A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS: As many of you know, we are now well into our second decade of serving the Aviation community and our many subscribers and friends. Those years have been an amazing journey for me personally,and hopefully, an enjoyable one for many our loyal "Burgers". We all have seen many changes and challenges along the road.The headwinds facing General Aviation have never been stronger for all of us. Rapidly escalating fuel prices and a struggling economy have reduced Aviation manufacturing and personal flight activities throughout the country. The demands of homeland security have restricted the easy access we all enjoyed to our airports, and the wonderful memories of the marvelous tales spun for us by the "old-timers," the experienced pilots, in the hangar flying we cherished and nurtured the "Young Eagles" of today. Our subscriber base spans the entire spectrum of General Aviation, from Astronauts and world record-setting pilots to newly-hatched fledglings laboring to complete their kit-built aircraft and make their first flight. I have been blessed in my journey as your host to attend numerous Aviation meetings and meet many of the most memorable and famous pilots through the years and share both their dinner table and cockpits. In an effort to compensate for the personal flights you may be forced to sacrifice in this trying environment, I would like to share with you, in a newly-developed Aviation Book Review section on our website, some of the most enjoyable and memorable Aviation books I have read. Many of these will have been written by pilots I know personally and admire. All will have compelling, interesting and significant stories that I believe you will enjoy reading. My email address is at the bottom of each with an invitation for you to send along your comments, good or bad. I promise to read and answer every email that comes my way. John Purner

Vol. 1 No. 4 - 02 GOLF: The Long Cross Country The reviews I have written of other author's books have found favor with you. So here's a new one that I hope you'll like just as much. It is my latest book, a semi-autobiographical sketch dealing not with destination as my other books have. This time I explore the reason we fly which has everything to do with the journey. Vol. 1 No. 3 - SKYGODS: The Fall of Pan Am This the story of Pan Am, the greatest airline the world will ever see and its tragically unnecessary plunge into bankrupcy. It is also the story of the unique band of men who started their careers flying the Clipper's that tamed the sea and retired from the left seat of a jetliner. Finally this is the story of a white hatted band of aviators known by lesser men as "Skygods." Vol. 1 No. 2 - Cannibal Queen Cannibal Queen is the nonfiction chronicle of a summer long flying odyssey made by a father, Stephen Coonts, and his teenage son, David. They flew across this country from west to east and north to south pressing the tires of the Queen's landing gear against the newly mown grass of our nation's finest backwater strips. Come along now on a journey you'll not soon forget. Vol. 1 No. 1 - FIRST WORLD FLIGHT - The Odyssey of Billy Mitchell Our first review subject has won numerous awards for its content and writing style, and has been selected as the subject of a recent 90 minute television program aired internationally on the History Channel.