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In our FBO Spotlight series, we’re highlighting FBOs around the country that have received rave reviews from our readers. This latest Spotlight is brought to you by C.K. Bondar, who recently flew into Witham Field Airport in Stuart, Florida in a PA-28-181. Here’s what he had to say about one of the airport’s FBOs, Stuart […]

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Learjet brand, Flexjet partnered with Jet Art’s Princess Tarinan von Anhalt to create one-of-a-kind modern art pieces at West Palm Beach Airport yesterday using the powerful jet blast from a Learjet 45XR as an $11 million dollar “paintbrush.” Von Anhalt hurled paint into the force of the Learjet’s […]

A group of Bonanza owners share the love for their airplanes at an American Bonanza Society convention. (Photo by American Bonanza Society)| Around the beginning of factory production of airplanes, which happened a mere handful of years after the dawn of powered flight, it occurred to aviators that it was in their strong interest to […]

In our FBO Spotlight series, we’re highlighting FBOs around the country that have received rave reviews from our readers. This latest Spotlight is brought to you by Ron Sterba, who recently flew into McNary Field Airport in Salem, Oregon in a Cessna 172. Here’s what he had to say about the airport’s FBO, Salem Aviation […]

Admit it. Airline pilot or not, when you read the title of this month’s column, you smirked. It’s OK. I get it. That’s why I decided it was high time to approach the issue head on. What am I really talking about? It’s no secret that general aviation pilots, and I include the corporate world, […]

If cool videos of people flying real airplanes in amazing locales inspires you to go flying, then the video you’re about to see might have the opposite effect. It shows wingsuit thrillseeker Alexander Polli flying his… err… body at speeds that defy common or any other kind of sense through a rock arch barely bigger […]

In our FBO Spotlight series, we’re highlighting FBOs around the country that have received rave reviews from our readers. This latest Spotlight is brought to you by Jim Sankey, who recently flew into Portsmouth International Airport at Pease in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in a Piper Archer III. Here’s what he had to say about one […]

Sun ‘n Fun closed in style over the weekend with a reported 5 percent uptick in traffic compared to last year’s show, according to organizers. Reports from companies attending the show varied. While all reported a drop-off in overall foot traffic, a number of them told Flying that the quality of the folks who stopped […]

This week marks the 71st anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Japan. Of the 80 men who took off in their B-25 bombers from an aircraft carrier far off the coast of Japan, only four now remain. Three of the four are meeting this week in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, not far from Eglin Field, […]

The Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has added six new undergraduate and graduate degree programs, offering educational opportunities related to recent developments in the field. Most of these programs will begin this fall at various ERAU locations. As the commercial space travel industry is being cultivated, ERAU claims to be the first school in the world to […]