Why Newark's 2025 radar blackouts happened, how controllers kept aircraft safe, and what the FAA is doing to fix its aging copper infrastructure.
TowerThe RAF Red Arrows canceled UK displays after trouble ferrying their Hawk T1 jets home from a North American tour.
TowerMountain thunderstorms build over the same ridges because upslope flow and convergence create a fixed, solar-timed lifting engine.
TowerThe Air Force Secretary's Oshkosh interview on modernization, AI wingmen, and GPS resilience - and what it means for GA pilots.
TowerFAR 91.171 requires a VOR check within the preceding 30 days for IFR nav - here are the 5 methods, tolerances, and logging rules.
TowerLearn how briefing and involving your passenger turns nervous cargo into a second set of eyes that makes single-pilot flying safer.
TowerOne year after the FAA's MOSAIC final rule, sport pilots can fly far more capable aircraft - here's what actually changed.
TowerIn strong or gusty winds, reducing flaps generally improves control and reduces float - but it costs runway. Here's the aerodynamics and the trade-off.
TowerThe Air Force repaired a C-17 no vendor could fix, fabricating unobtainable structural parts in a first-of-its-kind return to flight.
TowerLeaded avgas is being phased out by end of 2030. Here's what the switch to unleaded fuel means for piston pilots.
TowerRadio Hangar explores The NOTAM Outage That Grounded Every U.S. Departure, and the Long, Overdue Rebuild of the System That Warns Pilots What They Can't See Coming.
TowerThe UK has issued an RFI to replace the BAE Hawk, setting a 2030 retirement date for the Red Arrows' jets and opening a major trainer contest.
TowerRadio Hangar explores Catalina Aircraft's Vero Beach Engineering Center and the Clean-Sheet Part Twenty-Five Amphibian Trying to Bring Back a Legend.
TowerRadio Hangar explores Coulson Aviation's Ten Surplus Canadian C-One-Thirty Hercules and the Slow Build of a Private Aerial Firefighting Fleet.
TowerMajor airlines have dropped the four-year degree requirement, making flight schools and A&P programs a faster, cheaper route to high-paying aviation careers.
TowerIran displayed the wreckage of F-15E Strike Eagle DUDE 44, now identified as tail 00-3000. Here's what's confirmed and what isn't.
TowerMalaysia Aviation Group ordered drug tests for all 1,260 pilots after an off-duty arrest in Indonesia - here's what it means for pilots everywhere.
TowerRobinson has delivered its 5,000th R44 Raven II - here's what the milestone means for pilots, students, and the global helicopter market.
TowerSolairus Aviation's purchase of Clay Lacy's management and charter business creates a 500+ aircraft managed fleet, reshaping business aviation.
TowerThe FAA has proposed letting qualifying military trainees use their military flight physicals instead of a separate third-class medical for civilian training.
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