Keyword Results ( "Takeoff" )

The Price of Fame
Article : August/Sept 07
In 46 years, the National Aviation Hall of Fame has grown from a star-studded awards ceremony to an exhibit-packed museum. But it’s been a bumpy ride.
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The First Woman of Flight
Article : August/Sept 07
Amelia Earhart may get the book and movie play, but 81-year-old Geraldine Mock has the record.
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Endless Summer
Article : August/Sept 07
Two months, four reasons to wing it: stomping divots in Bridgehampton; watching the sopranos with Britain’s country gentry; indulging in the big sail at St. Moritz; and all that jazz in Monterey.
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Mogul's Edition
Article : August/Sept 07
The $40 million Paypal order, “hair” memo and other peccadilloes of the rich and jet-powered.
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Werner Needs to Fly
Article : August/Sept 07
"Rescue Dawn," the story of a Navy pilot captured by the Vietcong, presents another good excuse for director Werner Herzog to make a movie about flight.
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Know When to Fold 'Em
Article : August/Sept 07
An interactive coffee-table tome takes you back to your own salad days of aerospace engineering and test flights.
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Sensation, Reborn
Article : May/June 2007
Flyers who want a sporty, timeless biplane need answer only one question: New WACO or WACO Classic?
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Flight Plan
Article : May/June 2007
Two months of aviation fun: zooming though Monaco, befriending skippers in Nantucket, praying at Oakmont’s “church pews” and vying for the Maltese Falcon.
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Hollywood's Fly Guy
Article : May/June 2007
When filmmakers reach for the sky, they call aerial coordinator Greg Vernon.
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City Clicker
Article : May/June 2007
From the air, photographer Michael Yamashita captures the New York few see.
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Another Crash Likely More Trouble for North Las Vegas Airport
Posting : On the Radar : 08/29/2008

Last Friday, an experimental Velocity push-prop kit plane crashed into a Las Vegas suburb shortly after takeoff from North Las Vegas Airport -- the general aviation alternative to McCarran International -- killing the pilot and an elderly couple in their home. We rarely comment on accidents around here -- it seems there are general aviation crashes almost every day -- but this one got our attention because the Randy Walker, the aviation director for the county where the crash occurred, said at a news conference that experimental airplanes should be limited to airports in less populated areas.

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Mr. Very Right Now
Article : August/September 2008
The Eclipse 500 has certainly had its issues making it to market. It's finally time for takeoff.
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Flexible Flyer
Article : August/September 2008
Adjust your driver prior to takeoff with Callaway's technology.
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The Paying Customer's Guide to the Galaxy
Article : August/September 2008
The race is on to take you into space. And Private Air has you covered.
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Chile
Article : May/June 2008
Let the Kennedys have the colorado. To really test your gang’s whitewater mettle, airlift your next family-bonding trip down to the Fu. 
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Ground Speed
Article : May/June 2008
When is a $47,000 Corvette not a Corvette? When it’s a souped-up, high-flying 600-horsepower Callaway ’Vette.
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Rater Event
Article : Feb/March 2008
Cessna’s jet-card program gives you easy access to wings, but how do its planes stack up? Our readers take a ride to find out.
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Inside The Beltway
Article : Feb/March 2008
It’s been a long time coming, but with the right equipment, starting soon you might be able to talk on the fly.
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Best Flight Movies Of All Time
Article : Feb/March 2008
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Smoking Section
Article : Feb/March 2008
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Equipment Check
Article : Feb/March 2008
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The Little Big Jet
Article : December 2007
Private Air readers try the Embraer Legacy 600 on for size
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Up and Adam
Article : December 2007
VLJ shopping at the newly flush upstart Denver aircraft manufacturer.
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Underwater Plane
Article : December 2007
It is among the most amazing winged craft the world has ever seen. Part-airplane, part-submarine. It will soon carry the Silicon Valley billionaire who was supposed to be its second customer to the bottom of the sea. Now the delicate questions remains: Who gets the first one?
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Taking the Challenger
Article : October/November 2007
A good airplane gets better, and Private Air’s panel is ready with the props.
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