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Look for more images, plus a special report, on AVweb for March 16. Aerobatics star Patty Wagstaff signs copies of NASA’s new poster promoting women in aviation and aerospace careers, unveiled at WAI 2000. Also signing posters was NASA astronaut Eileen Collins (seated) and Mary Feik (far left), a member of the WAI Pioneer Hall […]

Be sure to check out our collection of images from WAI 2000. “Woman Power In Action!” WAI Rides High On Good Economic Times, Pilot Shortage Aspassengers disembarked from a Continental Express Embraer 145 regional jet atMemphis International last Wednesday, a young woman stuck her head into thecockpit to ask, “Are you all going to the […]

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. […]

Below are links to the final conference report on H.R. 1000, the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century, or AIR-21, plus additional background files.

Authors Note: I’m indebted to former Pan Am and United Airlines captain Samuel D. Woolsey for much of the background information contained in this article. Captain Woolsey retired at age 60 from United Airlines and is about to embark upon a new career as an attorney. A longtime critic and opponent of the FAA’s Age […]

Areader who requested that I discuss making perfect landings, – with animation, noless – prompted this column. In a perfect world it would be easy to consistently make those neat landingsin which our passengers, as we are rolling out after a real greaser, look aroundand exclaim, “When did we land?” However, I don’t live in […]

Somany pilots forget, or never knew, that the earliest heavier-than-air birdspretty much all flew beak-first. But check out any photo of the Wrights’earliest machines and some built by their followers … the canard. Strange thatthe canard never really became an industry standard, long ago overshadowed by”backward-built” airplanes, those with the tail surface in back, inone […]

The recent loss of Alaska Airlines 261 waslike an unexpected hard punch in the gut for me, and for everyone in the airline business,because we know that Alaska is one of the very finest airlines, with excellent attitudesprevailing in the cockpits and cabins, good equipment, good maintenance, good training,and highly skilled pilots who operate in […]

The full verbatim transcript of Darryl Phillips’ trialbefore NTSB Judge Mullins, plus some “rest of the story”comments by Phillips are also available. The NTSB appeal is over and FAA lost. I now have my new certificate, with gliderrating, in my wallet. There will be no further appeal. I won. That is the end of the […]

BEFORE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICANATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD Docket No. CD-33 In the Matter of: ADMINISTRATOR FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, Complainant, V. DARRYL H. PHILLIPS, Respondent. The above-entitled matter came on for Hearing, pursuant to Notice, before WILLIAM R.MULLINS, Administrative Law Judge, at Room 1020, 420 West Main, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,on Friday, September 5, 1997, […]