My friend Mike* is a First Officer at a regional airline here in the U.S. He's graciously agreed to answer some questions exclusively for Flight Club about being a pilot, as well as addressing some of the rumors that we hear as travelers about everything from sex to slowing your plane down on purpose. » 5/14/14 4:16pm 5/14/14 4:16pm

A female pilot took to Facebook after finding a sexist note from a passenger after one of her flights. » 3/04/14 8:30pm 3/04/14 8:30pm

Listen up, fives. Not even two months after NBC ordered thirteen episodes of a new comedy by Tina Fey and writer/producer Robert Carlock, Fox has ordered a pilot for another show she's been shopping around with 30 Rock writer Matt Hubbard. It's supposed to be set at an all-women college that has just accepted its… » 12/24/13 4:00pm 12/24/13 4:00pm

When Dorothy "Dot" Lewis, a former Women's Airforce Service Pilot in World War II, passed away this September, her son wanted to do something special to honor her and the other 1,073 WASPs. What better way to honor such an important but largely forgotten aspect of the US Military than with the US's most historic… » 11/07/13 1:30pm 11/07/13 1:30pm

Tomorrow is International Women's Day and Air France is doing it up with an all-female crew on a flight from Paris to Washington. So basically, they were able to get two female pilots on the same flight? It's kinda sad that this is a thing, but cool that they're recognizing the day, I guess? » 3/07/13 11:30pm 3/07/13 11:30pm

We were lucky enough to get our hands on a copy of the Playboy TV series pilot script. We already knew it was about the glory days of the Chicago-based bunny-empire. But things about it were...surprising. » 4/08/11 12:30pm 4/08/11 12:30pm

Rage against the new TSA requirements has tended to erase, or caricature, one very key constituency: air-travel employees. That includes mostly female flight attendants, who, unlike pilots, haven't been exempted from enhanced patdown procedures, as well as reluctant TSA employees. » 11/23/10 10:06am 11/23/10 10:06am

The FAA has asked Bombshells, a strip club in Dallas, to turn off its new spinning rooftop beacon. A Southwest pilot complained that it flooded his cockpit with light as he was trying to land at Love Field Airport. » 9/07/10 2:35pm 9/07/10 2:35pm

Diablo Cody has reportedly sold a comedy pilot to Fox titled "The Breadwinner." Details are being kept under wraps, but we're willing to bet homeslice will find a way to insert at least one ironic food-shaped telephone, honest to blog. » 8/04/10 2:21pm 8/04/10 2:21pm

• Today a group of archeologists, divers, and volunteers began the search for Gertrude Tompkins Silver, who served as a fighter pilot during WWII and has been missing since 1944. She is the only WASP still unaccounted for. • » 10/13/09 5:40pm 10/13/09 5:40pm

15-year-old Kimberly Anyadike became the youngest African-American female pilot to ever fly across the United States, finishing a 13 day flight with the help of her safety pilot, 87 year old Tuskegee Airman, Levi Thornhill. » 7/12/09 6:20pm 7/12/09 6:20pm

With time running out, Women Airforce Service Pilots, ace pilots and swell dames, may finally get their due. » 5/26/09 1:00pm 5/26/09 1:00pm

[Aix-en-Provence, France; May 11. Image via Getty] » 5/11/09 4:10pm 5/11/09 4:10pm