Category: Tech Corner
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Pilot Incapacitation
By Will Fox My Dad got his pilot’s license in a 1958 Cessna 172. I was 12 years old at the time and was really excited about it. After a few “interesting” cross country flights with the family, Dad informed me that he was going to teach me to be able to land the plane…
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Recording Flights of Fancy
By Vivek Saxena I have always naturally gravitated toward the technical side of aviation, and since my day job as a physicist involves grappling with problems of a more theoretical/mathematical nature, flight training has given me the opportunity to revisit and more deeply appreciate basic physics, engineering and aerodynamics. Between May and July of 2022,…
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TAT & the Ford Tri-Motor
How many of you know about the Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) airline? It was established in 1928 and was the first airline in America that provided coast to coast air service, sort of. Actually, passengers travelled from New York City to Los Angeles using a combination of both air and train transportation. Clovis and Albuquerque,…
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Sustainable Aviation
Recently, my sister, who lives in Wyoming, home of the -70 degree wind chill factor, gave me a shellacking regarding my ignorance about biofuels. In one of our normal telephone calls where we talk about family, politics, and how to solve the world’s problems, she happened to mention that biofuels looked promising for commercial aviation,…