Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. The airline merged with Republic, then Northwest, and finally Delta. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4. The pilot learned to fly in the U.S.

True Airspeed 92

True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 92

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. The airline merged with Republic, then Northwest, and finally Delta. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4. The pilot learned to fly in the U.S.

True Airspeed 91

True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 91

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

But my goal was to fly the airliners that, as a child, I watched climbing out from La Guardia Airport over our Bronx apartment. A student’s properly demonstrated recovery showed that he understood that the rudder was the last control surface to lose effectiveness and the first to return, followed by the ailerons and elevator in that order.

Cockpit 98

Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98