Julie Boatman

Securing the funds to make your flying dreams happen takes planning and strategic thinking. There are a range of solutions for finding sources of financing, planning for your expected expenditures, and applying for scholarships that will help you on your way. The first question to answer: What level of flying do you wish to achieve? […]

Most folks are quickly gaining familiarity with lithium-ion batteries as they play an ever-increasing part in our lives. However, when it comes to delivering power for an airplane, where weight is critical, they reach a limit to their utility. That’s why George Bye, CEO of Bye Aerospace, is excited to share the company’s latest partnership […]

Stephen Dickson became the 18th FAA administrator on August 12, 2019, as sworn in by U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. The ceremony took place in the West Atrium of the U.S. Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C. “I am honored to join the outstanding team at the Federal Aviation Administration and look forward to ensuring […]

Val Miftakhov is a serial clean energy entrepreneur, and his latest enterprise, ZeroAvia, has come out of its hangar in Hollister, California, and into the public eye. A year and a half ago, Miftakhov founded ZeroAvia to develop a solution to fit a particular aviation market niche—10 to 20 seats and a 500-nm trip radius—that […]

Gulfstream Aerospace delivered its first G600 business jet to a U.S. customer from its facility in Savannah, Georgia, on August 8, 2019. The initial delivery marks an important milestone for the program, just one month after the FAA granted the aircraft’s type and production certification, on June 28. Mark Burns, president of Gulfstream, called out […]

People with a broad range of physical capabilities can learn to fly airplanes, and it pays to know in advance what standards you need to meet in order to become a pilot. You also need to assess your ability to fly on a daily basis, making sure that your overall health and mental state allow […]

Inventor and sportsman Franky Zapata has successfully crossed the English Channel on his Flyboard Air, a proprietary hoverboard intended for personal transportation. Since 2016, Zapata has been developing the hoverboard with the goal of creating a new mode of travel that is more flexible and easier to learn than piloting traditional aircraft. Zapata launched this […]

Finding the right flight school is one key to ensuring that your flight training is a success. You need to know what your goal is before you start, and a few common elements apply to your decision, no matter what that goal is. A flight school (otherwise known as an aviation training organization, or ATO) […]

Miss Montana, a restored Douglas C-47A/DC-3C that was used in aerial firefighting after World War II, returned to Helena, Montana, on Monday, August 5, 2019, to commemorate a mission in which 12 of 15 smokejumpers, plus one person on the ground, lost their lives fighting the Mann Gulch Fire following their drop from the airplane. […]

Bringing together the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force in 2018 with the 75th anniversary of its first missions in 1944, the Silver Spitfire launched on August 5, 2019, on its round-the-world journey from Goodwood Aerodrome in southern England. The Silver Spitfire, MJ271, was one of the original aircraft built in 1943 in Castle […]