Isabel Goyer

The uncomfortable fact of life as aviation flips the switch to a new future.

What you don’t understand about scud running, or haven’t sufficiently grasped, is plenty enough to kill you if you aren’t lucky. Back in 1977, I was barely lucky enough.

Armchair investigators in three-piece suits are bloviating about charter certificates as an area of critical focus. They need to come to their senses.

With a recent announcement of yet another new timetable for its controversial jet, Boeing has been all over the news these past few months, and not in ways any company would want.

The company’s partnership on the e-VTOL called Joby is interesting on several levels. Some of them are historic. Others reveal a couple of uncomfortable truths about urban air mobility.

What some pilots don’t get about this flight instrument that has just changed the fleet, with 13 other historic advances they also whiffed on, from autopilots to monoplanes.

Here’s why we just don’t know how many of our planes are ready for mandatory ADS-B equipage on January 1st. But here’s why the news might be better than we feared.

The maker of autonomous aircraft figured certificating clean-sheet, electric aircraft that fly themselves would be a quick process. Woopsie.

Also, news that some regulators are calling for MCAS not to be fixed, but to be trashed. How will this affect the ill-fated airliner’s return to the skies?

There are a number of causes for iconic GA plane maker shuttering its assembly line, and some of them we have never seen before.