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Legendary pilot has done it all, from movies and TV to world speed records.

Gaston’s White River Resort caretaker says maintaining that Bermuda is tough, but well worth it.

The Wright brothers’ first flight isn’t the only aviation happening that occurred on December 17.

If you’re like us, there’s at least one aircraft that you thank the aviation gods for.

For many of us, the initial steps toward aircraft ownership begin at an early age. Sitting in a stuffy grade-school classroom and being presented with the finer points of the New Deal, the parallelogram, and mitochondria, our eyes wandered to a sliver of blue sky visible in a window, and our minds followed. Perhaps our […]

The silence on the Potomac Approach frequency was stark. It was September 17, 2001, and I was flying a Piper Archer from KFDK in Frederick, Maryland, down to Newport News (KPHF), Virginia, logging two hours down and 1.7 on the return. I filed IFR on a day of shockingly blue skies because that was the […]

It was a dark and stormy night; my electrical system had failed, and the battery was dead. Descending lower and lower in the murk, looking for familiar landmarks, I saw—dead ahead—the magnificent Jeremiah Morrow Bridge spanning the Little Miami River on Ohio’s Interstate 71. My only option was to fly beneath that high-and-wide span and […]

There are lots of ways that you could celebrate National Aviation Day, but is there a better way than getting in the cockpit of one of the most beautiful airplanes in the world? If money or time were no object, what would you want to spend the day surfing the clouds in? Here’s what we’d […]

With more than 10,000 aircraft flying in, and 608,000 pilots and enthusiasts joining the fun, the world’s largest general aviation gathering came back to life. At Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, EAA AirVenture 2021 saw a total of 16,378 aircraft operations in the ten days spanning from July 22 to 31—an average of 116 […]

When you reach back 75 years for the memories, they come to you in bits and scraps. Recounting them feels disjointed, out of sequence, stripped through with a full range of emotions—much like the war you lived through, perhaps, or the otherworldliness of returning to those countries now at peace. Lieutenant Colonel David Hamilton is […]