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From oldest to newest. . .
1794 - "Bernoulli: The Man Who Invented Lift"
1930 - "A Message to Copilots"
1974 - "Day One"
1974 - "The Harmon Rule of Error"
1976 - "Lock and Load"
1977 - "Caffeinated"
1979 - "Air Mass"
1979 - "ICE-T"
1979 - "Single Spin Recovery"
1979 - "Crosswinds"
1979 - "Course Intercepts"
1979 - "Fix-to-fix"
1979 - "Angle of Attack"
1979 - "Final Turn"
1979 - "Landing Speed"
1979 - "Duck Soup"
1980 - "Climb Gradient"
1980 - "Penetrations"
1980 - "It's Magic"
1980 - "Under Duress"
1980 - "KC-135A TOLD"
1981 - "No Time To Nap"
1981 - "Stupid Pilot Tricks"
1982 - "Vintage Gallo"
1982 - "Top of Descent"
1982 - "Burner Can"
1982 - "Fuel Leak"
1982 - "Seriousness"
1983 - "Visual Descent Point"
1983 - "Tutti Fruitti"
1984 = "Losing Pressure, Rapidly"
1984 - "You Can't Go Unless You've Been"
1984 - "Breathing"
1984 - "Vee One (Again)"
1985 - "Danger Dave"
1985 - "60-to-1"
1985 - "Fat Boy"
1986 - "Holding Pattern Teardrop Angle"
1986 - "Traffic Pattern Geometry"
1986 - "Maximum Range"
1986 - "Wrong Airport"
1987 - "You Can Always Tell an Engineer . . ."
1990 - "Deck Angle"
1990 - "A Bigger Screw Up . . ."
1990 - "Discipline"
1990 - "I've Never Been So Scared"
1991 - "Just Joking"
1992 - "That Looks About Right (TLAR)"
1992 - "Block Times"
1992 - "Smoothness"
1992 - "There is no Race
1993 - "Meaconing"
1993 - "Fuji San"
1993 - "Experto Crede"
1993 - "Cold War"
1994 - "The Non-Instrument Napkin"
1994 - "Survival Driving in Italy"
1995 - "Shot At"
1996 - "Surviving a Bureaucracy"
2000 - "I've Never Been So Scared"
2001 - "The Worst Pilot"
2001 - "Another Shot"
2004 - "Medical Hobby Shop"
2005 - "Parlezvous Aeronautic"
2006 - "Negative Ways (Waves)"
2007 - "Photoshop"
2008 - "On Safari in Botswana"
2008 - "Adventures in De-icing"
2008 - "Futebol in Rio"
2009 - "Drift Up"
2009 - "Stan Evil"
2010 - "Milo"
2010 - "Todd Silver"
2011 - "April Snow"
2012 - "Course Corrections"
2015 - "Old Man"
2017 - "Medevac"
2017 - "Vacation"
2018 - "Check Ride Nerves"
2018 - "Do Unto Yourself"
2018 - "More Stupid Pilot Tricks"
2019 - "Fake News"
2019 - "Honorable Mention"
2019 - "Introducing the New Jet"
2019 - "John Davey"
2019 - "Lonely at the Top"
2019 - "First Recurrents in New Jets"
2020 - "Melancholy"
2020 - "Oddball CAS"
2020 - "Short Stories on Soft Pavement"
2022 - "The Ads"
2023 - "M1 Pencil"
2023 - "Time Hack"
2023 - "Win by Losing"
2024 - "The International Federation of OK Pilots"
2024 - "Meteorology, Technology, Methodology"