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Sonic Boom Salesman

Adventures of a cold war interceptor pilot

Figuring Out In-Flight Wi-Fi

Your next flight in the US will likely have Wi-Fi, and it’ll probably cost you between $8 and $19 to use. Per a 2018 Gogo survey, about 50 percent of fliers use their own electronic devices on planes. And about 56 percent of North American travelers intend to use in-flight Wi-Fi on their next flight, according to a 2018 Inmarsat survey.

Rabbits Out Of A Hat

Archivist Miracles

Artificial Intelligence For Beginners

AI, Aviation, and Human Destiny

Flying The FM-2 Wildcat

A Modern Pilot’s Personal Perspective

Airbus Is Ready For Pilotless Jets

The chief salesman for Airbus says his company already has the technology to fly passenger planes without pilots at all — and is working on winning over regulators and travelers to the idea.

Airlines Downgrade 2019 Forecast Amid Trade Spats, Fuel Hike

The International Air Transport Association is lowering its 2019 profit forecast for the airline industry amid rising fuel prices and weakening world trade.

How To Fly With Flaps

Understanding their function and benefit

D-Day Is More Than Just A Day

It has been 75 years since hundreds of thousands of young men of all free nations focused their energy and their lives on the beaches of Normandy, France. As that generation slips away from us, we have to remember that it was young men, not the ships, airplanes, or arms that caused history to turn a corner. Their success on that day is the seed from which the lives we now enjoy grew.

The Death Rattlers

Flying and Fighting with VMF-323

Lee Lauderback Sets A Record

10,000 Hours of Mustang Flying

Fairchild's Model 71

A Working Bird to the End

Japan's Private Rocket Reaches Outer Space For First Time

A Japanese aerospace startup funded by a former internet maverick successfully launched a small rocket into space last weekend, making it the first commercially developed Japanese rocket to reach orbit.

Google's Wing Aviation Gets Faa Ok For Drone Deliveries

Google affiliate Wing Aviation has received federal approval allowing it to make commercial deliveries by drone.

737 Max The Questions Behind Automated Systems

Negotiating the divide between man and machine.

Smile: Some Airliners Have Cameras On Seat-Back Screens

Now there is one more place where cameras could start watching you — from 30,000 feet.

When Plumbing Fixtures Ruled The Skies

Humor and American Ingenuity at Work.

Wolfpack Warrior

A New Pilot Learns from 56th FG Pros.

In A Tiny Corner Of A Huge World: What Are The Chances?

TAILVIEW

Aviation-History Travel

Visiting the Sites, Events, and Hardware That Made History.

A Tale Of Two Mules

CLASSICS

Frankfurt Airport Working On Flying Taxis

The operator of Frankfurt’s international airport says it is developing a concept for electric air taxi services.

Today's Business Aviation Terminals Are Exceeding Expectations

Business aviation is looking for more from airport services – and today’s FBOs are delivering

Volante Vision Concept

The future of luxury air travel.

The Incredible! Shrinking! Airplane!

Jets are getting bigger, yet, inch by inch, our personal space dwindles. How the %*#+ does that work?

Mustard

BAC's Low Speed Research Vehicle

UKRAINIAT striker

The Sukhoi Su-24 is an all-weather attack aircraft capable of supersonic speeds and characterised by its side-by-side pilot/navigator seating and its variable geometry wing.

Hearts in the sky RIAT RETURNS

After a nearly three-year hiatus RIAT returned to our skies with a hot show in every sense of the word. SAM’s Mike Verier and Ray Ball were there.

Colour Conundrum

A Cancellation Conundrum - The RAF F-111s That Might Have Been Part 1

Academy RF-8A Crusader Conversion in 1/72

USMC squadron VMCJ-2 used six RF-8As during the Crisis (designation F8U-1P until September 1962), with others held in reserve, two flying out of Guantanamo Bay, and four out of NAS Key West.