What would we do with­out iPad in the cock­pit? I know it has com­pletely changed the way I fly, from flight plan­ning to en route use and de-briefing hav­ing the tablet in my air­plane is next to irre­place­able as a back-up EFB. I have been using an iPad 2 for about two years, Read More

Proof That An Impres­sive Sport Sedan Doesn’t Need To Burn Dead Dino Juice One-hundred years from now, the Smith­son­ian museum at our nation’s cap­i­tal will host a dis­play of history’s most rev­o­lu­tion­ary auto­mo­biles. The col­lec­tion will include the 1866 Dud­geon steam Read More

A gem in Oregon’s vol­canic center The majes­tic, vol­canic Cas­cade Moun­tain range stretches from British Colum­bia south to North­ern Cal­i­for­nia. This spec­tac­u­lar, seven-hundred-mile-long nat­ural won­der runs through cen­tral Ore­gon, encom­pass­ing five national Read More

A Skyraider for the Collings Foundation Dur­ing World War II, the U.S. Navy needed an upgraded air­craft to replace the aging Cur­tiss Hell­diver and Grum­man TBM Avenger.   It had to be carrier-based, single-seat, long-range, high per­for­mance, and most impor­tantly be able to Read More

Dr William Billups and the Gla­sair III   As pilots, we are often quick to cri­tique the air­planes we fly. Maybe we wish at times for a roomier cock­pit on those longer flights. Per­haps we would like to have more use­ful load to work with, or even some­thing as sim­ple a Read More

Proof that you dont need an air­craft to fly!   As kids, many of us dreamed of fly­ing like a bird, soar­ing among the clouds. I think it’s a dream every­body has had at least once in their life. For some, that dream is real, whether we choose to be sup­ported by wings, rotor Read More

Trans­form­ing and Inspir­ing our Nation’s Com­bat Power Part 1: Hum­ble. Approach­able. Credible.  In every elite orga­ni­za­tion, there is the per­son who we all refer to as “that guy” or “that girl.” They are the ones with the answers—even to ques­tions we’ve not y Read More

Pilot­Mag takes a ride with Canada’s Snow­birds The Royal Cana­dian Air Force Snow­birds, a pre­miere flight demon­stra­tion team, show­cases Canada’s mil­i­tary excel­lence at air­shows through­out North Amer­ica.  They per­form about fifty shows from early May to the end of Read More

In tam­ing the mighty P-51, none have done it bet­ter than Lee Lauderback If it is said the best feel­ings are the ones unable to be described with words. I agree with that state­ment, not just because its truth res­onates some­where deep within me, but because I’ve seen Read More

Jet char­ter pilot and Lexus enthu­si­ast Marc Arnold bet Stevin­son Automotive’s Pres­i­dent Kent Stevin­son that his Eclipse 500 busi­ness jet could beat Kent’s Lexus LFA super­car in a head-to-head race. But what began as a bet even­tu­ally grew into an oppor­tu­nity t Read More