Bethany Whitfield

Sixteen-year-old Nick Coleman first became interested in flying about five years ago. Like so many others who’ve fallen in love with aviation, Coleman says the thing that draws him is the feeling of freedom he experiences while up in the air. But unlike many others, Coleman has had to overcome a number of health challenges […]

The Red Bull Flying Bulls aerobatic team was performing at the Aero India airshow in Bengaluru on Thursday when two of the airplanes collided midair, sending both into emergency descents that ended with successful landings. Both pilots escaped the accident uninjured, but one aircraft suffered significant wing damage. Local reports say the collision between the […]

Flying reader Ajay Jayaraj, a flight instructor at Aeronavigation Academy International in the Philippines, recently submitted this breathtaking footage of his experience of aviation in his home country. Check out just how beautiful it is to fly in this region of Southeast Asia. Want more? Head over to our “Flying Is” channel for all reader […]

Skydive instructor Forest Pullman and his tandem jumper had just made a clean exit from their jump plane at approximately 13,000 feet over Thailand when the unexpected happened: The plane turned and headed straight for them. The two escaped the near midair collision, but just barely. Check out the harrowing event in this video, captured […]

More than five decades after a DC-3 carrying a Chilean soccer team disappeared en route to Santiago a group of mountaineers has found a large portion of the wreckage. The top-division Green Cross soccer team had just completed a match in the southern Chilean city of Osorno in April 1961 when its members split up […]

Flying reader David Lewis recently captured this incredible footage of a Super Cub on floats taking off from Louisiana’s Pineville Airport with a little help from some friends in their pickup truck. If you’ve never witnessed a dry floatplane takeoff like this, it’s a must-see. Get exclusive online content like this delivered straight to your […]

Dramatic up-close video captured the crash of a TransAsia Airways Flight GE235 in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday that killed at least 31 people and injured several others. The ATR 72-600 turboprop took off from Sungshan Airport around 11:30 a.m. local time and issued a mayday call shortly afterward, although the transmission did not include additional […]

A National Transportation Safety Board report on a Cessna 150 crash in Watkins, Colorado, last May is raising eyebrows for partially blaming the fatal accident on the pilot’s use of his cell phone to take selfies mid-flight. The 29-year-old pilot at the controls of the Cessna, who was not Instrument or night current, took off […]

It can be hard enough greasing your own landing when you’re the only one on the runway. But imagine landing with six other planes at the same time on the same piece of pavement. That’s the stuff for the pros. Check out the Spanish Air Force’s Patrulla Águila doing just in this video and pulling […]

As the trend toward diesel training aircraft continues to supplant traditional avgas fleets, Cochise College in Douglas, Arizona, has become the latest school to turn to jet-A pistons by ordering six RedHawk airplanes from Redbird Flight Simulations. Cochise College, which has been providing aviation training for more than four decades, says the decision to switch […]