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by Beverly Durfee on September 11, 2006
In memory ...
american airlines Flight 11:
John Ogonowski, pilot
Thomas McGuinness, first officer
Barbara Jean Arestegui,flight attendant
Jeffrey Collman, flight attendant
Sara Low, flight attend...
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by on July 8, 2005
I got a chance to fly yesterday, a business trip, on a short jaunt from my hometown to a location about an hour away. I'm a fair-weather pilot and there were some remnants of tropical storm Cindy...
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by on May 21, 2005
I finally got a chance to take my sons flying today. My eldest, Alan, age 23, had flown a couple of times, once commercially and once on his 21st birthday when he took a weekend parachuting course an...
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by on April 21, 2005
I grew up in a rural area in central Mississippi. (Of course, almost all of Mississippi is rural.) There was a businessman in my town, Tommy Rose, who loved aviation with all his heart. If you looked...
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by on April 4, 2005
It's spring in my neck of the woods and that means flying weather. (Well, it is everywhere according to the calendar. But I mean it really IS spring here.) I got the opportunity to go up and take ...
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by on March 7, 2005
Don't ask me why, but I've fallen in love with the Ercoupe. Maybe it's because in it's day it was touted as the safest plane in the air, stall-proof in fact. Though I'd have to se...
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by on March 7, 2005
I got the opportunity to go flying Saturday. It was a beautiful spring-like day here with almost clear skies. Some cirrus clouds were all that was in the sky.
I have to confess that Im a low-time (...
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