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Popular Mechanics
April 2006
Davin Coburn |
Sport Pilot Training Schools A nationwide list of training schools offering sport pilot certification.   |
AskMen.com
Steve Richer |
How To: Get A Private Pilot's License We are at a point now where human flight is open to just about everyone, even the likes of flyboys Tom Cruise and John Travolta. Accordingly, it's become painless for someone to get their private pilot's license. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Jeff Wise |
Fly Your Own Plane for $30,000: Backyard Aircraft Flight Test Two-seaters represent the most affordable way for recreational pilots to get airborne and take a friend along. To tap into this market, plane makers have come up with cool machines that cost about the same as a base-model SUV. |
DailyCandy
October 16, 2004 |
Travel: You So Fly Ready to earn your wings? Take an introductory flight with a certificated instructor at your local flight school or airport; then follow the AOPA's tips for getting started. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2007
Davin Coburn |
Upgrade Test Drive: Flying the Familiar Skies The comprehensiveness and attention to detail of Flight Simulator X will keep both pilots and armchair enthusiasts coming back for more. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2009
David Noland |
Who's Killing the Electric Plane? Even as the federal government jump-starts electric cars with $2.4 billion in research funds, electric airplanes are getting held back. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
FAA Gives Amazon Green Light To Test Delivery Drones In effect, it's a green light by the FAA for Jeff Bezos and company to start legally mucking around with delivery via tiny, unmanned aircraft. |
Outside
September 2005
Brad Wetzler |
Get Your Props Widen the horizons of adventure by taking the controls and becoming a pilot |
Salon.com
August 23, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot How hard is it fly an airliner? And why can't I keep my tray table down during takeoff? |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2008
Tekla S. Perry |
Airlines: Got Fuel? Airlines are now putting the minimum amount of fuel in planes necessary to reach their destination, but are they underestimating the amount they need? |
Salon.com
March 8, 2002
P. Smith |
How safe is your airplane? After the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, some pilots requested that all Airbus A300 planes be grounded. But they're still aloft... |
Popular Mechanics
March 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
3 Questions for a Real F-35 Test Pilot Test pilot Jon Beesley has ridden in history's cockpit. Having flown in the development phase of every operational U.S. stealth aircraft. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2008
Susan Karlin |
James Brown: Above & Beyond This experimental test pilots are aviators trained in engineering and can convey problems and improvements for plane development. |
| AskMen.com |
Teamwork: Simon Sinek Don't forget to push yourself outside of your comfort zone. "It is that well-oiled machine that makes the pilots and the United States Air Force such a remarkable organization." |
Salon.com
July 15, 2000
Phaedra Hise |
JFK Jr.'s fatal mistakes The final report on Kennedy's crash reveals a series of decisions that led him on a spiral crash course one year ago. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2006
David Noland |
Test Pilot Len Fox, Bend, Ore. Years on Job: 8 When it's time to make the first flight of a new competition aerobatic plane, or an experimental two-seat sport jet, or a homebuilt biplane fresh out of somebody's garage, test pilot Len Fox is the guy to call. |
National Defense
February 2015
Valerie Insinna |
General Atomics Tests Sense-and-Avoid System General Atomics and NASA in November began flight testing a proof-of-concept sense-and-avoid system integrated onto an MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft. |
Fast Company
Liz Taurasi |
Flying Cars Predicted In Two Years: What Then? Scheduled to debut in 2016 at an estimated cost of $279,000, the Transition is a street-legal car with wings that fold out to make an FAA-approved airplane. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2006
Jeff Wise |
Flying Off The Drawing Board New technology is poised to transform aviation, finally making Personal Air Vehicles possible. |
Entrepreneur
November 2006
Robert Kiyosaki |
Finish First In business, crossing the finish line second is not an option. |
Salon.com
September 12, 2001
Phaedra Hise |
Flying with phantoms A pilot waves goodbye to the World Trade Center... |
Salon.com
December 13, 2001
Katharine Mieszkowski |
A no-fly zone for terrorism By taking pilots out of the loop, can software prevent planes from being used as bombs? |
Popular Mechanics
June 11, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
World's Priciest Stealth Plane Takes First Run to Vertical Landing Needing a boost after a negative report leak, Lockheed Martin tested a prototype of its latest Joint Strike Fighter for the Marines today -- a supersonic F-35 that lands like a chopper and thinks like a pilot. |
Wired
December 22, 2008
Carl Hoffman |
The Ultimate Flying Machine: Sexy as a Sports Car, Portable as a Jet Ski The Icon A5, designed to thrill and a breeze to fly. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
Willie D Jones |
Dutch Start-up Hopes to Spark Takeoff of Flying Car Market Engineers at Spark Design Engineering have created a three-wheeled personal air and land vehicle that takes off like a plane and lands like a helicopter. |
National Defense
July 2014
Valerie Insinna |
Partnerships on Rise Between Drone Makers and Universities As commercial demand for unmanned aircraft grows, manufacturers and universities are increasingly joining forces on efforts to train pilots and develop new technologies. |
National Defense
