Recently added articles from Airpower:
The 'dumbing up' of America's Airlines.(travelling on a bad weather day)(Editorial)
Sep 01, 2006; ... It's Friday afternoon and I'm sitting in a brand new Sikorsky S-76B jet helicopter flying over the Canarsie section of Brooklyn at 140 knots and looking down at literally acres of taillights on the Belt Parkway 1,000 feet below. Giddy with the satisfaction that I'm beating all those poor ...
Instrument panel in the buff.(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2006; ... Editor Mike Machat's creative talent as an artist is reflected in the photo on page 38 of the July 2006 AIRPOWER entitled "A fist full of throttles" showing crew worksheets and forms stuck into the narrow space behind the throttle quadrant. It demonstrates how pilots find niches here and ...
Albert ball saga continues.(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2006; ... I don't know if I've mentioned it before, but I keep in touch with the Albert Ball family. I received a sad email from them stating that the old gentleman who did the work on all the Ball material for my article in the July 2005 issue of AIRPOWER passed away in an RAF hospital. His ...
Catch-22 for the F-20.(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2006; ... After reading the June 2006 WINGS article "TIGERSHARK" by Wayne Peterson, it reminded me of one of my favorite aviation author's who really put the whole F-20 saga into perspective. Retired U.S. Navy Admiral Paul T. Gillcrist had a chapter in his book Vulture's Row, coincidentally called ...
Douglas mystery surprise.(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2006; ... Regarding the reply of Jon Proctor in your July 2006 AIRPOWER, I think most of his observations concerning his slide may be true including the "round corners" of the windows he is using to identify the plane in question as a DC-2. However, having now looked at 75-100 pictures of DC-2s and ...