Bob Hoover & Arnold Palmer Remembered
The aviation world, and the Twin Commander community have lost two of their brightest stars. Robert A. “Bob” Hoover, who Jimmy Doolittle called the best stick-and-rudder pilot who ever lived, and Arnold Palmer, perhaps the world’s best-known owner-pilot, each had a special relationship with Twin Commanders. Palmer flew two different models of Aero Commanders early in his career as a professional golfer, and Hoover, of course, thrilled airshow audiences for years with his precision aerobatic performances flown in his virtually stock Shrike Commander. A PILOT WHO GOLFED Arnold Palmer, who once said he probably would have been a professional pilot if he hadn’t succeeded so spectacularly in golf, grew up about a mile from the airport in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and…
From the Flightline
SERVICE CENTER PROFILE
Executive Aircraft Maintenance
Thirteen years after its founding, Executive Aircraft Maintenance, the Scottsdale, Arizona-based authorized Twin Commander Service Center, is undergoing a major transition. Aviation industry veterans Jeff Coffman, Bill Forbes, and Bill Ramsey have acquired the airframe maintenance and avionics side of…
A Commander Owner Makes His Way to Cannes
Soon after acquiring his 690A Twin Commander at the beginning of 2016, Patrick Kenney began planning an ambitious trip for any pilot—a trans-Atlantic flight to Europe. He plans to base the airplane at Oxford, England, but the immediate destination was…
Twin Commander Flight Group Meets in Las Vegas
We arrived at Henderson Executive Airport in Las Vegas and there were only two Commanders on the ramp. I knew Morris Kernick was there but no one else. Upon walking into the FBO, it turned out there were quite a few people.…
RADAR BASICS
What’s Back of Black? NEXRAD Can Help
Sometimes it’s what you can’t see that can hurt you, and that is certainly the case with airborne weather radar. Pilots who use radar should be keenly aware of the implications of precipitation attenuation, which may manifest itself as a…