The company’s partnership on the e-VTOL called Joby is interesting on several levels. Some of them are historic. Others reveal a couple of uncomfortable truths about urban air mobility. Read More “Going Direct: The Secrets Behind Toyota’s Half-Billion Dollar eVTOL Urban Air Multicopter”
What some pilots don’t get about this flight instrument that has just changed the fleet, with 13 other historic advances they also whiffed on, from autopilots to monoplanes. Read More “Going Direct: Garmin GI 275 And Its Misunderstood Magic”
It was a hot but pretty day in Kansas as we strapped in and got the big Pratt fired up on the Piper M600 SLS, … Read More “Piper M600 SLS: The First Production Plane That Lands Itself”
As if there is any question mark about Garmin’s dominance in the retrofit avionics game, the company took a big eraser to in 2019 … Read More “Garmin GI 275. You Will Not Believe What This Little Round Gauge Can Do!”
As I reduced power to descend, the Lycoming out in front of the Van’s RV-6A I was flying popped in protest. It wasn’t nearly enough … Read More “The Local Airport Character”
From about the age of 4, I knew I wanted to fly. Nobody in my family was an aviator, nor did we know anyone who … Read More “Making Jet Dreams Come True”
It’s been just over a year since Garmin launched its a pair of multifunction touchscreen WAAS navigators, the GTN 650Xi and GTN 750Xi. The two … Read More “New Garmin Navigators And More: Supercharged GTN 650Xi and GTN 750Xi”
UPDATE BELOW: Civil air disasters, such as the loss of Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752, often take months to understand, but in this case, the … Read More “Iran Air Disaster Looks To Be Missile Strike”
When the BD-10 was announced, it was billed as the world’s first and only supersonic jet kit aircraft. Designed and promoted by Jim Bede, a … Read More “This Incredible Plane: BD-10 Homebuilt Jet”
The NTSB is usually very good about putting together the pieces of what happened in an accident and identifying shortcomings in pilot performance that contributed … Read More “NTSB‘s Report Of Fiery Charleston Crash Seems To Omit Key Point: Why?”
