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Senior contributor Bill Cox made his first international trip in 1977, flying a new Piper...
Read MoreSenior contributor Bill Cox made his first international trip in 1977, flying a new Piper...
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Aviation writer/photographer and pilot Bill Cox has been in love with airplanes since...
Read MoreThey’re the words every instrument pilot dreads: “Cleared for the back-course approach.” Yes, I...
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P-51 Thunder Mustang. Photo by Chris Leipelt The sound is unmistakable. Today, I’d recognize that...
Read MoreLightspeed Zulu aviation headset. Photo courtesy of Lightspeed Aviation I was tired. No, beyond...
Read MoreFormation flight needn’t be terrifying or dangerous, provided you stay loose Spitfires in...
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P-38 Glacier Girl on display at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012. Photo courtesy of EAA Famed airplane...
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Later this year, JP Media LLC will publish a book by longtime pilot and writer Bill Cox entitled “My Sky: The Flights & Times of Bill Cox.” It will detail his lifelong travels as a pilot, in the beautifully scripted way in which only Bill can write. This is Chapter 1.
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Evidence that the Piper Cherokee 180 may be the world’s simplest airplane to fly is more than anecdotal.
Read MoreVFR flying can be more difficult than you might imagine. Investigators study accident statistics...
Read MoreNight flying can be profitable. Back in the day when I was young and stupid, long before I...
Read More3 Tricks to Trim Fuel Costs I have a friend who owns a 36 Bonanza, and though his airplane has always been a dozen or so knots faster than mine, he’s consistently envied my bird’s lower fuel burn. At max cruise settings, Bob’s...
Read MoreForty years ago, the goal was 200 mph. Today, it’s 200 knots. Fast feels good. For those of us obsessed with clocking along at the velocity of a Lamborghini, speed is the kinesthetic equivalent of beauty. Unfortunately, speed in...
Read MoreKeeping track of the time/speed/distance equation is only part of fuel management. It was the Christmas holiday, and I was on my way back from the Bahamas to Venice, Florida. Joe Ponte, public relations director of Piper, had...
Read MoreFar from menacing monsters, mountains can be your best friends. The Pan American Highway threads its way steeply uphill out of Santiago, Chile, climbing into the rarified air of South America’s high Andes. The road rises with...
Read MoreLearning to fly is a big investment, but the payback can outstrip the cost by a factor of several thousand. Pete runs a dental practice and learned to fly so he could transport his family back and forth to his vacation retreat...
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Featured Plane Piper’s Iconic J-3 Cub Floyd Threet was one of the more senior members of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) squadron on Merrill Field in Anchorage, Alaska, when I signed up as a Cadet in 1953. Threet owned perhaps the...
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Featured Plane Seneca V Little Big Twin When most twins disappeared in the ‘80s, the Piper Seneca soldiered on. Twenty years later, it’s one of only four piston multis still in production. Right up front, at the risk of...
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Featured Plane A Tale of Two Cubs Born in the ‘30s when airplanes were simpler and tougher, the Cub became an icon of aviation. It was both joyous and sad—and totally unexpected. I was in Florida on editorial business when I...
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Featured Plane The Piper Dakota: Piper’s answer to the Skylane was well worth the investment Let’s say you manufacture a line of general aviation airplanes that’s fairly competitive with most anything on the market. You’ve been...
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