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In 1911, Cal Rodgers flew the Vin Fiz across America in 49 days and 19 crashes - the first coast-to-coast flight, though he never won the prize.
TaildraggerIn Class Bravo you need the words 'cleared into the Bravo' - talking to a controller isn't enough to legally enter the airspace.
PatternHow Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon made the first nonstop transpacific flight in 1931 by jettisoning their landing gear.
TaildraggerBefore the Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh spent four barnstorming years wing-walking, parachuting, and teaching himself to fly a surplus Jenny.
TaildraggerHow Dynon's 2016 SkyView STC and the FAA's Part 23 rewrite opened certified cockpits to affordable experimental-grade glass panels.
VectorUnderstand FAR 91.113 right-of-way rules so you know instantly who gives way when two aircraft converge, meet head-on, or overtake.
PatternFAR 91.3 makes the pilot in command the final authority and lets you deviate from any rule to meet an in-flight emergency.
PatternFlightAware has sued prediction-market operator Kalshi over flight-tracking data and trademark use, raising big questions about who owns the data pilots rely on.
TowerHow pilot Gail Halvorsen became the Candy Bomber of the Berlin Airlift, dropping candy on handkerchief parachutes over Tempelhof.
TaildraggerGastons (3M0) is an Arkansas fly-in trout resort where pilots land on grass, walk to the White River, and eat the fish they catch.
RampRadio Hangar explores Moose Creek, Idaho, One Uniform One, the Forest Service Grass Strip in the Selway-Bitterroot Where the Runway Was Cleared by Hand Before Anybody Owned a Bulldozer.
RampMystery drones have repeatedly breached restricted airspace over Australia's F-35 base at Williamtown - here's what it means for pilots.
TowerNASA's X-57 Maxwell never flew, but its 14-motor electric design retired the hard risks that today's electric aircraft industry builds on.
VectorNewark's new radar is live and the DOT is seeking $10 billion to modernize aging air traffic control systems nationwide.
TowerOn March 10, 1967, Captain Bob Pardo pushed a crippled F-4 Phantom out of North Vietnam using his own windscreen - the legendary Pardo's Push.
TaildraggerPathfinder One is LTA Research's 400-foot electric rigid airship - here's what it can actually do and where it makes sense.
VectorA summer sunset over Dallas is a countdown clock for pilots - here's what golden hour demands of night currency, lighting, and glare.
TowerMaster the steep turn: why back pressure, bank control, and anticipation win the maneuver that busts more private checkrides than almost any other.
PatternHow Stratolaunch's Roc, the world's largest airplane, pivoted from orbital rockets to launching America's fastest hypersonic test vehicles.
VectorThe Swamp Ghost is a B-17E bomber that sat in a New Guinea swamp for 64 years before recovery - now the only intact combat B-17E in the world.
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