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I've been collecting and scanning expired sectionals for a while and mapping all of them on archive.aero. But I can't find many from the 1970s through the 2000s. Library of Congress luckily digitized the really old ones, and everything after about 2010 exists digitally direct from the FAA. So...

Interesting historical assessment of the 2019 "Midway" film: Things In Midway You Won't Believe Were True Excerpt: If there's one thing that can be said for people today, it's that they're used to seeing big-screen productions that tell the story of real events and people ... but take more...

Long story short, I've been checking airspace for solar sites by hand for the last couple hours for work and I started thinking - why does Class E start at 1200' AGL and 700' AGL? I know why it is shaped the way it is, why it drops down lower in certain areas, etc. But I never stopped to think...

I thought this was interesting. In his book, At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, Dwight Eisenhower wrote this summary of his piloting experience, in the chapter on his time with MacArthur: In the beginning of 1936, we fixed up a field outside the city limits, selected a few students, and...