Plane and Pilot back issues from December 2008:
The Sky's Not The Limit
Dec 01, 2008; ... I First met Lina Borozdina at Oshkosh in 2005, when Richard Branson and Burt Rutan announced a joint venture between Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites to manufacture a fleet of suborbital spacecrafts intended for space tourism. Lina, a biochemist who had mortgaged her home to purchase a ...
Letters
Dec 01, 2008; ... Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due "YIPPEE: Evolution OfA Thoroughbred" by Bill Cox [October 2008] provided an interesting update on the LoPresti Fury's progress over the last 20 years. Omitted, however, was at least a snapshot of the first 40 years of this timeless airframe: the postwar ...
CubCrafters Abroad
Dec 01, 2008; ... Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority has granted CubCrafters' CC18-180 Top Cub type certification, which allows new, certified, ready-to-fly Cubs to be delivered to customers in Australia for the first time. The Top Cub was certified in the States in December 2004; it received type ...
Product previews
Dec 01, 2008; ... * Stocking Stuffers For Warbird Lovers Since 1994, Lost Squadron has been producing high-quality adventure/ warbird clothing. Featuring iconography that includes depictions of storied warbird squadrons, such as the six P-38s (and two B-17s) buried beneath a thick layer of ice on a ...
In Print & On DVD
Dec 01, 2008; ... 1 Attitude Flying with Dick Rutan: Volume One of the Aviator Series DVD (Fly Right Films, 2008, ISBN: 89708600200). Three years in the making, the Aviator Series made its premier at AirVenture 2008 with Volume One, in which Rutan explains, dissects and demonstrates the challenges and secrets of ...
P & P NOTAMS
Dec 01, 2008; ... PLANE & PILOT'S GUIDE TO AVIATION'S MOST CURRENT PROMOTIONAL DEALS From free training to discounts and rebates, this is the place to find great promotional deals from the aviation industry's leading companies. Be sure to check this page every month for the latest ...
Ask P & P
Dec 01, 2008; ... AVIATION'S LEADING EXPERTS ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS SEND AN E-MAIL DIRECTLY TO OUR EXPERTS Q I'm thinking about selling my Cirrus (which I love, but don't fly that often), however, I still owe too much money on it. Should 1 keep it in the hangar and try to fly it more? What about ...
Memories Of Africa, Part VI
Dec 01, 2008; ... Seven days to Cameroon In response to what seems like a gigabyte of e-mails, here's yet another chapter of ferry-flying experiences in Africa during the Ws and '90s. The Canary Islands are regarded as the Bahamas of Europe. Located less than 100 nm off the coast of Morocco, the ...
The Master As Student
Dec 01, 2008; ... The more you learn about flying, the more you know there is to learn about flying With his big rawboned hand almost lovingly cradling a gigantic bag of Skittles candies, Bob Elliott might almost - almost - pass for Professor Dumbledore munching on Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. But ...
The Next Space Race
Dec 01, 2008; ... A new era of private space exploration is in prospect NASA. ESA. JAXA. RKA. These are the world's major national space agencies. They are the names that have dominated the past 50 years of space exploration. But over the next 50 years, new names will emerge. The names that history will ...
Cessna 350: Cessna's New-Generation Single
Dec 01, 2008; ... IS THE CESSNA 350 THE NEW NGP? If you want to start a lively debate with a group of pilots, take a side on the high-wing/low-wing debate, and then stand back. You're almost guaranteed to hear passionate arguments from both sides of the issue. Cessna has always built its ...
Garmin G1000 Advanced Tips
Dec 01, 2008; ... Maximizing the all-glass avionics suite in a previous issue, we brought you some initial tips for using the Garmin G1000. Here are some additional tips for getting the most out of your Garmin avionics system. [See "Garmin G1000 Tips" in "The Ageless Skylane" from P&P October 2008 at ...
Co-Ownership: Navigating Airplane Partnerships
Dec 01, 2008; ... BUYING AN AIRPLANE WITH A PARTNER OPENS UP OWNERSHIP TO ANY PILOT. DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME. It's a sale bet that before the ink was dry on your solo endorsement, you started thinking about buying an airplane. If you stayed with the same FBO alter your check-ride, the negative aspects ...
A Father/Son Co-Ownership
Dec 01, 2008; ... An airplane becomes a family affair Father Don Stephens and son Bill have maintained a co-ownership on their 1981 Mooney 201 for more than 20 years in Orange County, Calif. "The Mooney is an ideal co-ownership airplane," says Bill, general manager of Cerritos Infiniti in Cerritos, Calif ....
