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My bride and I, last night, were talking about the first flight I made after 9-11. This came up for we had met earlier in the day another writer who wanted to know when I began to put my book together. My bride answered, "He began the book project just after he first was able to fly after the...

Yesterday was one of those days that everything just seemed to fit. My Bride and I were scheduled to fly and as we began our day with the sun coming up she said; "When will you make the decision to fly" I told her as soon as we check the weather and of course do the preflight etc. She asked...

Early last spring I began my transitiion to flying planes in the LSA category. My Bride asked me to take her flying when I felt comfortable flying this new class. I had flown the older planes such at the Cub and Champ many years ago but I wanted to fly the new stuff just to see how the new...

In early 1963 I was working hard on getting my Commercial Rating. I was working the begining stages of the Instrument Rating as well when my duties at the airport allowed me the time and of course my instructor's time. He was one of the gentlelist pilot's I every flew with. He was fingertips...

When my bride and I were at OSH in the Author's Corner, we met many very nice writers who along with us were there with their books. One very talented writer Monika Petrillo brought her video "Flyabout". It is a wonderful story about her and her dad flying together around Austrialia. She...

In April of 2002 my bride (wife we have been married for a some time but she is always my bride) and I began the long process of moving out of New England to Maryland. I had been there for almost 31 years and really enjoyed it a lot. But the long winters were getting old and pulling a plane...

I have a wonderful neighbor who I met 4 months ago. He is only 11 and yet I have learned so much from him.. His name is Kyle and is 11 years old. He has in his short life being at the helm of a Deadrize fishihng boat on the Chesapeake Bay. He has made small engines from sand molds and races...

In early October of 1962 my mom asked me if I could fly her to Chapel Hill in NC to visit a professional reference to help her get a teaching position at the U of MD. She had always wanted to teach and do research at the Univerisity level. My mom just a few months before had moved to the DC...

June 27,2008 is a day that is very close in memory to the date I first soloed so long ago. It is a day where I soloed again in the new LSA class. For a few years I could not fly due to having a very busy "Day Job" and many home needs helping to take care of my mother-in-law. My bride this...

AirVenture will be a whole new experience for me and my bride. I have been there twice before as a guest and enthusiast. This time we are going as Participants for the event. We have been invited to participate as authors at the Author's Corner for AirVenture. We wrote a book called "John The...

The last note I wrote was my first instructional flight in a T-Craft that challenged me to solo it when I became 16 in 1960. I first flew the T-Craft when I was 15 and took most of my flying lessons in that bird. This T-Craft seemed to have a personality that if one was real careful it would...

Many small Book Stores have so many aviation treasures. Where I live and yes write and talk to the fishermen and yes have lots of fun, there is a small treasure here. It is a book store that has lots of Marine or Nautical books, but the best part they have some really nice Aviation book finds...

Plane Crazy is a really nice story by Burton Bernstein. It was published in 1985 by Ticknor & Fields, New York. The illustrations are so amazing for they go so well with the text. Edward Koren is the illustrator and he has done so many with the New Yorker Magazine. It is a fun read and nice...

I finally got my scrap book out and found a brief set of notes that I wrote in pencile about my first hour of flight instruction. I will never forget that day. It is so sharp in mymind as I look at my log and scrap book. My first log entry occured on April 18, 1959, just three days after I...

As I was rummage around getting my books finally unpacked after the books livedfor 2.5 years in boxes I found a gem that I read in the late 1980' s. Some or many of you know this one. Mooney Pilots really know this one. It really is great reading and FUN. It was written in 1985 as told by Al...

I was finally am getting all my flying books out the boxes and found this one. It is " I Could Be So Lucky Again" by Jimmy Doolittle. It is not a fast read for it is very full of a long life of flying and aviation firsts by the author. I found this book in the mid 1990s in the Brattle Book...

Just got this note from the American Bonanza Society (ABS) late yesterday. He will be missed a lot for many of us learned so much from his very long flight experience. John Miller, 1905-2008 ABS is sad to report that John M. Miller passed away Monday, June 23, at the age of 102. From...

With a lot of encouragement and passion to write, I with my bride got our first book published late last year. My wife who loves aviation, is my art director and editor on this project. The book is titled "John, The Airport Kid". It is a very possitive short story about a teenager who lives...

I was just unpacking boxes of books today and found this book that I have not seen for a long time. It is called "Wings Over Alaska; The Story of Carl Ben Eielson" , by Edward A. Herron. It was first published in 1959 by Julian Messner Publishers. It is a nice reading story about early aviation...

I have reread a wonderful book called "Flight of the Gin Fizz" Why is it so so good and much like Ernests book "High and the Mightys. It is a book that was written 10 years ago and it is full of passion. Kisor who in the book is a deaf pilot that can read lips and sign language flew the route...