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Frank Luke Jr. shot down 18 enemy targets in 17 days in 1918 to become America's most efficient WWI ace and the first aviator to earn the Medal of Honor.
TaildraggerGPS spoofing is actively corrupting ADS-B surveillance data in multiple world regions, exposing a foundational gap in modern aviation's traffic picture.
VectorHarold Gillam flew Alaska's worst weather for 14 years without losing a passenger - until a 1943 crash in the mountains above Ketchikan ended his legendary career.
TaildraggerHydrogen propulsion is advancing on two distinct engineering paths - combustion and fuel cell - each with different timelines, tradeoffs, and implications for pilots.
VectorIvan Gates never learned to fly, yet his Gates Flying Circus introduced an estimated one million Americans to flight and helped forge U.S. aviation culture in the 1920s.
TaildraggerJoby Aviation's S4 eVTOL is in FAA Stage 5 type certification - the first powered-lift aircraft to require entirely new civil airworthiness standards.
VectorJohnson Creek Airport in Idaho's Frank Church Wilderness is one of the most rewarding backcountry strips in the lower 48 - here's what it takes to fly there safely.
RampLa Compagnie expands its all-business-class transatlantic network with a new Düsseldorf–Newark route, the first German city in the French boutique carrier's lineup.
TowerLincoln Beachey was the most celebrated aviator of the early aviation era - a San Francisco daredevil who performed for an estimated 17 million Americans before dying in front of 250,000 at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition.
TaildraggerOn May 16, 1943, nineteen Lancaster crews flew at sixty feet above dark water to destroy Germany's Ruhr Valley dams in aviation's most daring precision raid.
TaildraggerRussia declared US missile infrastructure in Norway a wartime target - here's what that language means for pilots operating in Nordic and North Atlantic airspace.
TowerSedona Airport (KSEZ) sits atop a mesa at 4,827 feet MSL with a cliff-edge runway and red rock views that make it one of the most spectacular GA airports in the US.
RampThe 2017 ACS revision quietly changed what slow flight means on a checkride - flying with the stall warning horn active is no longer acceptable.
PatternIn 1924, four U.S. Army biplanes and eight men became the first to fly around the world, covering 27,553 miles in 175 days across 28 countries.
TaildraggerThe de Havilland Mosquito was a twin-engine unarmed wooden bomber the Air Ministry rejected - then feared losing to its own speed.
TaildraggerThe EAA chapter fly-in pancake breakfast is where general aviation's community, heritage, and next generation are actively kept alive - one Saturday morning at a time.
RampThe G-AIRMET replaced text AIRMETs in October 2017, giving pilots color-coded graphical weather hazard maps with time-step snapshots every three hours.
PatternOn July 23, 1983, a unit conversion error drained both engines of a Boeing 767 at 41,000 feet - and only extraordinary airmanship saved 69 lives.
TaildraggerA Hellenic Air Force F-4 Phantom II crashed in Greece on a transit flight connected to an air show event, killing both crew members aboard.
TowerHow a crashed Japanese Zero in an Alaskan swamp shaped the Hellcat's design - and fueled the most lethal air combat record in US Navy history.
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