Cook, who lives in Oregon, earned his private pilot certificate in the 1980s. In addition to his Lancair, he’s flown the ...

The Cessna lost out to the popular Cirrus when both were new, with the Cirrus airframe parachute giving that model a distinct marketing advantage. On the used market, a Cessna TTx like the ...

A good estimation of the cloud tops is like the finest gold, especially for pilots flying under IFR during the winter months.

Mr Bruce also moved to the Red Devils parachute display team where he discovered ... And on January 8 he made the fateful Cessna trip with Miss Haig.

Hanging on the fence brought me back to my childhood-clinging to the chain-link fence at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport in Atlanta, watching the Cessna 150s ... powered parachutes, light sports, and ...

But the Cessna's wings began to ice up in clouds ... Mr Bruce, who joined the Parachute Regiment in 1973 aged 17, had been battling mental illness for almost a decade. He was awarded the Queen's ...

While modest compared to warbird fighters and bombers, this is no Cessna Skyhawk ... Factoring in everything—oil, parachute packing every 180 days, subscription to aeronautical charts—the ...

He owned a Cessna 195 and enjoyed buzzing passenger ... In 1960, during a public air force parachute demonstration, three skydivers fell to their deaths before a horrified crowd.

Following his retirement, Acker began to expand his flight experience, piloting a variety of planes that included an F-16 “Fighting Falcon,” multiple Stearman biplanes, and many Cessna civilian ... in ...

“When I was an F-16 pilot, I didn’t feel jealous about Cessna pilots being called pilots ... The capsule will then descend and land by parachute close to the launch site. While this flight has been ...

This Austrian-French tailor died in 1912 when he jumped off the Eiffel Tower testing his wearable parachute for pilots that he had invented ... a flying car combining the Ford Pinto with the rear of a ...