This is NOT your father’s Air Facts
Richard L. Collins, Air Facts founder.
Air Facts was first published in 1938 by Leighton Collins, dedicated to “the development of private air transportation.” It’s a different world now, and it’s a different Air Facts. Relaunched in 2011 as an online journal, Air Facts still champions, educates, informs and entertains pilots worldwide with real-world flying experiences.
No aviation topic is off-limits.
Nothing predictable about Air Facts. We’ll tackle any topic, analyze any situation and have our readers weigh in with their input. And the speed of the Internet makes covering current subjects immediate—no waiting three months for an opinion to appear in print.
Air Facts needs you.
Here’s the amazing difference in Air Facts. It’s primarily reader-written. Yes, aviation icon Richard Collins shared his unbelievable wealth of information on flying, technique, weather and a host of other topics for many years, but the majority of articles are now supplied by you, the reader.
By the way, we have fun too!
Check out our regular series on Go/No Go where you decide whether a particular flight is safe to take. There’s no right or wrong answer—you decide. We write about our mistakes, our lessons learned and the pure joy of what it means to be a pilot. Our readers write about their trips—at Air Facts, you climb in, buckle up and ride along. Air Facts covers serious topics, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We know that pilots are always learning.
Join the discussion—pull up a chair!
John Zimmerman, Air Facts Editor in Chief.
Air Facts is interactive, so don’t be a lurker. Is there anything duller than an aviation forum where Jetboy343, FrankieMac, and CirrusPilot12 dominate with the same tired arguments hashed and rehashed day after day? Not at Air Facts! Sure we have regular readers, but our unique visitors are in the hundreds of thousands—they comment as well—which guarantees you’ll always find a fresh perspective from a wide variety of pilots and not just from a small group of “regulars.”
Thanks, Sporty’s, for Air Facts
Air Facts is brought to you by Sporty’s Pilot Shop and Sporty’s President John Zimmerman is Editor in Chief. He is an accomplished pilot and aircraft owner, and writes for Air Facts as well—his own blog and other articles too. Production and distribution is directed by Managing Editor Eric Radtke, also an experienced pilot, flight instructor, and Sporty’s employee.
No subscriptions, no renewals, no registration, but…
Visit Air Facts any time you’d like. It’s all free. You don’t have to subscribe or sign up. We’ve even made commenting easy—we hate when we’re asked to supply our name, rank, serial number and a dozen other personal details just to leave a comment, and we bet you do too. But we offer a free series of email alerts—typically two a month—to tell you when new stories are posted or to let you know when a particular discussion is getting hot and heavy. Just sign up here and join in on the fun. Air Facts is your online journal.
And, speaking of the original magazine, we also go back and frequently pick articles that remain relevant and present them in our online journal. Just as “Stick and Rudder” is still a best selling aviation book after over 60 years of publication, much in the original Air Facts is timeless.
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