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A pilot who recently acquired one weighs the limitations and benefits of owning a tailwheel airplane.

A collegiate team, the Flying Flashes from Kent State University, won the 45th Air Race Classic.

Company will combine with Southern Airways, go public via a SPAC, and partner with AeroTec and magniX.

Thank you for Jeb Burnside’s “Follow the Money” commentary in the April 2022 issue. I’d like to highlight another aspect of the leaded-avgas issue that aviation’s “alphabet soup” hasn’t called much attention to. According to the EAA’s own hardcopy STC materials (but not emphasized on the EAA or AOPA web sites), “more than 65 percent […]

In Arizona this weekend, they’ll attempt to switch airplanes during free-fall. Here’s how it will work.

For Textron, the move is all about electric aircraft technology, but what did the company really buy?

In 2015, a public-private partnership involving the FAA, pilot and industry organizations, plus airframe and powerplant manufacturers, and known as the General Aviation Joint Steering Committee (GAJSC), used accident data to identify in-flight loss of control as the leading cause of fatal general aviation accidents. A GAJSC working group determined we could substantially reduce the […]

Remember when very light jet designs had everyone talking. Their fate may match Social Security’s fate.

The sun streamed in under the cloud layer as we idled from the dock, the Wasp Junior canning along easily as the before takeoff checks were completed. The silver of the water shimmered through the quiet mid-week afternoon as we motored away from the shore into the midst of the finger of lake. Then, throttles […]