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		<title>Tragedy at Reno</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Upside down at 100 feet off the deck is not a good time or place to be slow applying the solution to the situation. We try to make sure they are ready for September. &#8220;Shifty&#8221; Peairs, Reno Racing Seminar Air &#8230; <a href="http://wilko.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/tragedy-at-reno/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wilko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6866187&amp;post=2221&amp;subd=wilko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An American Champion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The perfect cross-country trip combines a great flight with a great destination. So what better plan than to head to Wisconsin on a bright CAVU morning to the American Champion Aircraft factory, where they build the Decathlon, Scouts and Citabria’s?   The &#8230; <a href="http://wilko.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/an-american-champion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wilko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6866187&amp;post=2201&amp;subd=wilko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Up in the Air</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 05:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s a long way without a motor. Sailplane pilot Gordon Boettger, of Minden, Nevada, broke his own Northern Hemisphere soaring record on May 31 by flying a total distance of 1,401 miles in his Kestrel sailplane in 13 hours, 17 &#8230; <a href="http://wilko.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/up-in-the-air/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wilko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6866187&amp;post=2218&amp;subd=wilko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The One Airplane Basement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A Man&#8217;s Home is His Castle Hangar Great effort but planning could have been better. Reeves spent the past nine years building a two-seat airplane in the basement of hisCumberlandCountyhome. The plane arrived in pieces via mail but eventually it &#8230; <a href="http://wilko.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/the-one-airplane-basement/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wilko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6866187&amp;post=2192&amp;subd=wilko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Collision Course</title>
		<link>http://wilko.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/collision-course/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 02:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WSJ explains that the some model airplanes and UAV’s have a lot in common. Unfortunately, this may be the model hobbyist’s undoing Mr. Snyder&#8217;s trainer, an L-39 Albatros, was powered by a small but real jet engine. Other planes &#8230; <a href="http://wilko.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/collision-course/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wilko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6866187&amp;post=2185&amp;subd=wilko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making it Big</title>
		<link>http://wilko.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/making-it-big/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 01:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Skydive Dubai Dubai  has the world’s tallest building, the world’s most expensive racetrack, the world&#8217;s biggest LED display, the world&#8217;s largest fountain and the worlds largest inferiority complex. Now they have something else really big: Debt. The biggest hotel was &#8230; <a href="http://wilko.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/making-it-big/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wilko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6866187&amp;post=2181&amp;subd=wilko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Infinity and Beyond</title>
		<link>http://wilko.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/to-infinity-and-beyond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 02:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow,  Buzz Lightyear Yves Rossy  and his wingsuit are  ready to cross the chasm of America&#8217;s most renowned canyon.  Swiss adventurer who has flown his jet-propelled wingsuit over the Swiss Alps and across the English Channel hopes to fulfill a dream by flying &#8230; <a href="http://wilko.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/to-infinity-and-beyond/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wilko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6866187&amp;post=2172&amp;subd=wilko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not a Good Day to Fly</title>
		<link>http://wilko.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/not-a-good-day-to-fly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 02:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An airplane with high wing loading takes gusty conditions in stride. However, it’s somewhat  bumpy in a light airplane with an Airmet for turbulence with wind shear at lower altitudes.  It was just one of those days. After getting airborne, &#8230; <a href="http://wilko.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/not-a-good-day-to-fly/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wilko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6866187&amp;post=2164&amp;subd=wilko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lest the Deck Rise up to Smite Thee</title>
		<link>http://wilko.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/lest-the-deck-rise-up-to-smite-thee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 03:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I commend thee to abide by these general aviation commandments: 1. Thou shalt abstain from the intersection takeoff for, verily, the runway behind thee, as the altitude above thee, cometh not to thine aid when thou needest them. 2. Thou &#8230; <a href="http://wilko.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/lest-the-deck-rise-up-to-smite-thee/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wilko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6866187&amp;post=2159&amp;subd=wilko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fifteen Spitfires</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recreating the Battle of Britain The gratitude of every home in our island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world except in the abodes of the guilty goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unweakened by &#8230; <a href="http://wilko.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/fifteen-spitfires/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wilko.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6866187&amp;post=2152&amp;subd=wilko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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