Garmin's G5 electronic flight display has received FAA approval (STC) for 562 Part 23-certified aircraft, allowing it to replace unreliable vacuum-driven and gyroscopic instruments. The 3.5-inch unit ...

With today’s glass cockpits, “partial panel” now probably means reverting to a backup gyro artificial horizon, either electric or vacuum driven. Even some six pack-equipped aircraft (with vacuum ...

SYOSSET, Long Island (WABC) -- The small plane that crashed on Long Island last week broke up mid-air before it crashed to the ground, killing all three on board, the NTSB said in a preliminary report ...

Robin Taviner of Macon, Ga., flies small planes. He loves to listen to the aircraft gyros wind down after a flight. The reassuring sound reminds him of what a great time he just had in the air. We're ...

In most air forces and most airlines, when a pilot nears his landing field he calls the ground, asks for the “Kollsman number.” What he gets is the atmospheric pressure in that area, necessary to ...

A V-2 rocket which rose last week from White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex., reached an altitude of 95 miles. The most important man in the act, at least to innocent bystanders, was Herbert L. Karsch, ...

It could have been the start of a nightmare scenario. Between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. on a rainy night last December, Cpl. Justin McDaniel, an air traffic controller at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point ...