How PGA Tour Pro Maverick McNealy Buys Back Time in a Cirrus
PGA Tour pro Maverick McNealy uses a Cirrus to compress two-day travel into two-hour flights, redistributing time back to his family.
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Mile Hi, Zero Uniform One, the One-Way Uphill Strip in the Frank Church Wilderness Where You Commit on Short Final and There Is No Going Around
Mile Hi (0U1) is a one-way, 14% uphill backcountry strip in Idaho where pilots commit on final and use gravity to land and take off.
RampNoel Wien, the Careful Norwegian Who Flew Fairbanks to Nome in Nineteen Twenty-Five and Wrote the Rules Every Bush Pilot Still Lives By
How Noel Wien flew Fairbanks to Nome in 1925 and wrote the careful-pilot rules every bush pilot still lives by.
TaildraggerOperation Tidal Wave, the Low-Level B Twenty-Four Raid on the Ploesti Oil Fields, and the Wrong Turn That Cost the Bloodiest Day the Bombers Ever Flew
Operation Tidal Wave, the August 1, 1943 low-level B-24 raid on Ploesti, became the costliest U.S. air mission of WWII.
TaildraggerPancho Barnes, the Happy Bottom Riding Club, and the Fastest Woman in the World Who Poured the Drinks for the Men Who Broke the Sound Barrier
How Pancho Barnes, the fastest woman alive in 1930, built the desert club where test pilots gathered before breaking the sound barrier.
TaildraggerPipistrel Nuuva V300, the Cargo eVTOL That Skips the Passengers and Bets the Whole Future of Electric Flight on Freight
The Pipistrel Nuuva V300 is a hybrid cargo eVTOL that hauls ~1,000 lbs with no pilot, betting the future of electric flight on freight.
VectorR.J. Mitchell, the Supermarine Spitfire, and the Dying Designer Who Drew the Elliptical Wing While the Clock Ran Out
How a dying R.J. Mitchell designed the Supermarine Spitfire's elliptical wing and died in 1937, before it saved Britain.
TaildraggerReading the TAF, the Terminal Aerodrome Forecast, and the TEMPO and BECMG Groups That Tell You What the Weather Is About to Do
Learn to read a TAF line by line, including the FM, BECMG, TEMPO, and PROB groups that warn you what the weather is about to do.
PatternSketch for Mastery, Why Drawing Your Aircraft's Systems From Memory Is the Systems Knowledge That Saves You When the Engine Quits
AOPA's 'Sketch for Mastery' tip says drawing your aircraft's systems from memory reveals the knowledge gaps that matter most in an emergency.
TowerSlow Flight, the ACS Change That Moved You Above the Stall Horn, and What the Examiner Actually Wants to See at the Edge of the Envelope
Slow flight under the FAA ACS is flown just above the stall warning, not in it - here's what examiners want and how to nail it.
PatternStratolaunch, the Roc, and the Three Hundred Eighty-Five Foot Wingspan Built to Drop a Hypersonic Airplane at the Edge of the Sky
Stratolaunch's Roc, the largest-wingspan aircraft ever flown, now drops reusable Talon-A vehicles into hypersonic flight for U.S. defense testing.
VectorSwamp Ghost, the B Seventeen E That Sat in a New Guinea Swamp for Sixty-Four Years Before Coming Home to Pearl Harbor
The Swamp Ghost is the world's only intact B-17E, recovered from a New Guinea swamp after 64 years and now displayed at Pearl Harbor.
TaildraggerTCAS to ACAS X, the Climb-Climb-Now Voice in the Cockpit, and the Optimized Logic That's Teaching Collision Avoidance to Turn Left Instead of Just Up
Radio Hangar explores TCAS to ACAS X, the Climb-Climb-Now Voice in the Cockpit, and the Optimized Logic That's Teaching Collision Avoidance to Turn Left Instead of Just Up.
VectorThe ADS-B Spoofing Problem, the Surveillance System That Trusts Every Airplane, and Why There's No Password on the Signal Broadcasting Your Position
ADS-B broadcasts aircraft positions with no encryption or authentication - here's why it's spoofable and why the system around it still keeps flying safe.
VectorThe Aiming Point That Doesn't Move, the Spot on the Windscreen That Tells You You're High or Low Before the Runway Ever Gets Big
Learn the aiming point technique - one fixed spot on your windscreen that predicts whether you'll land short, long, or right on target.
PatternThe DECIDE Model, Six Letters for the Moment the Plan Falls Apart, and the Divert You Talk Yourself Out Of
Learn the FAA's DECIDE model and how to work a weather divert before get-home-itis makes the call for you.
PatternThe Energy Density Wall, Watt-Hours Per Kilogram, and the One Number Electric Aviation Has to Beat Before Any of It Works
Electric aviation lives or dies on one number: watt-hours per kilogram. Here's the energy wall it has to beat.
VectorThe Engine-Out Glide, Best Glide Speed, and the ABCDE Flow You Run in the First Sixty Seconds After the Prop Goes Quiet
A step-by-step ABCDE flow for engine-out emergencies: pitch for best glide, pick a field, run the cause check, declare, and execute a controlled landing.
PatternThe Gee Bee Model R, the Granville Brothers' Flying Barrel, and Jimmy Doolittle's Two Hundred Fifty-Two Mile-an-Hour Gamble Over Cleveland
How Jimmy Doolittle tamed the deadly Gee Bee Model R to win the 1932 Thompson Trophy at 252 mph - then walked away for good.
TaildraggerThe Gimli Glider, Air Canada Flight One Forty-Three, and the Boeing Seven Sixty-Seven That Ran Out of Fuel at Forty-One Thousand Feet and Landed on a Drag Strip
How Air Canada Flight 143 ran both engines dry at 41,000 feet in 1983 and glided to a safe landing on a drag strip.
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