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Heart Aerospace's 25,000-pound Heart X1 became the largest battery-electric airplane ever flown - here's what it proves and what it doesn't.
TowerThe Lightspeed Delta Zulu builds a carbon monoxide sensor into your headset, adding real safety to any cockpit you fly.
VectorAircraft marshallers guide pilots into parking using a silent, standardized hand-signal language recognized on ramps worldwide.
RampLearn how the Maximum Elevation Figure (MEF) on sectional charts keeps you safely above terrain and obstacles during VFR cross-country flights.
PatternHow the B-17 Memphis Belle survived 25 combat missions in 1943, nearly rotted on a scrap heap, and was saved by a 13-year restoration.
TaildraggerNASA and Boeing's X-66 revives the strut-braced wing to cut narrow-body airliner fuel burn by up to 30 percent.
VectorThe PAVE checklist breaks flight risk into four boxes - Pilot, Aircraft, enVironment, External pressures - so you catch danger before takeoff.
PatternHow the Stratolaunch Roc, the widest airplane ever built, became a reusable runway in the sky for hypersonic test flights.
VectorLearn to decode a TAF and its FM, TEMPO, and PROB change groups so weather never surprises you at your destination.
PatternLearn to decode the Winds and Temperatures Aloft (FB) forecast and pick the altitude that gives you the least headwind or the best tailwind.
PatternTwo soldiers died in an AH-64 Apache crash near Fort Hood, Texas - here's what military accident investigations mean for every pilot.
TowerA Russian Mi-24 Hind flew as the enemy in a Marine Corps exercise at Twenty Nine Palms - here's why the Marines wanted it there.
TowerHow Aireon's 66 satellites put ADS-B receivers in orbit and finally closed air traffic control's oldest blind spot: the open ocean.
VectorHow to read AIRMET Zulu, the freezing level, and the icing layer to spot in-flight ice that surface reports never show.
PatternAOPA members vote in September 2025 on bylaws changes to trustee elections, term limits, and voting rights - here's what it means for pilots.
TowerBig Creek (U60) is a public backcountry grass strip in Idaho's Frank Church Wilderness, home to a lodge pilots rebuilt by air after a 2008 fire.
RampThe story of Bob Hoover - POW escapee, X-1 backup pilot, and the airshow legend who poured iced tea during a barrel roll.
TaildraggerHow airmail pilot Elrey 'Jepp' Jeppesen turned a ten-cent notebook into the Jeppesen charts every instrument pilot still flies today.
TaildraggerIn 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith flew the Southern Cross across the Pacific for the first time - a 7,000-mile journey no one had dared before.
TaildraggerThe US Army awarded Collins Aerospace a $427 million contract to modernize the CH-47 Chinook's avionics, proving the airframe rarely wears out first.
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