Flying
LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
SAME PLANET, DIFFERENT WORLD
5 min |
June - July 2020
Flying
FIRST FLIGHT
THE MEMORY—DECADES OLD—CANNOT BE ERASED
5 min |
June - July 2020
Flying
HOW DOES AN AIRPLANE GLIDE?
OR, IF IT’S IN A NEWSPAPER HEADLINE, PLUNGE?
5 min |
June - July 2020
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EMBRAER PHENOM 300E
A 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATED IN BOSSA NOVA STYLE
10 min |
June - July 2020
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GIVING IT UP…AGAIN
WHEN AN AGING PILOT SHOULD CALL IT QUITS
5 min |
June - July 2020
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THREAT-AND-ERROR MANAGEMENT
AVOIDING THE CORONAVIRUS AND A GOPHER TURTLE
5 min |
June - July 2020
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DOWN TO EMPTY
ANOTHER ONE FOR THE BOOKS
4 min |
June - July 2020
Flying
BRANSON RNAV (GPS) RWY 32
Until the recent slowdown in travel because of the COVID-19 virus, Branson, Missouri, was a top destination in the Ozarks for families with kids, boasting a host of live shows, restaurants, golf courses, museums, hiking trails and much more. While everyone hopes the lull in flying to getaways such as Branson will be short, the current downtime offers pilots a perfect opportunity to tune up their IFR chart-reading skills.
2 min |
June - July 2020
Model Airplane News
HALF CUBAN-8 WITH NEGATIVE SNAP ROLLS
In the past, we’ve discussed different aerobatic moves that consist of endless variations of a basic maneuver. For this article, let’s look at a variation of the basic Cuban-8, this time making it a half Cuban-8 with one-and-a-half negative snap rolls. The half Cuban-8 is usually performed with a half roll on the downline, but to spice things up we’ll replace the roll with more impressive one-and-a-half negative snap rolls (starting inverted and ending up upright). With a strong, well-defined foundation, this maneuver is a great deviation from the norm. Let’s get started!
3 min |
July 2020
Model Airplane News
Solderless Landing Gear
Easy-to-build, shock-absorbing setup
1 min |
July 2020
Model Airplane News
Red5Designs
Vinyl Graphics
2 min |
July 2020
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
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WE'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE
GENERAL AVIATION IN SAUDI ARABIA
5 min |
May 2020
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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
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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 |