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Just when we thought we had a handle on all the possible threats to the safe operation of our flights, along comes another facet of madness: air rage to the Nth degree. Cases of enraged passengers crashing through the cockpit door, assaulting pilots and trying to interfere with control of the airplane had been increasing […]

Editor’s Note: This column should be printed out and posted on airport bulletin boards everywhere now and again next July. After getting back from Oshkosh I unpacked the airplane, put it away and walked into the pilot’s lounge here at the virtual airport to see what had happened while I was gone. One of the […]

TYPE OF HONOR OR AWARD PRESENTED BY, DATE Raymond Gray Scholarship Union Pacific Railroad, 1939 Naval Aviator United States Navy, 1942 Tau Beta Pi University of Washington, 1948 Sigma Xi University of Washington, 1949 Lawrence Sperry Award, “for important contributions in aeronautical flight research at transonic and supersonic speeds up to Mach 2” Institute of […]

It takes a crowbar to separate image from reality with the big Commander twins-the image pitched by Rockwell Intl. in a blaze of promotional glory-and the one left by Bob Hoover in his airshow demo, hanging a Shrike on a prop and deadsticking it out of a loop. When the image is pried away, what […]

Be sureto check out AVweb‘s exclusive image gallery from Heli-Expo 2001! Most should remember the lyrics of an old rock song that promised, “Oh, it never rains in southern California … it pours.” Well, that was the story for about half of the Helicopter Association International’s (HAI) annual Heli-Expo 2001. Off and on during the […]

Ialways had enjoyed waking to find snow falling, although it had been a long time since I’d had the experience. Maybe this morning’s snow was prophetic, as a white blanket was never guaranteed in these parts this time of year. It made me feel particularly good in spite of the fact it would take while […]

Time: 0600. Over Lake Michigan, eastbound at 320 knots, out of 10,000 feet, looking into the predawn skies. Just under the calm professionalism of the Learjet photo crew, veterans of hundreds of air-to-air filming for commercials and movies, it’s clear there is something very special about this mission. A three-plane formation of American Airlines jets, […]

Robert M. Robbins was born May 15,1916, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He learned how to fly during the summer beforecollege, earned a bachelors degree in aeronautical engineering from MIT in 1938,and went to work for Pan Am as a flight engineer on Boeing 314s. Three yearslater, with only 361 hours as PIC in single-engine aircraft, a […]

Jumpseating — the practice of bumming a ride aboard a human mailing tube headed somewhere you need to go — is one of the time-honored institutions of the airline industry. Some use their privileges to commute, others to move around on company business. But, in the right hands, it’s really more of an art. Come […]

Charles Perriguey, Jr. was born inGlendale, Calif. and grew up in nearby San Gabriel. He had only flown once on anairliner when he enlisted in the Marines after high school. He trained at NASPensacola in fixed-wing aircraft, then the Marines offered him the chance to flyhelicopters and he took it. In Vietnam he flew Sea […]