Pilot Stories

With the widespread availability of envelope protection for light planes, the question has to be asked, how safe are these technologies and how easy is it to disconnect from them in an emergency? Envelope protection got started in light GA in the 1960s, when Mooney introduced its Positive Control, manufactured by Brittain Industries from Tulsa, […]

Plane & Pilot collected many interesting facts and tidbits about the history of the Piper PA-28s.

Seems like an easy call, right? You couldn’t be more wrong.

The original jumbo jet celebrated the 50th anniversary of its first flight in 2019.

To set it down in the river among the crocodiles, in the trees or, wait, there’s a third choice?

The answer key for the crossword puzzle found in the March 2019 issue of Plane & Pilot.

An aerial exhibition in Inner Mongolia offers a reminder that people everywhere like watching cool planes fly upside down.

Flight training has come a long way over the years and accomplished some remarkable feats in training the millions of pilots who’ve strapped in and taken to the air over the past 115 years.

The coolest fly-in in the world keeps getting bigger without losing the qualities that made it great when it was new.

How a seemingly uneventful Unicom call changed everything.