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1. Share Your Spring Flying Adventures with Air Facts

   Share Your Spring Flying Adventures with Air Facts
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   At Air Facts Journal, our Travelogue series is built on real stories from pilots like you—stories that capture both the joy and the challenges of personal air transportation. Tell us about your route, the airports you stopped at, the weather you encountered, and those unexpected moments that made your trip unforgettable.

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2. Flying and Maintaining Prewar Aeroncas: A Guide for Antique Aircraft Owners

   Flying and Maintaining Prewar Aeroncas: A Guide for Antique Aircraft Owners
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   The Stick Chief refers to the aircraft controls that employ a stick as opposed to a yoke. And why would anyone do that, you ask?  In the late 1930s, then President Rosevelt, put the country on a war footing and declared the US would need 25,000 pilots. He was informed by the Navy and Army Air Core that they had neither the aircraft, personnel nor facilities to undertake the effort. To that end, civilian flight schools were pressed into service with several military officers overseeing civilian flight instructors. This was the beginning of the cadet pilot program.  

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3. Buffalo Hunting With Airplanes

   Buffalo Hunting With Airplanes
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   The most likely threat I would face was 23MM and 37MM Triple-A, which would be fired in streams of 25-50 rounds at a time. If the gunners were harassing you, they might fire only 25 rounds. If they were intent on you not destroying something of value (like themselves!), you could expect hundreds of rounds to be fired at you.

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4. 2025 Richard Collins Writing Prize Runner-Up: Tailstrikes and Tiedowns

   2025 Richard Collins Writing Prize Runner-Up: Tailstrikes and Tiedowns
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   As I banked into my final approach, my heart sank. I had fully cut power and had flaps at twenty, but I was still far too high. Because I had let my airspeed get so low, I hadn’t lost enough altitude on downwind. I knew I should go-around, but panic gripped me. I did the worst thing possible and tried to lose altitude by steepening my approach.

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5. 2025 Richard Collins Writing Prize Winner: Cruising Through the Soaring Blues

   2025 Richard Collins Writing Prize Winner: Cruising Through the Soaring Blues
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   My landings were respectable, and my decision-making occasionally less respectable. Even after flying at cross-country camps, learning soaring theory, having the best possible mentor and breaking the proverbial apron strings at home, flying in my first competition that week was the hardest thing I’ve done yet as a pilot, but also the most satisfying.

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