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Tag Archives: airplanes
Making the Ship Go Faster
As with any organization, pilots can have a rather active, funny, ingenious, and sometimes sophisticated sense of humor. Most times, however, we can just be juvenile, according to our wives. A tale told during my Navy days probably has an … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flying
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Tagged 1-wire, airplanes, breach of discipline, catshot, discipline, glideslope, immediate action procedures, LSOs (Landing Signal Officers), military service, Navy, Pilot Humor on a Dark and Stormy Night, pilots, radar intercept officer (RIO), rounddown, sense of humor, shipboard humor, single-engine operations, sophisticated sense of humor, spud locker, The Air Boss, the marshal stack, the proverbial dark and stormy night, the quickness of a naval aviator's mind, Tomcat, Zone 5 afterburner
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The T-cart
Yesterday’s blog was about The Perfect Flying Machine. Today, it is about a very similar flying machine. The reason it is very similar is because the same aeronautical engineer, Clarence Gilbert Taylor, designed today’s airplane, the Taylorcraft. After the big … Continue reading →
The Perfect Flying Machine
Every time an airplane makes the news, someone makes a comment about the “Piper Cub.” Now the airplane might have been a Cessna 210, a Beechcraft A-36, maybe even a King Air, but for many in the public, if the … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Aviation History, Flying
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Tagged airplanes, Beechcraft A-36, Boeing 700 series airliner, Bradford PA, Cessna 210, Clarence Gilbert Taylor, Continental A-40 engine, Continental A-65 engine, flying, J-2 Cub, King Air, learning to fly, Piper J-3 Cub, student pilots, taildraggers, Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corporation, Taylor E-2 Cub, The Perfect Flying Machine, the “Piper Cub”, training aircraft, William T. Piper
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Luvin' Speed
Speed is a very relative concept. Airplanes go fast – and slow. Many consider sailboats slow, but yachtsmen can sail them fast. Cars simply take forever to get anywhere, unless the driver is a teenager. Then it is probably just … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flying, Personal
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Tagged airline pilot, airliners, airplanes, crazy drivers, go fast, jetstream, low-level attack pilot, Luvin' Speed, military, Navy, pulling g, risk management, sailboats, speed, teenagers
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Luvin’Speed
Speed is a very relative concept. Airplanes go fast – and slow. Many consider sailboats slow, but yachtsmen can sail them fast. Cars simply take forever to get anywhere, unless the driver is a teenager. Then it is probably just … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flying, Personal
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Tagged airline pilot, airliners, airplanes, crazy drivers, go fast, jetstream, low-level attack pilot, Luvin' Speed, military, Navy, pulling g, risk management, sailboats, speed, teenagers
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The Art of Climbing
Getting to altitude involves more than crawling into an airplane, starting the engine, and pointing the nose up. Pilots must consider many aspects factoring into the initial climb and the following ascent to cruise altitude. Some of these include the … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flight Instructing, Flying, Teaching
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Tagged airplanes, altitude, best angle of climb, best rate of climb, clear an obstacle, cruise altitude, cruise climb, failure to maintain flying speed, Flight instructors, flying, getting to altitude, headwind, initial climb, learning to fly, NTSB accident reports, other climb techniques, private pilot, short field take off, soft field take off, spins, stalls, student pilots, tailwind, The Art of Climbing, Vx, Vy
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A Very Pleasant Surprise
One wonderful thing about airplanes is that each has a lesson to teach. All a new or old pilot has to do to learn the lessons of an airplane is keep his or her eyes and ears open. The airplane … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flying, Life in General, Personal
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Tagged a lot of fun, A Very Pleasant Surprise, airplanes, Cessnas, especially delightful, flying around the patch, lessons to teach, Phantom II ultra-light, phenomenal climb rate, pilots, power loading, regrets, selling airplanes, shockingly short takeoffs, the wind on my face, warping wings, weight shift, what flying is all about, wing loading
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Airplanista – A New Aviation Magazine
Heads-up: a new aviation electronic magazine is set to break out on Friday, October 1 and you really should make sure to check out the first issue. Airplanista is the brain-child of Dan Pimentel, an aviator from Oregon who has … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flying, Life in General, Publishing, Reading, Writing
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Tagged airplanes, Airplanista, aviation magazine, aviation photography, aviation stories, electronic magazine, flying articles
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More Treasures of The Garage
First it was the Dzus key, then the old high school yearbooks. Then we hit the mother lode. We found some very important old photos for which I had been searching for a long time. I shot these photos as … Continue reading →
Posted in Flight Instructing, Flying, Life in General, Personal
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Tagged 1959 Cessna 150, aerodynamics, airplanes, Charlie’s Airport, Continental engine, how to fly, N6269H, old high school yearbooks, old photographs, Piper J-3 Cubs, private pilot checkride, rebuilding a Cub, Treasures of The Garage
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Airplane smell
My logbook starts early on a Saturday morning on the last day of July 1971, the year I graduated from high school. I had been driving around out in the country looking for an old man named Charlie and he … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flight Instructing
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Tagged airplane smell, airplanes, fabric airplanes, first flight lesson;, learning to fly, old airplanes, taildraggers
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