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Today’s Top Pick provides a unique combination of vintage charm and economical operating costs – a 1946 Ercoupe 415D. Designed in the late 1930s as a safer, more stable alternative to existing taildraggers, the Ercoupe was one of the very first aircraft to incorporate a tricycle landing gear configuration. Additionally, it utilized an interconnected rudder […]

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FRIEDRICHSTEFAN, GERMANY— You know the expression: “What goes up, must…” What goes up must come down and after it does, something needs to stop it. Here’s where one company has staked its claim. France’s Beringer left the high-speed action of motorcycles for even faster aerial machines …yet slowing them to a gentle stop is a matter the […]

OK, I admit it. I’m a huge fan of Aero Friedrichshafen. This show packs a lot of delight into four days and 12 gymnasium-sized exhibit halls. In 2023, many of the aircraft on display are known to Americans. However, Europe tends to produce more proof-of-concept projects than we see in America. This is partly as European […]

Short of an erroneous forecast or calibration issue with your immersion thermometer, if you can remain below the lowest freezing level during your entire flight, there’s typically no chance for an encounter with airframe ice. Induction ice is certainly possible, but not airframe ice. If you plan an altitude where the temperature aloft is zero […]

Big is good—that is, when it does something useful, as in carrying lots of passengers (see Boeing 747), bombs (not listed, but Boeing B-52) or a prodigious load. When it comes to that last one, the one and only champion of the world is the Antonov An-225 Mriya (Ukrainian for “dream”). By wingspan, tail height […]

How an idea for a more comfortable airliner inadvertently created a legend.

The speedy flyer, nicknamed Baby Grand, was early aviation science in action.