Adventures & More

On the YouTube video, you hear the distinctive whine of a turboprop engine spooling up. But the sight picture doesn’t match up. Isn’t that a 1948 Luscombe 8E? The extended nose is the tipoff that this is no piston-slapping flivver of an airplane. And then, it backs up on the ramp. This turboprop-powered Luscombe is […]

A lot of controversy concerning drones has pilots and privacy advocates pretty scared. In this video, that fear is taken to a new level. Tom Mabe made a name for himself by turning the tables on telemarketers, fielding the calls and recording his responses. His recent antics have focused on a series of video pranks […]

Advanced aircraft design was on display last night during the World Series game number 5 between the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals when a fan from the upper deck threw a paper airplane down to the field that landed within feet of the pitcher’s mound. After the game was over the same fan […]

Last week at the NBAA Convention static display at Henderson Executive Airport outside Las Vegas, Flying Editor-in-Chief Robert Goyer took the opportunity to visit Gulfstream’s exhibit for a special delivery. For the first time in the history of Flying‘s Editors’ Choice Awards, one company has earned awards for not one but two products, in this […]

When it comes to bush flying, there’s no shortage of eye-catching videos circulating the Web. But we haven’t seen anything quite like this. These three short videos showcase the escapades of an airplane project known as the DoubleEnder, inspired by years of flying in Africa and Alaska. With a bubble canopy, tundra tires and two […]

The airport that is expected to become the world’s largest, Dubai World Central Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC) in Dubai, opened the doors for its first commercial passengers this weekend. Once the airport reaches full capacity in the mid 2020s, it is expected to handle 160 million passengers and 12 million tons of cargo per […]

After missing last year’s show because of the federal government sequestration, the Navy Blue Angels will be back to tear up the skies at the 40th annual Sun ‘n Fun Fly-In & Expo next spring at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland, Florida. “After a year of sequestration and no military participation at airshows, Sun […]

“Hey, Dick, your colonoscopy went great.” So says my friend and expert colorectal surgeon. I am just coming out from the sweet embrace of Propofol, the magic elixir that killed Michael Jackson. Suffused with a sense of well-being, I look out over the sparkling waters of Tampa Bay lit by a warm December sun. My […]

At the NBAA gathering in Las Vegas this week, Honda Aircraft has underscored its commitment to its unique “over-the-wing-engine-mount” (OTWEM) HondaJet. A concrete example (literally) of that commitment opened last Thursday at the HondaJet headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina. Honda Aircraft president and CEO Michimasa Fujino, the engineering brain behind the HondaJet, said “With the […]

The Citation Special Olympics Airlift (CSOA) will launch next summer for the seventh time. For 2014, the jets will converge on New Jersey’s Trenton-Mercer County Airport (KTTN), arriving ahead of the games that begin on June 14 and departing the next week after the closing ceremonies on June 21. At this week’s National Business Aviation […]