Pilot Talk Mysteries Of Flight: Why Were Tomahawks Crashing? Why was the Piper Tomahawk suffering so many loss-of-control crashes? After an FAA/NTSB investigation and recertification, you … By W. David Pond
Pilot Talk Unfamous Aviation Seconds We all know the planes and pilots that were first to do something monumental. But do you know who the … By W. David Pond
Pilot Talk Cool Planes That Never Made The Cut There are countless reasons why a plane might never make it to the finish line. In some cases, that’s … By W. David Pond
Pilot Talk Aviation Breakthroughs Oddities/Milestones: Personal Jets The idea of a small personal jet is an alluring one, and there have been some limited success stories, as … By W. David Pond
Pilot Talk And Then This Happened Aviation Breakthroughs/Oddities/Milestones: Cessna Single-Engine Evolution: 30 Years Of Magic The progress of technology, materials and propulsion is only a small part of how over three decades Cessna evolved the … By W. David Pond
Proficiency Lessons Learned: That Year Our Plane Was The Only One That Made It To OSH Well, to be honest, there was one other plane in the pattern on the day before the world’s biggest fly-in started. Here’s how that happened. To access this content, you must purchase Plane and Pilot Membership. By W. David Pond
Diamond Will The Diamond DA50 Redefine Personal Flying? With a mix of features that put it in a class of one, the DA50 might just be the right … By W. David Pond
Pilot Talk Mysteries Of Flight: The Alien Spacecraft Of Roswell, New Mexico What really happened 73 years ago that got people believing we weren’t alone … By W. David Pond
Pilot Talk And Then This Happened: Nine Ground-Breaking Aviation Breakthroughs The history of aviation is a story of huge leaps—like these nine ground-breaking inventions … By W. David Pond
The Latest Despite Pleas From DoD, FCC To Okay GPS-Competing Frequencies For 5G Who doesn’t like great Internet? Right? New 5G networks promise high data speeds and bandwidth even far from civilization … By W. David Pond