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Sport Pilot In A Week It is possible to earn a sport pilot license in one week. Here's how. |
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Prepare for Takeoff Fuel up your entrepreneurial spirit, and then let it take flight. |
Popular Mechanics
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Flying Off The Drawing Board New technology is poised to transform aviation, finally making Personal Air Vehicles possible. |
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Flying with phantoms A pilot waves goodbye to the World Trade Center... |
IEEE Spectrum
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James Brown: Above & Beyond This experimental test pilots are aviators trained in engineering and can convey problems and improvements for plane development. |
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'We don't have any engines' Two joyriding pilots took a jet to its 41,000-ft. ceiling -- and paid for the stunt with their lives. PM investigates the crash of Flight 3701. |
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High Net Worth: The Jet Set A look at your options for private jet travel: buying a plane, fractional ownership, or chartering a flight. |
Popular Mechanics
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From LSD Brain to Dead Autopilot, Fringe Premiere Skirts Reality J.J. Abrams moved beyond the sci-fi-bending universe of Lost -- the Large Hadron Collider, time travel and all -- and set out to create Fringe, the new X-Files-esque show that debuted last night on Fox. |
Salon.com
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Ask the pilot Can it really get too hot to fly? And what was it like to be in the air on Sept. 11? |
AskMen.com
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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. |
Salon.com
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A no-fly zone for terrorism By taking pilots out of the loop, can software prevent planes from being used as bombs? |
IEEE Spectrum
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When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners? Unmanned planes dominate the battlefield, yet airliners still have pilot - -and copilots. |
Salon.com
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Ask the pilot Flying Beech 99's, ogling Gulf Air's stunning stewardesses and other career highlights. Plus: What are the scariest airports? |
Popular Mechanics
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How Plane Crash Forensics Lead to Safer Aviation After each plane crash, investigators study the wreckage, analyze flight data and examine clues regarding flight conditions. Once they have determined a cause, they often help create recommendations that prevent the problem from recurring. |
