Plane & Pilot

Plane & Pilot is edited for today's active piston-engine pilot. Each issue is packed with pilot reports, tips to help you fly better, and the information you need to get the most from your flying dollar.

Plane & Pilot • planeandpilotmag.com

Flying In The Grand Scheme • What we do matters so much, just not in the way most people think it does.

Aviation Gatherings

The Curious Case Of Pan Am Flight 914 • The airliner took off from New York City in 1955 and landed in Venezuela in 1985, or was it 1992?

Real Aviation Records • And the actual winner is… We reconsider some of aviation's most famous feats.

News Of Note

New Diesel Model From Tecnam • The P2010 TDI will add a 170-hp diesel engine to an already-impressive package.

Bearhawk 5 Takes Flight • Stretched design allows up to six seats—or room for the proverbial kitchen sink.

CROSS CHECK • YOUR AVIATION CROSSWORD

ACCIDENT BRIEFS

GEAR

That Year Our Plane Was The Only One That Made It To OSH • Well, to be honest, there was one other plane in the pattern on the day before the world’s biggest fly-in started. Here’s how that happened.

THE GLORY OF OSHKOSH AIRVENTURE IN PHOTOS • With the 2020 edition called off, here’s to AirVenture 2021, with photos of the amazing planes and people and unbridled joy they bring, all of which will be back, because that’s what we do.

OSHKOSH LIVES • A 30-year-long end-to-end walking tour of the greatest airshow on earth.

Wooden Airplanes You Can Buy… Or Build • And a few you’ll only be able to dream about.

THE HOMEBUILT ADVANTAGES AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS • Experimental amateur-built aircraft offer a lot to both builders and buyers. But you need to understand what tradeoffs the design embraces and what that means to you.

TRADE OFFS

Mysteries Surround Bonanza Found Eight Months After It Went Missing • Twenty-five years after the NTSB published its final report on the crash, questions remain.

Welcome To East Africa • What was I doing in Djibouti?

Teenage Oshkosh • Far from home, but far from alone.

Anderson-Greenwood AG-14 • An experimental approach to creating a great personal flyer, this pusher never got any traction.