Exploring

With nearly six decades of Reno air racing now behind us, it’s worth reflecting on what we gained from the experience. We’d better remember,...

Few eras in aviation have changed with the clarity of the National Championship Air Races leaving Reno-Stead airport for an uncertain future. For 59...

As I start this month’s column, it hasn’t fully sunk in that I won’t be going back to Reno, but I still feel a...

There’s something you probably can guess about so-called factory airplanes—examples of Experimental aircraft built for design evaluation as well as press and customer exposure—but...

I never set out to write a hardware trilogy, yet here we are. A little ditty on washer usage begat a column on bolt-length...

In magazine land—a parallel universe to the real world—I’m writing this between Oshkosh and Reno. The time between these two big events is a...

This month’s column is inspired by the most recent AirVenture, which has left me reflecting on how it really isn’t the aircraft that draw...

I returned from AirVenture with a few story ideas and a horrible illness that prevented me from doing much of anything. “Might as well...

I know many of you following the progress of my Hummingbird helicopter are probably thinking that flying it to the show is what made...

I was an airplane nut for as long as I can remember even though I had no family exposure to aviation. My father was...