The principals for improving gas mileage in an aircraft are optimizing engine operation, minimizing weight, reducing aerodynamic drag, and improving operation parameters.
Opinion
One Pilot’s View: The perfect combination
Flying Is the perfect combination of everything I love: Freedom, this great state and nation, technology, beauty, photography, practical and speedy travel, and socializing.
Life really is all about perspective
The gift of flight, the willingness to confront a challenge and overcome it, is far more important than simply achieving the altitude to have a better view.
Questions from the Cockpit: When you’re hot, you’re hot
There are 635 Hot Spots at airports across the United States right now.
Trouble in paradise
Because the civil and military operations at Dillingham co-exist so well, the Army would very much like to continue to allow civilian access to the field.
One Pilot’s View: On the shoulders of giants
One reason American pilots are the freest in the world today is because the generations of pilots that came before us would have it no other way.
The wind will blow
“Probably” should never have a place in your flight planning process.
A measure we can all get behind
The bottom line is that the National Center for the Advancement of Aviation will fill a pressing need that current efforts simply can’t.
Bomber escort failed, but chin turret scored
Gunship versions of the B-17 were seen as one answer to the scourge of German fighter attacks.