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There are probably some pilots who want aviation to be a small world, who’d like nothing better than to make being a pilot and owning an airplane an exclusive club. Let me be clear: We are not those people. We want flying to be open to everyone who wants to fly. It won’t be easy […]

Bye Aerospace, the company that’s developing the Sun Flyer electric primary trainer, has its sights set on the defense market with a solar-electric model, the StratoAirNet

Why the first new turboprop single from Piper in 20 years matters

A progress report on some controversial and not-so-controversial programs

The ACS standards that are now in effect for both knowledge and practical testing are, in theory, a great advance for the aviation community. The reality is a bit more complicated than that. It’s not easy for me to admit that there’s a downside to the change. For many years, I’ve loudly complained to anyone […]

With the opening of airspace in Cuba and the trip across the Florida Straits an easy one, it may be time to prepare your flight plan

The Space Agency’s new hybrid electric research plane gets an X number and a new name

Inspired by the service of the Tuskegee Airmen, the Legacy Flight Academy flight training program begins July 9 on historic Moton Field in Alabama, providing teenagers with an opportunity to cultivate careers in aviation and, best of all, to start learning how to fly

The rule comes after years of lobbying by general aviation groups to broaden an FAA definition that left homebuilders in the cold.

The biggest threat to the popular legislation is a proposal to privatize air traffic control backed by a Congressman with a personal relationship with an airline lobbyist. Here we go again, trying to get a pilot’s medical certification proposal past the finish line. Whether it happens or not, kudos to the U.S. Senate, which earlier […]