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“Express lane…Mach 1 and above.” A Sukhoi on the taxi way get’s passed up by an F-18 departing the runway. The “smaller” planes (read: not jets…I guess) were departing from an intersection further down the runway, but this military jet got to full use of the runway. This page best viewed at 800×600 or better

Summertime. Here at the virtual airport the talk in the pilot’s lounge is of aerobatics, airshows and performers; who is worth going to see and which ones the faithful can miss if a choice has to be made? The other day, a group of us in the lounge were, um, discussing – yes, that’s it, […]

Rememberthe late Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen’s classic line about money? “Abillion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about realmoney?” Well, no matter your perspective, real money was in ampleattendance at the 53rd annual convention of the National Business Aviation Association,which wound up its October 10-12 run of the Crescent City with the […]

Gallery 1 | Gallery2 | Gallery 3 Special Report: Sun ‘n Fun 2000 No, it’s not a Staggerwing, it’s a Lionheart, an all-new composite design mounting a 450-h.p. Pratt & Whitney Wasp Jr. radial engine and capable of 200-knot speeds. Ultralights stacked up at Paradise City. Some aerobatic birds take a break from the action. […]

Also, be sure to check out our collection of images from NBAA ’99: The people, the exhibit floor, the static display and, of course, the aircraft. Gloomy Outside The Hall, Sunny Inside NBAA ’99 Enjoys The Glow Of Growth In Business Aviation Users And Products Good thing it wasn’t an airshow. The mood and the […]

Bob Pond was born in May of 1924 in Edina,Minn. As WWII wound down, he, like other naval aviatiors, had his eyes set on a careerwith the airlines. Instead, he went back to school and worked part-time in the familybusiness, Advance Machine Company. The landscape of Mom and Pop grocery stores were beingreplaced by supermarkets […]