Cross-Country Flying Stories

Don’t be paranoid about the coastal route

We all know what we’ve seen in the movies and on TV. What are the realities of space travel?

Imagine a 2,200-mile-wide desert island with magnificent cities built on the coasts. That’s Australia.

A couple of the really dumb things I did 40 years ago’€”or was it last year?’€”and got away with

Airplanes that can land on water combine the best of flying and floating

They’re the second highest mountain range in the world, a stark contrast to the low-lying Amazon Delta

Pressurization is general aviation’s ultimate creature comfort

It has been a long time in gestation, but it may be just over the horizon

It’s one of the most common probable causes of IFR accidents

Once regarded by some pilots as inventions of the devil, turbochargers have gained respectability