Cleared Direct
Aug 1, 2026
How Aireon's 66 satellites brought space-based ADS-B to the oceans, ending aviation's oldest blind spot and tightening North Atlantic separation.
Vector ATIS
Aug 1, 2026
An F-35 Lightning II crashed near San Diego and the pilot ejected safely - here's what a military mishap investigation actually involves.
Tower Cleared Direct
Aug 1, 2026
Why Archer's 12-rotor Midnight eVTOL chose a heavier lift-plus-cruise design over the tiltrotor - and why that bet is about certification, not speed.
Vector Cleared Direct
Aug 1, 2026
How Auto-GCAS quietly monitors an F-16's flight path and takes control at the last recoverable instant to save pilots who have blacked out.
Vector ATIS
Aug 1, 2026
FAA Deputy Administrator Chris Rocheleau is leaving for NBAA, spotlighting a pattern of leadership turnover that affects GA rulemaking.
Tower The Hangar
Aug 1, 2026
How Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier on Oct 14, 1947 with two cracked ribs and a sawed-off broom handle nobody knew about.
Taildragger Cleared Direct
Aug 1, 2026
How Sierra Space's Dream Chaser launches vertically on a rocket and glides home to a runway like an airliner - and why it still hasn't flown.
Vector The Hangar
Aug 1, 2026
How airmail pilot Elrey Jeppesen turned a 20-cent notebook into the approach charts flown in nearly every cockpit on Earth.
Taildragger Ramp Check
Aug 1, 2026
Fly into Gaston's White River Resort (3M0), a 3,200-ft grass strip in the Arkansas Ozarks where you taxi to your cabin and world-class trout wait.
Ramp Cleared Direct
Aug 1, 2026
JetZero's blended wing body aims to cut airliner fuel burn up to 50% - here's whether the claim and timeline hold up.
Vector Traffic Pattern
Aug 1, 2026
Why the FAA replaced 'position and hold' with 'line up and wait' in 2010, and how to use the phrase safely on an active runway.
Pattern ATIS
Aug 1, 2026
NASA is building the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at Langley, its first new flight-dynamics wind tunnel in 40 years.
Tower Traffic Pattern
Aug 1, 2026
Radio Hangar explores Ninety-One One Nineteen, the Minimum Safe Altitudes, and Why One Thousand Over Town and Five Hundred Over Open Country Is Really a Rule About Where You Can Put It Down.
Pattern Cleared Direct
Aug 1, 2026
Otto Aviation's Celera 500L bets an entire fuselage can hold laminar flow - here's why the physics is real but the certification road is brutal.
Vector The Hangar
Aug 1, 2026
The story of Robin Olds, his legendary mustache, and Operation Bolo - the 1967 trick that downed seven MiGs over Hanoi in 12 minutes.
Taildragger The Hangar
Aug 1, 2026
How 'That's All, Brother,' the C-47 that led the D-Day airborne assault, was saved from a Wisconsin scrapyard and restored to flight.
Taildragger Ramp Check
Aug 1, 2026
Fly to Catalina's Airport in the Sky (KAVX): a 1,602-foot mountaintop runway, a famous humped strip, and the legendary buffalo burger.
Ramp ATIS
Aug 1, 2026
Radio Hangar explores The First Ohio-Built Fury Rolls Off the Line, and the Collaborative Combat Aircraft Race Between Anduril and General Atomics Gets Real.
Tower Traffic Pattern
Aug 1, 2026
Learn the FAA's five hazardous attitudes and the exact antidote phrases that stop bad in-flight decisions before they become accidents.
Pattern Traffic Pattern
Aug 1, 2026
Learn the forward slip to landing - how crossing the controls lets you lose altitude fast without gaining airspeed, plus setup, safety, and checkride tips.
Pattern