Adventure Flying

Many WWII liaison pilots wouldprobably find the name of this 1942 Aeronca L3-B appropriate: “ClayPigeon.” Back tothumbnails

Click on any image for a larger version. Recently I did two of the coolest thingsI’ve ever done in an airplane. I didn’t get to see either one of them and together theytook less than five seconds. What could possibly be this exciting? One day I arrived on the deck of the USS John C.Stennis […]

Click on each picture for a larger image. Squidboy   the DV’s prowl the flight deck   grabbing the three   the COD taxies to the cat…   …DV’s hearts start pounding…   …and shins start aching   walking the Tomcat   whoa big fella!   are we having fun yet?   the angle of […]

NOTE: AVweb’s coverage includes many more photos. Preview  |  Day 1  |  Day 2  |  Day 3  |  Final Day Preview Reno — to air racing fans, the name conjures up thoughts of Mustangs, SeaFuries and Bearcats in full cry bending around the pylons on the racecourse atReno/Stead Airport. The P-51s, Furies and ‘Cats of […]

Back to AVweb’s daily coverage of Reno ’99 Preview Rare Bear, Lyle Shelton’s highly modified F8F Bearcat returns to Reno. In practice on Tuesday, the Bear broke a clamp holding an exhaust stack damaging a cylinder and other engine components. The crew was finishing up the cylinder change-out on Wednesday afternoon. After P-51 “Voodoo Chile” […]

Under atranslucent blue bowl of desert sky, the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park sprawls over600,000 acres of mountains, desert, and oasis canyons. Located near the California-Mexicoborder, approximately 50 nm northeast of San Diego and 40 nm north of Mexico, this is thelargest State Park in the contiguous U.S. Although a desert now, from the air the […]

I don’t fly balloons. Idid fly balloons, but I gave it up. Not because it isn’t a lot of fun, because it is. Idon’t fly balloons because, like flying flingwings, it is too much work for a lazy guylike me. With an airplane, you take off, point it where you want to go, trim it […]

Most people wouldn’t think of Northern California as a place withmuch of an aviation history, and probably wouldn’t envision Palo Alto – home of StanfordUniversity and the birthplace of Silicon Valley – as a likely place for an aircraftmanufacturer to have been based. But in fact, Northern California has a notable history in aviation, and […]

Thecontemporary Unlimited Class of air racing celebrated its 35th birthday in grand style atthe National Championship Air Races held at Stead Field near Reno, Nevada, September14-20, 1998. This year’s event featured 26 aircraft and pilots who qualified to competefor the prestigious bronze, silver and gold race trophies. Included on the entry list weresome familiar names […]