Somewhere between wearing a diaper in an oversized replica of retired airline captain “Sully” Sullenberger’s childhood bedroom and earning a Boeing 737 type rating, Nathan Fielder wants us to take a hard look at interpersonal dynamics in the cockpit.
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AeroShell recently hosted its first ever “Aviation Technology Summit” at the Shell Technology Center in Houston. It was a remarkable forum that “educated the educators” about the latest oil and grease technology, so that we can teach others how to best maintain and protect general aviation aircraft.
The sound of flak tearing into an aircraft has a way of going straight to your bones. It’s a nauseating sound—something between shredding and shattered glass, a metallic splatter and demonic screeching that happens almost too fast to process.
A third-generation pilot in Texas is poised to fire up a new streaming service made with the singular overarching goal of fostering love of aviation, and active participation.
Jim Tweto, the patriarch of a family aviation business in Alaska whose fame endured a decade after his somewhat reluctant star turn on television, died June 16 when the Cessna 180 he was flying failed to gain altitude after takeoff. Family friend Shane Reynolds, of Orofino, Idaho, also died.
"Why do you fly?" In a new online video series from Hemlock Films, pilots of all ages and walks of life answer this deep question—with delightful and inspiring results.
What was it like to fly to the moon, to be part of the U.S. space race of the 1960s? Journalists can interview, novelists imagine, and poets wax poetic, but to get the straight story, reach for these books penned by the astronauts of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.
Legends of the Sky: The Liberty Plane profiles the development of the United States’ first war aircraft, the de Havilland DH–4 Liberty, and the enormous contributions the aircraft made to aviation history.
Steve Chait is a commercial pilot, Beechcraft Debonair owner, and practicing aviation attorney in Michigan. He now adds “movie producer” to his list of accomplishments.
On the hunt for high-energy, educational, fun fighter pilot content? Finding the right YouTube channel or podcast can be daunting. That’s why we’ve put together our short list of favorite fighter pilot content creators sure to keep you coming back for more.
The sequel to the 1986 classic movie Top Gun has had several release dates scrubbed, first moving the film from July 2019 to summer 2020 so production could work out complex flight scenes and then a series of delays in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Paramount Pictures recently announced a new theatrical debut date for the long-awaited Top Gun: Maverick—May 27, 2022. That allows plenty of time to plan a trip to San Diego to explore iconic filming sites from the original blockbuster that starred Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards as naval aviators and boosted sales of bomber jackets and Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses.
Chuck Yeager. P–51. Cessna. Piper. These are names, makes, models, and manufacturers you know. But what you might not know is that they are also the names of the much-loved animal companions of pilots and aviation enthusiasts.
The history of the Jewish people stretches back into antiquity, nearly 3,500 years. For Jewish pilots, their brightest moment in aviation history, or at least the boldest, may have been in 1948 when Jewish (and non-Jewish) pilots from around the world gathered to fight for the new state of Israel. The saga of pilots who risked their lives flying smuggled, surplus warplanes, while outnumbered by the air forces of five nations, seems like the stuff of novels and movies; it is, and inspired a number of both.
Not all poetry is “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” and “Only God can make a tree.” Some verse has been composed about deeper and more meaningful themes, like flying. Perhaps the most famous aviation poem is “High Flight,” which almost everyone has heard, at least the first and last lines—“I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth” and “Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.”
Gogo Business Aviation continues to enhance its Vision inflight entertainment (IFE) offerings with its newest product, Gogo Vision 360. With Vision 360, you can keep everyone onboard entertained, with the latest movies and TV shows, a vast digital magazine library, a premium 3D moving map, seamless remote content updates, and more. Read on to learn why so many passengers and operators consider Gogo Vision “an essential part of the inflight experience”.
The Western Maryland chapter of the National Association for Black Veterans celebrated the close of Black History Month with a February 27 theater screening of Red Tails, a film depicting the lives of the U.S. Army Air Corps’ Tuskegee Airmen based in Ramitelli, Italy, during World War II.
From roses to runways, the twenty-fourth season of ABC’s The Bachelor is putting the spotlight on aviation with Delta Air Lines pilot Peter Weber at the controls.
Excitement was rippling through the aviation community as it awaited the January 24 arrival in theaters of a movie about the Medal of Honor heroism of Vietnam War medic William Pitsenbarger, written and directed by Todd Robinson, an Emmy Award winner who also is a general aviation pilot.