Going Direct: The Glorious Insanity Of Airplane Ownership
For owners, the annual inspection is a time of great peril. We’d better make peace with it, too. Here …
Isabel Goyer
Editor-in-Chief Isabel Goyer is an award-winning aviation journalist and editor who has been flying since she was a kid. With more than 400 different models of aircraft in her logbook, she has flown everything from paragliders to Gulfstreams, so she writes about flying from real-world experience. An accomplished air-to-air photographer as well, she has been working in aviation journalism for more than 25 years and led teams at several titles, including Sport Pilot and Flying, before coming to Plane & Pilot in 2015. Isabel lives and works out of Austin, Texas, and in her spare time she pretty much still thinks about airplanes.
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Going Direct: 10 Aviation Observations
A few thoughts on the crazy state of aviation and its place in the world …
Going Direct: There’s A Deep State In Aviation, But It’s Not What You Think
Why a few big, completely wrongheaded ideas prevent us from achieving a more perfect flying world …
Going Direct: The End Of The Human Fighter Pilot And What It Means For The Rest Of Us
When artificial intelligence soundly defeated a frontline fighter pilot last week, it wasn’t the beginning of the end. It was just the punctuation.
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Pipistrel Velis Electro: The World’s First Certified Electric Plane
Here’s where the future begins, how it will work and why you should care.
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Going Direct: Flying In The Grand Scheme Of 2020
What we do matters so much, just not in the way most people think it does.
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Plane & Pilot Launches Membership Program
For readers who want to take the experience to the next level and support the work we do while you …
Going Direct: And The Collier Trophy Goes To The X-37B, Which is… A Robot Space Drone. Sigh.
The amazing and reusable spacecraft is NOT what aviation is all about, at least for me.
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Going Direct: The B-29 Superfortress’ Short And Fiery History
On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, the B-29 bomber’s role is in the news, and a forgotten attack is the subject of a major podcast.
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Going Direct: FAA: Bogus Sign-Offs From FAA Inspector Require Re-Testing. Really? Really?
It’s disgraceful that pilots who got their checkride with a questionable FAA examiner during a decade-plus period must take their flight test again.
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