The Van’s RV-6 of round-the-world pilot Manuel Queiroz is the first homebuilt aircraft in the UK to be approved for IFR flight fitted with a … Read more
News
Take Flight excluded as Wellesbourne Airfield is saved (maybe)
The future of Wellesbourne Airfield is a little less precarious this week after the landlords, Littler Investments Limited, wrote to nearly all the tenant businesses … Read more
And the taildragger scholarship goes to… John Hardie
The highly popular Vintage Aircraft Club ‘Liz Inwood Taildragger Scholarship’ for 2019 has been awarded to John Hardie, a 30-year-old pilot currently flying a Cessna … Read more
Matt Hall wins final Red Bull championship
Australia’s Matt Hall is the 2019 – and last – Red Bull Air Race World Champion. Hall came third in the final Red Bull air … Read more
Ivan Shaw reveals new personal Seeker
Famed British aircraft designer Ivan Shaw revealed his latest aircraft at the weekend’s LAA Rally – the ISA (Ivan Shaw Aircraft) 180 Seeker. Shaw, designer … Read more
Reviews
Garmin Flight Stream 510$1,495
No matter how you slice it, spending just over one aviation unit (current exchange rate: 1 aviation unit = £1,000) for what looks like an … Read more
Mike Busch on Airplane Ownership£23.69 in paperback or £15.81 for the Kindle edition
I remember hearing about a question asked by a hugely keen but non-aeroplane-owning pilot. Said pilot asked how much it would cost to get into … Read more
Four carbon monoxide digital monitors testedFrom £24-130
Right, it’s time for a quick flashback to the human performance section of your PPL exams. Remember learning about how firewall-forward exhaust leaks can enter … Read more
Garmin updates Pilot app – better for Europe
When compared to flying the USA, flying VFR in the UK brings a number of details that are uniquely British in nature, or if not … Read more
Garmin GFC 500 Digital AutopilotFrom $6,995
A few years ago I was stupid enough to go to one of those business networking breakfasts. Over stale croissants, and between pitches from executive … Read more
Gallery
LoPresti Fury
The LoPresti Fury is one sweet-handling, fast, aerobatic tourer. It’s also drop-dead gorgeous. When it was unveiled in the late-eighties, hundreds of people wanted to … Read more
Beech Bonanza
The longest continuously produced aircraft in history, the Beechcraft Bonanza, with its V-tail, was a GA revelation when it first appeared in 1946, and it … Read more
Grumman Widgeon
When Grumman originally built the Widgeon seaplane, it was powered by six-cylinder in-line Ranger engines. But many of the 276 produced, like this one, owned … Read more
Turbine Maule M-7-420AC
When Maule Aircraft added a 420shp Allison turbine to their M7 taildragger, they created an awesome piece of General Aviation kit. Expect a rate of … Read more