by Isabel Goyer

I recently stumbled across what just might be the coolest pilot software application ever: Keyhole. Well, Keyhole isn’t really intended as pilot software, but pilots are guaranteed to love it. Keyhole-the company was acquired by Google last fall-takes a huge (20 terabytes) database of high-resolution satellite photography-some areas of the country have more detail than […]

****Part 3 of a 3-part series on the AirShares Elite small-airplane fractional ownership program, here on flyingmag.com.**** After a year of flying a share of an AirShares Elite SR22, we weigh in on the future of small airplane fractional ownership and what it might mean to you. For the past couple of years I have […]

While much of the aviation world these past few years has been focusing on a couple of high profile start-up companies looking to certify and produce light business jets, one of the richest companies in the world has been busy behind the scenes doing the exact same thing. It has not been a particularly well-kept […]

The FAA has begun flight testing a new digital communications system that it calls Nexcom, for “next-generation communications.” The modernized system will eventually require that the entire U.S. GA fleet, from Airbuses to Zlins, be equipped with new digital radios. The mandate for change in the panel will be accompanied by a complete revamping of […]

An Ibis Aerospace pilot flew one of the company’s Pratt & Whitney PT-6-powered Ae270 single-engine turboprops, now named Spirit, to the NBAA Convention in Orlando, Florida, from the factory just outside Prague, Czech Republic. The company says it has around 75 orders for the big turboprop single. Ibis plans to build five airplanes in 2004 […]

The big day is almost here. On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 10:35 a.m., at the Wright Memorial at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, a pilot will climb aboard the most accurate Wright Flyer reproduction ever constructed and proceed to go flying, just as Orville Wright did for the first time precisely 100 years to […]

The Boeing 707 that served as an Air Force One aircraft for 28 years is on its way to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. The airplane was disassembled at San Bernardino International Airport (California) and transported to Simi Valley, where it will be reassembled, restored and put on public display beginning […]

Part 1 of a 3-part series on the AirShares Elite small-airplane fractional ownership program, here on flyingmag.com. Last year I did a long-term evaluation of a small-airplane fractional ownership program run by OurPlane. During the nine-month period, I was for all intents and purposes an OurPlane owner, flying a new Cessna 182 along with the […]