Alan Williams, author of "Walk On, Life From the End of the Bench," will be the speaker at Cambridge Christian School's annual gala. ...more

November 19, 2008

Betty Skelton Erde is 82 and lives in a retirement community where many are content to putter about in golf carts. Not Erde: She drives a blazing red Corvette to match her red hair and really means it when she says, "I like fast cars." ...more

August 14, 2008

More than 100 aircraft representing several decades in the history of aviation recently took flight in Riverview. ...more

July 2, 2008

More than 100 aircraft representing several decades in the history of aviation recently took flight in South Shore. ...more

June 27, 2008

Pilots with decades of experience dazzled onlookers with displays of aerial acrobatics Saturday. ...more

June 22, 2008

Gaze at the sky above Zephyrhills Municipal Airport in the next week and you may think you've gone back in time. ...more

February 8, 2008

ZEPHYRHILLS - Gaze at the sky above Zephyrhills Municipal Airport in the next week and you may think you have gone back in time. ...more

February 7, 2008

LAKE PLACID — The plane takes off with a buzz, and immediately climbs nearly straight up. Sergio Sofo is at the controls of a Banshee 3D. What kind of plane is that? "It's an extreme aerobatics model," explains Brian Miller, vice president of the Lake Placid Aeromodelers. "It does things a plane shouldn't be able to do." One reason why: it has a two-cylinder, 100cc engine, like a small motorcycle. But it's so light, the owner can hold it in one hand. There's a 2:1 power-to-weight ratio, Miller said, which is why it can thrust into a nearly vertical takeoff. A few minutes into the flight, Sofo put the plane into a Lomcevak, a quadruple, wing-over-wing, tail-over-head somersault that looked like it was in trouble and crashing to the earth. Then, about 100 feet from real peril, the Banshee sprang to life and flew off horizontally. ...more

November 20, 2007