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A pair of deadly crashes of light twins shakes aviation communities.

The move by the FAA is aggressive and precisely the right thing to do. Here’s why it happened.

Why the Airbus went out of control on takeoff at JFK and why its pilots responded as they did are both cause for great concern.

How a sim partner was the best teacher.

The cover story is no mystery. The reason for it is!

One of the key elements of this mega-monster HBO hit is that it’s got dragons, and they fly, and people ride them!

It’s good to know people who went through aviation history and who saw big changes. I’m talking transformative technology introductions, like all-metal monocoque construction, the opposed air-cooled engine, the turbine engine, GPS and computers in the cockpit. Advances like these have reshaped aviation again and again since even before Kitty Hawk. Still, every time a […]

With its 385-foot wingspan, 12 main landing gear wheels (plus two nose gear wheels), and 550,000-pound payload, the Stratolaunch took to the air on April 13 for the first time in preparation for its eventual mission: launching satellites into low-Earth orbit. News outlets are billing it as the “world’s largest plane.” Now, that’s debatable. There’s […]

The crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 at Addis Ababa has never been a complete mystery. The accident, which claimed the life of all 157 onboard, seemed from the beginning likely to be related to the MCAS system that Boeing installed on the 737 Max to help it pass its flying qualities tests with the […]

A startling oversight on a practical test made for a ride to remember.