THE PYOA CONTEST 2ND PLACE STORY By: Dewey DavenportOn June 28, 2016, I became the caretaker of one of the most important aircraft in the American barnstorming era. In 1927,...
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STOL Drag Landing and Take-Off Events take a traditional STOL (Short TakeOff / Landing) competition to the next level. It is extremely spectator friendly and it challenges the pilots like...
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We asked our Instagram followers to tell us their stories from their first solos. We sent each participant a free Flight Outfitters t-shirt to replace the one cut off their...
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Aviation families and rusty pilot dreams, with Flight Outfitters' Mark Glassmeyer. Our very own Mark Glassmeyer sat down with the John Zimmerman from Sporty's on the Pilot's Discretion Podcast. Learn...
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The PYOA Contest Grand Prize Winning Story by Peter ShannonIn the pioneer days, Saint Joseph, Missouri defined the frontier. Before the transcontinental railroad and telegraph, it was a natural assembly...
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The PYOA Contest 2nd Place Story By Sheera KaizermanMy boyfriend Reid loves to collect things. I don’t necessarily mean physical things, but for as long as I’ve known him, he’s...
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The PYOA Contest 3rd Place Story By Michael GerhardtThese are the quiet airborne moments, when we look at the endless wonder below and around us. We marvel “…enviously on the...
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The PYOA Contest 4th Place Story By Tucker Axum“You just won the lottery,” my boss said inside our subterranean bunker. “A free trip to Kenya courtesy of Uncle Sam.”By free...
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The PYOA Contest 5th Place Story By Erica ZangwillAfter passing my instrument written exam, I figured if we were going to spend the money on an instrument rating, why not...
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We’re headed for solitude in this month’s installment of the Pilot Your Own Adventure Blog series. There’s no driving to this destination, in fact there are only two ways to...
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In this month’s installment of the Pilot Your Own Adventure blog series we take a trip to Zion National Park in the southwestern corner of Utah for one of the...
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While sleeping in the wild alongside grizzly bears may appeal to some, to me there had to be a more appealing option. The target was the phenomenal Berg Lake in...
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Getting into aviation is never an easy process, but as a nineteen-year-old girl who definitely looks fifteen, I always had to go the extra mile to prove myself. Here is...
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Once I became a pilot After I earned degrees in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, I spent many years working and saving to obtain my Private Pilot license in 1993....
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There’s something special about fall camping that I can’t quite explain. There’s about a two-week window where the Canadian wilderness just lights up, and the sheer beauty of it is...
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Long before television channels were full of Alaska-this and Alaska-that reality TV shows, my grandparents took a trip there with the Cincinnati Zoo. When they returned, there was the usual...
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Phil Lightstone of PlaneTalk stopped by our booth at Oshkosh this year to interview Mark, our president and founder. Take a listen here, and be sure to check out all...
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