Saburo Sakai and the four-hour flight home blind in one eye from Guadalcanal
How Saburo Sakai flew 560 miles home with a bullet in his head after being hit over Guadalcanal in 1942.
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Sinkhole shuts down LaGuardia runway as storms hammer New York
A sinkhole forced a LaGuardia runway closure after severe storms, canceling over 400 flights and disrupting the national airspace system.
TowerSteep turns on the checkride and the altitude you keep losing at forty-five degrees of bank
Stop losing altitude in steep turns by understanding load factor and mastering the sight picture before your checkride.
PatternTangier Island and the Chesapeake Bay grass strip where the crabs are famous and the island is disappearing
Tangier Island's 2,100-foot grass strip offers pilots a vanishing Chesapeake Bay experience with world-class crab cakes and living history.
RampTex Johnston and the barrel roll that sold the Boeing seven oh seven over Lake Washington
How test pilot Tex Johnston's unauthorized barrel roll over Lake Washington in 1955 helped launch the Boeing 707 and the jet age.
TaildraggerThe B-fifty-two Stratofortress and the bomber that refused to die
The B-52 Stratofortress has survived 15 retirement proposals and will fly past 2040 thanks to cost, versatility, and a massive upgrade program.
TowerThe Chart Supplement entry for your unfamiliar fuel stop and the five lines of text that keep you from a very bad surprise
Learn to read the Chart Supplement before flying to an unfamiliar airport — five critical details the sectional chart won't show you.
PatternThe GPS that goes blank fifty miles from your destination and the pilotage skills you forgot you needed
What to do when your GPS dies mid-flight: a step-by-step guide to navigating with pilotage, dead reckoning, and a paper chart.
PatternThe IS and S ThrustSense autothrottle and the first autothrottle ever certified for a turboprop
The IS&S ThrustSense autothrottle is the first ever certified for a turboprop, designed to save lives in the critical seconds after engine failure.
VectorThe NASA X sixty-six A and the truss-braced wing that could reshape every airliner you fly by twenty thirty-five
NASA and Boeing's X-66A truss-braced wing demonstrator could cut airliner fuel burn by 30%, reshaping commercial aviation by 2035.
VectorThe Sentimental Journey Fly-In at Lock Haven and the Piper Cubs coming home to the factory that built them
The Sentimental Journey Fly-In brings hundreds of Piper Cubs back to the Lock Haven factory where they were built.
RampWhat American Airlines actually charges for Flagship Business on the seven eighty-seven
American Airlines Flagship Business on the 787 Dreamliner costs $3,000–$10,000+ round trip depending on route and season.
TowerairBaltic and the eleven million dollars standing between a flag carrier and the edge
airBaltic closed 2025 with just $11 million in cash, raising serious questions about the Latvian flag carrier's survival.
TowerAirbus opens a second A330 MRTT conversion line in Seville and what military tanker demand means for the aviation supply chain
Airbus opens a second A330 MRTT conversion line in Seville, signaling sustained military tanker demand with ripple effects across aerospace.
TowerAIRMETs SIGMETs and Convective SIGMETs and the three-tier advisory system that tells you where the weather wants to ruin your flight
Understand AIRMETs, SIGMETs, and Convective SIGMETs to make smarter go/no-go decisions on every flight.
PatternAtlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson may drop TSA for private screeners after shutdown no-shows
Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson is exploring private screeners after 36% of TSA staff failed to show during a government shutdown.
TowerBessie Coleman and the woman who crossed an ocean just to learn to fly
Bessie Coleman became the world's first Black woman to earn a pilot's license by traveling to France after every U.S. flight school rejected her.
TaildraggerBoeing's 777X storage crisis and the thirty-plus jets no airline wants to take
Boeing has 30+ undelivered 777X jets in storage, built to outdated specs during years of certification delays.
TowerCharles Lindbergh and the Spirit of Saint Louis lifting off from Roosevelt Field on May twentieth, nineteen twenty-seven
On May 20, 1927, Charles Lindbergh departed Roosevelt Field in the Spirit of Saint Louis for the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight.
TaildraggerChina confirms massive Boeing order for two hundred commercial jets
China confirms a 200-aircraft order with Boeing, signaling a major thaw in aviation trade after six years of frozen relations.
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