The Night Witches - How the Soviet 588th Flew Canvas Biplanes to War in the Dark
How the Soviet 588th Night Bomber Regiment - the 'Night Witches' - flew obsolete canvas biplanes on 23,000+ night raids in WWII.
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The Oxygen Rule, Ninety-One Two Eleven, and Why Your Body Stops Reading the Regulation at Ten Thousand Feet
FAR 91.211 sets oxygen rules at 12,500, 14,000, and 15,000 feet - but your body needs oxygen far lower. Here's the difference.
PatternThe Steep Turn and the Secret to Holding Altitude Through Forty-Five Degrees of Bank
Learn to hold altitude in a 45-degree steep turn by flying the horizon, not the altimeter, with step-by-step technique for your checkride.
PatternThe Wooden Wonder Reborn - How Glyn Powell's Molds and the Avspecs Team Brought the de Havilland Mosquito Back to the Sky
How Glyn Powell's hand-built molds and New Zealand's Avspecs team returned the de Havilland Mosquito to flight after 16 years grounded.
TaildraggerThe X Fifty-Nine and NASA's Quest to Turn the Sonic Boom Into a Thump
NASA's X-59 aims to replace the sonic boom with a quiet 'thump,' reopening overland supersonic flight banned since 1973.
VectorTrim for the Airspeed You Want, and Why Your Hands Should Be the Last Thing Holding the Airplane There
Trim sets your airspeed, not your altitude. Learn the pitch-power-trim habit that frees your hands and sharpens your flying.
PatternTriple Tree Aerodrome and the Seven Thousand Foot Grass Runway They Mow Like a Golf Green
Triple Tree Aerodrome in Woodruff, SC offers a 7,000-foot manicured grass runway and a thriving fly-in community pilots call the Augusta National of turf.
RampTwo Hundred Fifty Watt-Hours Per Kilogram and the Battery Energy Wall Standing Between Electric Motors and Real Range
Why battery specific energy - not motors or software - is the physics wall blocking real range for electric aircraft, and when that changes.
VectorVertical Aerospace, Sigma Air Mobility, and the Business-Aviation Bet on the V X Four at Farnborough
Radio Hangar explores Vertical Aerospace, Sigma Air Mobility, and the Business-Aviation Bet on the V X Four at Farnborough.
TowerWrong Way Corrigan and the Flight to Ireland He Swore He Never Meant to Make
How Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a patched-up Curtiss Robin from New York to Ireland in 1938 and blamed his compass.
TaildraggerAuto-GCAS: The System That Pulls the Fighter Out of the Ground When the Pilot Cannot
Auto-GCAS is the Air Force system that automatically pulls a fighter jet away from terrain when the pilot is incapacitated - credited with saving at least 10 documented lives since its 2014 deployment.
VectorBeryl Markham and the Night Atlantic: The Solo Flight That Went the Hard Way
Beryl Markham was the first person to fly solo nonstop from England to North America on September 4, 1936, battling headwinds alone for 21 hours and 25 minutes.
TaildraggerBig Creek Airstrip: Idaho's Wilderness Canyon Where the Only Road In Has Wings
Big Creek Airstrip in Idaho's Frank Church Wilderness offers 2,200 feet of grass runway at 5,600 feet MSL - accessible only by air, earned only through preparation.
RampBoeing's North Line and the Long Road Back to Rate
Boeing opened a fourth 737 MAX assembly line at Renton called the North Line, but the FAA's 38-per-month production cap remains the real benchmark for recovery.
TowerBoom Supersonic's XB-1 and the Case for Commercial Supersonic's Second Chance
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 broke Mach 1 on private funding in early 2024, reigniting the case for commercial supersonic travel after the Concorde's 2003 retirement.
VectorCircling Rainier: Mountain Flying and the Volcanic Summits of the Pacific Northwest
A late-June orbit of Mount Rainier captured in AVweb's July 6 Picture of the Day illustrates both the appeal and the serious operational demands of flying the Pacific Northwest's volcanic summits.
TowerCirrus Bets on the Training Pipeline with the Three-Seat TRAC10
Cirrus Aircraft has announced the TRAC10, a three-seat primary trainer with a built-in airframe parachute system, targeting U.S. flight school fleets with deliveries planned for 2027.
TowerCirrus TRAC10 and the future of flight training aircraft design
Cirrus Aircraft's TRAC10 is a clean-sheet primary trainer built around safety, efficiency, and native connectivity - the first serious challenge to legacy trainers in decades.
TowerDoc the B-Twenty-Nine Superfortress: From the Mojave Desert to the Kansas Sky
Doc the B-29 Superfortress spent 42 years abandoned in the Mojave Desert before volunteers returned her to the Kansas skies where she was born.
TaildraggerEdgewing, GCAP, and the Six-Point-One Billion Dollar Push Toward the Next Generation Fighter
A $6.1 billion Edgewing contract signals the UK-Italy-Japan Global Combat Air Programme has moved from concept into active development of a sixth-generation fighter.
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