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A VFR flight plan doesn't track you in real time - it activates the only guaranteed search-and-rescue trigger in GA flying if you go missing.
PatternA Wolf Pitts Pro photo from EAA AirVenture reveals why aerobatic training sharpens every pilot, regardless of what they fly or where they fly it.
TowerOn June 4, 1942, Lt. Cdr. Wade McClusky's decision to keep searching over empty Pacific waters led to a five-minute attack that sank three Japanese carriers and turned the tide of the war.
TaildraggerA high-speed police chase ended when a 17-year-old driver breached the perimeter fence at Portsmouth International Airport and struck a PlaneSense PC-12 on the ramp.
TowerBessie Coleman earned her pilot's license in 1921 after every American flight school refused her - so she crossed an ocean and trained in France instead.
TaildraggerBob Hoover - escape artist, sound-barrier witness, and dead-stick virtuoso - remains the pilot by whom all other pilots are measured.
TaildraggerOn October 24, 1944, Commander David McCampbell and one wingman intercepted 60 Japanese aircraft over the Philippine Sea, producing the most lethal single aerial mission in U.S. naval history.
TaildraggerFAR 91.109 requires a qualified safety pilot for all simulated instrument flight - and the acting PIC designation before takeoff determines how both pilots log the time.
PatternFAR 91.113 ranks aircraft by maneuverability - not convention - and knowing why the hierarchy exists is what examiners actually test in the oral exam.
PatternEight years before Lindbergh, John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown crossed the Atlantic non-stop in an open-cockpit biplane - and most people have never heard their names.
TaildraggerOn the night of May 16, 1943, RAF 617 Squadron flew at 60 feet above German reservoirs to deliver a spinning bomb that breached two dams and reshaped strategic bombing.
TaildraggerDeKalb County formally recognized pilot Larry Scheinpflug for years of advisory board service at PDK - a model for how GA airports survive growth pressure.
TowerRegent's Viceroy seaglider completed its first crewed flight off Rhode Island, a milestone for wing-in-ground-effect technology and coastal transportation.
TowerReliable Robotics has been flying an autonomous Cessna 208 Caravan since 2021 - here's the certification path, the engineering challenges, and what it means for cargo pilots.
VectorRyanair CEO Michael O'Leary warned that smaller European airlines without adequate fuel hedging may not survive the coming winter amid sustained elevated fuel costs.
TowerOn August 7, 1942, Japanese ace Saburo Sakai flew 560 miles home from Guadalcanal alone - one eye destroyed, barely conscious, no radio.
TaildraggerSedona Airport (KSEZ) sits atop a 4,827-foot mesa surrounded by Arizona red rock formations - spectacular to fly into, demanding for the unprepared.
RampThe FAA's 2017 ACS requires slow flight above the stall warning onset - not with the horn sounding - and many students are still being tested to the wrong standard.
PatternSouthwest Airlines is opening its first airport lounges at four locations, marking a fundamental shift away from the egalitarian model that defined the carrier for decades.
TowerSouth Africa's CAA is investigating two Airlink jets that reportedly passed within 50 feet of a packed stadium in what appears to have been a deliberate low pass.
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