UK Issues RFI to Replace the Hawk, and What It Means for the Red Arrows After Twenty-Thirty
The UK has issued an RFI to replace the BAE Hawk, setting a 2030 retirement date for the Red Arrows' jets and opening a major trainer contest.
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Adverse Yaw, the Nose That Swings the Wrong Way When You Roll, and the Dutch Roll Drill That Finally Marries Your Hands to Your Feet
Understand adverse yaw and master the Dutch roll coordination drill that finally connects your hands to your feet for cleaner turns.
PatternAireon, the Iridium NEXT Constellation, and the Sixty-Six Satellites That Finally Let Controllers See Airplanes Over the Open Ocean
How Aireon's 66 space-based ADS-B receivers on the Iridium NEXT satellites gave controllers real-time surveillance over oceans for the first time.
VectorArcher Aviation's Midnight, the Twelve-Rotor Tilt eVTOL, and the Back-to-Back Hop Strategy That Bets Battery Physics Favors Short Trips
Archer's Midnight eVTOL bets that short back-to-back hops respect battery physics - here's whether the engineering holds up.
VectorAuto-GCAS, the F-Sixteen Ground Collision System That Rolls the Airplane Upright and Pulls You Out of a Dive While You're Unconscious
How Auto-GCAS automatically rolls an F-16 upright and pulls it out of a dive to save unconscious pilots from ground collision.
VectorBeryl Markham, The Messenger, and the Night She Flew the Atlantic the Hard Way, East to West Against the Wind
How Beryl Markham became the first person to fly the Atlantic solo east to west, from England to North America, in September 1936.
TaildraggerCatalina Aircraft's Vero Beach Engineering Center and the Clean-Sheet Part Twenty-Five Amphibian Trying to Bring Back a Legend
Radio Hangar explores Catalina Aircraft's Vero Beach Engineering Center and the Clean-Sheet Part Twenty-Five Amphibian Trying to Bring Back a Legend.
TowerCoulson Aviation's Ten Surplus Canadian C-One-Thirty Hercules and the Slow Build of a Private Aerial Firefighting Fleet
Radio Hangar explores Coulson Aviation's Ten Surplus Canadian C-One-Thirty Hercules and the Slow Build of a Private Aerial Firefighting Fleet.
TowerDon Sheldon, the Talkeetna Glacier Pilot Who Landed a Super Cub on the Side of Denali and Made a Career Out of Flying Into the Places Nobody Else Would Go
How Alaska bush pilot Don Sheldon mastered glacier landings on Denali and flew hundreds of daring rescue missions in a fabric Super Cub.
TaildraggerElectra's Blown-Lift eSTOL, the EL-Nine, and the Startup Betting That the Fastest Way to Electrify Flight Is a Very Long Wing and a Very Short Runway
How Electra's hybrid-electric EL-Nine uses decades-old blown-lift aerodynamics to take off in 150 feet without needing a runway.
VectorFAR Ninety-One One Oh Three, Preflight Action, and the Two Words 'All Available' That Turn a Fun Cross-Country Into a Safe One
FAR 91.103 requires pilots to review 'all available information' before a flight - here's how to actually do it on your next cross-country.
PatternFAR Sixty-One Fifty-Seven, the Ninety-Day Currency Rule, and the Difference Between Being Legal to Fly and Being Legal to Bring Your Family
FAR 61.57 requires three takeoffs and landings in the preceding 90 days to carry passengers - here's how the rule really works.
PatternFaster Pathways to High-Paying Aviation Careers and the Case for Trade Schools Over the Four-Year Degree
Major airlines have dropped the four-year degree requirement, making flight schools and A&P programs a faster, cheaper route to high-paying aviation careers.
TowerGail Halvorsen, the Candy Bomber, and the Wiggle of the Wings That Turned a C Fifty-Four Skymaster Into Hope Over Berlin
How pilot Gail Halvorsen became the Candy Bomber, dropping chocolate on handkerchief parachutes to children during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.
TaildraggerIran Puts DUDE 44 On Display: What The F-15E Wreckage Tells Us
Iran displayed the wreckage of F-15E Strike Eagle DUDE 44, now identified as tail 00-3000. Here's what's confirmed and what isn't.
TowerJimmy Doolittle's Blind Flight of Nineteen Twenty-Nine and the Foggy Bottom Cockpit That Taught Airplanes to Fly Without Looking Outside
How Jimmy Doolittle's 1929 blind flight proved airplanes could fly safely on instruments alone, launching the modern age of IFR aviation.
TaildraggerMalaysia Aviation Group Orders Drug Tests for Twelve Hundred Sixty Pilots After an Off-Duty Arrest in Indonesia
Malaysia Aviation Group ordered drug tests for all 1,260 pilots after an off-duty arrest in Indonesia - here's what it means for pilots everywhere.
TowerREGENT Seagliders, Ground Effect Flight, and the Electric Boat-Plane Betting That the Future of Coastal Travel Skims the Waves Instead of Climbing Above Them
How REGENT's electric seagliders use ground effect and hydrofoils to make battery-powered coastal travel finally add up.
VectorRobinson Builds Its Five Thousandth R Forty-Four Raven Two, and Where That Milestone Ship Is Headed Next
Robinson has delivered its 5,000th R44 Raven II - here's what the milestone means for pilots, students, and the global helicopter market.
TowerSedona Airport, the Mesa-Top Runway They Call the USS Sedona, Where You Land on an Aircraft Carrier in the Middle of the Red Rocks
Sedona Airport (KSEZ) sits atop a red-rock mesa at 4,830 feet - here's why pilots call it the USS Sedona and how to fly it safely.
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