When discussing aviation legends, the list is long. Yet there is one who makes just about every single roll call, and many consider him the ultimate “pilot’s pilot”—Bob Hoover. A U.S. Army Air Forces aviator, flight instructor, test pilot, and ultimate...
When we think about composite materials in production airplanes, the name Piper Aircraft does not come immediately to mind. The Cirrus and Diamond series, products of the late 1990s, demonstrated that composite airframes could achieve both production and market success. In...
During the early years of the jet age, between the end of World War II and the swinging ’60s, there were very few new ideas that were not worth a try. While today’s latest jet fighter, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning...
As a major milestone along the march of aviation’s year, central Florida’s Sun ’n Fun Aerospace Expo in Lakeland, Florida, gives cold-weary northerners a much-needed boost from the leftover winter. It’s not that we can’t fly during the short, colder days....
