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Rich Stowell was born December 24,1957, in Newton, N. J. He grew up near Sussex, N. J., watching his neighbors LeoLoudenslager, Betty Stewart and other aerobatic champions performing theirairshow routines. He wanted to fly and took enough instruction to solo. Hisparents didn’t exactly disapprove, but they vectored Rich back onto a moretraditional career path. He […]

Robert L. Rasmussen was born May26, 1930, in Sacramento, Calif. and grew up in the small farming community ofRio Vista. He got hooked on aviation thanks to the barges full of warbirds thatparked in the river by his home during WWII. He had enough talent to win an artscholarship to a school in San Francisco, […]

The title of this article is a thinly veiled attempt at humor about the timing of this review. It has been a year since Garmin first showed its long-anticipated color portable in July 1999 at EAA AirVenture, and since then I’ve lost track of how many emails I’ve received asking when I was going to […]

I‘ll bet most of you who have read the title of this article are already saying to yourself, “VFR flight in Class A airspace is not permitted and you must have an IFR clearance to operate at or above FL180. This author must be crazy to try to write an article about a procedure that […]

I arrived at the United Airlines gates at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) an hour before my flight’s scheduled departure to San Francisco International Airport (SFO) only to find that it had been canceled. I sighed. “Not again!” I thought. At the departure gate, I waited my turn at the check-in counter while other passengers […]

Charles Edward McGee was bornDecember 7, 1919, in Cleveland, Ohio. His mother died giving birth to his sisterwhen he was about a year old. On his 22nd birthday Japan attacked Pearl Harbor,and WWII soon interrupted his studies at the University of Illinois. McGee wassworn into the enlisted reserve on October 26, 1942, and entered Army […]

The interested observer mightconclude that last week’s action in New Orleans was the be-all-and-end-all ofgeneral-aviation news-of-the-world, what with all the big-dollar purchases, newprogram announcements and avionics-program launches that came with the NationalBusiness Aviation Association convention. But general aviation pilots attending the annualconvention of the Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association – AOPA Expo 2000 -found plenty […]

Check out AVweb’s “Airmanship” section, where Paul offersan article about deadly spiralsthat could save your life. Paul A. Soderlind was born August6, 1923, in Billings, Mont. He took his first flight lesson at age 12, earnedhis private certificate on his 18th birthday (which was then the CAA minimumage), and earned his Commercial and Instructor ratings […]

Norman Lyle Prouse was born September 29,1938, in Wichita, Kan. He won his first airplane ride by writing an essay for his father’scompany, Beech Aircraft. After high school he joined the Marines, learned to fly, andstarted a family. In his 13-month tour in Vietnam he earned seven air medals. He resignedhis commission and took a […]

Henry Kisor was born August 17, 1940, inRidgewood, N.J. Age three brought his first experience in the cockpit of a TBF Avenger,and a bout with meningitis that would take away his ability to hear. Henry’s parentstaught him to read and to read lips and to find his place in a hearing world. He earned aB.A. […]