Fournier fireworks
‘Pyro tyro’ Bob Grimstead flies a display in France before of an audience of fellow Fournier enthusiasts – and one very special guest.

Flying Adventure: Toulouse to Senegal
Joining a rally for single-engine light aircraft retracing the 2,500km Aeropostale airmail route famously flown by ‘St Ex’.

Electrifying aviation 
We discover if it really is as green as they claim.

Flight Test: TL-Ultralight Sting S4
The only ‘sting in the tail’ that it’s a microlight – and a very fine one at that! Fast and featuring airliner-style instrumentation and an autopilot, it’s hard to fault.

Pilot Profile
MAF’s old, bold aviator
The old saw would have it there’s no such thing, but RAF veteran Jack Hemmings survived WWII escapades to co-found the Mission Aviation Fellowship..

Flight Test: Tecnam P-Mentor
Designed to mimic the systems and handling of large commercial aircraft while offering unbeatable Rotax-engine fuel economy, Tecnam’s little two-seater is a peach of a trainer.

Cockpit Report: Deperdussin TT
Reliving and savouring the pioneer aviator’s experience in a unique replica of one of the earliest French aeroplanes and world’s first warbirds..

Pilot Profile: D J Gibbs
Dave Unwin has an airfield conversation with the aeronautical polymath who has been the RAF’s Tutor display pilot for the last two seasons.

The labours of Hercules
Following retirement of the last of the RAF’s long-serving fleet in June 2023, Phil Mobbs gives a valedictory account of flying the C-130J ‘Super Hercules’ on ops in Iraq..

Flight Test: Cessna 170B
A flight in this delightful modified taildragger – a real ‘sports utility vehicle’ – reveals what was lost when Cessna transformed the design into the tricycle-undercarriage 172.

Jean Délémontez and the early Jodels
Jodel owner, pilot and enthusiast Alain Mathon offers his very personal appreciation of the great French marque’s designer and architect..

Flight Test: Aerospool WT9 Dynamic LSM
Long ahead of the curve, in terms of its sophistication and handling, further development and a hike in power take the Aerospool WT9 Dynamic to the top of the 600kg class.

Sunset on the Valley of Speed
On Sunday, 17 September 2023, the curtain came down at Reno for the last time, closing a sixty-year era of the world’s fastest and most celebrated air racing..

A better way To stop the boats
Former RAF maritime patrol aircraft and police air support unit pilot Tony Cowan proposes a solution involving light aircraft, military and even civil, more suited to the role.

Flight Training
The campaign for fairness in flight training gains momentum – no more pay a fortune now, lose it all later as the training organsation collapses.

Flying Adventure: Bahamas & Florida
Retracing a honeymoon flying trip around the Bahamas with the whole family, enjoying lovely islands and a great flying culture – second, and final, part.

Beyond the PPL: Formation flying
It’s fun. It’s scary. It’s skills, adrenalin and zen meditation, all in one. If you have never tried it, formation training will open up a whole new world for you..

Flight Test: Tecnam P2012 Traveller
More or less a bespoke product for launch customer Cape Air, Tecnam’s versatile, fine-handling and easy-to fly ‘big twin’ wins flight-tester Bob Davy’s approval. Now, if only it had turbine engines…

Flying Adventure: Bahamas
Retracing a honeymoon flying trip around the Bahamas with the whole family, Phil Little enjoys island-hopping and a great flying culture. Part one of two.

Flight Training
ATOs and BALPA say the CAA is ‘asleep at the wheel’ in failing to protect students when schools fail.

The Cooper Column
Misuse of English by regulators at home and abroad..

Airfields & Flight Training
Compton Abbas re-opens, but FTA Global goes into administration.

Special Report – Tecnam’s 75th
Tecnam marks 75 years of Pascaledesigned aircraft, and we were there for the celebrations!

Tim Cooper
Paying for pilot training (and the risk of betting your house on it)..

Pilot Notes
Flight Design picks Rotax to power its four-seater, and a British zero-carbon airliner project is announced.

Airfields & Flight Training
The Children’s Air Ambulance moves to Gamston, while Tayside Aviation goes out of business.

Rotorheads and eVTOLS
The Grey Wolf enters production, and the US Air Force tries out the Joby eVTOL..

