Cleared Direct
Aug 21, 2026
Electra's hybrid-electric EL9 Ultra Short uses century-old blown lift and eight electric motors to take off in about 150 feet.
Vector Traffic Pattern
Aug 21, 2026
A pilot's plain-English guide to FAR 91.113 right-of-way rules: who yields in converging, head-on, overtaking, and landing situations.
Pattern Traffic Pattern
Aug 21, 2026
FAR 91.3 makes the pilot in command the final authority and lets you deviate from any rule in an emergency - here's what that really means.
Pattern The Hangar
Aug 21, 2026
How Flak-Bait, a B-26 Marauder, flew 207 combat missions in WWII and is now being conserved piece by piece at the Smithsonian.
Taildragger ATIS
Aug 21, 2026
Japan scrambled fighters after China's TB-001 drone and a Y-9 electronic warfare aircraft probed the East China Sea - here's why it matters for pilots.
Tower Cleared Direct
Aug 21, 2026
Joby's S4 air taxi is deep in FAA certification, but the paperwork - not the flying - decides when you'll actually ride one.
Vector ATIS
Aug 21, 2026
China's LandSpace landed its Zhuque-3 booster, becoming the second nation to reuse an orbital rocket - and cheaper launch means better avionics for pilots.
Tower ATIS
Aug 21, 2026
Radio Hangar explores Max Trescott Enters the Flight Instructor Hall of Fame and What a Career of Teaching Really Buys You.
Tower Ramp Check
Aug 21, 2026
Moose Creek (1U1) is a remote Forest Service grass airstrip in Idaho's Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness - here's its history and how to fly it safely.
Ramp ATIS
Aug 21, 2026
NASA's new university research awards fund AI-assisted avionics, quiet supersonic propulsion, noise reduction, and cheaper certification - here's what it means for pilots.
Tower The Hangar
Aug 21, 2026
Radio Hangar explores Operation Tidal Wave, the Low-Level B Twenty-Four Raid on the Ploesti Oil Refineries, August First, Nineteen Forty-Three.
Taildragger The Hangar
Aug 21, 2026
Ormer Locklear invented professional wing-walking and the deadly plane-to-plane 'Dance of Death' - until a 1920 film stunt killed him at 28.
Taildragger The Hangar
Aug 21, 2026
How Robin Olds and the Wolfpack disguised F-4 Phantoms as bombers and destroyed seven MiG-21s in twelve minutes over Hanoi.
Taildragger Ramp Check
Aug 21, 2026
Sedona Airport sits atop a mesa in Arizona's red rocks - a 5,132-ft crowned runway pilots call the USS Sedona. Here's how to fly it safely.
Ramp Traffic Pattern
Aug 21, 2026
The 2017 ACS changed slow flight to keep the stall horn silent - here's how to fly it right and why it matters.
Pattern Cleared Direct
Aug 21, 2026
Inside Stratolaunch's Roc, the widest airplane ever built, and how it became a reusable runway in the sky for hypersonic flight testing.
Vector The Hangar
Aug 21, 2026
How test pilot Tex Johnston barrel-rolled the Boeing Dash 80 over Lake Washington in 1955 and sold the world on jets.
Taildragger Traffic Pattern
Aug 21, 2026
A pilot's guide to AIRMETs Sierra, Tango, and Zulu - what each weather warning means and exactly how to plan around it.
Pattern ATIS
Aug 21, 2026
A US Air Force C-17 turned back to New Zealand over a missile-launch hazard - here's what it teaches every pilot about NOTAMs.
Tower ATIS
Aug 21, 2026
A Cessna 150 collided with a hovering Pennsylvania State Police helicopter - here's what it teaches pilots about seeing traffic that doesn't move.
Tower