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Sea Rey and Flight Star, Available as LSA Homebuilts The Flightstar series, designed by Tom Peghiny, features a tractor engine and rugged construction. By Norm Goyer I have known the owners and designers of these two aircraft for many years. … Continue reading →

In the mid 1970s, our sales team had the reputation of being able to sell anything. Or so it seemed to those who entrusted weird and wonderful aircraft to our sales line. Just after Memorial Day I received a call from a good customer who told he wanted us to sell the Callair A-2 he had taken in payment for a debt, and to get what we could for it. H’mm, alarms and lights started flashing in my overloaded brain. Continue reading →

No Solo Campo and His Lark Commander Most of the available Darters have 150-hp Lycoming engines, and  swept-forward, Mooney-style vertical stabilizers. By:   Norm Goyer Frank Campo was a delightful septuagenarian and a retired piano tuner. Frank was a recent widower … Continue reading →

During WWII, the Douglas DC-3 was indispensable; it was used in every theatre of the war including every action in Europe, Africa and the South Pacific. It was a workhorse, and it was dependable. Our “Under the Radar” this week, mentioned the Japanese Zero and the Grumman Wildcat being converted to floatplanes to assist newly-arrived troops on islands without an airstrip, but miles of ocean beaches and lagoons. Continue reading →

I learned to fly in a tandem-seated Cub, and my small fleet of surplus military trainers were all tandem seated. In my opinion there is no better flying or fighting platform than one seated right on the center line of the aircraft. Then the pilots started taking their wives and girlfriends with them, and the complaining began, “I don’t like to sit by myself with no one to talk to,” and so on and so forth. Continue reading →