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Drinking and piloting a plane is illegal and stupid because it (obviously) puts everyone at risk. Recent incidents have shown that drinking for those folks in the passenger cabin might be just as bad an idea.

The award, considered the top in aviation, goes to a technology that Garmin pioneered and that has nearly unlimited potential.

The Airbus A380 wasn’t designed with these vipers in mind, so engineers had to go old school on the snakes.

The broad reform of the regs will impact many unpiloted aerial vehicle operators. But did they go far enough in protecting aircraft from intrusions of the worst kind?

The team has dominated the National Intercollegiate Flying Association Championships like no other school.

The pilot had barely survived an unrelated house explosion two years earlier.

It wasn’t a tornado, but this kind of severe weather mimics the devastating impact of one.

Plus, a big deal for Garmin, an eastern European country forces down a Western jetliner, NTSB head to step down and much more!

This week’s Plane & Pilot Photo of the Week is from Nick Howell, who along with some very good (and very fit) friends flew their taildraggers into Mineral Canyon, Utah, for some camping, camaraderie and bicycling. The biking was hardcore, 103 miles of hugely vertical stuff, around the White Rim Trail in Canyonlands National Park. […]

The acquisition gives the avionics giant a huge opening for new business.