The Steep Turn, the Hundred-Foot Tolerance, and Why the Nose Drops the Moment You Forget to Pull
Radio Hangar explores The Steep Turn, the Hundred-Foot Tolerance, and Why the Nose Drops the Moment You Forget to Pull.
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The Swamp Ghost, the B Seventeen E That Sat in a New Guinea Swamp for Sixty-Four Years Before Anybody Brought Her Home
The story of the Swamp Ghost, a B-17E that sat in a New Guinea swamp for 64 years before its 2006 recovery to Pearl Harbor.
TaildraggerThe TAF, the Terminal Aerodrome Forecast, and Decoding the FM and TEMPO Lines Before You Launch on a Cross-Country
Learn to read a raw Terminal Aerodrome Forecast line by line, including the FM, TEMPO, and PROB change groups, before your next cross-country.
PatternThe Terminal Radar Service Area, the TRSA, and the One Ring of Magenta Where Talking to Approach Is Your Choice, Not the Law
A TRSA is a leftover radar service area where talking to approach control is voluntary - here's why smart pilots participate anyway.
PatternThe Tornado That Tore Through Oshkosh Twenty-Four Hours After AirVenture Emptied Out
A tornado struck near Oshkosh just 24 hours after AirVenture ended - here's what the near miss teaches every pilot who flies to fly-ins.
TowerZeroAvia, the Hydrogen-Electric Powertrain, and the Dornier That Flew Over the Cotswolds on a Fuel Cell
How ZeroAvia's hydrogen-electric Dornier 228 flight proved fuel-cell propulsion can power real regional aircraft - and the hurdles that remain.
VectorA Flight Instructor Wins the AOPA Sweepstakes Husky, and What That Tailwheel Airplane Says About the State of General Aviation
Flight instructor Ashley Almquist won the 2024 AOPA Sweepstakes Aviat Husky at AirVenture, signaling GA's growing pull toward tailwheel flying.
TowerA Power Bank Ignites in a China Eastern Overhead Bin, and What Lithium Battery Fires Mean for Every Passenger and Pilot
Radio Hangar explores A Power Bank Ignites in a China Eastern Overhead Bin, and What Lithium Battery Fires Mean for Every Passenger and Pilot.
TowerAireon and Space-Based ADS-B, the Sixty-Six Iridium Satellites That Put a Receiver Over Every Ocean and Ended the Era of the Untracked Airplane
How Aireon's ADS-B receivers on 66 Iridium satellites erased the ocean's surveillance blind spots and ended the era of the untracked airplane.
VectorArcher and Anduril's Autonomous Loyal Wingman, the Thunder and Halo, and What Common Hardware Between Air Taxi and Combat Drone Really Means
Archer and Anduril unveiled Thunder and Halo autonomous aircraft - here's why their shared hardware matters for every pilot.
TowerAutonomous Flight and Powered Lift Take Center Stage at Oshkosh and Farnborough
Merlin Labs flew an autonomous Cessna at Oshkosh and Vertical Aerospace completed a full eVTOL transition at Farnborough - here's what it means for pilots.
TowerBeryl Markham, the Vega Gull Messenger, and the Night She Flew the Atlantic Backwards Into a Nova Scotia Bog
How Beryl Markham became the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo east-to-west, crash-landing in a Nova Scotia bog in 1936.
TaildraggerBob Reeve, the Glacier Pilot of Valdez, and the Tidal-Flat Runway That Taught a Broke Barnstormer to Land on Ice
How broke barnstormer Bob Reeve turned Alaska's tidal mud and moving glaciers into runways and became aviation's legendary Glacier Pilot.
TaildraggerBombardier Delivers the Two Hundredth Challenger Thirty-Five Hundred, and Piero Ferrari Takes Delivery of the Milestone Jet
Bombardier delivered its 200th Challenger 3500 to Ferrari's Piero Ferrari, a milestone signaling a strong super mid-size business jet market.
TowerBoom Supersonic's XB-1, Boomless Cruise, and the Mach Cutoff Physics That Could Put Supersonic Flight Back Over Land
Boom's XB-1, a new FAA noise standard, and Mach cutoff physics could finally return supersonic flight to the skies over land.
VectorCategory Three Autoland, the Triple-Redundant Autopilot That Flies an Airliner to Touchdown in Fog You Cannot See Through
How Category III autoland uses triple-redundant autopilots and a radio altimeter to land an airliner in fog the crew cannot see through.
VectorEugene Ely, the Curtiss Pusher, and the Wooden Platform Off a Cruiser That Gave the Navy Its First Airplane
How Eugene Ely flew a Curtiss Pusher off USS Birmingham in 1910 and landed on USS Pennsylvania in 1911, inventing naval aviation.
TaildraggerEviation Alice, the All-Electric Nine-Seat Commuter, and the Battery Math That Decides Whether a Clean-Sheet Electric Airliner Ever Earns Its Wings
Radio Hangar explores Eviation Alice, the All-Electric Nine-Seat Commuter, and the Battery Math That Decides Whether a Clean-Sheet Electric Airliner Ever Earns Its Wings.
VectorEviation Alice, the All-Electric Nine-Seat Commuter, and the Battery Math That Decides Whether It Ever Carries a Paying Passenger
Eviation's all-electric Alice flew in 2022, but battery physics - not motors - will decide if it ever carries paying passengers.
VectorFAA Clears the Heart X1 Electric Demonstrator for Flight Testing in Upstate New York
The FAA has cleared Heart Aerospace's Heart X1 electric demonstrator for flight testing in upstate New York ahead of its first flight.
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