Tragedy in Arizona

Tragedy in Arizona Saturday as two stunt planes collided, killing both pilots, who were preparing for an airshow in Prescott.

I want a flying car

Here's an interesting story about NASA and Boeing discussing flying cars.

Chilling story from England

Fascinating and chilling article today about how an undercover British reporter managed to smuggle a fake bomb onto an airline flight out of Birmingham, England.

Check out my Orlando story

Have you read the story from my Student Pilot Log about my flight to Orlando, including what is now a restricted area over Walt Disney World?

New look for the links directory

I've redone the Aviation Links Directory. Each category is now on its own page. If you have an aviation-related site you would like to add to the directory, go to the best category for your site and click on the Add Site link.

Photos of Charley destruction

Our local radio host went up in a chopper yesterday and took these photos of damage caused by Hurricane Charley.

How you can help with hurricane relief

Please consider making a donation to the Red Cross to help the victims of Hurricane Charley. You can do so on their website or by calling 1-800-HELP-NOW.

Since I had to evacuate my home and our city was spared, I've already made my donation.

The Red Cross says financial donations are the best way to help (rather than sending food, water, clothing, etc.), since the money will be used where the need is greatest.

Billions of dollars in damage was done, on a path that extends from Sanibel Island in the Fort Myers area all the way up the middle of the state past Orlando. Hundreds of thousands, including some of my own family, are still without power, three days after the storm.

Some general aviation airports were hard hit, especially in Punta Gorda (PGD) and Lake Wales (X07), where many aircraft were damaged.

Have you read the story of my Key West trip, with Key West photos and more Key West photos?

Things have been slow around here lately, since we had to evacuate for Hurricane Charley, but we were lucky that the Tampa Bay area was spared. Our thoughts are with our friends in Charlotte County and the other places that were hit hardest by the storm.

We'll have some new content here in a few days.

I added several more August airshows to the Aviation Events Calendar.

Competition for the X Prize is heating up. The Canadian da Vinci Project announced it will launch its entry on October 2, just days after SpaceShipOne is scheduled to launch again.

NASA launched its MESSENGER spacecraft yesterday, bound to orbit Mercury.

Which (general aviation) aircraft company do you think is currently #1 in sales (number of new aircraft sold)? Cessna? No, that would have been my guess, too. It's actually Cirrus Design, who has sold 350 new airplanes so far this year.