Richard L. Collins

Richard Lawrence Collins is an American aviation author and journalist.

Collins earned his private pilot license in 1952 and has since logged over 20,000 hours in general aviation airplanes. He is the son of Leighton Collins who was a well-known aviation writer, pioneering flight safety advocate and founder of Air Facts magazine. cite web|url = http://www.flyingmag.com/article.asp?section_id=11&article_id=317|title = Meet Our Editors|accessdate = 2008-01-12|last = Flying Magazine|authorlink = |year = 2007|month = November]

Magazine editor and writer

Richard Collins began writing for "Flying" magazine in 1968 and became Editor in Chief in 1977. He moved to "AOPA Pilot" magazine as Publisher and Editor in 1988. In 1993 he returned to "Flying" as an editor at large where he wrote a monthly column as well as feature articles. In October 2008 Collins retired as a regular contributor to Flying magazine. At the time of retirement, Collins had been on the masthead of an aviation magazine since July 1958. cite web|url = http://www.flyingmag.com/ontop/1134/a-long-and-satisfying-journey.html|title = A Long and Satisfying Journey|accessdate = 2008-09-13|last = Collins|first = Richard L.|authorlink = |year = 2008|month = October]

Books authored

Collins has authored eleven books about aviation weather and flying technique.

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