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Truly awesome footage from a helicopter

I hope you can stream full-screen 1080 HD video on your internet link. If you can, you’ll agree with me that this is one of the most awesome places on earth and one of the most wonderful ways of...

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Husband, Father, Friend and Aviator Glenn Matthews Passed Away

It is with sadness in our hearts that we must inform our readers of yet another one of history’s great Canadian aviators passing away last Friday, September 23rd, and exchanging this earthly existence...

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We’re back… sort of !

To all those who kept coming back, wondering what happened, THANK YOU. To all those visiting here for the first time, maybe just curious….. welcome! Yes, we’ve been ‘dormant’ for almost a year. NOT...

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We’re just not giving up !

…. aka The Return of WhyFly – Again Glenn asked me to post these NEW articles for you, so I’ll shut up from here and leave the stage to him. Enjoy ! I can’t believe it’s been ten months since the last...

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TTDY # 25 – Bach’s Invitational Cross Country Adventure – Part Five

Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear (Episode #25)   “Bach’s Invitational Cross Country Adventure – Part Five”   By Glenn Norman   When we awoke on the morning of August 5th, 1971, it was to discover...

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Wildlife

On a cool, spring day, my four legged companion, Lola and I walked along the north shore of the Fraser River together, not too far from where it empties into the sound.  I had been here a dozen times...

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Changes again

HAH! You were expecting us to give up, weren’t you!? Well, SORRY……. we won’t. So we’re now working at setting up WhyFly differently once again……. and hopefully more active and more interesting too....

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On Richard’s Crash…

We’ve been trying to find a moment in time to get this badly-neglected web site up and running again (and many thanks to Francois Dumas for keeping it alive), but with so many projects on the go,...

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TTDY #26 – Bach’s Invitational Cross-Country Adventure – Part Six

The EAA’s Annual Convention & Fly-In (or “Air Venture” as it’s known these days) is the largest gathering of aircraft in the world. When Bach’s “Invitational Cross-Country Adventure” flew in to...

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TTDY #27 – Bach’s Invitational Cross-Country Adventure – Finale

August 8th, 1971. This was the day that changed our lives forever. Our now, four-plane formation flew south and a little west out of Oshkosh, which was pretty much empty by the time we left. By now The...

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Richard Bach’s new book !

Video by Michelle and Glenn, announcing Richard Bach’s latest book to appear March 19th, 2013 !

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Glenn’s Review of Travels with Puff

On January 1st, 1967, I woke up with the worst hangover of my young life and realized I was well on my way to alcoholism – unless I came up with a goal … a dream … an impossible quest, if you like. The...

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‘New’ WhyFly 3.0

The  AGAIN “New Improved” Why Fly Actually, this is a copy of Glenn’s ‘New Why Fly Version 2.0’ message. Just to show you that we are STILL at it in some way or other, the website is STILL ‘in the air’...

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Website ‘issues’

Yes, we have a few ‘issues’. One being most photos and videos having disappeared when we were attacked by hackers a few years ago. I then had to re-start the entire site, in another place, with another...

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Working on it

Yes I realize this is boring…. updates about the updates. But behind the scenes a lot is going on, even though you cannot readily see the results of it yet. Trust me, we’re working on reviving the site...

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Didier’s Auster Adventure

My good friend Didier Keller, who kindly had the courage to let me fly in most of his aircraft, moved back to France a few years ago. One day he found an aircraft on eBay, and his story of acquiring it...

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Crosswind !

Here’s another great video showing a crosswind landing in a Cessna ! Continue reading

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Women Fly !

Here’s a message I was sent from the Museum of Flight, one of my favorite sources on aviation topics ! “…… Women Fly! is The Museum of Flight’s annual event for young women in middle and high school...

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On Richard’s Crash…

We’ve been trying to find a moment in time to get this badly-neglected web site up and running again (and many thanks to Francois Dumas for keeping it alive), but with so many projects on the go,...

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50 years PPL !

Well… Here it is: “December 7th, A Day That Will Live In Infamy…” Oh – not the 76th anniversary of the botched attack on Pearl Harbor (which was never intended to be a surprise {though I don’t mean to...

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