I've mentioned a couple of times lately that an airplane with a control-lable-pitch propeller will glide farther with the propeller in coarse pitch than in fine pitch. These terms coarse and fine aren ...

It's fairly common knowledge that when a supersonic aircraft approaches the sound barrier, what follows is the sonic boom. This transitory period between subsonic and supersonic, known as transonic ...

There’s something to be said for simplicity when teaching people to fly or merely checking out in a new aircraft. Simplicity was Cirrus’ motivation behind this month’s feature, the combined throttle ...

Curator Jeremy Kinney explores the contribution of Royal Air Force leader Desmond Cooke to the improvement of Supermarine Spitfires prior to the Battle of Britain. Jeremy Kinney 65 Squadron received ...