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Steve Ashby

Steve Ashby
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Steve Ashby is a sometime lawyer and full-time aviation aficionado from Atlanta, Georgia. He learned to fly in 1980 and has adopted a 1968 Skyhawk (your Grandma could fly it). Steve is also working on a Van's RV-8A which he swears will be completed on (a) Thursday.

Dan Reynolds’ Yukon Chinook at the STOL Competition Sun ‘n Fun...

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You think your airplane can land short and take off fast? Here's your measuring stick. Our man Steve Ashby watched and then caught up...

TL Sport Offers New Amateur-Built Retractable Luxury Cruiser

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Do you remember the TL Sport Sting? It is a two place low wing sexy looking light sport from Europe. There are 120 flying...

Old Pilot’s Camper Journal #5 – Sun ‘n Fun 2023 Edition

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The last full day at the Sun 'n Fun fly-in is always a little melancholic. Although I have been yearning to get back home...

Resurrected RV-6 Shines

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When Dave McCormick of Antioch, Illinois got the homebuilding itch in 1997, he ordered an RV-6 kit and promptly began construction. Dave steadily riveted...

Comp Air 6.2 Prototype Flies in to Sun ‘n Fun

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Comp Air flew its new 6.2 sport utility prototype into Sun 'n Fun on Thursday. The 6.2, a totally new airplane for the company...

A Gyroplane Sticks Out at HBC

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A casual tour of Sun 'n Fun’s Homebuilt Camping (HBC) grounds will reveal the usual suspects; scores of RVs, a Murphy Rebel or two,...

Old Pilot’s Camper Journal #4

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A fly-in airshow’s campground is a little city, filled with different neighborhoods, various stores and vendors and even a few entertainment and gathering venues....

Steve Ashby Visits the Parts Exchange

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If you're at Sun 'n Fun 2023, you need to visit the parts exchange building. Looking for a project? Need some cheap airplane parts?...

Good BBQ at SnF

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There are a plethora of food vendors at Sun 'n Fun to cater to most any taste or gastronomical predilection. Selections range from county...

Old Pilot’s Camper Journal #3 – Sun ‘n Fun 2023 Edition

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Camping at a fly-in is an experience of all of the senses, the pastel sunrise you see when you unzip the door of your...

In Case You Missed It

Free Flight

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There are many definitions of first flight, and each is memorable in its own way.

Editor’s Log

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On with the shows!

Archive: November 1989

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The airplane on our November 1989 cover was not some kind of Cessna 336...

Editor’s Log

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There's always a way.