That's My Warbird
Dec 01, 2008; ... Fly History offers a new twist on shared ownership When it comes to daydreaming about airplane ownership, warbirds top most pilot's lists. For those who have experienced one of these beasts from the pilot's seat, nothing else comes close. Owning a warbird, however, is just one step below ...
Maule MXT-7: SIMPLICITY
Dec 01, 2008; ... A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE QUESTION OF FOUR-SEAT ECONOMY Back in the last century, when I lived in Alaska, I used to hear stories of pilots who could fly Maules out of places where other airplanes would fear to roll a tread. I didn't have a chance to fly one in those days, but I always ...
Space Flight FOR SALE
Dec 01, 2008; ... HOW VIRGIN GALACTIC AND SCALED COMPOSITES ARE REWRITING THE RULES OF SPACE TRAVEL While most little children around the world were being read to sleep with soothing fairy tales, Lina Borozdina was getting tucked in for the night with stories of space travel. Her father would sit next to ...
Doglegs & Dirt
Dec 01, 2008; ... FLYING IDAHO'S MOUNTAIN CANYONS Go-around options are grim," my instructor warned as we circled overhead, one eye on the ground below, the other on the mountains pressing in on three sides. The Cabin Creek airstrip in Idaho's Frank Church/River of No Return Wilderness was my ...
Jabiru J230: Heart Of Gold
Dec 01, 2008; ... BEAUTY AND SOLID, EASY-FLYING HANDLING IN ONE PACKAGE What draws a person to an airplane? For some it's raw performance - faster/higher/farther; for others, it's enthusiastic raves from fellow pilots. But for most of us, it's an intangible moment of "smittenness" with the sheer visual ...
True Confessions
Dec 01, 2008; ... NASA REPORTS ARE GOOD FOR YOUR CERTIFICATE, AS WELL AS THE AIR SAFETY SYSTEM If aviation in the United States was a religion, its confessional would be the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS). Pilots, air traffic controllers and other people involved in aviation are encouraged to ...
Fuddy Duddy Pays His Respects
Dec 01, 2008; ... A HISTORIC FLIGHT IN A B-17 OVER WASHINGTON, D.C. Eastbound at 7,500 feet over the nation's heartland, gazing out from the copilot's seat into a bright morn- ing sky lavishly festooned with a lattice of fair-weather cumulus clouds, I could barely imagine all of the memories running ...
The Go/No-Go Decision In Winter
Dec 01, 2008; ... THE RULES CHANGE WHEN THE WEATHER TURNS COLD It had been a long day. It was January 2003, and I'd departed Reykjavik, Iceland, in a 58 Baron; destination Iqaluit, Nunavit, Canada, with stops in Greenland, where it was clear and cold - in this case, minus20 degrees C. I'd landed on the ...
Garmin G600 Glass Panel
Dec 01, 2008; ... Retrofit glass for steam-gauge six-packs Just a few years ago, state-of-theart instrument panels for GA aircraft included a traditional "six-pack" of flight instruments connected to a panel-mounted moving-map GPS. Those panels look dated in comparison to modern glass panels, which ...
Phoenix East Aviation
Dec 01, 2008; ... A Florida melting pot of international culture and affordable pilot training When it comes to selecting a good flight school, the phrase "reasonably priced" doesn't usually come into die equation. While reputation, experience and equipment are prime factors, students have come to accept ...
Citizen Near Miss
Dec 01, 2008; ... An encounter with the past and the future Pilots have a lot in common. They're detail-oriented. They like direct routing and a good deal. But, most of all, they love adventure and the chance to go somewhere that few have gone before, especially in an airplane. I've often stared at the ...
Glass-Cockpit Blackout
Dec 01, 2008; ... Dealing with electrical failure while trying to maintain aircraft control The NTSB doesn't just investigate accidents; it also routinely examines incidents to determine whether they expose an underlying safety problem, which, if not addressed, could set the stage for future accidents ....
Of Bachs & Ganns & Fabulous Words
Dec 01, 2008; ... Aviation has a deeper cultural background than most people give it credit for If it had happened only once, I would have passed it off as just one conversation with an aviation newbie. He had to be new to aviation not to know Richard Bach's name. But then it happened again. And this ...