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A midair collision can happen so fast and unexpectedly, you could quite literally never know what hit you. Here’s how I got lucky.

The most popular article of this crazy year — when people have been visiting in record numbers — was about Aeromarine-LSA‘s Merlin Lite. Tens of thousands of you devoured this article within days of it being posted. The word sensational is vastly overused in modern American society but in this case the word fits the […]

After thousands of articles, I’ve have heard over and over about two common ingredients sought by pilots who visit this website: Affordability and Availability. Once you make a decision about what to buy, you want to be able to get it quickly and you want it to fit your budget. The first requirement is understandable. […]

Fifty years later, the mystery of N1812H and the many theories behind its disappearance are still relevant.

Who was it? Why were they on the runway? And how did they get access?

Sometimes, it’s not the obvious things that need attention.

But pilots need to be aware of the agency’s moves in response to COVID-19.

Just because there isn’t a heads-up of an outage or other issue doesn’t mean there won’t be problems. Sometimes the consequences are downright chilling.

The first time I ever saw Lazair fly — a fly-in at the Tullahoma Airport, as I recall — a then-young Peter Corley flew the lightweight aircraft as though he was the pilot of a military fighter of the day. He pushed the sleek machine with the whining engines as he looped and rolled the […]

The industry, which had been riding high before the outbreak, is on the brink of collapse.