FLYING Media Group (FMG), the owner of FLYING Magazine, has acquired Plane & Pilot from Madavor, a subsidiary of The Bebop Channel Corporation. Plane & Pilot is a monthly magazine and online media site that has served pilot flown aircraft for more than 50 years. FLYING and Plane & Pilot have been the top two independent aviation magazines for decades. While the brands have been …
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Sun ‘n Fun Day 1 Gallery
Sun ‘n Fun is off to a great start, and while a Tuesday kickoff usually guarantees a gradual start to the show–with bands of severe weather keeping south-going planes stranded up north—this year’s Tuesday couldn’t have gone much better. The new head of the show, Gene Conrad, has made changes galore around the grounds, all …
Turning Heads: Carbon Cub UL Unveiled With Rotax Power
Sun ’n Fun attendees did a a double-take this morning in front of the CubCrafters display, at least the ones very familiar with the company’s lineup. There’s a new Carbon Cub out there with a brand-new powerplant, and she’s a looker. The Carbon Cub UL prototype is a new model, paired with an also-just-unveiled Rotax …
We Proudly Announce the Winners of the 2023 Your Flying World Photo Contest!
Our latest Plane & Pilot Your Flying World Photo Contest has wrapped up, and we have chosen the winners. Coming out on top was Philip Johnson for his “Jolley Roger in the Sky,” a brilliant shot of a North American F-86 Sabre, flown by Steve Hinton. Taking home second prize was Adrien Penhoet, for their …
Proudly Announcing our 2023 Your Flying World Photo Contest Finalists!
Our latest Plane & Pilot Your Flying World Photo Contest has wrapped up, and we have chosen the finalists and the winners! That said, you’ll have to wait a bit for the announcement of the prize winners! We are very curious to hear which ones presented here are your favorites! The idea behind the theme …
The Top Aviation Stories Of 2022
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Understanding the Dallas Midair Disaster
The midair collision last weekend (November 12, 2022) between two World War II vintage aircraft, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra fighter at a Dallas airshow claimed the lives of six, five on the Boeing bomber and the solo pilot of the fighter. For those in the world of vintage …
High Sierra Celebrates Another Great Event
The 11th High Sierra Fly-In is in the books for 2022, and this latest installment of the dry lake dust-up did not disappoint. With arguably the best weather in the event’s short history—yeah, it was still cold and dusty—a near-record number of planes and people converged on Dead Cow Dry Lake in northern Nevada in …
The Best Family Planes
If you’ve been flying for a long time, you know that even the best airplanes involve significant compromise. And designing an aircraft that has all the necessary qualities of a good family transportation platform…well, that’s a tall order. Why? It’s all because of that pesky slice of reality known as physics. In order to build …
The All-Time Most Significant Planes At the EAA Oshkosh Fly-In
The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) fly-in at Oshkosh, for the past many years called AirVenture, is the biggest fly-in in the world and the biggest airshow, as well. It is, if anything, a huge gathering of airplanes and not just pilots—though every plane that arrives in central Wisconsin for the fun has at least one …