Five Pilots That Reached Aviation Immortality
The road to glory looks profoundly different for each aviator who arrives there. Here are five stories of people who profoundly influenced flying’s future.
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The road to glory looks profoundly different for each aviator who arrives there. Here are five stories of people who profoundly influenced flying’s future.
Is there a smoking gun in the crash, which killed all 10 aboard?
They’re a regular fixture at the FBO, possessing an uncanny ability to identify the causes of random squawks and encyclopedic knowledge of obscure airworthiness directives and service bulletins issued since the dawn of aviation. Whether you call them mechanics, A&Ps, aviation maintenance technicians (AMTs) or even “hey, Mike,” you will call them. A good relationship […]
Why the forced landing, from which the pilot walked away, was a prayer answered
The weather in the high desert is everything, and this year, it did not disappoint
The upgrade will give existing aircraft more power and far better time-to-climb performance, to boot
She was far more than the instructor tied by fate to a single student.
The sequence was captured by a videographer who was as stunned as the pilot was. The pilot, by the way, was apparently unhurt.
Kaiya Armstrong prepared for months for the remarkable voyage