February 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Teaching Non-Pilots to Fly Predators Requires More Cockpit Hours in Manned Aircraft The Air Force last fall graduated its first class of Predator pilots from an experimental program aimed at training non-aviators how to fly remotely-operated aircraft. |
National Defense
October 2011
Stew Magnuson |
FAA Sets Date for Small Unmanned Planes in U.S. Airspace Mid-2013 is the latest estimate for when the Federal Aviation Administration will allow operators of small unmanned aerial vehicles to fly in national airspace without having to go through a lengthy bureaucratic certification process, according to an agency official. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Search Tools for Air Travelers If you're planning to fly somewhere, these sites can enhance and supplement your experiences with online travel search engines. |
PC Magazine
September 18, 2007 |
Resurrected on YouTube Thanks to YouTube, many failed pilots are finding new life online. In most cases, however, it is apparent that they shouldn't. |
Popular Mechanics
December 28, 2009
Michael Belfiore |
The Top 9 Airplane Tech Advances of the Last 10 Years The past decade has seen enhancements in everything from cargo planes to hypersonics. |
AskMen.com
Dennis Ryan |
The Life Of A Test Pilot Find out what it's like trying to break airplanes for a living. |
AskMen.com
Ariel Adams |
Archimede Pilot XL The Archimede Pilot XL offers one of the soundest pilot watches on the market. |
InternetNews
July 28, 2004
Michael Singer |
Oracle Pilots the Friendly Skies The FAA uses the database giant's 10g products to create electronic maps of the skies. If your pilot gets lost, blame Oracle. |
National Defense
August 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
Non-Military Market for Unpiloted Aircraft Will Remain Sluggish The unmanned-aviation industry will be anxiously awaiting the release of new U.S. government regulations that may provide clues to whether unpiloted aircraft will receive flight rights in the national airspace. |
National Defense
April 2011
Grace V. Jean |
Army Slow To Adapt Fly-by-Wire Controls for Helicopters Fly-by-wire technology has long been credited for enabling military fighter jets to maneuver through the air. The technology displaces the pilot's mechanical linkages to the flight control surfaces with wires, which will allow a digital signal to "drive" the helicopter. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2011
Philip E. Ross |
When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners? Unmanned planes dominate the battlefield, yet airliners still have pilot - -and copilots. |
Popular Mechanics
July 9, 2008
Jeff Wise |
Mechanic: Obama's Plane Could Have 'Lost Control' in Anomaly Sen. Barack Obama's MD-80 aircraft made a surprise landing on Monday morning due to controllability issues. |
Real Travel Adventures
March 2005
James McManus |
High Flying Holiday: Adventure Travel in the Clouds A growing niche of adventure travelers bypass traffic frustrations and enjoy unparalleled access to Florida's spectacular vacation offerings. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
iPad Glitch Grounds Dozens Of American Airlines Flights American Airlines began issuing iPads with a dedicated app to pilots and copilots back in 2013 to replace heavy paper manuals and flight plans. Yesterday, those iPads crashed. |
National Defense
February 2014
Dan Parsons |
Drones Over U.S. Soil Still Years Away, Despite Congressional Mandate The Federal Aviation Administration has less than a year left to meet its congressionally mandated 2015 deadline for clearing drones to fly over U.S. soil. |
National Defense
December 2005
Stew Magnuson |
Training Fleet Sees Slow but Steady Progress The U.S. Air Force is about four years away from completing a two decade-long process of revamping its fleet of training aircraft, according to service officials. |
National Defense
August 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Predator Ground Stations Need Redesign, Say Pilots The demands for aerial surveillance in Iraq and Afghanistan grow by the day, and that means more Predator unmanned aircraft and pilots are needed. |
National Defense
May 2015
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Industry Rallies Behind Push To Promote Drone Safety When a DJI Phantom drone crashed into the lawn of the White House in February, it highlighted what some fear may be a trend of unmanned aerial vehicle-related accidents. |
National Defense
December 2015
Stew Magnuson |
F-35 Program Ramps Up Training for Pilots, Technicians The F-35 joint strike fighter program is transitioning to a day when its pilots will come fresh out of flight school and the new jet fighter will be their first assignment. |
National Defense
July 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Technologies Ease Burden on Pilots, Maintainers The F-35 Lighting II is being equipped with some of the latest technologies that will automate the duties of both pilots and maintenance crews. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Barbara S. Peterson |
End of Flight Delays? FAA's GPS Fix Could Bust Sky Gridlock The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been quietly using Alaska as a testbed for technologies that could radically transform the nation's antiquated air traffic control (ATC) system from ground-based radar to space-based GPS. |
Inc.
November 2003
Robert X. Cringely |
Flight Club Forget the company car. Getting around is faster -- and less expensive than you may think -- in a private plane. |
National Defense
December 2005
Sandra I. Erwin |
Air Force Revisiting Requirements for Pilot Training Senior U.S. Air Force officials are debating whether a planned drawdown of the service's aircraft fleet should be matched by cutbacks to the number of pilots that are recruited and trained. |
BusinessWeek
January 27, 2011
John Hughes |
Stuck on the Tarmac: Satellite Navigation The FAA may soon ask outside companies to help speed up adoption of a next-generation satellite navigation system. |
