The process of natural selection is still at work in aviation. While I’d like to see all student pilots get their license, here’s one goofball that deserves to be grounded until pigs fly. Per...
https://wilko.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/not-following-the-checklist/
A tight fit. Good thing the wings fold. Why be ordinary you can really stand out among your neighbors. A German company named ” Style your Garage ” makes posters for the garage door. Prices...
https://wilko.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/theres-a-jet-in-my-garage/
German builds world’s largest-small airport Six years to build and almost $4 million dollars later, the worlds smallest airport was put into operation. The Knuffingen Airport, based on Hamburg�...
https://wilko.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/honey-i-shrunk-the-flughafen/
On October 30, 1935, at Wright Air Field in Dayton , Ohio , the U.S. Army Air Corps held a flight competition for airplane manufacturers vying to build its next-generation long-range bomber. It w...
https://wilko.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/origin-of-the-pilots-checklist/
Yesterday’s incident involving the captain of a JetBlue flight underscores why there are at least two people on the flight deck during commercial flights. The captain was locked out of the cock...
Losing a Friend The news came as a shock. I made the connection between “missing man formation” and Lex LeFon with disbelief, hoping that it meant something else. After opening the comments s...
https://wilko.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/requiem-for-a-fighter-pilot/
Upside down at 100 feet off the deck is not a good time or place to be slow applying the solution to the situation. We try to make sure they are ready for September. “Shifty” Peairs, Reno Rac...
The perfect cross-country trip combines a great flight with a great destination. So what better plan than to head to Wisconsin on a bright CAVU morning to the American Champion Aircraft factory...
https://wilko.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/an-american-champion/
That’s a long way without a motor. Sailplane pilot Gordon Boettger, of Minden, Nevada, broke his own Northern Hemisphere soaring record on May 31 by flying a total distance of 1,401 miles in hi...
A Man’s Home is His Castle Hangar Great effort but planning could have been better. Reeves spent the past nine years building a two-seat airplane in the basement of hisCumberlandCountyhome. T...
https://wilko.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/the-one-airplane-basement/