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Planes of Fame is getting ready for its monthly Living History Flying Day, this time featuring the Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero. POF’s A6M5 is the only original model of its kind that is still flying. And this particular airplane has an extraordinary history behind it. Planes of Fame’s Zero is powered by a 1,200 hp Nakajima […]

Now that California’s Camp Fire in the northern portion of the state, the deadliest in the state’s history, has been smothered, authorities have begun looking not only at what’s left, but precisely how much was saved thanks to heroic efforts of fire fighters across the state. Rotor & Wing International says “some, 9,000 firefighters, fixed […]

One year after the construction began on the B-29 Doc Hangar and Education Center at the Eisenhower National Airport in Wichita, Kansas, the stunning Superfortress named Doc has moved in to its new home. The bricks and granite tiles that have been purchased by Doc’s supporters to raise funds for the project have arrived and […]

An amendment to 14 CFR 61.57, the area of the Federal Aviation Regulations that handles recent flight experience requirements for pilots in command, came into effect this week allowing instrument rated pilots to maintain currency in the comfort of their own homes. And adding to the ease of which pilots can keep legal, those pilots […]

Two teenage boys – one 14 and the other 15 years of age – neither of whom were pilots, were arrested in Utah on Thursday, after stealing a light-sport airplane for a joyride. According to a release from the Uintah County Sheriff’s Office, the boys had left a group home on the Wasatch Front earlier […]

NASA said last week it has officially committed to a development timeline that will lead to the first flight of its X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft by 2021. Development of X-59 QueSST falls under the Low Boom Flight Demonstrator project, part of the Integrated Aviation Systems Program in NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate. The […]

Yet another legacy airplane manufacturer has been sold — Waco Aircraft Corporation. This time, it wasn’t a Chinese company that swooped up the assets of the company, which was established in Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1983 to revive the classic 1930s open cockpit biplane design. Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based Dimor Group Inc. bought the company this […]

The 2018 Red Bull Air Race season had an exciting conclusion this weekend at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, where frigid temperatures forced pilots, race teams, organizers and spectators alike to bundle up. The weekend began with much excitement as the top three contenders were all in positions to stand at the […]

U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson recently told a Senate Armed Services readiness and management support subcommittee that the branch trained 1,160 new pilots in fiscal 2017, and expects to train 1,311 in fiscal 2019, before expanding further. The Air Force wants to train 1,500 new pilots each year by fiscal 2022 as part of […]

An investigation is underway after pilots from two different airliners reported seeing UFOs over the Irish coast earlier this month. According to The Independent, the incident began when a British Airways pilot saw bright lights flying past her aircraft. Soon after, a pilot from a Virgin Airways plane saw a similar object. The Virgin pilot […]