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 attendant...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...