Pardo's Push - The F Four Phantom Pilot Who Flew Another Fighter Home on His Windshield
How F-4 pilot Bob Pardo pushed a crippled Phantom nearly 90 miles to safety over Vietnam in 1967, a feat known as Pardo's Push.
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The Steep Turn and the Secret to Holding Altitude Through Forty-Five Degrees of Bank
Learn to hold altitude in a 45-degree steep turn by flying the horizon, not the altimeter, with step-by-step technique for your checkride.
PatternTrim for the Airspeed You Want, and Why Your Hands Should Be the Last Thing Holding the Airplane There
Trim sets your airspeed, not your altitude. Learn the pitch-power-trim habit that frees your hands and sharpens your flying.
PatternTrim Discipline: The Habit That Separates Smooth Pilots from Students Who Fight the Airplane
Trim discipline - using the trim system consistently across every phase of flight - is the single habit that most reduces pilot workload and separates smooth pilots from those who fight the controls.
PatternTACA Flight One-Ten - The Deadstick Seven Thirty-Seven That Landed on a New Orleans Levee
On May 24, 1988, TACA Flight 110's crew deadsticked a powerless Boeing 737 onto a Louisiana levee, saving all 45 people aboard.
TaildraggerSaburo Sakai and the four-hour flight home with a bullet through his skull over Guadalcanal
How Saburo Sakai flew nearly five hours home with a bullet in his skull after being shot over Guadalcanal in 1942.
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