FLYING Staff

We proudly present Flying Magazine’s Top 100 Warbirds, our list of the best, most influential, fastest, most powerful, most effective and most revered fighting airplanes of all time. As with any top list, there’s sure to be some disagreement with the birds we’ve chosen to fill these 100 slots, and that will likely be more […]

It might be a Madison Avenue cliché, but the notion that “new and improved” sells is certainly in aviation, whether you’re talking about big airplanes or small ones. Buyers want more of everything, speed, range, payload, safety, comfort and efficiency, and if airplane builders can deliver on those commodities, they will sell airplanes, sometimes a […]

A look at Daher-Socata’s fastest and most advance TBM yet — the TBM 900.

Want the very best combination of speed, range, and load-carrying capacity? A single-engine turboprop like those in the TBM series makes a great choice. Here’s a brief look at how the TBM 900 stacks up against its competitors in the turboprop and owner-flown jet market. [Historical data and pricing have been preserved for the record.] […]

Check out AOPA’s first regional fly-in event, which was a huge success and garnered surprising attendance numbers.

This year, Sun ‘n Fun celebrated its 40th anniversary on April 1-6 at the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport. With over 500 vendors and exhibitors, airshows every afternoon, special youth activities, forums, workshops, seminars and evening programs, there will be something for every aviation enthusiast to enjoy. And this year, the Blue Angels made their their […]

Flying editor-in-chief Robert Goyer and contributing editor Les Abend took to the mainstream airwaves following the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to lend their expertise to the conversation. Abend, a senior 777 pilot for a major U.S. airline, discussed the complexities of the systems on the Boeing jet in more than a dozen cable […]

Flying editor-in-chief Robert Goyer appeared during South by Southwest, the Austin, Texas, music, technology, film and interactive festival. Goyer took part in the culminating session of Waggener Edstrom’s Connected Car Pavillion panel discussions, which in all featured more than two dozen automobile industry experts weighing in on the future of the automobile in terms of […]

We pilots love engines and with good reason. We rely on their continued trouble-free operation to keep us flying safely. Perhaps more to the point, without engines, flight would never have gone far, and it can be argued that every noteworthy advance in aircraft performance was preceded by a noteworthy advance in power-plant design. There […]

Get a closer look at the Quest Kodiak, an airplane that is making a name for itself in the backcountry.