general aviation
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Dreams!
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards.” — Leonardo Da Vinci — Remember what I always say, “everything tells a story… everything has bits of history.” This simple photo does not… Continue reading
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Sunrise with a Titanium Cub
Titanium Cub enjoying the warmth of sunrise on her wings… 😎 Continue reading
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Champaign Lady
I recently had the opportunity to see the restoration of a Boeing B-17G. Champaign Aviation Museum, Grimes Municipal Airport (I74). Urbana, Ohio. August 20, 2022. Looking into the nose, you can see the Bombardier and Navigator positions. Beautiful nose art… Continue reading
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North American Aviation T-6C Texan
“The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power… Continue reading
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Approach
“Real flight… is the spirit of an airplane lifting the spirit of its pilot into the high clean blue of the sky, where they join to share the freedom.” Richard Bach, Air Facts magazine, September 1960. Continue reading
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Invitation to Heaven
“My soul is in the sky.” William Shakespeare While waiting for passengers, the morning sky embraces our world… inviting her airmen into the beauty above. Continue reading
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Every Pilot Logbook Tells a Story
“Aviators live by hours, not by days.” T. H. White, England Have My Bones, 1936. While a pilot’s professional experience is recorded in their logbook, a treasure is concealed within each page… a story unique to every pilot. If the… Continue reading
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Beautiful Piper Cub
On this beautiful chilly Sunday morning, the birds were enjoying the Fall day… This beautiful Piper Cub may be small, but she was kicking up dust with a little attitude! 😎 Continue reading
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Sunrise with a Praetor
This beauty joined me for a sunrise… Hope we meet again, looking forward to knowing her 😏 Continue reading
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Strawberry Bitch
This Consolidated B-24D Liberator served in the 512th Bomb Squadron, flying combat missions from North Africa in 1943-1944. Continue reading
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Foggy Airport Sunrise
“There’s something magic about airports it’s like standing in a room with a thousand doors.” Atticus Poetry, The Truth About Magic Continue reading
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Champaign Gal
“In the war to come, God will be on the side of the heaviest air force. Don’t forget it. Keep your eyes on the sky!” — Brigadier General William ‘Billy’ Mitchell, USAS, back at Langley Field after the Ostfisland was… Continue reading
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