Under FAA oversight, pilot certification follows a carefully sequenced structure designed to minimize risk at every stage of progression. Governed primarily by 14 CFR Part 61, the system requires ...

A positive club path angle means an in-to-out swing. A negative club path means an out-to-in swing. A positive face angle ...

SCHENECTADY — For Anderson Seram, learning to fly was a child’s dream. In real life, there were exams to ace and work to do — there was no pile of money waiting to buy him time in a pilot’s chair. But ...

The author, Tim Lilley, lost his son in a 2025 aviation accident that he attributes to a culture normalizing unsafe acts and failing to address known risks, rather than a single mistake. A critical ...

DAVENPORT -- We were supposed to be flying north. And we were for a bit, but then we were going east and south and west and finally north again.

The Alpha CubeSat team — a student-led group in Cornell’s Space Systems Design Studio that creates spaceflight technology — successfully deployed the world’s first free-flying light sail into Earth’s ...

Florida may soon offer commercial air taxi services to help passengers avoid congested roads. These air taxis are electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL), not personal flying cars.

On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer. After their final and longest flight, ...

The aviation industry is thriving. Passenger numbers have exceeded 2019's pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels, with 9.4 billion people taking to the skies in 2024 and the level expected to rise again in 2025 ...