Concorde adventures: time spent with the most extraordinary airplane ever

Editor’s Note: Richard Collins is looking back through his decades of logbooks and sharing his thoughts about memorable flights. It may surprise some that the first of these important flights was not in…

Logbooks: a long and wonderful flight, with beginning turbulence…

Date: 04/09/1979 – 09/17/2007

Aircraft Make & Model: Cessna P210N

Aircraft Ident.: N40RC

Is the ADS-B glass half full?

In the words of Richard Collins, it is “the most important airspace rulemaking proposal ever made: it will affect more pilots and carry a greater financial burden than any previous proposal.”

No time for prayer: surviving catastrophic engine failure

The engine had a catastrophe. I was really blessed. I lived.

The plane had a name: Skippy. It was before Margaret and I had kids. I spent a lot of time with the airplane, and when I wasn’t with it, I spent…