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Temperature inversions are quite common in the lower troposphere and are created by several different atmospheric processes.

For more than 75 years, the Businessliner lives on through a persistent confluence of capability and flair, with a tinge of nostalgia thrown in.

Aviation students in Oklahoma to explore aeronautics and pilot careers at student pilot day event on April 6.

A pilot en route to a pilot proficiency check finds that the excuse to fly a long distance provides unanticipated returns.

The latest generation of Bose headset feels lighter due to streamlined padding and less clamping force, according to a FLYING review.

January 23, 2023, Provo, Utah Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300 At about 1135 Mountain time, the airplane was substantially damaged during an attempted takeoff. The pilot sustained fatal injuries, two passengers were seriously injured and one passenger sustained minor injuries. Instrument conditions prevailed. A witness reported the accident airplane was hangared until 1055, when it was […]

It’s happened to me three times. The first time happened about a year after I earned my Private Pilot certificate. About a week before my Practical Test I accepted delivery of NC89954, a 1946 Cessna 120. The 120 is a side-by-side two-seat tailwheel airplane with fabric-covered wings and an 85 horsepower engine. It’s the airplane […]

As a little boy, I always wanted to fly. I didn’t understand what it meant to be a pilot, just that to me, to be in the air was to be free. I grew up during the end of the Cold War, in the shadow of nuclear war with the USSR. I lived under the […]

Female pilots who fly vintage aircraft are few and far between.

In the opening phases of World War II, our country was feverishly training pilots for war. Thousands of cadets earned coveted US Army Air Corps wings. Six months later, half were dead. Investigation revealed that deaths attributable to VFR into IMC far exceeded combat losses. IMC was more dangerous than the enemy. Realizing this, the […]