by Isabel Goyer

With apologies to our vegan readers, we present the most delicious flight plan ever, with waypoints carefully chosen not necessarily to give the best routing but to offer the best life advice, in our humble opinions, that is. The picture was snapped in flight by Cirrus rep Ivy McIvers, who presumably hadn’t had any part […]

John King, co-founder along with wife Martha King, of King Schools, has a message for pilots everywhere: Comment now on the FAA’s proposal for the new FAA Knowledge Test rules while you have the chance. The comment period ends July 8. King says that many of the comments on the first go-around were not to […]

“This is what flying is all about,” I thought to myself as we sped along the surface of the ­Willamette River, the beyond-crisp western Oregon air rushing past. Our trusty fishing guide extraordinaire, Chad Wiest, from On the Line Guide Service, directed our boat by intuition, through the near darkness to a spot that promised […]

Flying has obtained information from a law enforcement source about the federal program that detains pilots upon their arrival at their destination airports and searches their airplanes. Training for the program was conducted via an “aviation drug interdiction” class sponsored by HIDTA (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area), a government organization that is a conglomerate of […]

Generally, Flying doesn’t post video footage of crashes, but when a dad tries to show his sons just how to make this foam airplane fly, he experiences the very real consequences of unintended aerobatics. The results are priceless. And fortunately, no one was harmed in the process. Enjoy.

The Grand Caravan EX is the first Grand Caravan brawny enough to go on amphibious floats. Previous float-equipped Caravans were the short-bodied 208A models. Why did it take almost 20 years to get a Grand on floats? Easy: power, or rather, the lack thereof. The Grand is not only longer but heavier than the 208A, […]

The powerplant Cessna used in the EX is by Pratt & Whitney Canada, the same manufacturer that provided the engines used in every other Caravan Cessna has ever built. The new engine, the PT6A-140, was designed expressly for the Caravan EX. The 140 puts out a whopping 867 shaft horsepower at 1,900 rpm — the […]

Last year at AirVenture, Cessna rolled out its latest Caravan, and it is the most powerful Cessna-built 208 yet. The new model will maintain its 208B designation, but it will give operators a great deal more power, thanks to a new Pratt & Whitney turboprop engine — the PT6-140 — which Pratt developed expressly for […]

At EBACE Gulfstream president Larry Flynn discussed the fortunes of the world’s most successful airplane manufacturer and concluded that, despite “headwinds” in every market around the world, the company was pleased with its sales and bullish on its prospects. Flynn said that “uncertainty” in financial markets, political instability in the Middle East and elsewhere on […]

In explaining the delay announced last week of the HondaJet program, HondaJet president Michimasi Fujino told members of the press at EBACE that it was prompted by an unanticipated test program glitch with the Honda/GE HF120 turbofan engine that will power the airplane. At a later press conference, GE Honda president Terry Sharp went into […]