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From The Editor: Low & Slow

You’d normally find her looping and rolling at 250 mph in front of thousands of spectators at the industry’s biggest air shows, but this month, aerobatic champ Patty Wagstaff takes us on a different kind of adventure, low and slow above elephants, rhinos and cheetahs in the remote wilderness of Kenya.

The Right Way To The Left Seat

How to realize your dream of becoming a professional pilot

Weather In The Cockpit

XM Weather provides real-time information in the cockpit for pilots who are serious about their weather decisions

TransPac Aviation Academy

Drawing from its Pan Am training heritage, TransPac positions itself for the future

The New Peltor 9500 Digital Headset

Peltor’s new headset aims for the cockpit

Fly The Bahamas

What you’ll need to know as a first-timer to the out islands

Lancair Evolution: Revolutionary Homebuilt

Lancair reaches for new horizons in four-place homebuilts with the Evolution propjet

May 2009 NOTAMS

Plane & Pilot’s Guide To Aviation’s most current Promotional Deals

2009 Lancair Evolution

2009 LANCAIR EVOLUTION Approximate total price: $980,000 Engine: Pratt &âWhitney PT6A-135A Shaft Horsepower: 750 (flat rating) Propeller type: Sensenich Gross weight (lbs.): 4300 Useful Load, Std. (lbs.): 1950 Usable Fuel, Std. (gals.): 146 PERFORMANCE Vso (kts.): 61 Max Cruise Speed (kts.): 330 Economy Cruise Speed (kts.): 270 Fuel Consumption, Max Cruise (gph): 39 Fuel Consumption, […]

Blimpin‘

As I drive down the 405 freeway toward the Goodyear Blimp Base in Gardena, Calif., I can’t help but think that, in 20 minutes, I’ll be in an aircraft flying at half my driving speed. Not only that, I’ll be in one of the world’s most recognizable aircraft with one of aviation’s most recognizable heroes, Mike Melvill, pilot/astronaut of Scaled Composites’ X Prizeâwinning SpaceShipOne.