Behind The Yoke

The National Air and Space Museum has a wonderful interactive demonstration on the principles of flight called How Things Fly. Don’t forget to get your kids! For a more detailed explaination go here.
WikiHow’s take on How to Land an Airplane in an Emergency.
A huge list of aviation humor.
Fighter-Planes.com is a very informative and entertaining source [...]

If you haven’t heard it yet, ATC Monitor has a great mp3 of a passenger landing a King Air 200 after the pilot passes out and dies in mid take-off.

As you can see Behind The Yoke has gone through some changes. I re-designed the home page and the structure of the whole site. I wanted to make Behind The Yoke more of an authority site of aviation by adding  some features to it that will enhance your experience! There are some great things in [...]

Wow - I haven’t posted in a while. Been very busy working on starting a business and getting married. Yay! Finally! With that being said, my leisure time for the last two months was stretched thin.
Its time to get on with the second chapter of my life. Time for harder work. Hard work comes rewards [...]

Watch this short clip with Andy Rooney from 60 Minutes on why we shouldn’t travel. I agree with pretty much everything he says but my excitement came from the fact that it gives more credence to the importance of general aviation and the push to avoid commercial airlines.
Let’s face it - airlines must change the [...]

Read Orville and Wilbur Wright’s Flying Machine patent application submitted one hundred five years ago on March 23, 1903. The patent for the flying machine was officially approved on May 22, 1906. I’m no expert on aviation physics by any means but its amazing to me how much of a grasp these fellas [...]

On my days off of work I always try to make it up to the airport (AHN) for a couple of hours to stare at the runways. Striking up random conversations and waiting for planes to land or taxi out for take off is a great way of forgetting the stresses of the day. It [...]

Bruce Dickinson’s main profession is to rock out with his metal band Iron Maiden. Now, after flying a few years with his commercial pilot certificate for Astraeus, he is able to do two jobs at once. When he’s not banging his head on stage he flies his band, gear and entire road crew from venue [...]

There’s been a lot of talk lately on the boards that there is a growing number of people concerned that GA is slowly dying. AV Gas is getting more expensive, training costs are soaring, the government is proposing more and more user fees, the number of new pilots is going down every year, etc.  And [...]

I just received some exclusive news from a trusted source that London Heathrow just installed a new landing approach lighting system as a result of their recent incident. Looks pretty good to me. The only thing they have to figure out is how to tackle the problem during the daytime.