Forty-Seven Years in Aviation: A Memoir; Chapter 8: Advanced Flight Training By Richard L. Taylor For advanced flight training in Texas, Dick Taylor and his class try their hands at the B-29, which by the mid-'50s was used as a trainer. And yet, although huge and pressurized, with a third guy in the cockpit (flight engineer), it still had a castering nosewheel.
Forty-Seven Years in Aviation: A Memoir; Chapter 6: Basic Flight Training, Part 2 By Richard L. Taylor Jumping straight from the T-6 to the B-25, Richard Taylor gets to experience not only a huge airplane but one that requires two crew (giving new meaning to the term "solo"), and also experiences the joys of winter in Oklahoma.
Dumbest CTAF Phraseology By Paul Berge In Brainteaser Quiz #163, we asked, "What is the dumbest phraseology you routinely hear on CTAF?" About 100 AVweb readers responded, and we have the results.
Forty-Seven Years in Aviation: A Memoir; Chapter 5: Basic Flight Training, Part 1 By Richard L. Taylor In the fifth chapter of his memoir, Richard Taylor moves to Enid, Okla., in 1955 to begin basic flight training. Ground school includes the requisite navigation courses (albeit celestial navigation), Morse code, and even the operation of atomic bombs.
Quest to Replace the Ramp Rat By Paul Berge In Brainteaser Quiz #162, we asked, "Now that ICAO has eliminated 'ramp' from the aviation lexicon, what do we call the kid who runs the fuel truck, since we can no longer use the term 'ramp rat'?" Here are the results.
Forty-Seven Years in Aviation -- A Memoir: Chapter 4 -- Primary Flight Training Part 3 By Richard L. Taylor Richard Taylor continues his memoir with the final section of primary flight training: navigation, night flight, and IFR. After a short delay to avoid not one but two hurricanes in North Carolina, he graduates and is ready to go on to basic flight training in Oklahoma.
Forty-Seven Years in Aviation -- A Memoir: Chapter 3 -- Primary Flight Training Part 2 By Richard L. Taylor In the third chapter of his aviation memoir, Richard Taylor begins flight training in a Piper PA-18 Cub -- including being "kicked out of the nest" for his first solo before he had 10 hours of flight time -- and then moving on to the (comparatively) massive T-6 Texan.
