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Date Title & Description Contributors
2020-05-04

  Airspeed - Downwind Dashes and Other Long-Distance Soaring with Tony Condon

Tony Condon is as an ATP and corporate pilot who also serves as the president of the Kansas Soaring Association, headquartered at Sunflower Gliderport. We sat down and talked about long-distance cross-country soaring.
2020-04-19

  Airspeed - From Hell to Namibia and Back Again with John Harte

John Harte is glider CFI and chief instructor at Sanhill Soaring Club in Gregory, Michigan, just a few miles down the road from Hell. (Hell, Michigan, that is.) He's also a tow pilot, aerobatic pilot, airshow performer, and FAST formation lead. Here's ... 		  Airspeed Online author
2020-04-12

  Airspeed - Hangar Flying with Kent Shook

Kent and I are sequestered in our respective locations at SARS-CoV-2 sweeps the nation, so we thought we'd record a podcast episode.
2017-09-19

  Airspeed - The Eudaemonic Pie

We made an audiobook! Steve narrated the audiobook version of Thomas A. Bass's The Eudaemonic Pie. The book tells the story of a band of physicists and computer wizards in the late 1970s and early 1980s who set out to beat roulette in Las Vegas with co...
2016-09-11

  Airspeed - Because Glider - Part 2

The second in a two-part series chronicling the long road to becoming a CFI. In this episode, our hero suffers more indignation at the hands of a check airman who calls off Christmas, after which he begins the long slog down the self-launch mountain, t...
2016-09-04

  Airspeed - Because Glider - Part 1

Here's Part 1 of the epic quest for the CFI certificate. It covers everything from deciding to go for the certificate up to the failed attempt to transition to a different motorglider at a faraway school. Part 2 is already recorded and will be up soon....
2016-08-07

  Airspeed - River Days Airshow 2016 - Part 1

Jack Hodgson takes the bully mic for a pre-show discussion of what it takes to put on a hometown airshow in some of the most complicated airspace in North America.
2016-06-09

  Airspeed - The Assignment

An eighth-grade language arts assignment from FOD becomes an Airspeed episode. A father's expectations for his son at 14.
2015-06-27

  Airspeed - River Days Airshow - Part 4 - Debrief

David Allen (on the bully mic) and Dean Greenblatt (BIRD from the show) join Steve to debrief the first-ever airshow over the Detroit River.
2015-05-25

  Airspeed - River Days Airshow - Part 3 - Fast Footwork

This is the third installment of the series that covers - in near-realtime - the events leading up to the GM Detroit River Days Airshow on the Detroit River 20-21 June 2015. As before, David Allen of Other People's Airplanes has taken the mic and is ru...