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This is a non profit organization that my family has been involved with since it's inception. They do excellent work by providing flight training and carreer training scholarships for people with disabilities. At least one third of their scholarships go to wounded veterans. We have met a lot of...

Stephany Glassing became the newest Able Flight pilot today by earning her Sport Pilot Certificate in a Sky Arrow 600 Sport equipped with adaptive hand controls. She took her check ride with Don Jones at Western Carolina (RHP) today. She said she felt like she can accomplish anything now...

Is anybody going to the Heart of America Sport Aviation Classic in Warrensberg, MO (KRCM) this week? We arrived this evening. I'll be here through Saturday at least. It's the first year for this event so I have little info on how it will turn out. I'll be hanging out around the Comet and Sky...

I delivered Hansen Air Group's Fk9 N156WP to Purdue University field in Lafayette, IN on Thursday. Delivered Sky Arrow N445SA on Saturday and checked out two instructors. These two aircraft along with Sky Arrow N448SA from Philly sport Pilot will be used to train six students in the Able...

just got back from the Able Flight Fund Raiser in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Morgan Freeman is co-owmer of the Ground Zero Blues Club there and agreed to host a party for major sponsors and donors. Sennheiser and Bombardier also sponsored the event. We had 8 of the 20 finished scholarship...

Anybody else headed to the U.S. Light Sport Expo?

I took my nephew for flight as a present for his tenth birthday. I gave him a choice of of the FK 9, Sky Arrow or FK 12 Comet. He chose the Comet. Smart boy!! We took off and did some Lazy eights over Lake Allatoona, saw the collapsed railroad bridge and indian fish traps in the Etowah river...

My good friend Charles Stites started a website featuring people and nonprofit organizations that use general aviation "For Good". Some good stories. Check them out and be sure to contact him if you have any suggestions. I know he would appreciate it. http://www.flyingforgood.com/

Got back from the Light Sport Expo in Sebring, Fl on Sunday evening. I took a few pictures and posted them in an album. Lot's of cool stuff. I really liked a Feisler Storch LSA. Piper was there a couple of days but pulled out after they got rid of all their t-shirts. Of course my personal...

Twenty years ago today. http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20110116/OPINION0106/101150334/Retired-Col-Warren-Ward-Longest-combat-flight-to-Iraq-began-ended-at-Barksdale http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20110116/NEWS10/110111018/Fate-of-Secret-Squirrel-bombers-crews Record setting...

Was priviledged to fly this gentleman from KBOI to KORD last week. Major Bernie Fisher, USAF. We were loading up when a retired AF chaplain recognized him in the gate area and mentioned his name to our flight attendant and the fact that he was a MOH winner. She mentioned it to me and I...

Cool little piece about my Dad and his magic can o' parts on page 4 of the April 20th edition of GA news. http://issuu.com/flyermedia/docs/20100420 I also made the cover of GA News for the second time on April 6. :D Couple of nice articles by our friend Meg Goldlewski on pages 10 and 11...

Is anybody else going to the the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, FL? I'm heading out early Wednesday from KRYY and will be there til the show closes on Sunday. Will be at the Hansen Air Group booth most of the time. Stop by and say hello if you come to the show. Mitch

Telemundo is broadcasting it's video music show from a hangar at Miami, Dade airport. There's a Hawker, Citation and Jet Ranger in the backround. It's hard to tell if there are anymore with all the latinas dancing around. Interesting alternate use of hangar space. I wish the english speaking...

It's a very sad day at ORD today. United is flying the last revenue flights of the 737 fleet after 41 years of service. Nose number 9931 left IAD this morning for ORD. While it was at gate C-24 in ORD waiting for the flight to DEN, my captain and I took our own nostalgia tour since we had both...

Just added an album to my profile. Dad brought back a brand new FK 9 Mark IV SLSA from South Fl yesterday. It's a cool little plane. Unfortunately, I won't get to fly it til next week since it left this morning for the Midwest Light Sport Expo in Mount Vernon, IL. The Expo runs through...

Able Flight is holding a winging ceremony on Tuesday, the 28th at the Fly4Life tent in Aeroshell Square at 11:30. Recent Able Flight graduates will get their wings from special guests Patty Wagstaff, Miles O'Brien, and Mike Goulian. We are trying to get as many of the previous graduates there...

Matt Hansen and Jessica Scharle completed the first leg and just took off on the second leg of their attempt to set a record for a coast to coast speed record in a Light Sport Aircraft (LSA). They made pretty good time and seemed eager to get back in the air when I talked to Matt During the...

Here is an excerpt from an ALPA release explaining what the TSA has to say about the WT article. ...In stark contrast to an op-ed article in today’s edition (March 17, 2009) of the Washington Times, that claims “…President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public...

Howdy All! Here is a link to Able Flight's March News letter. https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:31185.1789555891/rid:666d1b6c93c242746d8118ec71aea801 If that doesn't work, go to www.ableflight.org . I got to do a pre solo check with Jeremy. A great stick. Way to go...