The Four Left-Turning Tendencies and Why Your Feet Fall Asleep on Takeoff
Learn why every airplane yaws left on takeoff - torque, slipstream, P-factor, and precession - and how right rudder keeps you coordinated and safe.
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The Garmin G I Two Seventy-Five, the Round-Format Glass Display That Kills the Vacuum Pump and Puts a Solid-State Brain Behind Your Old Six-Pack
The Garmin GI 275 replaces the failure-prone vacuum attitude indicator with a solid-state, battery-backed glass display that fits the standard round cutout.
VectorThe Go-Around, the Balked Landing, and Why Pushing the Throttle Up Beats Trying to Save a Bad Approach
Radio Hangar explores The Go-Around, the Balked Landing, and Why Pushing the Throttle Up Beats Trying to Save a Bad Approach.
PatternThe Impossible Turn, the Turnback to the Runway After an Engine Quits on Takeoff, and Why the Number in Your Head Matters More Than the Angle of Bank
When your engine quits after takeoff, the decision to turn back must be made on the ground - here's how to set your number and survive.
PatternThe Lockheed Constellation, Howard Hughes's Triple-Tail Queen of the Skies and the Airplane That Made the Whole Country Feel Small
The Lockheed Constellation was Howard Hughes's triple-tail airliner that shrank America and the Atlantic before jets ended its reign.
TaildraggerThe Maximum Elevation Figure, the Little Blue Number in the Middle of Every Sectional Quadrangle That Tells You How Low Is Too Low
What the Maximum Elevation Figure (MEF) on a sectional chart means, how it's built, and how to turn it into a safe cruising altitude.
PatternThe Night Witches, the Five Eighty-Eighth Night Bomber Regiment, and the Women Who Bombed the Germans From Plywood Biplanes With the Engine Switched Off
The Night Witches flew plywood biplanes over Nazi lines at night with engines off - one of WWII's bravest aviation stories.
TaildraggerThe Pirep, the Pilot Report, and the One Weather Product You Do Not Just Read - You Create It for the Airplane Behind You
A pilot report (PIREP) is the one weather product you create, not just read - here's how to decode, use, and file one.
PatternThe REGENT Viceroy Seaglider, Wing-In-Ground Effect, and the Electric Boat-Plane That Flies One Wingspan Off the Water
How REGENT's all-electric Viceroy seaglider uses wing-in-ground effect and hydrofoils to fly one wingspan above the water.
VectorThe Soft-Field Takeoff, Keeping the Nosewheel Off, and the Rotate-Into-Ground-Effect-and-Level-Off Trap That Bites on the Checkride
Learn the soft-field takeoff step by step - get light on the wheels, lift off early, level off in ground effect, then climb.
PatternThe USS Forrestal Fire of July Twenty-Ninth, Nineteen Sixty-Seven, Chief Gerald Farrier, and the Ninety Seconds That Rewrote How the Navy Fights Fire
How the 1967 USS Forrestal fire killed 134 sailors and permanently changed how the U.S. Navy fights fire at sea.
TaildraggerThe Vought F Four U Corsair, the Bent-Wing Whistling Death, and the Gull Wing Born From a Propeller Too Big for the Ground
How the Vought F4U Corsair's inverted gull wing solved a propeller problem and made it one of WWII's deadliest fighters.
TaildraggerThe Winds and Temperatures Aloft Forecast, Cracking the Coded FB Line, and How Nine Nine Zero Zero Means Calm Air While Seven Seven Five One Hides a Hundred-Knot Wind
Decode the Winds and Temperatures Aloft (FB) Forecast: read the six-digit code, crack 100-knot winds, and shop altitude for wind and ice.
PatternUnleaded Fuel Takes Center Stage at AirVenture as the Timeline Slips
At AirVenture, the FAA and industry signaled the switch from 100LL to unleaded avgas may miss its 2030 target - here's what it means for pilots.
TowerWrong Way Corrigan, the Patched-Up Curtiss Robin, and the Twenty-Eight Hour Flight to Ireland He Swore He Never Meant to Take
How Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a patched-up Curtiss Robin from Brooklyn to Ireland in 1938 and blamed a compass.
TaildraggerAirbus ATTOL, the Vision-Based Automatic Takeoff That Ignored the ILS and Read the Runway With a Camera
How Airbus ATTOL flew a wide-body's takeoff, taxi, and landing using cameras instead of an ILS beam - and why the team refused to oversell it.
VectorAntoine de Saint-Exupery, the Aeropostale Mail Pilot Who Wrote The Little Prince and Vanished Over the Mediterranean in a P Thirty-Eight
The story of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the Aeropostale mail pilot who wrote The Little Prince and vanished over the Mediterranean in 1944.
TaildraggerBig Creek, the Backcountry Airstrip and the Lodge That Burned to the Ground and Rose Again on the Edge of Idaho's River of No Return
Big Creek (U60) is Idaho's backcountry flying hub, home to a lodge that burned in 2008 and was rebuilt board-by-board by volunteer pilots.
RampBombardier Delivers the Two Hundredth Challenger Thirty-Five Hundred and What the Super-Midsize Sales Race Tells GA
Radio Hangar explores Bombardier Delivers the Two Hundredth Challenger Thirty-Five Hundred and What the Super-Midsize Sales Race Tells GA.
TowerCal Rodgers, the Vin Fiz, and the Forty-Nine Day Crash Across America to Win a Prize He Never Collected
The story of Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz, the first airplane to cross America in 1911, after 49 days and countless crashes.
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