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Aviation Consumer editor-in-chief Larry Anglisano gets vital tips from Dr. Keith Roxo. View in Browser Are You Ready for Your Next Medical? By Plane & Pilot More and more pilots show up on the AME's doorstep armed with the wrong or not enough paperwork to pass an FAA medical exam. That could be mean waiting a half year or more for the FAA to issue a medical when you could have been issued a certificate on the spot if you only had the right paperwork in place to support an otherwise approved medical condition. Read More   Avoiding and Surviving Bird Strikes By Meg Godlewski Ahead of us some 1,000 feet down the runway there was a bald eagle standing on the centerline, scarfing down the carcass of what looked like a large white rabbit. We brought the aircraft to a stop as the bird stopped its feeding frenzy and hopped toward us, spreading its wings and obviously saying, "Come at me, bro!" in eagle.   Read More Bargain Buys on AircraftForSale: 1962 C...

The expo in Lakeland, Florida, celebrated its 50th annual event this year. View in Browser Aviation's Spring Break: It's Sun 'n Fun to the Rescue By LeRoy Cook When you've had enough of winter, the aerospace expo arrives just in time. Read More   Junkers Aircraft Unveils A50 Heritage Model By Amy Wilder The aircraft revealed at Sun 'n Fun Aerospace Expo features a Scarlett 7U radial engine and two-piece glass windscreen. Read More Textron Revives T182, Announces Upgrades By Plane & Pilot The  T182 —like the 172, 206 and T206— has received interior facelifts, Textron announced at Sun 'n Fun Aerospace Expo. Read More Bargain Buys on AircraftForSale: 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza By Plane & Pilot Today's bargain provides timeless style and legitimate cross-country capability in a package that would be welcome at any vintage aircraft fly-in. Introduced in 1947, the Bonanza reshaped general aviation, and the example featured he...

A retired airline pilot weighs in on the latest headset offering from Bose at Sun 'n Fun. View in Browser Bose A30 Headsets Showing Strong One Year Later By Les Abend The A20 is set to cease production in less than a year. More and more professional cockpits are ditching the molded earpiece and boom mic for a ProFlight, but the model generates fewer sales because of its defined market. Read More   Open-Cockpit Chills By Jim Furlong Pilots have a saying about engines: "Over water or mountains, they go into automatic rough." This seemed true for what felt like an eternity. Read More The Country Pilot By James Wynbrandt  Buergel, a native of Germany, emigrated to the United States with his family as a teen in the mid-1950s, settling on Long Island where his father worked at Grumman, building airplanes. Already infatuated with aviation, following high school, he joined the army, learning helicopter maintenance and earning his pilot's license at the bas...

The Junkers A50 features a Scarlett 7U radial engine and two-piece glass windscreen. View in Browser Junkers Aircraft Unveils A50 Heritage Model By Amy Wilder  The aircraft revealed at Sun 'n Fun Aerospace Expo features a Scarlett 7U radial engine and two-piece glass windscreen. Read More   Textron Revives T182, Announces Upgrades By Plane & Pilot The T182 —like the 172, 206 and T206— has received interior facelifts, Textron announced at Sun 'n Fun Aerospace Expo. Read More Bargain Buys on AircraftForSale: 1986 Stolp SA-100 Starduster By Plane & Pilot Today's bargain is one of the least-expensive aircraft available for purchase and promises a unique, high-performance, open-cockpit flying experience for less than the price of many new Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Read More The History Of The Civilian Pilot Training Program By Cassie Peterson While most people have heard of the remarkable exploits and sacrifices of World War II pilots, in...