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I shook my head in disbelief while reading the NTSB’s report on the May 31, 2014, nighttime accident involving a Gulfstream G-IV at Hanscom Field (BED) in Bedford, Mass., which was released a couple of months ago.
How does one get to the World Aerobatic Championships (WAC)?
As the FAA’s 2020 ADS-B Out mandate approaches, an increasingly wide array of products are available for operators needing to retrofit their airplanes.
Aviation is a lot of things, but boring isn’t one of them.
One of the advantages of visiting a friend in his home and/or office is that you get a sense of their environment.
On September 8, 2015, British Airways flight 2276 was scheduled to fly from McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nev., to London’s Gatwick Airport.
If speed is aviation’s ultimate excess, altitude is its great equalizer.
No one could possibly have guessed what would happen to the lightplane industry in 1965 when Plane & Pilot magazine coincidentally published its first issue.
Small general aviation airports around the country, indeed around the world, are the safest, most hospitable places I know.
It’s early September as we’re wrapping up this November issue, and it’s inescapably clear that summer is beginning its transition to fall.
With hundreds of people milling around me, I didn’t actually hear the engine, but I certainly felt it! It was a deliciously smooth snarl that I could actually feel in my chest.
So it was with the accident in June of last year in which Dr. Richard Rockefeller, the 65-year-old son of billionaire banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller, was killed.
Modern autopilots are a huge boon to the general aviation pilot.
Sitting at home one recent weekend, I didn’t have an air show, but I sort of wished I were at one.
Just as East Coast pilots count the Bahamas as something of an ultimate getaway, Left Coast aviators consider Alaska to be the destination of choice.
It was the kind of weather that causes Wisconsinites to choose to live here year around…crazy people that we are.
Can the pilot really be expected to know everything about what has been going on?
Having been there so many times, I found myself seeing the grounds much the same way I see my old hometown.