OVER THE YEARS I've been privileged to work for some great aviation publications that sent me to often-exotic places to evaluate a host of different airplanes. Of course, I've visited Wichita, Kansas, the Air Capital of the World, to fly both Beechcraft and Cessna products; Savannah, Georgia, to hop in the left seat of Gulfstreams; Brazil to check out a couple of Embraer jets; and France to pilot a host of Dassault's Falcons. One of the most fun trips was to Toulouse in western France to test a new landing product being rolled out at the time by Airbus. Since the product just happened to be installed on the company's A380, I logged a couple of hours in that behemoth.
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