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Then & Now Explains Present With Past

If there’s a poster child for the public’s misunderstanding of the physics of flight, it has to be the stall. Every time some poor reporter in print or on TV, who hasn’t dug deep enough, relates it to the airplane’s powerplant, haven’t we all shaken our...

Published Wed, Feb 22 2012 2:00 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Aviation History, Sporty’s Pilot Shop, Sporty's Pilot Shop, shop, chapters, aeroplane—past, airplane’s, Aviation Books, Aviation History. Aviation Books, phil, scott’s, stall, wilbur

Online Publishing Gives Air Facts New Life

At AirVenture a friend asked if I’d seen the new Air Facts. What new Air Facts? All I knew about were the Air Facts videos Richard Collins produced with Sporty’s Pilot Shop that grew out of the eponymous print publication Leighton Collins launched in...

Published Thu, Aug 11 2011 3:25 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, General, Blogging, aviation safety, Aviation Marketing, Sporty’s Pilot Shop, Sporty's Pilot Shop, collins, Air Facts Magazine, browsing, facts, General Aviation Transportation, productive, prose, publication, richard, shop

Stars Aligning for Brighter Aviation Future

Ensuring aviation’s future by encouraging more people to fly has been attempted by many programs in the past. Despite their good intentions, their collective results are ultimately measured by the ever shrinking pilot population. But several events...

Published Sun, Aug 2 2009 11:26 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, NAFI Master Instructor, AOPA, NAFI, jeppesen, EAA, Remos GX, Sporty’s Pilot Shop, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, International Learn to Fly Day, Jack J. Eggspuehler Award

Counting Sporty’s Aviation Offspring

Catching up on my reading, the annual report of the Sporty’s Foundation had worked its way to the top of the pile. As I was flipping through the pages I was not really thinking about the good works presented in words and pictures. I was thinking...

Published Wed, Jun 17 2009 6:02 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, AOPA Air Safety Foundation, Future of Aviation, EAA Young Eagles, Sporty’s Pilot Shop, Hal Shevers, Sportys Foundation

Sporty’s Downloads Affordable Videos

Roaming around the online aisles of Sporty’s Pilot Shop looking for something to keep my head in the sky while the economy has me tied to the ground, I ran across the “Download Center.” Curious, I gave it a click, expecting I’m...

Published Mon, Apr 6 2009 1:36 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, What You Should Know, Air Facts, Garmin G1000 430W530W 695, Sporty’s Pilot Shop, download avaition video, WAAS Approaches

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Then & Now Explains Present With Past

Online Publishing Gives Air Facts New Life

Stars Aligning for Brighter Aviation Future

Counting Sporty’s Aviation Offspring

Sporty’s Downloads Affordable Videos