The Garmin GFC 500 Digital Autopilot, the Servo-and-Solid-State-Sensor Retrofit That Brought Airline-Grade Envelope Protection to a Nineteen-Seventies Cessna. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
The Magneto's Last Stand, Electronic Ignition, and Why SureFly Wants to Retire a Hundred-Year-Old Box on the Back of Your Engine. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
The X-59 Quesst, NASA and Lockheed's Long-Nosed Demonstrator Built to Turn the Sonic Boom Into a Thump and Overturn a Fifty-Year Ban. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
The Pipistrel Velis Electro, the First Type-Certified Electric Airplane, and What a Fifty-Minute Battery Really Buys a Flight School. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
Lawrence Sperry, the Gyroscopic Autopilot, and the 1914 Paris Demonstration Where He Took His Hands Off the Controls and Stood on the Wing. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
The Shuttle Training Aircraft, the Gulfstream That NASA Turned Into a Flying Glider Simulator to Teach Astronauts How to Dead-Stick a Hundred-Ton Spaceship Onto a Runway. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
Hermeus and the Chimera Engine, the Turbojet That Turns Into a Ramjet in Flight, and the Long Road From Mach Five on a Test Stand to a Passenger Someday. With Vector on Radio Hangar.
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