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From the archives: Leighton Collins flies a 747 to Paris
Editor’s note: One of the most popular stories from the Air Facts archive is Leighton Collins’s spellbinding trip report from the cockpit of an early Boeing 707 on the way to Europe. This flight, in...
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HPN: a bird’s eye view, past and present
HPN was once a quiet airport surrounded by farms, as this 1947 photo shows. Airports are homes for planes. But of course they can be quite a bit more. My plane is based at Westchester County Airport...
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Will the Cuban Skyway come to life once again?
Not too long after the birth of aviation itself, a surging community was forming in Cuba. It was a community that dominated the tropical skies. And that congregated at airstrips scattered amongst the...
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Top 10 articles of 2015 at Air Facts
As we prepare for 2016, we’d like to take a moment to thank all of our dedicated readers and our pilot-authors for making 2015 the best year yet for Air Facts. We had over 800,000 visits to our site,...
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How do you report something that’s physically impossible?
This story emphasizes some flight testing done during the extensive development phase of Cessna’s twin jet T-37 Air Force trainer, but highlights a side issue undertaken having unexpected consequences....
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Visual or instrument approach? This one is both
Airline flying is supposed to be uneventful, one might even say boring. Maneuvers that make a pilot’s heart beat a bit faster with sheer enjoyment might stimulate a cardiac infarction in a passenger!...
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Stayin alive – 16 favorite aviation quotes
Stayin’ Alive is the name of a 1977 hit song by the Bee Gees. It was about life in the big city, and the radio stations played it so much I became thoroughly sick of it. It still airs occasionally. The...
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From the archives: Bob Buck gets a Boeing 707 check out
There is no real consciousness of the power of the 707, it is so quiet and smooth, the flight is effortless, the fantastic brute strength of our jet engines is not apparent, instead the strength to...
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Top 10 articles of all time on Air Facts
Which articles have been the most popular? Air Facts was founded in 1938, but we relaunched as an online magazine six years ago today. Since that time, over 300 pilots have shared their stories with...
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Planes, puns, and politics – who has a right to the Wrights?
A few hours of research into the controversy over who deserves credit for the first powered flight is all it takes for you to question the value of a free press. I suffered through the wordplay, and I...
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