Luckily I have had the opportunity to fly an Extra a few times – from the passenger seat [PREVIOUS POST HERE]. I felt compelled to offer my thoughts on what might be one of the coolest machines I have ever handled. Extras are built at the Dinslaken Airfield in Germany. It is a certified, factory-built, thoroughbred…

So those of you that have been reading this site know I have a strong predilection to gawking at used aircraft classifieds. Besides various writing ventures, this might be my #1 pastime when I’m not actually flying.   In the past there have been a couple of primary classified sites that I frequent and the rest…

Editor: Each year the AOPA Air Safety Foundation publishes a free report capturing accident data and statistics. This edition of the report is covering accidents in 2010 (this delay is to allow accident investigations to close). I highly recommend reading this report. There is a good deal we can learn from the numbers. Also, they…