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Canyon Riders Want to make the hawks jealous? All you need for aerotrekking are canyons, empty airspace and some high-flying ultralights.   |
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Get Your Props Widen the horizons of adventure by taking the controls and becoming a pilot |
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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. |
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June 1999
Cliff Gromer |
The Flying Boat The Seair 2000 flying inflatable boat |
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July 2006
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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 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. |
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. |
Fast Company
November 2003
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Some Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines They won't end up in every garage, but a new generation of low-cost "personal" jets could really take off. Tiny Adam Aircraft is racing to be first on the runway. |
Salon.com
August 23, 2002
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Ask the pilot How hard is it fly an airliner? And why can't I keep my tray table down during takeoff? |
Popular Mechanics
June 11, 2008
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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. |
Popular Mechanics
December 20, 2005
Davin Coburn |
Sport Pilot In A Week It is possible to earn a sport pilot license in one week. Here's how. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2009
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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. |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010
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Making the Dream of a Flying Car a Reality MIT graduate Carl Dietrich co-founded Terrafugia, which is now taking pre-orders for the science fiction fan's ultimate dream: a $194,000 flying car. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2006
Alex Hutchinson |
Tech Watch: Flying Solo As two personal helicopters duel for aerial supremacy, flying by the seat of your pants is taking on new meaning. |
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. |
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. |
Wired
July 2005
Ron Berler |
Saving the Pentagon's Killer Chopper-Plane 22 years. $16 billion. 30 deaths. The V-22 Osprey has been an R&D nightmare. But now the dream of a tilt-rotor troop transport could finally come true. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2007
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Civilian UAVs: No Pilot, No Problem You probably haven't yet seen a robot plane overhead. But more are flying all the time, and their promise is such that, like computers, they could move beyond commonplace to ubiquitous. |
Aviation History
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Jerrie Mock: Record-Breaking Aviatrix In 1964, an Ohio woman took up the challenge that led to Amelia Earhart's disappearance, and become the first woman to fly around the world solo. She later chronicled her adventures in the book "Three-eight Charlie." |
Salon.com
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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. |
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. |
Inc.
November 2003
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Flight Club Forget the company car. Getting around is faster -- and less expensive than you may think -- in a private plane. |
Aviation History
May 2006
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Hanna Reitsch: Hitler's Female Test Pilot Groundbreaking pilot Hanna Reitsch set more than 40 records in her lifetime. But she was tragically slow to recognize the ruin into which the Nazis were leading her homeland. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
Anthony Colozza |
Fly Like A Bird Flapping wings could revolutionize aircraft design. |
Popular Mechanics
August 1, 2008
Mark Huber |
The 10 Best Planes from the Oshkosh Air Show From Lancair's $1 million turboprop kit to the "verification prototype" of Cirrus Design's single-engine personal jet. |
BusinessWeek
June 5, 2006
Christopher Palmeri |
Snarl In The Sky Private jet traffic is creating commercial flight delays, safety concerns, and calls for small planes to pay more into the system. |
Salon.com
June 28, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot Do pilots sweat bullets during wind-whipped landings? And why are those darn windows so small? |
Aviation History
Ronald Gilliam |
Moye Stephens: Aviation Pioneer and Adventurer Moye Stephens piloted more than 100 types of aircraft and flew around the world in The Flying Carpet. A history of the career of this pilot. |
Wired
Andrew Blum |
Key to Eliminating U.S. Flight Delays? Redesign the Sky Over New York City More than 2 million flights pass over the city every year, most traveling to and from the metropolitan area's three busiest airports: John F. Kennedy, Newark, and LaGuardia. |
Salon.com
March 8, 2002
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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... |
Salon.com
September 12, 2001
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Flying with phantoms A pilot waves goodbye to the World Trade Center... |
National Defense
June 2013
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Air Force Making Headway on Fuel Efficiency Goals The Air Force is stuck between a rock and a hard place. The service requires massive amounts of fuel to power its aircraft, but in a budget crunch, officials know they must curb consumption in order to save money and be less susceptible to a volatile oil market. |
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? |
Aviation History
June 5, 2004
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The DC-3 Turns 60 The Douglas Aircraft Company's Grand Old Lady of the Skies still plies the airways it pioneered as the first practical airliner. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2010
Lawrence & Jenney |
The Fastest Helicopter on Earth Sikorsky aims to break the helicopter speed record |
Popular Mechanics
September 2007
David Noland |
10 Plane Crashes That Changed Aviation Here are eight crashes and two emergency landings whose influence is felt -- for the good -- each time you step on a plane. |
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. |
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. |
Aviation History
July 29, 2004
Craig Roberts |
It Flies Like a Hummingbird The road to wedding helicopter ascents with fixed-wing speed was paved with bizarre flying contraptions. |
Aviation History
September 2005
David H. Grover |
Harrowing 1927 California to Hawaii Flight The accomplishments of two pioneering civilians -- Emory Bronte and Ernie Smith -- who piloted a Travel Air across the Pacific in 1927 have been largely overlooked. |
Aviation History
Radko Vasicek |
When Seaplanes Ruled the Sky Between 1913 and 1931, the Schneider Trophy race inspired some of aviation's greatest designers to devote their talents to building the world's fastest floatplane. |
National Defense
October 2009
Grace V. Jean |
Fear of Crashes Keeping Drones out of U.S. Airspace The senior director of unmanned aircraft systems and control technologies at Rockwell Collins, Vos and other industry representatives are advocating a push for the development of automation technologies that will make it possible for piloted aircraft and drones to fly safely in the same airspace. |
Wired
July 2001
Carl Hoffman |
The X Wars Boeing and Lockheed are battling head-to-head to build the strike fighter of the future, a sleek, smart aircraft that will carry tomorrow's Air Force, Navy, and Marines -- if it can fight its way out of the Pentagon... |
| 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." |
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. |
Salon.com
November 16, 2001
P. Smith |
Turbulence can kill Investigators are suggesting that Flight 587 may have become fatally entwined in the jet wake of another plane. Stranger things have happened... |
Aviation History
July 2005
H. Paul Brehm |
Navy Helldivers Strike Hyuga A raid on the Japanese battleship-carrier Hyuga was an arduous task for fliers of Air Group 87 from USS Ticonderoga. |
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. |
Salon.com
September 27, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot How could a pilot not be trained for fog landings? And how is "Jet Smarter" author Diana Fairechild like Ralph Nader with a tray of peanuts? |
Aviation History
M.A. Mogus |
Old Glory's Final Flight In the aftermath of Lindbergh's famous flight, veteran airmail pilots J.D. Hill and Lloyd Bertaud set out for Rome in a Fokker monoplane. |
