Aireon, Space-Based ADS-B, and the Sixty-Six Satellites That Put Eyes on the Empty Oceans
How Aireon's 66 satellites brought real-time ADS-B surveillance to the oceans and are shrinking separation over the North Atlantic.
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Alcock and Brown, the Vickers Vimy, and the First Nonstop Flight Across the Atlantic in Nineteen Nineteen
How John Alcock and Arthur Brown flew a converted Vickers Vimy bomber across the Atlantic nonstop in 1919, eight years before Lindbergh.
TaildraggerBeta Technologies, the ALIA, and the Lift-Plus-Cruise Bet That Skips the Tilt-Rotor Entirely
Why Beta Technologies skipped the tilt-rotor for a simpler lift-plus-cruise eVTOL design, and what that bet means for certification and pilots.
VectorBob Reeve, the Mudflat Pilot of Valdez, and the Stainless Steel Skis That Put an Airplane Down on a Living Glacier
How broke bush pilot Bob Reeve used tidal mudflats and homemade steel skis to land airplanes on Alaskan glaciers and build an airline.
TaildraggerBoom Supersonic, the XB-1 Demonstrator, and Boomless Cruise, the Physics Trick That Might Finally Make Fast Airplanes Legal Over Land
How Boom Supersonic's XB-1 and 'boomless cruise' physics could finally make supersonic flight legal over land.
VectorCarburetor Ice, the Rough Engine That Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, and the Little Handle Most Students Pull Too Late
Carburetor ice strikes on warm, humid days - learn to recognize it and why full carb heat makes the engine run rough before it recovers.
PatternCatalina's Airport in the Sky, the Runway With a Hump You Can't See Over, and the Buffalo Burger Worth Crossing the Channel For
Catalina's Airport in the Sky sits 1,602 feet up on an island runway with a blind hump - here's what pilots need to know.
RampCosmic Girl, LauncherOne, and the Boeing Seven Forty-Seven That Tried to Turn a Runway Into a Launch Pad
Why Virgin Orbit's Boeing 747 air-launch system reached orbit but still went bankrupt - the physics and economics explained.
VectorDoc, the B-29 Superfortress Left to Rot as a Bombing Target in the Mojave and Brought Back to Life by Volunteers in the Same Wichita Plant That Built Her
How a WWII B-29 named Doc went from a Mojave bombing target to one of only two airworthy Superfortresses, restored by volunteers in Wichita.
TaildraggerEight Lost in the Alaska Fog: The Cessna Four Forty-One Charter Crash and the Weather Trap That Keeps Catching Us
Eight died in a Cessna 441 charter crash in Alaska fog. Here's what's known, what isn't, and the weather-and-terrain lessons every pilot should take home.
TowerFederal Aviation Regulation Sixty-One Point Fifty-Seven, Recent Flight Experience, and the Difference Between Being Legal to Carry Passengers and Being Ready To
Radio Hangar explores Federal Aviation Regulation Sixty-One Point Fifty-Seven, Recent Flight Experience, and the Difference Between Being Legal to Carry Passengers and Being Ready To.
PatternGlacier Girl, the Lost Squadron, and the P-38 Lightning They Cut Out From Under Two Hundred Sixty-Eight Feet of Greenland Ice
How Glacier Girl, a P-38 Lightning, was cut from under 268 feet of Greenland ice and flew again 50 years later.
TaildraggerJimmy Doolittle, the Blind Flight of Nineteen Twenty-Nine, and the Foggy Morning a Man Took Off, Flew, and Landed Without Ever Once Looking Outside
How Jimmy Doolittle's 15-minute blind flight in 1929 invented instrument flying and changed aviation forever.
TaildraggerNEXRAD Datalink Latency, the Age-of-the-Mosaic Trap, and Why the Radar Picture on Your Tablet Is Older Than the Number in the Corner Says
The NEXRAD radar image on your tablet can be 15-20 minutes older than its timestamp shows - here's why, and how to use it safely.
VectorRegent Craft, the Viceroy Seaglider, and the Wing-In-Ground-Effect Machine That Flies Low Enough to Be a Boat and Fast Enough to Be an Airplane
How Regent Craft's electric Viceroy seaglider uses wing-in-ground effect and fly-by-wire to make a 60-year-old idea finally flyable.
VectorRoger, Wilco, and Affirmative, the Three Little Words on the Radio That Almost Every Pilot Says Wrong
Roger, Wilco, and Affirmative each mean something specific on the radio - here's how to use all three correctly.
PatternRoscoe Turner, Gilmore the Lion, and the Waxed-Mustache Showman Who Won the Thompson Trophy Three Times
How Roscoe Turner, the showman with a lion co-pilot, became the only pilot to win the Thompson Trophy three times.
TaildraggerState Department Clears Air-to-Air APKWS Rocket Sale to Italy
The U.S. State Department has cleared a possible sale of air-to-air APKWS II guided rockets to Italy - a low-cost answer to the drone threat.
TowerTcas, the Traffic Collision Avoidance System, and the Night Over Lake Constance That Taught Every Pilot to Trust the Box Over the Controller
How TCAS prevents midair collisions, the fatal night over Lake Constance, and the absolute rule pilots learned: fly the box.
VectorThe Appeals Court Ruling That Saved the Delta-Aeroméxico Joint Venture and What Cross-Border Airline Deals Mean for the Rest of Us
A US appeals court overturned the DOT order unwinding the Delta-Aeroméxico joint venture, keeping cross-border coordination alive for now.
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