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Article: 10 Flying Techniques From Great Aviators

One of the great joys of this job is that I've been allowed to interview and get to know some of the most interesting pilots in aviation.

Also labeled: Aviation Personalities, Features, Flight Training, Flying Skills, People and Places, Pilot Talk, Top 10s

Article: Reno Air Races 2012

Early Monday morning under gorgeous Nevada skies, the dark cloud was blown away over the Reno Air Races as the Formula One Class took to the skies. ...

Also labeled: Adventure Flying, Air Races, Air Shows, Aviation News, Features, Journeys, People and Places

Article: Golden Angel

There's only one Cub, just as there's only one Wright Flyer, Joe DiMaggio or Golden Gate Bridge.

Also labeled: Air Shows, Aircraft, Journeys, People and Places, Shows and Fly-Ins

Article: Airline Pilots: Coming Up Short

If you ask the average high-school student today about working as an airline pilot, you might get more questions than answers.

Also labeled: Aviation Careers, Careers, Flight Schools, Getting Your License, Jobs and Schools, Pilot Resources

Article: Oshkosh 2012: Airborne Excitement

Sixty years and half-a-million airplane lovers per year can't be wrong.

Also labeled: Air Shows, Aircraft, Journeys, New Aircraft, New Airplanes, New Products, People and Places, Shows and Fly-Ins

Article: Lindbergh Inspiration

In 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew The Spirit of St Louis from New York to Paris non-stop, defining exploration for the 20th century. ...

Also labeled: Aviation News, Aviation Personalities, Careers, Features, People and Places

Article: 70th Doolittle Raiders Reunion

The USS Hornet's radio operator intercepted a message in Japanese at 07:45; its origins were close. Just earlier, SBD Dauntless aircraft that had launched off the USS Enterprise had spotted a small Japanese fishing vessel, and then later flew...

Also labeled: Air Shows, Aviation Personalities, Features, People and Places, Vintage Aircraft, Vintage Airplanes, Vintage/Classic Airplanes, Warbirds

Article: Visiting America Airport By Airport

My flight student Matt Rickman and I departed Southern California for Illinois at the end of June, just as summer thunderstorms began to pummel the Midwest. ...

Also labeled: Adventure Flying, Backcountry Flying, Flight Planning, People and Places, Travel

Article: When Airplanes Collide: Avoiding The Unexpected

It’s ironic that most general aviation pilots consider a possible engine failure as their greatest fear.

Also labeled: Air Shows, Aviation Personalities, Decision Making, Features, Floatplanes, People and Places, Pilot Talk, Shows and Fly-Ins

Article: 30 Ways To Make Your Pilot Certificate Sizzle

I’m still amazed when I land. I sometimes sit in the cockpit, as the gyros wind down and the prop clicks to a stop, and wonder at the magic of it all. ...

Also labeled: Adventure Aircraft, Air Shows, Aircraft Ownership, Aviation News, Aviation Photography, Backcountry Flying, Features, Floatplanes, People and Places, Photography, Pilot Guide, Pilot Resources

Article: Piper Cub Heaven

On an overcast, humid June day, I top a high dike built to prevent the Susquehanna River from flooding William T. Piper Memorial airport.

Also labeled: Air Shows, Aviation Personalities, Decision Making, Features, Flying Skills, People and Places, Pilot Talk, Shows and Fly-Ins

Article: Launchpad Patrol

There appears to be a bank of sea fog rolling in off the Atlantic as we're cleared for a predawn takeoff on runway 09 at Titusville's Space Coast Executive Airport in Florida.

Also labeled: Adventure Aircraft, Adventure Flying, Aviation Careers, Aviation Personalities, Aviation Resources, Careers, Features, Travel

Article: A New Era Dawns: Electric Flight

Fantasy time: A shadow flashes across you as you walk toward the airport cafe.

Also labeled: Aircraft, Aviation News, Features, Gadgets, Learning Center, Pilot Guide

Article: How Well Do You Know Your Airliners?

Determining aircraft types isn't as easy as it used to be, when seeing a hump on the front meant it was a 747, and three tail-mounted engines indicated you were in for a noisy 727 departure.

Also labeled: Aircraft, Features, Pilot Guide, Situational Awareness, Specs

Article: Robinson In The New Era

In American Indian lore, the coyote is a mythic totem, known variously as the prairie wolf, God’s dog and the trickster.

Also labeled: Aircraft, Features, People and Places, Pilot Resources

Article: Pilot Outlook 2010-2029: A Shortage Looms

Like the pendulum on a giant grandfather clock, the availability of aviation jobs goes back and forth in giant, lazy swings.

Also labeled: Aviation Careers, Aviation News, Careers, Features, Flight Training, Getting Your License, Pilot Guide, Pilot Resources, Pilot Talk, Staying Current

Article: Sebring 2011: Rays Of Hope Ahead?

The year’s first major aviation show, Florida’s U.S. Sport Aviation Expo, went off swimmingly, if a mite frigidly in January, with good attendance, thanks to show organizer Bob Woods and his friendly volunteers.

Also labeled: Air Shows, Aircraft, Aircraft Ownership, Aviation News, Aviation Resources, Journeys, LSAs, Pilot Guide, Pilot Resources, Staying Current

Article: Making History

Sixty miles northeast of Los Angeles, restricted airspaces R-2508 and R-2515 cover Rosamond Dry Lake, home of Edwards Air Force Base.

Also labeled: Aviation News, Decision Making, Features, Flight Hazards, Flying Skills, Journeys, Learn To Fly, Pilot Safety

Article: The Last Time

Number One’s three-blade prop begins to turn-cough-turn. The engine whines, whines, then belches out clots of smoke as the big Wright Cyclone thunders to life. Joe Colmer, 93, feels the rumble through the metal seat.

Also labeled: Adventure Flying, Aircraft, Aviation Personalities, Classic Airplanes, Features, Journeys, Pilot Resources, Shows and Fly-Ins, Vintage Aircraft, Vintage Airplanes, Vintage/Classic Airplanes

Article: Gathering Of Mustangs

It’s perhaps the most iconic military airplane in t...

Also labeled: Features, Journeys, People and Places, Warbirds

Article: Mar-Apr 2004 On The Radar

What began only a...

Also labeled: Best Buys, Special Offers, New Products

Article: 60 Years After

Paul Tibbets joined the Army Air Corps at ...

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Warbirds

Article: The Aviation Storyteller

For Greg Herrick, collecting airplanes seems...

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Article: The Odyssey Of Glacier Girl

1942: A flight of six P-38s and two B-17s departs Sondrestrom Fjord, Greenland, for Reykjavik, Iceland, on their way to the WWII European Theater of Operations as part of Operation Bolero. It’s an ambitious project, initiated by General Hap A...

Also labeled: Columns, Features, People and Places, Warbirds

Article: Howard Hughes

This past December 2004 marked the...

Also labeled: Features, People and Places