We Fly

Flying Daher’s TBM 960 turns a crush into love.

After a hiatus, a “rusty pilot” tries out a state-of-the-art SLSA.

Certificated in 2019, this business jet has the longest range in the midsize segment and boasts proprietary fly-by-wire flight control systems that follow (and adjust) to your every move.

A combination of speed and gorgeous liveries propels this piston single.

No other airplane I’ve flown can do what the SuperSTOL can. STOL, as you know, stands for “short takeoff and landing.” SuperSTOL, then, implies really short takeoffs and landings, made possible by the airplane’s huge 45-degree fowler flaps and self-deploying leading-edge slats, designs borrowed from the Helio Courier bush plane and scaled to fit this diminutive two-seat experimental amateur-built kitplane.

My first close-up experience with the effectiveness of aerial firefighting happened during the devastating Woolsey Fire in Southern California in 2018. About 1,500 homes and other structures in my neighborhood and the surrounding area were destroyed by flames in a few days. The fire started on a Thursday afternoon, and by the time the sun […]

The flagship CJ just got a whole lot better.

Clear skies, calm winds, and temperatures just far enough above the basement to enable both a pain-free walkaround and stellar engine performance greeted FLYING Magazine editor-in-chief Julie Boatman and some friends recently for the demo flight she took in the new 2022 Cirrus G6 SR, so they did what any group of pilots would do. […]

We cruise to lunch in the new 2022 SR G6 from Cirrus Aircraft, and pick up speed along the way.

Meet a single-engine, very light jet equipped with a highly detailed MFD and Perspective Touch platform.