Features Archive

Touchscreen simplicity comes to the King Air flight deck with the addition of the Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion avionics system. Among its features are intuitive graphical flight planning, high-res synthetic vision, a multi-sensor flight management system, and integrated touchscreen checklists. Textron Photo

A touch of glass

By Robert Erdos

RCAF’s fighter pilot training process is the longest and most challenging of all of its pilot training programs

Fighter jet journey

By Chris Thatcher

Richard Verrall pilots MJ627 in the skies over Kent. As a single-seat Mk IX, this machine claimed a 109G destroyed over Arnhem in Sept 1944.

Canadian Spitfires

By LCol Robert “Cricket” Renner, USAF (Retired)

Helicopter rests on helipad

H1 heliport headache

By Oliver Johnson

Nicknamed "ferry boats of the sky," airships have huge potential in the Canadian North, where they could regularly deliver passengers, supplies and services to isolated areas. The LHM-1 can operate from unimproved landing zones, on ice, or on water. Images courtesy of Lockheed Martin

No roads? No problem!

By Howard Slutsken

Flying Learjet aircraft in the cloudy sky

Icon Refined

By Robert Erdos

CH-146 Griffons returns from a gunnery mission

TAC HEL in California

By Skip Robinson

RCAF fighter pilot

Meet the Moosemen

By Chris Thatcher

Citation Latitude, in flight

Stand-up performer

By Robert Erdos

Glenn Stansfield, president and CEO of Fleet Canada

Building on the legacy

By Lisa Gordon

Boeing 737

ULCCs continue to wrestle with launch issues

By Brent Jang

MCpl Curtis Plestid completes checking

Roadies of the sky

By Steve Bigg

Cessna Citation Longitude

Missions and machines

By Michel Hell

On the leading edge

By Elan Head

Beyond our borders

By Skies Magazine

Day in the Life of the RCAF: CC-130H Hercules