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FLYING looks at interesting spots where frost belt folks can break winter’s grip.

The gargantuan size of modern mega-planes would eclipse the tiny Wright Flyer that spurred on the aviation industry more than a century ago. In fact, the wingspans alone of these airplanes stretch wider than the entire 120-foot distance flown by the Wright brothers.

A Washington-based startup says it’s planning to build what has long been considered the “Holy Grail” of accessing space: the world’s first reusable single-stage orbital spaceplane aimed at carrying cargo and people.

An additional probe into the landing gear malfunction that prompted the stealth fighter’s emergency landing is planned, according to reports.

A walk through the production facility that houses Innovative Solutions & Support lifts the curtain on the wide range of avionics created within, each set on solving a specific issue for a specific aircraft model. Geoff Hedrick founded the company in 1988 to do just that—with great success over the intervening 34 years. Hedrick died […]

The pilot did not eject during the incident, remaining in the aircraft to land it.

The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) wants to purchase eight F-35 fighter jets in a bid to modernize its defense capabilities, according to reports. The stealth fighter jet buy is needed to update the service’s current fleet of F-5 and F-16 aircraft, some of which have been in use for more than 30 years, Commander-in-Chief […]

A collection of the images we like best from FLYING’s news and features of the past year.

You would think pilots would have learned their lesson about messing with thunderstorms, especially landing in or near them. I mean, we’re almost 40 years beyond the defining moment in understanding wind shear and microbursts, the August 1985 crash of Delta Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011, in Dallas, Texas. Add to that, many aircraft now […]

This holiday season you can be sure that someone reading this story will either receive or give a scale-model kit as a gift.  There’s always been a link between general aviation and scale modeling. So much so that in the early days of Popular Aviation Magazine (which would later become FLYING Magazine), there were pages […]