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Reliable Robotics is pursuing FAA Part 135 certification to fly the Cessna 208 Caravan autonomously for cargo, with FedEx as a partner and commercial routes likely 3-5 years out.
VectorRoscoe Turner won the Thompson Trophy three times in the 1930s - a record no pilot has ever matched - and flew coast to coast with a lion named Gilmore.
TaildraggerThe FAA's Airman Certification Standards redefined slow flight in 2016–2017, and many instructors are still teaching the outdated version - here's what the current standard requires.
PatternLearn how to manage an off-airport forced landing from cruise altitude, including best glide speeds, altitude decision buckets, field selection, and the approach.
PatternThe de Havilland Mosquito - built of wood, crewed by two, carrying no guns - recorded the lowest loss rate of any aircraft in RAF Bomber Command during World War II.
TaildraggerIn 1924, two U.S. Army Air Service biplanes completed the first aerial circumnavigation of the globe - 175 days, 363 hours, and 26,345 miles in open cockpits.
TaildraggerHow 100 American pilots resigned their commissions and defeated the Japanese Air Force over Burma and China before the US officially entered WWII.
TaildraggerMaster the forward slip to correct a high final approach - with step-by-step technique, common student mistakes, and what the ACS requires on the checkride.
PatternMaster the five-step in-flight diversion process - recognizing when to divert, picking an alternate, running the math, and making the radio call that keeps search and rescue grounded.
PatternNASA's X-59 QueSST completed its first flight on January 24, 2024, launching a program aimed at replacing the 50-year US ban on supersonic overland civil flight with a noise-based standard.
VectorPete Knight flew the X-15 to Mach 6.7 on October 3, 1967 - a speed no winged aircraft has matched in nearly 59 years, and a record built on engineering that still shapes aerospace today.
VectorThe Northrop N-9M Flying Wing proved a radical concept in 1942 - and the one survivor at Chino still flies to prove it today.
TaildraggerLearn how to read, use, and file PIREPs - the only aviation weather product that comes from a pilot who was actually in the air.
PatternMaster the power-off 180 precision maneuver required on your private pilot checkride with energy management techniques, flap staging strategy, and pattern practice methods.
PatternThe shirttail cut is aviation's oldest training ritual, tracing directly to tandem-cockpit instruction when an instructor's tug on the fabric was the primary means of physical communication.
RampTIS-B targets on your ADS-B display are radar-relayed, not direct broadcasts - carrying up to 12 seconds of latency that can place traffic half a mile from where it appears.
VectorA Florida EAA chapter treasurer faces grand theft charges after investigators say he stole nearly $65,000 and attempted to take $60,000 more from the organization.
TowerA radio communications gap between Marine One and DCA controllers was traced to antenna shadow geometry - a physics problem that applies to every VHF-equipped aircraft.
TowerIn January 1929, Wop May and Vic Horner flew diphtheria antitoxin 700 miles to Fort Vermilion, Alberta in brutal cold, completing in two days what would have taken dogsled teams three weeks.
TaildraggerIn 1911, Cal Rodgers flew coast-to-coast in 49 days aboard a grape-soda-sponsored Wright biplane - crashing 15+ times, flying with a broken arm, and changing aviation forever.
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