Juanita Burns – Lofty Ambitions By 1930, more women than ever before were taking to the skies as serious pilots. They were proving that...

Today female aviators play a large role, ranging from local helicopter pilots reporting the news to astronauts conquering the realm of...

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Embry_Riddle hosts the 1929 derby women pilots! LEAVE A COMMENT / OCTOBER 5, 2021 Just recently, Kim Sheeter reflected on the First...

Tammie Jo Shults – San Diego Air & Space Inductee LEAVE A COMMENT / AUGUST 28, 2021 Tammie Jo Shults is a true role model and trailblazer...

In the aviation realm of today, radar and its associated technologies have become a common tool of safety and navigation. However, the...

Drones have become the workhorses of the sky, performing a number of functions previously left to aircraft or manual devices. Perhaps...

In November 1950, as United Nations fighter aircraft were conducting missions against North Korean ground targets, they came across a...

During ancient times, cities were built along waterways, such as rivers and oceans, for purposes of transportation, as well as sustaining...

Aviation trailblazers have dreamed about the possibility of electric flight for decades. Long before the Wright Brothers, innovators...

During the mid 1930's, the Royal Air Force became interested in the concept of a fast bomber, one which would carry a minimum of armament...

Russia has produced a number of noteworthy civil aircraft over the past seventy years, ranging from the reliable AN-2 to the current...

With so many rc aircraft on the market in both type and number, the beginning rc hobbyist is often overwhelmed by the number of decisions...

January 24 is a landmark day at Fly By Wire Air. For on this date ten years ago, we began our mission of making aviation accessible to...

As is sometimes the case in aviation, an aircraft begins its career playing one role, only to follow it by serving in an entirely...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, ocean liners were becoming both larger and more capable, with the newest types of each...

While servos have been in use as far back as the steam age, their impact on rc models has been a recent one. During this blog, we'll...

While the concept of pusher designed planes is older than aviation, it wasn't applied to actual aircraft until 1908, when propellers...

In the early 1990's Boeing was faced with a dilemma. While its existing fleet of twin-engine 737 jetliners had a successful service life...

In June 2016, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) first established the requirement for commercial drone pilots to obtain a remote...