Tom Wilson
Pumping avgas and waxing flight school airplanes got Tom into general aviation in 1973, but the lure of racing cars and motorcycles sent him down a motor journalism career heavy on engines and racing. Today he still writes for peanuts and flies for fun.
Red, Round and Gorgeous
Everyone kept asking us if we’d seen the red Hatz out on the homebuilt line, and when we walked up to Rick and Kathy Schultz’s spanking new biplane we knew why.
Off The Scale!
2/3 scale P-38 - an apex experimental, one of those over the top builds defying all norms of dedication and craftiness and it’s available for close inspection next to the Brown Arch.
Findlay Failure: Not Detonation
During the AirVenture Cup point-to-point race last Sunday front runner Andrew Findlay suffered a major engine failure in his One Moment Racing Lancair Super Legacy.
Viking’s Latest—And Some Zodiac Eye Candy
There are couple of things of note in the Viking Aircraft Engines booth this year.
Near Perfect, But Nothing Fancy
We visit Visalia and find California engine builder Ly-Con going strong.
Compromises
Never one to revel in the practical, recently I found myself expounding to a colleague on why the general aviation world moves at 2700 rpm.
RARA Announces Roswell
Reno Air Racing Association announced the new home of the National Championship Air Races (NCAR) is Roswell, New Mexico.
Training to Win… Next October
They’re already going 350 mph down on the deck in Las Cruces, New Mexico and there is much more in the works.
To begin with...
Sounding Off
Like some sort of verbal restricted area, certain subjects are such tropes in aviation scribbling that I steer around them like they were cumulonimbus....
In Case You Missed It
Leaking Gascolator
This was a very dangerous discovery—the gascolator had a very pronounced dripping leak,...
Arion Lightning
Test pilot Chuck Berthe flew the Arion Lightning not once but twice, in two different factory demonstrators.
