Megan Elliott

Earlier this month, Garmin invited Flying’s editors to join them on Wingfoot One’s first trip home to its renovated hangar in Pompano Beach, Florida. After riding along in the right seat for a bit, chief pilot Michael “Doc” Doughtery let me try my hand at flying the beast. The experience? Doc said it best: “It’s […]

In an initiative to increase its proportion of female pilots, easyJet, the low-cost UK airline, hopes to double its number of female entrant pilots in the next two years. Currently, 6 percent of easyJet’s new pilot intakes and 5 percent of the airline’s total 2,500 pilots are female — consistent with the small percentage of […]

A video is circulating the Web showing an Airbus A380 closely flying under a helicopter. The gigantic double-decker aircraft, capable of holding 853 people, appears to be flying within less than a few hundred feet of the helicopter. The Telegraph reports that the maneuver was performed as part of a promotional film for Emirates Airlines […]

A Piper Cherokee struck a mobile home in Lake Worth, Florida, on Tuesday evening, killing the pilot and a young woman sleeping inside the trailer. Footage from nearby surveillance shows the plane in a steep bank, its wings almost vertical, before it dives into the mobile home. Flames engulfed the plane and the trailer, where […]

Hoping to inspire elementary-aged kids to pursue aviation and aerospace-related careers, Missouri-based non-profit TriStar Experience has launched a STEM program using a fully restored MD-83 jet. Wings of Pride, TriStar’s first operational jet aircraft, will be used in ground-based educational programs in schools, museums and within youth organizations to expose children in grades three through […]

Goodyear’s newest airship, Wingfoot One, made its first trip home to its renovated hangar in Pompano Beach, Florida, on Monday. Featuring an innovative design, Garmin G500 glass flight displays and VTOL capabilities, the new ship is a step forward from Goodyear’s other blimps, which featured long-outdated 1920s technology. From the outside, the Wingfoot One is […]

This week, the National Aeronautic Association announced renowned aerospace engineer, Burt Rutan, as this year’s recipient of the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy. Since 1948, the NAA award has honored one recipient annually for “…significant public service of enduring value to aviation in the United States.” From his numerous roles as a developer — innovating designs […]

André Borschberg — the pilot who broke the record for longest unrefueled solo flight — recalled the experience of flying the Si2 over the Pacific and discussed the future of Solar Impulse during his keynote speech at the Polyurethanes Technical Conference in Orlando, Florida, on Monday. On the horizon: a wrap on the round-the-world trip […]

Doc’s Friends, a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring one of the last-known airworthy B-29s (the only currently being FIFI), has started a crowdfunding campaign to return Doc to the skies. Although Doc hasn’t flown in 60 years, the organization anticipates that he’ll be airborne by the end of this year. The B-29 recently conducted its […]

On the cusp of the September 30 deadline, the “Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2015” bill passed in the Senate on September 29 and has moved to President Obama to be signed into law. Buying time for a longer-term reauthorization package, the new measure will extend the FAA’s funding through March 31, 2016. The […]