Behind The Yoke

Can’t afford your learjet anymore? Take cover.  Salon News has a great article about a man who’s responsible for stealing back big expensive aircraft from people that aren’t paying the bills . He’s the super repo-man.
“Popovich’s first rule of firearms is pretty simple: The man who tells you he’s going to shoot you will not [...]

Here is cool but unsettling diagram of a commercial airliner showing your chances of survival depending on where you’re sitting during a crash. When I fly commercial I make it my duty to sit in the seats near the emergency exits in the aisle; be one of the first out of the plane and more [...]

Happy holidays everyone! I just had to post a little something about NASA putting their Space Shuttle fleet up for sale once the program is over in 2010. The shuttles will cost approximately $42 million plus $6 million for shipping and handling. I imagine that the only interested parties will be science/aviation museums and other [...]

Needless to say Oshkosh was incredible. It was my first time going and I was blown away. I couldn’t believe the number of aircraft that were there in one place. It was overwhelming.  I’m not going to write much about it because words can’t express the feelings you experience. Exhilaration is one word that comes [...]

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a project for the aviation blogger community called Wingaroo. Its a new search engine specifically created to search aviation blogs. Here is the introduction I wrote on the ‘about’ page:
Wingaroo was created in 2008 for the aviation community. Wingaroo provides the opportunity to discover hidden [...]

For the past five years or so, I have constantly thought about where the aviation business is heading. With all these canceled flights and delays I just knew that the public would have a breaking point of tolerence. The days of waiting in the baggage check line for two hours, going through security check-points, having [...]