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Air Force Secretary Troy Meink confirmed the U.S. has weapons in orbit - here's what a contested space domain means for every pilot who depends on GPS.
TowerWiley Post flew solo around the world in 1933 with one eye, a mechanical autopilot, and an elastic cord - then built the first pressure suit in aviation history.
TaildraggerThe January 2024 door plug blowout on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 exposed systemic Boeing manufacturing failures and forced a reckoning with FAA oversight of commercial aircraft production.
TowerRadio Hangar explores Australia clears JASSM-ER, LRASM for Super Hornets.
TowerThe RAAF has achieved Initial Operational Capability with LRASM and JASSM-ER, significantly expanding Australia's long-range strike reach in the Indo-Pacific.
TowerBessie Coleman became the world's first Black female pilot in 1921 by crossing the Atlantic to train in France after every American flight school refused her admission.
TaildraggerBeta Technologies is building electric aircraft and a nationwide charging network simultaneously - a strategy that may determine who wins commercial electric aviation.
VectorBig Creek Airport (U60) sits at 5,600 feet inside the Frank Church Wilderness on a 2,100-foot dirt strip - one of the most accessible gateways to serious backcountry flying in the American West.
RampBoom Supersonic's XB-1 broke the sound barrier in 2024, making it the most credible attempt at commercial supersonic flight since Concorde retired in 2003.
VectorBoom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator broke Mach 1 without afterburner in October 2024, validating the aerodynamic models that underpin the planned Overture supersonic airliner.
VectorCarbon monoxide from cracked exhaust systems kills GA pilots silently every year - and no regulation currently requires a detector that costs less than $50.
TowerOn October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first person to exceed Mach 1 in the Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis - with two cracked ribs and a piece of broomstick.
TaildraggerClass Bravo airspace requires an explicit clearance phrase from ATC - radar contact and squawk assignment alone do not authorize entry.
PatternDoc the B-29 Superfortress spent 44 years in the Mojave Desert before volunteers restored her to flight in 2016 - one of only two airworthy examples of the Pacific War's decisive bomber.
TaildraggerFAR 91.151 requires more than memorizing 30 and 45 minutes - it requires calculating real fuel needs using actual winds, burn rates, and conditions before every cross-country flight.
PatternFAR 91.119 sets minimum safe altitudes for all flight, but its undefined 'congested area' standard - shaped by NTSB case law, not the regulation itself - is where pilots most often go wrong.
PatternFAR 91.3 establishes in three short paragraphs that the pilot in command holds final authority over every flight - and the legal power to break the rules in a genuine emergency.
PatternFAR 61.160 raised the first officer flight hour minimum from 250 to 1,500 hours after the 2009 Colgan Air crash - here's what that means for pilot careers and the airline network.
TowerHarold Gillam was Alaska's most feared bad-weather pilot - until a January 1943 mountain in southeastern Alaska ended his legendary career and stranded five survivors for 32 days.
TaildraggerOn September 14, 1939, Igor Sikorsky flew the VS-300 in Stratford, Connecticut, proving the single-main-rotor design that defines nearly every helicopter built since.
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