ATIS
Aug 16, 2026
Beta Technologies posted record Q2 revenue - up to $50M for FY2026 - not from selling aircraft, but from motors, batteries, and open-standard chargers.
Tower Ramp Check
Aug 16, 2026
Catalina's Airport in the Sky (KAVX) sits 1,600 ft atop Santa Catalina Island, with a famous humped runway, a wild bison herd, and real pilot challenges.
Ramp ATIS
Aug 16, 2026
CENTCOM's new Task Force Falcon Strike signals a drone era that will reshape civilian airspace - here's what pilots need to know.
Tower ATIS
Aug 16, 2026
DA vs MDA explained: one lets you descend through it to decide, the other is a hard floor you never bust.
Tower Cleared Direct
Aug 16, 2026
EDR replaces subjective turbulence reports with an objective number that means the same thing to every aircraft in the sky.
Vector Traffic Pattern
Aug 16, 2026
Understand FAR 91.113 right-of-way rules - who yields when two aircraft converge, meet head-on, overtake, or land - and why.
Pattern Ramp Check
Aug 16, 2026
Gaston's White River Resort (3M0) is a grass airstrip on Arkansas's White River where pilots land, tie up to a tree, and walk to trout dinner.
Ramp The Hangar
Aug 16, 2026
How KA114 became the first flying de Havilland Mosquito in 16 years, thanks to one man in New Zealand who rebuilt the molds by hand.
Taildragger Traffic Pattern
Aug 16, 2026
Learn when to call Mayday vs Pan-Pan, the exact radio format to use, and how to practice both before an emergency ever happens.
Pattern ATIS
Aug 16, 2026
The FAA's MOSAIC rule replaces the light sport weight limit with a 59-knot stall speed, opening many certified aircraft to sport pilots.
Tower The Hangar
Aug 16, 2026
How Noel Wien became Alaska's greatest bush pilot and the first to fly commercially between North America and Asia - by being careful.
Taildragger The Hangar
Aug 16, 2026
How Robin Olds and the Wolfpack used a decoy trap to destroy seven MiG-21s in twelve minutes over Hanoi on January 2, 1967.
Taildragger The Hangar
Aug 16, 2026
How Captain Bob Pardo used his F-4 Phantom's windscreen to physically push a crippled fighter out of North Vietnam in 1967.
Taildragger Traffic Pattern
Aug 16, 2026
Learn how to pick unmistakable checkpoints for cross-country flight so your planned course line becomes a flight you can confidently follow.
Pattern ATIS
Aug 16, 2026
Pilatus invested $123 million in a new composite manufacturing center in Switzerland, signaling where general aviation airframes are heading.
Tower Cleared Direct
Aug 16, 2026
How Regent's electric Viceroy seaglider uses wing-in-ground effect to fly a wingspan above the water and reinvent coastal travel.
Vector ATIS
Aug 16, 2026
Six proven ways to get more out of flight training - including on days you never leave the ground - that cut cost and speed up progress.
Tower The Hangar
Aug 16, 2026
On its final flight in 1990, SR-71 Blackbird tail 972 set four world speed records flying LA to DC in 64 minutes, then retired to the Smithsonian.
Taildragger Cleared Direct
Aug 16, 2026
How TCAS resolution advisories work, why the Überlingen midair changed the rules, and why pilots now trust the box over ATC.
Vector The Hangar
Aug 16, 2026
Radio Hangar explores Tex Johnston, the Dash Eighty, and the Barrel Roll Over Lake Washington That Sold the World on the Jet Airliner.
Taildragger