JetZero, the Blended-Wing-Body Demonstrator, and the Airplane That Hides Its Fuselage Inside the Wing
JetZero's full-scale blended wing body demonstrator aims to fly by 2027 and cut airliner fuel burn by up to 50 percent.
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Jimmy Doolittle's Blind Flight of Nineteen Twenty-Nine, the Fog Lab at Mitchel Field, and the Morning a Man Flew From Takeoff to Landing Without Ever Seeing the Ground
On September 24, 1929, Jimmy Doolittle flew from takeoff to landing entirely on instruments, launching the age of instrument flight.
TaildraggerLockheed Martin's Ethos and the Push for Cross-Platform Autonomy, from the D Twenty-One Drone of the Sixties to the Uncrewed Battlespace of Tomorrow
Lockheed Martin's cross-platform autonomy ethos links the 1960s D-21 drone to a future of networked crewed and uncrewed aircraft.
TowerMilitary Operations Areas, Hot or Cold, and Flying VFR Through the Magenta Hash Marks
A MOA is joint-use airspace you can legally cross VFR - the key is knowing whether it's hot or cold before you go.
PatternNinety-One One Fifty-Five, VFR Weather Minimums, and the Five Hundred Below, One Thousand Above, Two Thousand Beside Rule That Keeps You Legal and Alive
Understand FAR 91.155 VFR weather minimums - the 3-mile visibility and 500-1000-2000 cloud clearance rule - that keep you legal and alive.
PatternNinety-One Two Eleven, the Supplemental Oxygen Rule, and the Twelve-Five, Fourteen, and Fifteen Thousand Numbers That Decide When You Put the Mask On
When supplemental oxygen is required under 14 CFR 91.211 - the 12,500, 14,000, and 15,000-foot rules - and why your body needs it far sooner.
PatternOrmer Locklear, the Man Who Walked the Wings, and the Curtiss Jenny Barnstormers Who Sold America Its First Airplane Ride
How barnstormer Ormer Locklear and the surplus Curtiss Jenny sold America its first airplane ride after World War I.
TaildraggerPancho Barnes, the Fastest Woman on Earth, and the Happy Bottom Riding Club at the Edge of the Sound Barrier
How Pancho Barnes became the fastest woman on earth and built the desert club where test pilots broke the sound barrier.
TaildraggerProject Bowline, the Mach Five Target Drone, and Britain's Twenty Million Pound Bet on Hitting a Missile That Moves a Mile a Second
The UK's £20M Project Bowline funds a Mach 5 target drone so British air defenses can practice intercepting real hypersonic threats.
TowerRobinson Safety Notice Number Eleven, Low-G Mast Bumping, and the Half-Second That Kills Two-Bladed Helicopters
Radio Hangar explores Robinson Safety Notice Number Eleven, Low-G Mast Bumping, and the Half-Second That Kills Two-Bladed Helicopters.
TowerSixty-Four Days Aloft - The Hacienda Cessna One Seventy-Two That Refused to Land Over Las Vegas
In 1958-59, two men kept a Cessna 172 airborne over Las Vegas for 64 days without landing - a record that still stands today.
TaildraggerSling's MOSAIC-Ready Two-Seat Trainer and the New Sport Pilot Rules That Made It Possible
Sling's new 1,540-lb, IFR-capable two-seat trainer is the first concrete proof that the FAA's MOSAIC rules are reshaping training aircraft.
TowerSlow Flight, the Twenty Sixteen ACS Change, and Flying Just Above the Stall Without the Horn Screaming
Radio Hangar explores Slow Flight, the Twenty Sixteen ACS Change, and Flying Just Above the Stall Without the Horn Screaming.
PatternSpirit of Innovation, the Rolls-Royce Electric Record-Setter, and the Three Hundred Eighty-Seven Mile-an-Hour Run That Made a Battery Airplane the Fastest of Its Kind
How the Rolls-Royce Spirit of Innovation hit 387.4 mph to become the world's fastest all-electric aircraft - and what it proved.
VectorSteep Turns, the Forty-Five Degree Bank, and the Checkride Maneuver That Lives or Dies on the Half Second Before You Roll In
Master steep turns for your checkride: the 45-degree bank, ACS tolerances, and the roll-in coordination that decides whether the maneuver passes.
PatternSulphur Creek Ranch, the Dirt Strip in the Frank Church Wilderness, and the Backcountry Lodge Where You Land for Pie and Watch Elk From the Porch
Sulphur Creek Ranch is a fly-in guest ranch deep in Idaho's Frank Church Wilderness where pilots land on a dirt strip for pie and elk.
RampThat's All, Brother, the C Forty-Seven That Led the D-Day Invasion and Was Nearly Turned Into a Turboprop Before the CAF Pulled Her Out of the Boneyard
How the C-47 that led the D-Day airborne invasion was rescued from a turboprop conversion line and restored to fly over Normandy again.
TaildraggerThe Boeing X Sixty-Six, NASA's Transonic Truss-Braced Wing, and the Skinny High-Aspect Wing That Wants to Rewrite the Airliner
The Boeing X-66 is a NASA experimental jet with a long, strut-braced wing designed to cut airliner fuel burn by up to 30%.
VectorThe Douglas SBD Dauntless, the Slow But Deadly Dive Bomber, and the Five Minutes at Midway That Turned the Whole Pacific War
How the slow, homely Douglas SBD Dauntless sank four Japanese carriers at Midway and turned the Pacific War in five minutes.
TaildraggerThe Douglas World Cruiser Chicago, the 1924 First Flight Around the World, and the Open-Cockpit Biplane Still Hanging in the Smithsonian
The 1924 Douglas World Cruiser Chicago made the first flight around the world - and still hangs in the Smithsonian today.
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