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More Than Monitoring

Glass cockpits ease workload, but pilots shouldn’t forget to maintain their flying proficiency

Protecting Kenya‘s National Parks

Training the Kenya Wildlife Service Airwing

You’d normally find her looping and rolling at 250 mph in front of thousands of spectators at the industry’s biggest air shows, but this month, aerobatic champ Patty Wagstaff takes us on a different kind of adventure, low and slow above elephants, rhinos and cheetahs in the remote wilderness of Kenya.

Fly The Bahamas

What you’ll need to know as a first-timer to the out islands

Blimpin‘

As I drive down the 405 freeway toward the Goodyear Blimp Base in Gardena, Calif., I can’t help but think that, in 20 minutes, I’ll be in an aircraft flying at half my driving speed. Not only that, I’ll be in one of the world’s most recognizable aircraft with one of aviation’s most recognizable heroes, Mike Melvill, pilot/astronaut of Scaled Composites’ X Prizeâwinning SpaceShipOne.