The classic Comanche A
Piper’s P-51 Mustang inspired hot ship.

Rotorheads and eVTOLS
Sikorsky unveils a hybrid design, and Airbus reports strong demand from North America..

Flight Test – Tiger v Stampe
Many consider the Stampe just a copy of the Tiger Moth, but is it true? And which one is better? Charlie Huke compares the two iconic WWII-era biplanes.

Rotorheads and eVTOLS
A Bell 505 flies with 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel, while EHang flies two passengers in its pilotless eVTOL.

Airfields & Flight Training
Swansea Airport gets its licence suspended by the CAA, and Icelandair starts using Virtual Reality for pilot training..

Airfields & Flight Training
Northolt under scrutiny, and several scholarships on offer.

Rotorheads and eVTOLS
A Cranfield company aims to combine the advantages of a helicopter with those of an aeroplane into an innovative design.

Flight Test: Junkers A50
Fly back in time with this beautiful ‘production continuation’ of a 1929 aircraft, which gives you the bonus of modern avionics, pleasant handling characteristics, and the magic of the past.

Flight Test – Cessna A150L Texas Taildragger
You have probably flown it in its basic version (the tricycle 150/152). Converted to a tailwheel undercarriage, the Aerobat model becomes even more fun, versatile, and better looking!

Flight Test: Beechcraft A36 Bonanza
Fine design, high cruise speed, and great comfort: almost eighty years after it first flew, the Bonanza is still an outstanding aircraft.

The world’s best Mooney M20J (probably)
Upgrading the Mooney from a classic analog cockpit to a state-of-the-art digital panel – part one..

Flight Test: Cessna 120
The progenitor of Cessna’s successful high-wing line, the Cessna 120 is still a great choice for farm strip flying.

Letter from Australia
Sunshine, accommodating authorities and cheap fuel. It's better down-under, says Bob Grimstead.

Feature – Grob 520NG
It’s a Cold War spy plane that could fly to 50,000ft but never saw action. Today a New Generation model is ready for new assignments..

LAA scammed!
The £64,000 question the Association must fully address.

TBM 960
Transcontinental turboprop tested at 30,000 feet.

Africa Flight Adventure 
part 2 - Djibouti to Tarbes
Long takeoff runs, jammed fuel selectors and difficult authorities stand in the way of our 1980s ferry flight to France..

160mph 1,100 miles
Jet-fuel power gives the P Twenty-Ten ten-league boots

Out of Africa, 1980s style (part 1)
It’s the summer of 1984, and a young club pilot is asked to ferry a Piper from Madagascar to France

Flight Test – ICP Savannah
Not the best aircraft ever built... but luckily most of its shortcomings can be remedied

Flight Test: Boeing Type 75 Stearman
Built to last, and much bigger than the European biplanes of the time, the Stearman is a charming and fine-handling aircraft that takes you back to the 1930s.

Airfields&Flight Training
Manston may reopen, and Cranfield gets new training facilities.

Flight Test: Diamond DA50 RG
Our full flight test of the Austrian five-seater which, with a 300hp engine and a retractable undercarriage, sits at the top of its market..

The 21st century trainer with performance, handing & fuel economy
Tecnam P2008 JC

Beyond the PPL: Ditching and sea survival
You’ll escape from an underwater cockpit, you’ll learn how to keep warm in cold water, and you’ll get to play in a lake pretending it’s the middle of the ocean: the GASCo sea survival seminar is both fun and useful!

Why Aerobatics?
Flying aerobatics is fun, it develops your piloting skills, and it will help you if, one day, you are faced with an aircraft upset. Why not try it?

Pilot Profile: Zara Rutherford
Fifty-seven countries, a 100hp microlight, and the adventure of a lifetime: at nineteen Zara Rutherford became the youngest woman ever to fly around the world..

Feature: The glory days of Top Gun
Go back in time with an instructor who taught at Top Gun in the 1980s (when the original movie was filmed), and get ready for some amazing Tomcat images.

Letter from Australia
How a three-month holiday turned into a prolonged confinement..

Dream realised: the academy that will train private pilots to fly a HURRICANE SOLO

Diamond Super Star
Our ‘First Look’ at the 180kt diesel engined five-seater

Be a fighter pilot
Serving RN F-35 pilot ‘H’ explains how you can become a ‘Top Gun’

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