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Hangin’ Out in Austin

By the summer of 1983, I had finished my junior year of ROTC, and our old neighborhood gang was reunited again. Larry Leonard and I roomed together our college freshman year at the Castilian dorm, where I met my future wife, Karin. Before starting our senior year, Larry and I moved into the same Austin […]

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Attention AvGeeks and Gamers: Check Out This 3D Apple Vision App

Here’s some news pilots, avgeeks, aviation enthusiasts, and maybe even gamer geeks, are going to love—a new immersive 3D app released by ForeFlight for Apple Vision Pro. This app harnesses the advanced spatial computing capabilities of Apple Vision Pro, providing users with an immersive 3D exploration experience of airports. Voyager transforms each airport into a […]

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Try These Low-Cost DIY Hangar Projects

OK, I will admit that I am a checklist fanatic! In the U.S. Air Force, we had a checklist for everything, and so I was imprinted with the checklist gene early on. Among their many benefits, checklists prevent gear up landings, keep pilots healthy, and make your insurance agent happy. However, once the aircraft is […]

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Garmin Introduces Budget-Conscious Nav/Com Radios for Light Planes

Prodded along perhaps by recent competition in the low-end com radio market, Garmin on Wednesday announced it will debut two new units targeted closely to replacing the legacy BendixKing KX155s and the like, fitting their form factor and dialing down the cost while keeping certain familiar Garmin functionality. The Garmin GTR 205 com and GNC […]

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Amelia Earhart Mystery Solved?

The mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance in 1937 has lived in the heart of popular culture for almost a century. It’s a mystery that giveth and taketh away—each time we think we’ve solved it, the answer turns out to have been a false alarm. But perhaps a team of underwater archaeologists and marine robotics experts […]

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