From the seat of a Kenmore Aviation seaplane Managing Editor Julie Summers Walker saw her first glimpse of Friday Harbor in the San Juan Islands of Washington. This online slideshow offers views of the beautiful Pacific Northwest many people never get to see.
It turns out the AOPA staff is a bunch of fibbers and connivers—case in point, the giveaway of the Let’s Go Flying Cirrus SR22. Watch as AOPA President Craig Fuller and staffers fool sweepstakes winner Michael Graves in this online video (Graves doesn’t seem to mind as he accepts the keys and takes his first flight in his new aircraft).
Senior Editor Al Marsh and Chief Photographer Mike Fizer traveled to California’s wine country to see how general aviation helps two wineries
thrive. The pair “chased” hardworking Napa Valley vintner Ehren Jordan as he busily tackled the harvest season. Watch GA help bring wine to your
table in this online video.
Garmin’s G3X is giving Experimental and LSAs avionics capabilities that airliners would envy. See how the glass-cockpit technology developed for the Cessna 162 SkyCatcher can revolutionize a sport airplane in this online video.