Traffic Pattern
Aug 14, 2026
FAR 91.159's hemispheric rule keeps VFR traffic separated by altitude - here's how 'east is odd' works and why it matters.
Pattern The Hangar
Aug 14, 2026
Flak-Bait, the B-26 Marauder that flew a record 207 combat missions, is being conserved at the Smithsonian exactly as she came home.
Taildragger Cleared Direct
Aug 14, 2026
Garmin Smart Glide turns an engine failure into a managed glide with one button - here's how it works and where its limits are.
Vector ATIS
Aug 14, 2026
Gol has named André Fehlauer CEO as Celso Ferrer departs for Boeing - here's why the move matters for aviation.
Tower The Hangar
Aug 14, 2026
How Ivan Gates and Clyde Pangborn built the Gates Flying Circus, sold dollar airplane rides, and flew the first nonstop crossing of the Pacific.
Taildragger Ramp Check
Aug 14, 2026
Radio Hangar explores Johnson Creek, Idaho, Three Uniform Two, the Mowed-Grass Strip at Five Thousand Feet Where the Mountains Close In on Both Sides and the Whole Airplane Community Shows Up to Cut the Lawn.
Ramp The Hangar
Aug 14, 2026
How the RAF's 1943 Dambusters raid used Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb to breach the Ruhr dams - and what it cost.
Taildragger ATIS
Aug 14, 2026
The FAA found Pearland Regional Airport's sponsor violated four federal grant assurances by selling airport land for housing near the runway.
Tower ATIS
Aug 14, 2026
Radio Hangar explores Pilots Push Back on Falcon Field Landing Fees as FAA Reviews Mesa's Justification.
Tower Cleared Direct
Aug 14, 2026
How REGENT's electric Viceroy seaglider uses ground effect to fly a few feet over water, replacing coastal ferries at 180 mph.
Vector Traffic Pattern
Aug 14, 2026
Why single-engine airplanes pull left on takeoff and climb - and how right rudder cancels the four left-turning tendencies.
Pattern The Hangar
Aug 14, 2026
Roscoe Turner won the Thompson Trophy three times, flew with a lion named Gilmore, and helped drive early aviation technology.
Taildragger Traffic Pattern
Aug 14, 2026
Slow flight under the current ACS is flown just above the stall warning, not riding the horn - here's how to fly it and why it matters.
Pattern The Hangar
Aug 14, 2026
The Cornfield Bomber: how an F-106 recovered from a flat spin, landed itself in a Montana field, and flew again for years.
Taildragger The Hangar
Aug 14, 2026
The Douglas DC-3 first flew in 1935, made passenger air travel profitable, won a war, and 90 years later still refuses to retire.
Taildragger ATIS
Aug 14, 2026
The FAA wants a modern air traffic control automation platform, but funding falls billions short of the ambition.
Tower ATIS
Aug 14, 2026
On June 27, a North Carolina paramedic flew the first U.S. advanced life support call aboard an electric eVTOL aircraft.
Tower Traffic Pattern
Aug 14, 2026
Radio Hangar explores The Five Cs, the Lost Student on a Cross-Country, and the Checkride Diversion Where Applicants Forget to Climb, Confess, and Just Fly the Airplane.
Pattern The Hangar
Aug 14, 2026
How the Flying Tigers and their shark-toothed P-40 Warhawks defended Burma against a superior enemy in 1941-42.
Taildragger The Hangar
Aug 14, 2026
The story of the Gee Bee Model R and how Jimmy Doolittle rode the most dangerous racer in America to a 1932 Thompson Trophy win.
Taildragger