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Reliable Robotics, a California-based autonomous aircraft startup, has raised $100 million in Series C funding as it seeks to launch commercial cargo operations in hard-to-reach areas. The funding round was led by tech investor Coatue Management, whose investments include mobile banking app Chime. Coatue was joined by other investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners Eclipse Ventures Teamworthy […]

Last week, I passed my FAA private pilot check ride with the designated pilot examiner, and I became a newly minted pilot. As a 51-year-old, I feel like the sky has opened up to me in so many unexpected ways that I just had to share my experiences. Relocation Leads to Opportunity I always wanted […]

ATP Flight School opened its new 25,875-square-foot airline pilot training center on Friday. The new facility is located at Arlington Municipal Airport (KGKY), 20 minutes from Dallas, Texas. It grows ATP’s network of flight training locations to 70. The Arlington location is now the largest flight training facility in Texas, and it will help support […]

Learning how to fly is really enjoyable, but it will challenge you physically, mentally, and especially emotionally. When I started my flight training, I was determined to overcome my fear. But it takes a bit more than just courage to face your fears. In a previous column, I mentioned how the first time I touched […]

Teaching someone to fly can be a life-altering experience on the same level as teaching someone to read, swim, or ride a bike. All these skills increase a person’s confidence and give them a sense of freedom. But as anyone who has been through the flight training process will tell you, learning to fly is […]

The great American radio and television comedian George Burns emerged in America during the vaudeville era and became known as a king of the one-liners delivered in his uniquely subtle deadpan style—and always with an El Producto cigar between the fingers of his left hand. Before his death in 1996 at the age of 100, […]

Textron Aviation has announced an order for 10 Cessna 172s from the Kansas State University Salina Aerospace and Technology Campus. The order will expand the K-State fleet from 10 to 20 Skyhawks. All the aircraft will be equipped with Garmin G1000 NXi avionics. “Textron Aviation remains committed to supporting the training and development of the […]

In fall 1967, I was a Marine second lieutenant and completed my first solo in a Navy T-34. After a couple of times around the pattern, the instructor got out, slapped me on the helmet, and told me to make three touch-and-goes and come back to pick him up. In fall 2017, I completed my […]

POLICE DRONE HITS 172 A flight school Cessna 172 was damaged in a collision with a police drone while on final for a busy GA airport in Toronto in early August. Canadian authorities said the Canadian Flyers 172, with an instructor and student on board, hit a drone operated by the York Regional Police about […]

The rumble of tire rubber on asphalt suddenly ceases. Runway 9 falls away as you climb straight ahead, assigned runway heading up to 3000 feet. Your requested cruising altitude is 9000. “Contact Departure,” Tower says. Your next fix—FFFIX—is a right turn to the southeast. But in that direction lies a large air-carrier airport. Airliner departures […]