Kingsley Moore's daily life is a streaming montage of chopper blades, Brahman bulls, red dust, and dirt bikes. He settles so comfortably in the seat of the Robbinson 22, dust on his jeans and his face, you'd think he was born doing this. But Kingsley grew up on Australia's metropolitan east coast, where skyscrapers press [...]
The sun's heat reflects off a mottled grey tarmac, glancing back up onto the Fire Boss AT802F faithfully waiting there for me alongside Riley Payne's red-shirted form.
Let me introduce you to the Helipod girls, Annelie Pompe and Catrin Nilsson – a pair of inspiring and articulate Swedish women who push the boundaries of life in pretty much all its adventurous forms. On an average day, Annelie is a helicopter pilot, free diver, mountain climber, and speaker, while Catrin is a CFO [...]
"As a kid, I would always look to the sky when aircraft passed over, and I loved airshows. When it came time to decide what to do for a career, I knew it needed to be hands-on and dynamic. Initially, I thought about going into corporate aviation flying business jets, but then I took an [...]
Growing up in Melbourne's eastern suburbs, Alida Soemawinata's foray into aviation began with the rite of passage of many Australian kids: Air Force Cadets. "Both my older sisters and my older brother joined when they were in high school, so, of course, I looked forward to my 13th birthday when I could too," she chuckles. [...]
"Ever since I can remember, I've been infatuated with aviation and all things that take flight," Jeff Adams admits. "Maybe it was inspired by my father's career as a quality inspector for companies like Boeing and Lockheed Martin – he would always come home with stickers from a fighter jet, satellite, or rocket project he was working on."
"When asked how I became a heli pilot I often reply, half-jokingly, 'It was the only option left for me – I was bad at everything else,'" Maxim laughs. "But there Is some truth in it. I didn't perform well in high school, let alone university." "The school benches totally lost me, so I started [...]
"I wanted to fly ever since I was young – about twelve years old. I grew up surrounded by cotton fields on my mother's horse farm in Midland, Texas, and one year, a helicopter came through to crop dust. I remember thinking it looked like so much fun, and the seed was planted."
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"I have many 'whys,'" says Sam. "I never grew up in an aviation family. No one in my family is a pilot or flies. But I always had a love for aviation – I just never really thought it was attainable. I didn't quite know how to pave that path when I was younger." Instead, [...]
