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Chad Hill has an incredible talent for capturing aviation lore with his artwork. From small beginnings, he has fast gained a strong reputation for the quality of his work (not to mention his generous spirit). And now, having paid his dues over many years of effort, he has earned some remarkable opportunities and experiences... including at Oshkosh this year. We thought our readers might enjoy hearing about some of these adventures, so without further ado...

Jeff Gill tracks down his familial relationship to one of the victims of the Sept. 8, 1942 World War II plane crash in Newark.

The first aircraft autopilots were developed more than a century ago by an American named Lawrence Sperry; he demonstrated the device in France during 1914. It took a further twenty three years, however, before technology had advanced sufficiently to achieve the first automated landing. Following a series of experiments with automatic landing systems the U.S. Army Air Corps achieved this feat on August 23rd, 1937 with a short flight between Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio and nearby Patterson Field. This was a low-budget affair and succeeded only because of the persistence of the few pioneers inv...

The UFO phenomenon can be a strange thing to enter into. It can enlight you. It can amaze you. It can terrorize you. It may,

The checklist is the most important tool in the cockpit providing you know how to use it.