Joni M Fisher

1 week ago | generalaviationnews.com | Joni M Fisher

Every air show has a few aircraft that everyone seems to be talking about and the 2025 SUN ’n FUN Aerospace Expo was no exception. Like the embodiment of the aircraft flown in the 1960s cartoon The Jetsons, the Pivotal Helix, a single-seat, bubble-top Part 103 aircraft, captured the attention of the crowds at SUN ’n FUN. All during the week-long expo, crowds gathered at the company’s exhibit, as well as at Paradise City to see the working model flying at the beginning of the STOL demonstrations.

1 month ago | jonimfisher.com | Joni M Fisher

Since moving to Florida as a Yankee, I’ve learned most things about native pests the hard way. While unpacking that first week, I learned the two-part horror of what the gentry euphemistically calls a Palmetto bug. The first horror is that it looks like a mutant-size roach, so when one skittered along the floorboard, I mistook it for a mouse. Then it ran up the wall. After I crept up to it, with my arm drawn back, shoe in hand, the second horror manifested itself.

2 months ago | jonimfisher.com | Joni M Fisher

As a journalist, I’ve interviewed thousands of people, from famous Hollywood directors to student pilots. When I met Kevin Lacey to report on his teen flying club, he became a friend. He made a living for a while, stealing aircraft. He’s one of the stars of “Airplane Repo.” He’s been threatened, chased, shot at, and arrested while repossessing aircraft around the world on behalf of banks. He passed away on Valentine’s Day. The news of it dimmed the world.

2 months ago | jonimfisher.com | Joni M Fisher

It has always been true that avid readers become better writers than their non-reading peers. Readers unknowingly gain an innate understanding of storytelling, a flourishing vocabulary, and vast knowledge about topics beyond their personal experience. As a published journalist and author, I’m often asked to mentor or advise a beginning writer. A writing career is a marathon, not a sprint.

Sep 5, 2024 | generalaviationnews.com | Joni M Fisher

From nose art in World War II to whimsical full-plane designs, aircraft painting has grown beyond military aircraft to commercial jets and private aircraft. Of the flying canvases today, the Mooney Anomaly stands out for its colorful abstract design. The Mooney Anomaly (N3205F), a 1967 Mooney M20F, is a flying canvas of 45 colors from nose to tail.