Jordan King
Jordan King is a CFI, CFII, MEI based in Houston, Texas, spending a majority of her time in the unique sides of general aviation, including flying and instructing with Rutan Aircraft Flying Experience as well as with various warbird organizations around Ellington Field. She currently flies an SR22 for work and spends a majority of her off time instructing students at all stages of flight training.
RAFE Celebrates Ten Rutan Designs
This year is the 50th anniversary of the VariEze but because the VariEze changed the landscape of homebuilt aircraft, this year is what Burt Rutan likes to call the “composite canard revolution”!
In Case You Missed It
Wind Tunnel
Once designers had addressed every other drag-producing aspect of the biplane, they decided to get rid of the struts and wires bracing the wings—and the switch to the monoplane was made.
Ask the DAR
Can a former Part 103 aircraft be registered as an LSA? And how is an appropriate Phase I flight-test area determined?
Target Fixation Taught by Trees
I was chopping firewood under a dead ash tree, whiffing deep, ax-head-shaped divots into my lawn, when I remembered the time, once upon a takeoff, that a living oak tree nearly got the best of me.
