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Workers in every segment are affected, some in very surprising ways, while uncertainty for the future abounds.

Update: April 2020 — Faced with a difficult decision and under enormous pressure, Sun ‘n Fun organizers changed plans and have now rescheduled the event for April 13-18, 2021. Relax, folks. We’re not going anywhere fast. Across all industries, shows and events have been “falling like dominos,” as publisher Ben Sclair put it when I […]

What really happened the ’€œDay The Music Died,’€ when rock n’ roll artists Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and ’€œThe Big Bopper,’€ J.P. Richardson Jr., perished in a plane crash in 1959?

Learning to fly is a long process with a big price tag, but a great instructor can make all the difference.

The pilot of a Cessna Centurion needed to find that one runway, out there somewhere.

For years, more than a decade, the U.S. gyroplane producer community tried to persuade FAA to allow fully built Special Light-Sport Aircraft gyroplanes into the USA. “No dice,” said FAA! With perspective, it turned out only a small group was opposed but so strong was their hand at the time that FAA leadership could not […]

Even if you fly a lot, sharpening your piloting skills doesn’t happen by accident. Here’s why you need to do it and how to make it happen.

Living and somehow surviving a pilot’s life away from home.

The world’s first jetliner, the de Havilland Comet, was crashing, and no one knew why.

Many airlines are using an alternate method that approaches recurrent flight training from a real-world perspective. Here’s why it works.