Cessna 140. Like so many Cessnas that followed it, the diminutive 140 is almost universally regarded as one of the best airplanes of its type and vintage. The 140 wins rave reviews not because it does any one thing better than any other model but because it does everything well. In short, its among the best at being average or better.
Read MoreThe hard reality of twin-engine accidents is that the vast majority are a function of loss of...
Read MoreVFR flying can be more difficult than you might imagine. Investigators study accident statistics...
Read MoreNight flying can be profitable. Back in the day when I was young and stupid, long before I...
Read MoreKeeping track of the time/speed/distance equation is only part of fuel management. It was the Christmas holiday, and I was on my way back from the Bahamas to Venice, Florida. Joe Ponte, public relations director of Piper, had...
Read MoreI have a friend who owns a 36 Bonanza, and though his airplane has always been a dozen or so knots faster than mine, he’s consistently envied my bird’s lower fuel burn. At max cruise settings, Bob’s A36 will truck along at a...
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Cessna’s top-of-the-line high wing cruiser, now out of production since 1986, still merits a second look. My friends, the Cabots, formerly of Princeton, Massachusetts, have had a predilection for 210s since I met them in the...
Read MoreWhen I was learning to fly back in the 1960s, Wolfgang Langewiesche’s seminal book, Stick & Rudder, and William Kershner’s series of aviation training manuals were the standards by which other systems were measured. And they...
Read MoreFar from menacing monsters, mountains can be your best friends. The Pan American Highway threads its way steeply uphill out of Santiago, Chile, climbing into the rarified air of South America’s high Andes. The road rises with...
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One of the few Cessnas with a geared engine, the 175 may have been ahead of its time – or maybe not. I almost expected the gauge to jump out of the panel and land in my lap. Too many years of watching tachometers redlined at...
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Living proof that if it looks good, it’ll fly well! There are a few airplanes that are nothing less than beautiful in flight. Never mind the paint job; any airplane can benefit from an artistically designed paint scheme....
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Yes, your honor, I admit it. I was once and still remain a speed freak—the more the better! When I...
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