The STOL (short takeoff and landing) demonstration at EAA AirVenture Twilight Flight Fest drew thousands of enthusiastic fans to witness elite backcountry pilots showcase their aircraft's remarkable ...
STOL planes might seem most at home in the wilderness of the frozen north, two-seaters flying in to deliver winter supplies to some tiny village just outside the Arctic Circle. STOL stands for "short ...
The 2022 STOL Invitational—part of the Twilight Flight Fest at EAA AirVenture—featured standing-room-only crowds on the ultralight field, as people began gathering more than an hour in advance to ...
Wild aircraft are the hallmark of AirVenture, the world’s largest get-together for pilots, which starts today in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) airshow last year ...
Read Davin Coburn's flying blog and listen to him discuss his adventure. Listen to Davin Coburn adventure as he describes it on the Popular Mechanics Show (podcast). We're off the ground early, seven ...
Courtesy photo / Ultralight pilot Dean Marcaurelle of Altoona has been flying ultralights for 22 years. Despite the cold, rainy weather, Dean Marcaurelle of Altoona took to the skies Oct. 1, one of ...
If you go What: Gulliver's Wilderness Airpark Fly-In Where: 1222 Red Schoolhouse Road, Palermo When: Sunup to sundown today through Sunday. Cost: Free admission and parking. Food: Available to buy at ...
Russia’s Siberian Research Institute for Aviation (SibNIA) has performed the first test flight of Partizan, its ultra short-takeoff-and-landing (STOL) transport aircraft demonstrator. The aircraft ...
The small airplane falls sideways through the air. Its fabric-covered wings akimbo to the line it's following, like if someone where walking with one hip thrust awkwardly forward. To the uneducated ...