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If you’ve checked into Facebook since January you may know that PiperSport has its own page that you can become a fan of (I am, along with 9,200 others so far!) *** What you probably don’t know is there’s a fascinating video interview that chronicles why and how Piper decided to add social media such […]

A born trainer, this spacious, docile workhorse flies like Wichita tin

Flight Design MC Base Price: $98,993 Engine make/model: Rotax 912ULS Horsepower: 100 Max takeoff weight (lbs.): 1320 Empty weight std. (lbs.): 795 Useful load (lbs.): 525 Wing tank capacity (gals.): 26.4 Wingspan (ft.): 31 ft. 2.4 in. Wing area (sq. ft.): 121.6 Cabin width (in.): 51.6 PERFORMANCE Vne (kts.): 135 Vso (kts.): 38 Cruise speed […]

Top airplanes, gear and schools for a different kind of flying

Inbound to the staging airport while the air show is active

The NTSB’s findings on the Colgan Air crash

Not a company to rest on their laurels, TL Ultralight — represented in America since the beginning of LSA by Sportair USA — debuted their Sting S4 at the German Aero show in April. Besides developing an all-new high-wing design (the TL-3000 Sirius …photo inset) — the S4 is the newest generation of the Czech […]

Fifty years later, the next journey to the edge of space

Join us in this “cockpit’s eye” video as Plane & Pilot joins John and Martha King of King Schools on a coast-to-coast flight from San Diego, Calif., to Sun ’n Fun in Lakeland, Fla., and back.