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Diving into emergency landings and the engine out procedure in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Last week...

A Student Pilot at Truckee-Tahoe Airport Hits Her First Big Pre-Solo Milestone: Unassisted Landing! After a whole pot...

In Which A Student Pilot Gets Blown Around Battling Crosswinds Two days ago, when driving home from a movie, my car...

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Was Born an Aristocrat and Died a Renowned Aviator and one of the World’s Most Beloved Authors Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born into a life of privilege to two wealthy...

A Student Pilot Struggles With Making Progress and The Elusive Concept of “Greased Landings” After rolling around all night with a cold...

What the heck is an Ekranoplan? Or the A-90 Orlyonok? Ekranoplans are curious craft, flying a few feet off of the ocean at high speeds completely intentionally. Also known as ground effect vehicles...

Pancho Barnes Lived Her Life Throttle to the Firewall – and Wouldn’t Have it Any Other Way On July 22, 1901, Florence Leontine Lowe was born to Florence Mae Dobbins and Thaddeus Lowe, Jr...

Edwin Albert Link Decided Flight Training Was Too Expensive and Changed Aviation Forever with the Link Trainer Edwin Albert Link was born on July 26, 1904, in Huntington, Indiana. His family soon...

Aerial construction ain’t easy, but the skycrane helps. Need to move a piece of extremely heavy cargo but don’t have a runway for a cargo plane? Or perhaps you need to perform precision deployment of...