About us

We believe that by sharing personal experiences we gain insight and become better pilots. So we created this website where students, seasoned pilots, and everyone in-between can share their experiences with aviation in an easy to read, beautiful way. Our hope is that you will follow our site, read these heartfelt articles and continue to become the safest, most proficient pilot possible.

Alex Carchidi

Alex is a freelance writer from Boston who grew up playing flight simulator games in his dad’s lap and has dabbled in planes as a hobby ever since. Alex loves to write about the history of military aviation and frequently accompanies his pilot friends on recreational flights. Alex can be seen on passenger flights grinning and trying to get a better view out the window during takeoff.
A pilot loading a plane with airmail, part of the history of airmail.

A Brief History of Airmail and How It Finally Took Off

The History of Airmail: Believe it or not you couldn’t always get ...

C-54 Skymaster - Aircraft of the Berlin Airlift

The Aircraft That Moved the Berlin Airlift

The aircraft of the Berlin Airlift hauled and delivered over two million ...

A wrecked Curtiss C-46, documented by aviation archaeology hobbyists

The World of Aviation Archaeology and Searching For Aircraft Wrecks

Amelia Earhart’s missing wreck represents the start of aviation archaeology as we ...

Side view of the PZL M-15 Belphegor aircraft

Dusting Crops With the Jet Powered PZL M-15 Belphegor Biplane

Is the PZL M-15 Belphegor the world’s slowest jet, or the world’s ...

The F-117 Nighthawk - The Founding of Lockheed Skunk Works Secret Superplane Factory

The Founding of Lockheed Skunk Works Secret Superplane Factory

The success of the P-38 program was career-defining for many Lockheed engineers, ...

A-90 Orlyonok Ekranoplan on display at a Soviet Navy museum

The A-90 Orlyonok Ekranoplan: A Soviet Sea-Skimming Plane

What the heck is an Ekranoplan? Or the A-90 Orlyonok? Ekranoplans are ...

Sikorsky CH-54, a definitive skycrane model

The Rise of the Incredible Skycrane

Aerial construction ain’t easy, but the skycrane helps. Need to move a ...

The Past and Future of the Pulse Jet

What’s that annoying buzzing sound? That’s a pulse jet. What if a ...

Exploring the Gyrodyne Craze of the 1950s

The Fairey Rotodyne and Other Gyrodynes: The Original Heliplanes During the years ...

McDonnell XF-85 Goblin Parasite Fighter attached to mothership

Parasite Fighters: 40 Years Were Spent Trying To Make Them Work

Some plane concepts, like parasite fighters, never really take off. During the ...