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Sun ‘n Fun International Fly-In and Expo kicks off next week, April 4–9, at the Lakeland Linder Airport in Lakeland, Florida. The 43-year-old airshow boasts activities for all ages, featuring hands-on workshops, forums, exhibits, camping and daily airshows. Top-tier performances include the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, Breitling Jet Team, Patrouille de France, Matt Chapman, Mike […]

With an exponential increase in the number of unmanned aircraft flying in U.S. airspace, Leidos Flight Service is in the process of testing its Leidos UAS Notification Service, which was launched in September. The service is being tested as part of the FAA UAS Pathfinder Program with Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, which uses UAS […]

The Trump administration’s admission today that efforts to privatize the nation’s air traffic control system have earned a line in the president’s upcoming budget is expected to quickly ignite opposing efforts from the general aviation community. Pushback on ATC privatization in the past has focused on two key issues: who will control the new corporate […]

The world lost another aviation pioneer this week as Luigi “Gino” Pascale, the founder, president and chief preliminary design officer of Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecnam, died at the age of 93. Pascale started designing model airplanes in the 1930s with his brother Giovanni. The brothers built their first real airplane in 1948 — the P48 Astore […]

Despite piloting a Gulfstream G650 these days, Bob Agostino still thinks of himself as a student of aviation safety as well as the art of flying. A former member of Bombardier’s internal accident investigation team, he also happens to be a particularly good source to query about the company’s first safety meeting that he helped […]

From time to time, I get letters suggesting topics for future articles. I welcome them. After several decades of writing “Technicalities,” I sometimes feel panic welling up as I try to think of something new to say. Some readers, sensing that a question may not be large enough, send several. One, who identified himself only […]

The master mechanic, the inveterate tinkerer, the skilled craftsman who works magic in wood and metal and fiberglass: I am, sadly, none of these things. I know many people who are naturally handy, and I envy them. My own father, a carpenter and then a general contractor for 25 years, is one of these folks, […]

I suspect that the majority of professional pilots encounters their most interesting jobs early in their careers: places where the pay is rotten, the airframes have 70,000 cycles on 50,000 flight hours, and tight finances put everything into a perpetual state of “What’s going to fail next?” My first flying job was in a Cessna […]

Advancing age and retirement bring on a certain sense of freedom and may, in fact, inhibit one’s social filter. And though I have worried mightily about what the devil I would do with myself once unemployed, I can report from two months in, so far, so good. An older friend told me long ago that […]

In 1958, as a stunt intended to promote the new Hacienda Hotel in Las Vegas, two pilots, Robert Timm and John Cook, stayed aloft in a Cessna 172, regularly refueled from a racing pickup truck, for 64 days and 22 hours. (Why they didn’t stay up another two hours and make it an even 65 […]