Every article from Radio Hangar - aviation history, technology analysis, flight training, destinations, and news.
ZeroAvia's hydrogen fuel cell technology has proven itself in flight, but airport infrastructure - not engineering - is the constraint that will determine when and where hydrogen-powered regional aircraft actually enter service.
VectorAireon mounted ADS-B receivers on the Iridium NEXT constellation in 2019, ending decades of oceanic blind spots with real-time global surveillance.
VectorBessie Coleman became the first Black American and first American woman of color to earn a pilot's license in 1921, crossing the Atlantic after every U.S. flight school turned her away.
TaildraggerBeta Technologies is betting on charging infrastructure as much as aircraft design - a dual strategy that may prove more consequential than the ALIA itself.
VectorBob Hoover escaped a WWII POW camp by stealing a Focke-Wulf 190 he had never flown - the beginning of the greatest airshow career in aviation history.
TaildraggerHow Bob Reeve turned tidal mudflats into a runway in 1932 and pioneered glacier landing techniques that defined Alaska backcountry aviation for generations.
TaildraggerBoom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator crossed Mach 1.122 over Mojave on January 9, 2025 - the first commercially-funded supersonic flight in U.S. airspace in recent memory.
VectorThe magenta dashed circle on a sectional chart marks a Class E surface area - and it silently raises your legal VFR minimums from 1 mile to 3 miles at uncontrolled airports.
PatternFAR 91.155 VFR weather minimums broken down by airspace class - including the Class Bravo clear-of-clouds rule that consistently catches pilots on the oral exam.
PatternFAR 91.151 requires 30 minutes of VFR fuel reserve after reaching your destination - here's why that's a floor, not a target, and how to plan beyond it.
PatternFAR 91.119 has four distinct parts that most pilots never fully learn - and misreading even one can cost you your certificate.
PatternFAR 91.175 requires three simultaneous conditions to legally continue below instrument approach minimums - know them before you need them at decision altitude.
TowerFlak-Bait flew 207 combat missions over occupied Europe - more than any other American aircraft in WWII - and the Smithsonian's conservation choice is what makes it irreplaceable.
TaildraggerThe FAA has approved GAMI's G100UL as a certified drop-in replacement for 100LL, covering the entire U.S. piston fleet - the most significant avgas development in decades.
TowerGermany is quietly exploring a potential role in the UK-Italy-Japan GCAP sixth-generation fighter program, signaling serious doubts about the troubled FCAS project.
TowerHoneywell Anthem is the first production-certified avionics platform using a partitioned architecture that separates the safety-critical core from a cloud-updatable connected layer - and it's already flying.
VectorJohnson Creek Airport (3U2) in Idaho's Salmon River Mountains is one of the most demanding and revered backcountry grass strips in the American West, drawing skilled pilots each summer to a sloped canyon runway that raises the standard for every pilot who attempts it.
RampMountain wave turbulence peaks in fall as the jet stream strengthens - here's what every pilot crossing high terrain needs to know before filing.
TowerOrmer Locklear became the world's first professional wing walker in 1919, died filming a Hollywood night sequence in 1920, and helped plant the seed for American aviation as we know it.
TaildraggerPlan continuation bias is a cognitive trap that kills VFR pilots - learn to recognize it, set hard limits before you leave the ground, and use the three-question test to break the cycle.
Pattern