Model Airplane News
Alibre Atom3D
Easy 3D CAD modeling for the hobbyist
5 min |
July 2020
Men's Journal
The Elon Musk of Airplanes
A British Columbian bush pilot is well on his way to owning the first all-electric airplane fleet—and he’s doing it with decades-old planes.
6 min |
May - June 2020
Flight Journal
And in the end ... friends
Piloting one of 21 Fw 190s of II. Gruppe, Jagdgeschwader 1, Oberleutnant Wolfgang Kretschmer, during the March 6, 1944 Berlin Air Raid, took part in the noon head-on attack on the 13th Combat Bomb Wing. As he emerged from the rear of the B-17 formation, he instinctively glanced back at the receding enemy bombers and saw the one he had attacked, rear up and out of control. Others, trailing smoke or losing height, were obviously in trouble. The German pilot turned back to the front to find that the rest of his unit had disappeared. He was alone. Undaunted, Kretschmer pulled a tight turn and sped after the enemy bombers, determined to deliver a follow-up attack from the rear.
2 min |
June 2020
Flight Journal
Mustang VS Thunderbolt
A 78th Fighter Group combat pilot’s inside analysis
7 min |
June 2020
Flight Journal
FLYING THE NORTH AMERICAN P-51 Mustang
A triple Ace reports from the cockpit
10+ min |
June 2020
Flight Journal
The Secrets of Truk Lagoon
Project Recover locates three missing World War II aircraft
5 min |
June 2020
Flight Journal
The iconic '80s aviation action classic returns to thrill a new generation
Can you believe it’s been 34 years since we first saw Tom Cruise catapult off a carrier deck and up into the danger zone as Lieutenant Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun? That jet-propelled ode to air-to-air combat in the jet age is without question one of the most iconic films of the 1980s—so much so that in 2015 the Library of Congress deemed it to be “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” enough to be archived in the National Film Registry! It was also the highest-grossing film of 1986, which probably has more to do with why Paramount Pictures and producer Jerry Bruckheimer have been trying for a decade to get a sequel off the deck—and now they have.
3 min |
June 2020
Flight Journal
Battle of the Superfighters
F-14D Tomcat vs F/A - 18E/F Super Hornet
10+ min |
June 2020
Flight Journal
Clipwing Monocoupe
The Monocoupe Corp. built only seven Monocoupe 110 Specials (or 110 SPL), also called the Clipwing Monocoupe. The most famous was flown by legendary airshow pilot Woody Edmundson, who, in 1946, replaced the original 145 hp Warner Scarab engine with a 185 hp one that had an inverted flight carburetor and an Aeromatic propeller. He nicknamed the plane Little Butch and flew it for the next 19 years.
2 min |
June 2020
Flight Journal
A good landing is one you can walk away from
No, this is not a scene from any movie where the hero staggers away from a “good landing” on Mindoro, Philippine Islands, after being shot down by a Japanese Zero; it is an actual photo of Lt. S. F. Ford walking away from a virtually new Lockheed P-38L-5-LO Lightning that he crash-landed, probably some time after January 1945.
1 min |
June 2020
Flying
WHAT THE FAA LADY SAID
LEARNING TO KEEP MY MOUTH SHUT
5 min |
May 2020
Flying
WHERE THE LION ROARS
FLYING WITH MACK AIR IN BOTSWANA
7 min |
May 2020
Flying
WE'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE
GENERAL AVIATION IN SAUDI ARABIA
5 min |
May 2020
Flying
THE PRIUS AND THE PRIVATE PLANE
IT’S EASIER TO BE A GOOD CITIZEN ON THE ROAD THAN IN THE AIR
4 min |
May 2020
Flying
SERIAL GRILLER
WILL FLY FOR BBQ
9 min |
May 2020
Flying
TEXAS AIRCRAFT COLT
CAN THIS LSA BECOME A REAL 21ST-CENTURY TRAINER?
10+ min |
May 2020
Flying
TEST PILOT
TAKE YOUR POST-MAINTENANCE FLIGHT WITH CAUTION
6 min |
May 2020
Flying
LESSONS FROM THE MOUNTAINS
A PILOT’S RETURN TO THE BACKCOUNTRY
9 min |
May 2020
Flying
GENERAL AVIATION COPES WITH CORONAVIRUS
THE COMMUNITY’S EFFORTS TO KEEP FLYING
2 min |
May 2020
Flying
ENOUGH SPEED, WITH LITTLE TO COMPROMISE
Grumman AA-5 Series
5 min |
May 2020
Flying
WE FLY: PILATUS' NEW PC-12 NGX
The latest edition of the popular single-engine turboprop will make any jet pilot feel right at home.
10+ min |
April 2020
Flying
SUSTAINABLE AVIATION FUEL
The year 2020 has begun with significant efforts by business aviation to promote and use sustainable aviation fuel (discussed in this issue in Peter Garrison’s Technicalities).
2 min |
April 2020
Flying
PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR EFFICIENT FLIGHT TRAINING
USING TECHNOLOGY TO FLY SMARTER—WITHOUT SACRIFICING SAFETY
4 min |
April 2020
Flying
NEW ADVENTURE
PLOTTING OUR RETURN TO THE LAND AND SKIES
6 min |
April 2020
Flying
In Depth
CYNDHI BERWYN - FROM THE AIR FORCE TO FLYING A HOSPITAL
5 min |
April 2020
Flying
How to Weather BAD WEATHER
It’s Best Done by the Book
6 min |
April 2020
Flying
HORTEN HX-2 UPDATE
The striking Horten HX-2 flying wing that was unveiled in Friedrichshafen, Germany, in April 2018 has completed the initial stages of its flight testing and continues to progress through ground-vibration and flutter testing at Horten headquarters near Eisenach.
2 min |
April 2020
Flying
CONSERVATION FROM ABOVE
FLYING WITH LIGHTHAWK
8 min |
April 2020
Flying
BAR HARBOR, MAINE, RNAV (GPS) RWY 22
Whether you’re flying to the Maine coastline to add your name to the list of the 3 million annual visitors to Acacia National Park or to try to decide which restaurants really are the 10 best for lobster in the region, you might come face to face with the RNAV (GPS) Runway 22 for an approach into Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport (KBHB).
3 min |
April 2020
Flying
NO RUSH
TAKE TWO SECONDS TO SAVE A LOT OF TROUBLE
5 min |