Category : Formation Flying

Naming this piece “Roger n’ Me” fits albeit is a bit troublesome.  Troublesome as it shares the title to a 1989 Michael Moore movie a movie of much disdain by we conservative folks. This past January 12th, 2019 Colonel Roger K. Parrish joined the “Gone West” scroll.  Knowing I’ve been.

I have a friend of over a half century that shares my abiding love of aviation.  I’ve known him since he had dark hair and I had hair. His life is more complicated than mine.   My life has been just about airplanes.  His, is as a successful surgeon along.

Formation Flying Lafayette Escadrille d’ Arizona… & The Arizona Stearman Squadron A popular display at the Commemorative Air Force museum at Falcon Field, Mesa, Arizona is a little WWI Nieuport 17 fighter. It is Nieuport 1 of the Lafayette Escadrille d’Arizona.   How it ended up at the CAF museum.

Boeing Stearman History Models 70 – 73 – 75 -76 Be sure to connect to the link below: http://www.stearman.at/boeing_stearman.html 

In this video produced by peerless videographer Alan Ripa I am teaching the 2013 Stearman ground school at Airbase Arizona.  There are a few changes between 2013 and the 2017 class.   The hold harmless requirements are different now and some of the flight-time requirements have changed.  Like the sands of.

Fellow Stearman pilot,Terry Emig, is the uncle of an amazing young woman, Emiley Darling.  Emiley put together a documentary for her Arizona State University project.  It shows how a group of intrepid, mostly ancient, aviators honor America’s veterans especially those who gave their all for our freedom.   Emiley’s video features Commander.

Larry Dustman’s “Ghost Ship” N-29XF …Stearman’s seem to attract some pretty terrific people. From this special universe I have been blessed with some friendships that seem as lasting as humanity . Aviation, in general, has been the catalyst. However, the Stearman World seems special in that way. N-29XF – “The.