Let’s start with a qualifier before we start yelling at those drone kids to get off our aviation lawn: The FAA has never verified …
Future Flight
Delve into new and exciting breakthroughs in aviation in Future Flight, where Senior Technical Editor Grant Opperman looks at how science and technology are changing the world of personal flying
Remote Towers
“If you’re going to take out the windshield of your car and replace it with a screen, what would …
Printed Planes
Let’s get one thing straight right from the start: You cannot have your next plane printed for you. Not …
Hybrid Aircraft?
When we first looked into the then wistful subject of hybrid propulsion, the idea wasn’t getting much love. The …
Mind-Controlled Airplanes?
Pulleys. Pushrods. Electrical connectors swabbed with stabilant goo. Aircraft have untold connecting points that translate an input to an action …
Future Flight: World Without CFIT
It sounds like the setup to a bad aviation joke: What do an F-16 and a Cirrus have in …
Next-Gen Flight Training
Like many pilots, I remember that more than once my flight instructors accused me of trying to fly an airplane …
Anti-Icing: A Bioengineering Approach
As the old saying goes, if folks were meant to fly, they would have been born with wings. I might …
Tomorrow‘s Wings
If you’ve been around aviation for any length of time, you know a few stories about so-called revolutionary …