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Competition in a man’s sport: top six women in early US flight
“There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying passengers between adjacent towns, from parcel...
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From the archives: Journey to Wichita
Editor’s note: One of the first articles published on Air Facts when we relaunched in 2011 was by Rob Buck, an accomplished pilot and son of the legendary airline captain Bob Buck. Osmosis Aviation was...
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From the archives: Len Morgan on airline flying
Editor’s note: Len Morgan was a legendary airline pilot and writer, but many readers may not know that he wrote for Air Facts before going on to Flying magazine. This article, from the December 1953...
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Getting past the ABCs
“Eddyville Ground, this is Cessna Four Four Romeo Papa with Information Lima at the terminal, ready for taxi.” “Four Romeo Papa, taxi to Runway Six Right, left on Delta, right on Charlie, left on...
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Remembering Saint-Ex.
70 years ago, on July 31, 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry took off on his last flight, from which he did not return. At 44, he was old for an operational pilot in World War II, and he was flying a fast,...
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From the archives: Bob Buck flies a Connie from LA to London
Editor’s note: Bob Buck was one of Air Facts’ most popular writers in the 1950s and 60s, beloved for his first-hand accounts of the changing airline world. Whether it was a Lockheed Constellation or a...
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Navigating in the old days
Flying in my little single-engine Cessna, my yoke mounted GPS unit gives me my exact position anywhere on the face of the earth, as well as a host of other valuable information and is a marvel of...
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Profiling works in solving airplane problems–usually
Profiling is, in this discussion, a procedure to narrow down the possible causes of a problem based on its location in the airplane and timing in the order of events in a flight, and then with...
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From the archives: Dick Collins on airline vs. GA flying
Editor’s note: In our latest trip through the Air Facts archives, we discovered this gem from the April 1965 issue. Here, a young Richard Collins considers the advantages and disadvantages of traveling...
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Four Merlins to Momote
On March 19, 1958, my crew was scheduled to fly a Lincoln heavy bomber from Townsville in Queensland, Australia, to the Admiralty Islands, 350 miles north of New Guinea. The Lincoln was a larger...
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The trip to Dong Den Mountain
Luxury hotels line the idyllic beach today. Forty-eight years ago, it was a bare sugar white expanse of sand and surf and the site of our crude Marine Corps helicopter base known as Marble Mountain Air...
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As we review 2014 at Air Facts, growth continues to be the major trend, with traffic nearly doubling in 2014 (after doubling in 2013 as well). We thank you for your loyalty and we welcome all the new...
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From the archives: to Hong Kong in a 707
Editor’s note: Once again the Air Facts archives offer a mesmerizing flying story from record-setting airline captain Bob Buck. In this article, from the March 1969 edition, Buck takes us from New York...
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Thanks for the landing
In my career I have flown with many flying instructors, and like most pilots, I remember my first flight quite vividly. It was in a Lockheed Hudson flown by Captain Harry Purvis AFC, and which took...
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How I came to be an ag pilot
Editor’s Note: Reader Dave Sandidge’s uncle, Bernard Threet, was an ag pilot in the Mississippi Delta region for many years. After his uncle’s recent death, Sandidge wanted to honor him by sharing the...
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Playing politics at 27,000 feet – a story from the South Pacific
Governments use power and political manoeuvring for the benefit of the country that include bilateral agreements and trade agreements for many products. A government “Aviation Product” is high on the...
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The low wing Cessna 170 – a great idea that didn’t fly
The three views, of the airplane described by the article title, that accompany this piece were taken from an “unofficial” board size drawing I knew I had stowed away somewhere around the house, but...
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From the archives: Leighton Collins on angle of attack, 1965
Editor’s note: This article, originally published in the May 1965 issue of Air Facts, is a companion to Richard Collins’s recent article on The three keys to flying safely. Here, Richard’s father...
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The Cessna Fanjet 310 – a half century ahead of its time, sort of…
Recently after I have submitted an article to Air Facts, I say to myself, “That’s it, I’m out of topics.” Then some current event, maybe even discovering a 1955 drawing in the garage closet, shocks me...
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Cessna during the glory days – a test pilot’s daughter remembers
Editor’s Note: On the 40th anniversary of the Citation in 2009, Fred George of Business & Commercial Aviation magazine wrote, “Milt Sills and J. L. LeSueur strapped into the first Cessna Citation...
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