Kathleen Bangs

Kathleen is an aerospace journalist and former commercial airline pilot. She has written flying stories for Aviation Week, Business & Commercial Aviation, Plane & Pilot, FOX News, and is an overall International Aerospace Journalist of the Year Award recipient, and on-air aviation analyst.

Interview July 13, 2020 July 7, 2020

Arnold Palmer Talks Flying: A Baker’s Dozen with the Legendary Golfer

From logging nearly 20,000 flight hours to setting a round-the-world speed record, Arnie loved flying. This interview is from a recorded discussion I was lucky enough to have with the King himself in 2002, where he shared some recollections as a pilot.

Technique February 4, 2020 February 4, 2020

No stall, no spin: why angle of attack is essential

Pilots often only associate stalls with the slow airspeed regime of the energy envelope. That’s why it can be misleading when instructors caution students to, “watch your speed or you’ll stall” because an airplane can be stalled at any airspeed, in any attitude.