A diary of my first aerobatic competition.  Compiled from blog posts I wrote before, during, and after the competition.

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An overview of the Airshows 101 course at the 2011 ICAS convention.

On 21 August 2017, the umbral shadow of the moon will sweep across the continental United States from Oregon to South Carolina.  Here are some thoughts about how (and why) to fly through that shadow.

Here's the promo that I shot for The Hoppers, an L-39 team based in the midwestern US.

Here's a big file that contains the full account of my experiences at CAP NESA MAS 2010.  This file contains all of the audio from the prior three episodes in one tasty jumbo audio burrito.

I hope that this doesn't bother anyone who has already downloaded the three individual installments.  I'm thinking about removing those three episodes from the feed and having just this big one for future download.

Want more information about CAP?  Head to www.gocivilaitpatrol.com.  Want a PDF version of this account with images from the school?  It's at http://traffic.libsyn.com/airspeed/Airspeed_-_Touching_the_True_Source_-_CAP_NESA_MAS_2010_-_v2011-10-10.pdf.

This is the third of a three-episode series covering my experience at Civil Air Patrol’s National Emergency Services Academy Mission Aircrew School (NESA-MAS) in Indiana in the summer of 2010.

This is the second of a three-episode series covering my experience at Civil Air Patrol’s National Emergency Services Academy Mission Aircrew School (NESA-MAS) in Indiana in the summer of 2010.

I intend to make available the entire 30,000-word piece in a single file and PDF document with photos at about the time at which I release the third episode. I might also put the long-form file into the podcast feed on its own.

In the meantime, enjoy this in-depth look at the nation’s premier civilian fixed-wing search-and-rescue flight training school from the perspective of a zero-to-hero CAP Mission Pilot candidate.

In the wake of a difficult weekend (and, indeed, a difficult season) for the airshow community, I asked John Cudahy to sit down for a few minutes to talk about airshow safety.

John has been the president of the International Council of Air Shows, Inc. (“ICAS”) since 1997.  I’ve heard him speak at the annual convention in Las Vegas for the past two years and I’m returning to Las Vegas again this December.

John is one of those people who has always been on my list of people to bring onto the show at some appropriate time.  I had thoughts of bringing him on as a part of the upcoming episode encapsulating my experience attending ICAS’s Airshows 101 class at the last convention.  But the events of the summer conspired to make it more important to bring John onto the show now to talk about the ICAS safety culture.

Part 1 of my 30,000-word epic describing my experiences at CAP's National Energency Services Academy Mission Aircrew School in 2010.

Will Hawkins joins Steve to commiserate about independent filmmaking.