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A number of years ago a Comanche made a forced landing on a Burbank street. There was no fire, and the occupants all walked away. A fireman, with TV microphone thrust in front of his face, said, “Those passengers were very lucky there was no fuel in the tanks …. “

I learned to fly at Fullerton in the mid 1960s. -X2-1/2HK was routine. Occasionally FUL tower would call three-mile visibility, but maybe it was a "wink-wink, nudge-nudge" kind of thing because they wanted some action too. In the hazy afternoons, back before the localizer, the final approach...

Shortly after I got my new Sport Cub in 2008 I noticed a TV news crew set up on the home drome ….

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Years since solo: 56 (47% of the history of flight since Kitty Hawk) Total Hours: 4,646.6 PIC: 4,415.1 X-C: 3,120.8 Complex PIC: 922.6 High Performance PIC: 850.4 Tailwheel PIC: 310.8 Instruction Given: 576.7 IMC: 113.7 Night: 278.5 Types Flown (by ICAO designator): 40 Aircraft Owned...

That's what they want you to think ...

What if my vehicle's extended warranty expires before this gets fixed??

"Interesting" persona online, very pleasant fellow in person. Had a beer with him in a little pub in Coronado CA in 2007.

This one hurts. Not only was Randy Sparks, who died Sunday at the age of 90, an innovative and creative genius in the music business, he was a close friend. Randy was a prolific songwriter and up-and-coming folksinger in the late 1950s and early 1960s, performing in clubs and venues up and...

The nearest A&P ...

This was USAF. Happened right here in the neighborhood, at Luke AFB.

A little different view for Arizona -- a cloudy morning for a local sightseeing flight west of Phoenix. You might have seen the national TV ads recently for United Airlines' "Aviate" academy. It's based at my home field GYR (Goodyear AZ), having taken over the facilities and Cirrus SR20...

GAMA member manufacturers agreed to standardize on knots in the mid 1970s. Piper switched to knots as the primary scale on the ASI and in the performance charts in 1977, the last year of Cherokee 140 production.

Looking forward to the first report!

New Years Eve in Arizona ...

While flying my Citabria I've had controllers address me as "Helicopter xxxxx." Now I know a Citabria is slow, but ... Actually the issue is that the Citabria's type designator is 'CH7A', which at first glance looks like it might belong to a large helicopter.

I've heard a lot of pilots of experimentals who think that "Experimental" should be used on the radio instead of the aircraft type. Not so; FAR 91.319(d)(3) only says the pilot "must notify the control tower of the experimental nature of the aircraft." Funny story about that ... AerSale has...