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Certificated, experimental, and homebuilt aircraft each have their own sets of rules and regulations for maintenance. Here’s what you need to know.

Glider training can sharpen your stick and rudder skills and give you Zen-like experiences, according to this pilot.

A Tuskegee Airman flies west after more than a century of mentorship and leadership.

Boeing acknowledges hydrogen’s potential, while Airbus plans a hydrogen-fueled airliner by 2035.

Airlines and FAA spar over cause of disruptions heading into busy July 4th weekend

Getting a Lear to Flight Level 510 before running out of jet-A was a challenge. Nonetheless, I was learning about the benefits (and perils) of high-altitude flight.

No other airplane I’ve flown can do what the SuperSTOL can. STOL, as you know, stands for “short takeoff and landing.” SuperSTOL, then, implies really short takeoffs and landings, made possible by the airplane’s huge 45-degree fowler flaps and self-deploying leading-edge slats, designs borrowed from the Helio Courier bush plane and scaled to fit this diminutive two-seat experimental amateur-built kitplane.

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Ukraine has stepped up pleas for U.S. fighter jets, as two of the country’s top pilots left combat with Russia to lobby Washington, D.C. lawmakers. The pilots, who go by callsigns “Juice” and “Moonfish” to protect their identities, say U.S. fighter jets would help level the technological playing field for the Ukrainian Air Force as […]

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