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RAF roundels over Oshkosh represent over a century of Anglo-American aviation history, from Eagle Squadron volunteers to shared fifth-generation fighter technology.
TowerTransportation Secretary Sean Duffy is pushing for faster FAA aircraft certification, naming China's state-backed COMAC C919 as a direct threat to American aerospace dominance.
TowerSedona Airport (KSEZ) sits atop a mesa at 4,830 feet MSL - a visually stunning and technically demanding destination where summer density altitude demands serious preflight planning.
RampThe 2019 ACS revision eliminated the stall-horn standard for slow flight - here's what examiners now expect and how to build the rudder discipline to pass.
PatternSteep turns fail checkrides more than almost any other maneuver - here's how to eliminate each of the three predictable bust zones before your practical test.
PatternStratolaunch has acquired a Boeing 777-200ER to expand its hypersonic air-launch test fleet alongside the Roc, signaling serious program growth.
TowerThe ADS-B technology in your panel today traces directly to the FAA's Capstone Program, a field test in one of the most dangerous stretches of airspace in the United States.
VectorOn October 1, 1942, America secretly flew its first jet-powered aircraft - the Bell XP-59A Airacomet - at Muroc Dry Lake, California, with a dummy wooden propeller bolted to the nose as cover.
TaildraggerThe black hole approach illusion causes pilots to descend into terrain on clear nights - here's the instrument discipline that prevents it.
PatternCFM International's RISE program is developing an open-fan engine targeting over 20% better fuel efficiency than the LEAP, with entry into service aimed at the mid-2030s.
VectorOn February 2, 1970, an F-106 Delta Dart recovered from an unrecoverable flat spin without its pilot and belly-landed itself in a Montana cornfield.
TaildraggerThe 1927 Dole Air Race sent 8 aircraft 2,400 miles across the open Pacific to Hawaii - only 2 arrived, and 7 crew members were never found.
TaildraggerOn April 18, 1942, sixteen B-25 Mitchell bombers launched from the USS Hornet and struck Tokyo, cracking Japan's myth of invulnerability and setting in motion the chain of events that led to Midway.
TaildraggerDream Chaser carries six decades of NASA lifting body research into commercial spaceflight, designed to return from orbit and land on a runway like an aircraft.
VectorThe Garmin GFC 500 brings certified envelope protection and one-button upset recovery to legacy piston aircraft, directly targeting loss of control - the leading cause of fatal GA accidents.
VectorThe Lady Be Good vanished into the Libyan desert in 1943 and sat undisturbed for 16 years - a navigation failure that still instructs pilots today.
TaildraggerThe Memphis Belle B-17F completed 25 combat missions over Nazi Germany in 1943, survived decades of outdoor neglect, and was fully restored at Wright-Patterson in 2018.
TaildraggerNASA and Boeing's X-66A Sustainable Flight Demonstrator tests a radical wing geometry that could cut single-aisle fuel burn by up to 30% by the 2040s.
VectorLearn how to read the four TAF change groups - FM, BECMG, TEMPO, and PROB - to avoid being caught off guard by rapidly changing destination weather.
PatternThe Valdez STOL competition in Alaska is North America's premier short-field event, where modified bush planes land in as little as 38 feet of runway.
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