Letters

Your article on “Old School Flying” in the Oct. 20 issue was great! You know my affinity for the classic airplanes so this article really hit home. I went with a friend to pick up a new Legend Cub and fly it home a few months ago and it was a fun trip, flying low […]

I was reading your editorial (Knee jerks: The selling of fear in America, Nov. 3 issue) with interest and approval until the part about populists and socialist media – then I sort of choked. It is true that most of our fellow aviators are wildly conservative, and love to hear generalizations about socialist media, but […]

Reference the letter to the editor in your Oct. 20 issue written by Kim H. Wallis (Test pilots held to a higher standard?): Clearly Kim Wallis did not think through the Sport Jet crash scenario before he hit the send button on his computer. Without knowledge of prior traffic, pilots are routinely dependent upon air […]

Several years ago I pursued a special issuance for my medical and received same. It was a long and tedious process but I was persistent and won. I was able to fly for several years and then out of nowhere I suffered a stroke that rendered me blind. It’s a good thing I wasn’t in […]

Your reference to the T3 airplanes scrapped by the Air Force caught my attention (Decisions, decisions, Touch & Go, Oct. 6). Some years ago, I became involved in the issue of the Air Force’s problem with “uncommanded engine stoppages.” I can assure you, the engine was not the problem. Nor was the proficiency of the […]

As more and more people are saying “traffic in the area please advise” on the radio, the Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) 4-1-9 g-1 now states: g. Self-Announce Position and/or Intentions 1. General. Self-announce is a procedure whereby pilots broadcast their position or intended flight activity or ground operation on the designated CTAF. This procedure is […]

Thank you for the nice article on my Fairchild (From basket case to award winner: Charlie Brown’s Fairchild, Oct. 6 issue). Everybody loves it. Next project underway is a 1928 C3B Stearman. It’s approximately half done. Fly date is two to three years from now. Charlie Brown Sand Point, Idaho

I recently read the review Thomas F. Norton wrote on Peter Forman’s book “Wings of Paradise” in the July 21 issue . I would like to thank you for the kind words you used in the paragraph describing my painting of the two Sikorsky S-38s over the Molokai sea cliffs. It doesn’t mention in the […]

When I began to read the story “New Jacksonville law targets homebuilders in Florida city” in the Sept. 8 edition, I felt the outrage welling up against yet another government entity whipping on general aviation. Obviously, however, the facts are not always as they appear initially. So much for first impressions. If the story is […]