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Indexed articles, last 90 days
3
Latest publication
Sep 30, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Flying Magazine
Top 500K sites
Earliest in this view
Jul 21, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Peter Garrison

    Off Target: The High Cost of Trying to Salvage a Bad Approach (opens the original)

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    A Georgia pilot, 52, had 380 hours, an instrument rating, and a Cirrus SR22. He was working on his commercial. He had the day free, so he called an instructor friend and arranged to do some flying. One of the skills tested for the commercial license—it used to be required for the private as well, but no longer—is the 180-degree, power-off approach to a landing. You cut power to idle on the downwind leg abeam a target point on the runway. You have to touch down on or beyond that target, but withi

  2. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Peter Garrison

    Hero Civilian Astronaut Was Man Without Enemies (opens the original)

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    In May 1978, a 37-year-old machinist and his wife flew their odd-looking homebuilt airplane from Indiana to Mojave, California, to show it to its designer, Burt Rutan. Rutan, who had founded the Rutan Aircraft Factory (RAF) several years earlier and was now selling plans for VariEzes, looked over the plane, an all-wood canard pusher called a VariViggen, and admired the workmanship. He promptly invited the visitor and his wife to join his little company. They accepted. Create a free account to co

  3. Article · Jul 21, 2026 · Peter Garrison

    Pilots Must Be Prepared for ‘Unacceptable Stall Behavior’ (opens the original)

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    It is a truth universally acknowledged that when an airplane stalls, the pilot must push its nose down. And yet it sometimes happens that even quite experienced pilots do the opposite. That was the case in February 2024, when two airline transport pilots, who had a combined total of more than 23,000 hours in their logbooks, conducted a post-maintenance stall check on a Hawker Beechcraft 900XP. The stall check is required after the leading edges of the wings have been removed for a routine, every

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