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BRIEFING
PEOPLE /
'By Barry Schiff' turns 60
Celebrating six decades of writing for AOPA Pilot magazine
BY THOMAS B. HAINES
THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD BARRY SCHIFF peered out the window of the Douglas DC-4,
wondering just how it was that that stationary wing was holding up the lumbering
airliner as it crossed the continent from California to New Jersey. It was his first
flight-banished to New Jersey for the summer by his parents in hopes that he would
get away from the crowd of ne'er-do-wells he had been hanging with near home in
Los Angeles. After saying hi to grandma and grandpa when he got off the airplane
at LaGuardia, he was off to the library to learn all he could about aerodynamics.
Seven decades later he's still on that quest, and all of general aviation has
benefitted from it.
Back home in Los Angeles, Schiff soloed on his sixteenth birthday and earned his
private pilot certificate on his seventeenth birthday. He went on to an amazing career
as an airline pilot for TWA, using the time aloft to contemplate things aeronautic.
Those ideas soon emerged as occasional and then regular magazine articles for what
was then known as The AOPA Pilot magazine. His first such offering was about celestial
navigation and titled, " Why Not Really Learn to Navigate? " Appearing in the June 1963
edition of the magazine, the article included black and white photos of young Schiff
demonstrating how to use a sextant in an era when pilots navigated by such modern
means as " omni and radar, ADF homers, and DME. " This marks the sixtieth anniversary
of that first article. Hundreds more followed, including nearly 400 monthly
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AOPA PILOT / June 2023
Barry Schiff has entertained
readers with stories of his flying
career for more than 60 years,
including a recent story about
portraying Howard Hughes (top)
and a heartwarming story about
his son Brian (above).
" Proficient Pilot " columns and hundreds of " Test
Pilot " quizzes with more than 3,000 questions
and answers, from the obvious to the esoteric.
A compilation of those Q&As became a book
called, Test Pilot: 1001 Things You Thought You
Knew About Aviation. In all, Schiff has written
13 books, including co-authoring two novels.
He's appeared in dozens of aviation videos
and was a regular on the Wide World of Flying
video magazine series in the 1980s-later called
Wonderful World of Flying.
While he's flown and written about 363
models of airplanes-everything from simple
Aeroncas to the U-2 spyplane, the stories closest
to his heart are those featuring his family. His
favorite: a trip to Hawaii as a passenger with son
Brian as the captain. Barry's retirement flight
was with Brian as his co-pilot. More recently,
Schiff proudly wrote about how Brian taught his

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