Boom Supersonic's Overture and the twenty-year bet on bringing back supersonic commercial flight
Boom Supersonic's Overture aims to revive supersonic commercial flight, but the clean-sheet Symphony engine remains its biggest risk.
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Doc the B-twenty-nine Superfortress and the sixteen-year resurrection in a Wichita hangar
The B-29 Superfortress 'Doc' was rescued from a desert boneyard and restored to flight over 16 years by volunteers in Wichita, Kansas.
TaildraggerEx-Continental Boeing Triple Sevens First In Line For United's Starlink Widebody Upgrade
United Airlines will install Starlink on ex-Continental Boeing 777-200ERs first, bringing broadband internet to oceanic widebody routes.
TowerFAR ninety-one dot two thirteen and the broken instrument that might not ground your airplane
FAR 91.213 provides a four-step decision tree to determine if you can legally fly with inoperative instruments or equipment.
PatternGeneral Atomics gets the YFQ-42A back in the air after prototype crash
General Atomics resumed YFQ-42A flight testing just six weeks after a prototype crash, tracing the loss to a software fault.
TowerHow recurrent training can make or break your insurance renewal
Recurrent flight training directly affects your aircraft insurance premiums, policy terms, and even whether you can get coverage at all.
TowerJackie Cochran and the orphan from Sawdust Road who outflew every man in the sky
Jackie Cochran rose from poverty to hold more aviation records than any pilot in history, male or female.
TaildraggerJimmy Angel and the bush plane stranded on top of the world's tallest waterfall
How bush pilot Jimmy Angel crash-landed on a Venezuelan mesa in 1937 and accidentally gave the world's tallest waterfall its name.
TaildraggerJohnson Creek and the Idaho backcountry airstrips where the wilderness is the runway
Johnson Creek and Idaho's backcountry airstrips offer pilots access to some of the wildest, most beautiful terrain in the lower 48.
RampPivotal Helix and the single-seat electric aircraft you can buy and fly without a pilot certificate
The Pivotal Helix is a single-seat electric VTOL aircraft you can buy and fly today with no pilot certificate under FAA Part 103.
VectorPlanning your outs along the route and the alternate airports you mark every twenty miles before you leave the ground
Plan your emergency alternates every 15-20 miles along your cross-country route before you leave the ground.
PatternSkunk Works Vectis and the stealth drone gap the F forty-seven cannot fill alone
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works unveils Vectis, a stealth drone designed to fly alongside the F-47 into contested airspace where cheaper CCAs cannot survive.
TowerThe Dual Passenger Crisis Reshaping Cabin Crew Training in Twenty Twenty-Six
Airlines are overhauling cabin crew training in 2026 to address the overlap between aggressive and anxious passengers simultaneously.
TowerThe Dual Salaries Of Reserve And Air National Guard Pilots In Twenty Twenty-Six
Reserve and Air National Guard pilots in 2026 can earn $300,000–$400,000+ combining military drill pay with major airline salaries.
TowerThe Garmin GFC 500 autopilot and the digital brain retrofitting into legacy airplanes it was never designed for
The Garmin GFC 500 brings digital autopilot capability and envelope protection to dozens of legacy piston aircraft.
VectorThe Gimli Glider and the seven sixty-seven that ran out of gas at forty-one thousand feet
The Gimli Glider incident turned a Boeing 767 into history's largest glider after a metric conversion error left it without fuel at 41,000 feet.
TaildraggerThe Honeywell Anthem flight deck and the cloud-connected avionics suite designed for aircraft that do not exist yet
Honeywell's Anthem is a software-defined avionics platform designed to scale from eVTOLs to autonomous cargo drones.
VectorThe impossible turn and why the math almost never works when the engine quits after takeoff
Why turning back to the runway after engine failure rarely works below 800 feet AGL, and what to do instead.
PatternThe Navy Curtiss NC-4 and the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic, arriving in Lisbon on May twenty-second, nineteen nineteen
The Navy Curtiss NC-4 completed the first transatlantic flight on May 22, 1919, a milestone most people wrongly attribute to later aviators.
TaildraggerThe Night Witches and the Soviet women who bombed the Eastern Front in plywood biplanes
The Night Witches were Soviet women who flew obsolete biplanes on daring nighttime bombing raids against German forces from 1942 to 1945.
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