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May 1, 2018 · Richard L. "Dick" Collins, a prolific aviation journalist whose career spanned 60 years, nearly half of it on the masthead of Flying magazine including more than a decade in the 1970s...
Apr 30, 2018 · Longtime editor of Flying and AOPA Pilot Richard L. Collins died. He was a giant in aviation journalism, writing about the wonders, risks, and technologies of general aviation for 60 years.
Richard Lawrence Collins (November 28, 1933 [1] – April 29, 2018) was an American aviation author and journalist. Collins earned his private pilot certificate in 1952 and subsequently logged over 20,000 hours in general aviation airplanes.
May 1, 2018 · Personal aviation lost its greatest champion when Richard L. Collins passed away. Richard was 84 and he died at home. I was so lucky to work for and with Richard for more than 40 years. Richard refused to be called an aviation journalist. What he did, and I did, at FLYING magazine, and for him at AOPA Pilot, and then for Air Facts Journal on ...
- Mac Mcclellan
Apr 30, 2018 · He began flying in 1975 and has an airline transport pilot and flight instructor certificates. He’s flown everything from ultralights to Gulfstreams and ferried numerous piston airplanes across the Atlantic.
Apr 29, 2019 · He was a weather geek and proud of it, but he never claimed to be a meteorologist. The focus for him was always on how weather was experienced from the cockpit of a light airplane, which led directly to Collins’s first rule of weather flying: what you see is what you get.
Apr 30, 2018 · Collins flew almost 9,000 hours in his Cessna P210, N40RC. The reason Dick wrote so engagingly about weather is that he flew in it, continually. While a trip around the patch in a Cub was fun for him, the real challenge of flying light airplanes was to travel.
