Flying Magazine

JUNE 19, 2025

One of NICHOLAS AIR’s Gulstream jets sits on the tarmac. I would dry lease the airplane out while I was in high school in Charlotte, North Carolina, to this healthcare company. Courtesy: NICHOLAS AIR] At 12, Correnti’s mother suggested that it was time to put down the video games and start thinking about his future.

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Professional Pilot

JULY 7, 2025

“Every staff member, from leadership to the front line, shares in the mission of making sure that each guest feels important, whether they fly in on a jet or piston-powered airplane,” he says. Anyone who has ever stepped on a military tarmac can’t help but smile when seeing the Base Operations sign. GlobalSelect SGR.

Fixed Base Operator

Air Facts

JULY 4, 2025

A man in a Nomex flight suit and brown leather flight jacket stood on the tarmac as I taxied in. During the most enjoyable three days I’ve ever spent in an airplane, Kershner immersed me in the art and science of aerobatics. Bill passed away sixteen years later, in 2007, having taught more than 500 pilots how to spin an airplane.

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One Mile at a Time

JULY 9, 2025

Along those lines, I tend to think that music and sounds can create lasting memories that we associate with our travel experiences, whether it’s soothing airplane boarding music , or memorable airport jingles. I probably notice the little details of the flying experience more than the average person.

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Simple Flying

OCTOBER 12, 2024

With no passenger traffic at TEV, it serves as an aircraft maintenance and storage site for the TARMAC Aerosave, with a capacity of over 140 airplanes. Certified by the Spanish Aviation Safety and Security Agency (AESA) in February 2013, the airport was converted from a military base.

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Simple Flying

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

There have been several incidents of airplanes colliding with objects on the ground or clipping wings with another aircraft, and one such incident recently took place at Boston Airport. Sticking to operational procedures is critical for flight safety, not just in the air but also while navigating aircraft on the ground.

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Simple Flying

APRIL 14, 2025

Tricky weather, flight diversion, and a regional airport with no Customs and Border Protection staffing all resulted in hundreds of passengers spending an uncomfortable night inside airplanes in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Cranky Flier

JULY 9, 2024

The difference here is that instead of putting 30 seats on the airplane the way JSX does — which is the maximum allowed under Part 380/135 rules — Aero has a mere 16 seats onboard in a 1-1 configuration. That’s what allows it to have more than 9 seats on the airplane. This is a luxury experience from start to finish.

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Ask the Pilot

MAY 28, 2024

I was in seventh grade, and a diehard airplane buff. In the photo below you can see my mother (in pink), my sister (yellow), and my grandmother (gray), climbing the airstairs on the Bermuda tarmac. May 27, 2024 IT WAS THE FRIDAY of Memorial Day weekend, 1979. It was a friend from school. He told me to turn on the television.

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Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The arrival is scheduled for 10:30 am on the Museum tarmac, with sightings throughout the Museum galleries until 3 pm. The Museum’s collection includes more than 160 historically significant airplanes and spacecraft, from the first fighter plane (1914) to today’s 787 Dreamliner. Photo courtesy of The Museum of Flight.

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Airline Reporter

MAY 3, 2023

As it started to get dark a 777 was moved across the tarmac. I not only love the fact that I always see an array of liveries here that I might never see out in the world, but also the fact that there are different airplanes there every time I go!

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ABEAM

JULY 5, 2024

In the meanwhile we were slowly but surely cooking on the 39° hot tarmac while we did not want to drink too much as that might lead to having to find toilet solutions in the next leg of the flights … Two nice fuel guys offered us fresh cold water and we nevertheless took it.

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Ask the Pilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

This tucked-away alcove, right at the end, is a sunny, quiet spot out of range of the loudspeakers, with great views of the tarmac and the skyline beyond. In the 1970s he hand-painted two airplanes for Braniff Airways, including a Boeing 727 for the Bicentennial. It’s a perfect little spot. Except, there’s nowhere to sit.

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Pilot's Life Blog

MAY 6, 2025

That includes decision-making, weather analysis, risk management, and how to use every tool in the cockpit to stay ahead of the airplane. Weve had nervous flyers walk off the tarmac smiling, surprised by how smooth and calm the flight really was. At Leopard Aviation, we dont just teach students how to flywe teach them how to fly smart.

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Fear of Landing

MAY 31, 2024

As I approached the clear wall, I could see the tarmac dotted with scattered planes. She had used my three airplane photographs against her real-time map of the airport and was easily able to triangulate my position. Across the apron, a white light flashed on the roof of the control tower with emergency stairs snaking down the side.

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Aerotime

MAY 16, 2024

When I was hired to be the commander and pilot in the summer of last year, I had made it known that I hoped to find a way to get our airplane painted in the prototype scheme to take America back to the beginning of the story that started 50 years ago,” said Captain Taylor ‘FEMA’ Hiester, F-16 Viper Demonstration Team commander and pilot.

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Aerotime

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

WorldNews #BreakingNews | Video taken by a passenger on board United Airlines flight 1382 in Houston shows a fire under the plane's wing and passengers standing on tarmac following their evacuation. At the time of writing, the airplane remains on the ground in Houston awaiting inspection and repair.

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Aerotime

JANUARY 28, 2025

In August 2024, two Delta Airlines engineers were killed after a tire that they were changing on an airplane exploded. In 2019 also at Charlotte Airport, an American Airlines employee died while working at the airport when the tug he was driving hit luggage on the tarmac and overturned.

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Ask the Pilot

AUGUST 5, 2024

Imagine what it’s like slinging suitcases out on the tarmac when the mercury hits triple digits. With all that nonreflective asphalt and open space, airports become “heat islands,” subjecting people and equipment to sometimes unbearable conditions.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 1, 2024

Rapidly and efficiently, Hoover started the airplane and prepped for departure, briefly explaining some of its systems for the benefit of us earthbound neophytes. Hoover then pulled the aircraft up into a sharp climb that culminated in a zero-G stall maneuver, making the airplane and its wide-eyed passengers weightless for a brief moment.

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Cranky Flier

MAY 15, 2025

So if you’re flying on American on this airplane, take row 1. I’m told that seat still exists as planned as do the amenities, but it is also not being sold at a premium today. But in the future, I have to assume the airline will try to get some extra money for this.

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