ATIS
Jul 28, 2026
Flight instructor Ashley Almquist won the 2024 AOPA Sweepstakes Aviat Husky at AirVenture, signaling GA's growing pull toward tailwheel flying.
Tower ATIS
Jul 28, 2026
Radio Hangar explores A Power Bank Ignites in a China Eastern Overhead Bin, and What Lithium Battery Fires Mean for Every Passenger and Pilot.
Tower Cleared Direct
Jul 28, 2026
How Aireon's ADS-B receivers on 66 Iridium satellites erased the ocean's surveillance blind spots and ended the era of the untracked airplane.
Vector ATIS
Jul 28, 2026
Archer and Anduril unveiled Thunder and Halo autonomous aircraft - here's why their shared hardware matters for every pilot.
Tower ATIS
Jul 28, 2026
Merlin Labs flew an autonomous Cessna at Oshkosh and Vertical Aerospace completed a full eVTOL transition at Farnborough - here's what it means for pilots.
Tower The Hangar
Jul 28, 2026
How Beryl Markham became the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo east-to-west, crash-landing in a Nova Scotia bog in 1936.
Taildragger The Hangar
Jul 28, 2026
How broke barnstormer Bob Reeve turned Alaska's tidal mud and moving glaciers into runways and became aviation's legendary Glacier Pilot.
Taildragger ATIS
Jul 28, 2026
Bombardier delivered its 200th Challenger 3500 to Ferrari's Piero Ferrari, a milestone signaling a strong super mid-size business jet market.
Tower Cleared Direct
Jul 28, 2026
Boom's XB-1, a new FAA noise standard, and Mach cutoff physics could finally return supersonic flight to the skies over land.
Vector Cleared Direct
Jul 28, 2026
How Category III autoland uses triple-redundant autopilots and a radio altimeter to land an airliner in fog the crew cannot see through.
Vector The Hangar
Jul 28, 2026
How Eugene Ely flew a Curtiss Pusher off USS Birmingham in 1910 and landed on USS Pennsylvania in 1911, inventing naval aviation.
Taildragger Cleared Direct
Jul 28, 2026
Radio Hangar explores Eviation Alice, the All-Electric Nine-Seat Commuter, and the Battery Math That Decides Whether a Clean-Sheet Electric Airliner Ever Earns Its Wings.
Vector Cleared Direct
Jul 28, 2026
Eviation's all-electric Alice flew in 2022, but battery physics - not motors - will decide if it ever carries paying passengers.
Vector ATIS
Jul 28, 2026
The FAA has cleared Heart Aerospace's Heart X1 electric demonstrator for flight testing in upstate New York ahead of its first flight.
Tower ATIS
Jul 28, 2026
The FAA is updating its unleaded avgas roadmap but holding the 2030 deadline to retire 100LL, even as officials call the timeline 'aggressive.'
Tower Ramp Check
Jul 28, 2026
Johnson Creek (3U2) is Idaho's crown-jewel backcountry grass strip - here's what flying, camping, and soaking in it really takes.
Ramp ATIS
Jul 28, 2026
Leonardo backed the Merlin and Wildcat at Farnborough just weeks after the British Army's Wildcat AH1 withdrawal - here's why both are true.
Tower ATIS
Jul 28, 2026
Loganair ordered up to 10 Beta Alia CX300 electric aircraft, aiming to fly Europe's first all-electric commercial fleet.
Tower Traffic Pattern
Jul 28, 2026
FAR 91.159's hemispheric rule assigns VFR cruise altitudes by direction so opposing traffic never shares an altitude - here's how it works.
Pattern Traffic Pattern
Jul 28, 2026
FAR 91.151 requires 30 minutes of VFR fuel reserve by day and 45 at night - but here's why smart pilots plan for more.
Pattern