BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Mike "Cuckoo" Kloch is a retired Marine Corps fighter pilot who is co-owner and CEO of Specialized Aero Works, located at the Bend Airport. SAW provides specialty flight training ...

New program equips student pilots with advanced aerobatic skills, hands-on upset recovery training and a pathway to competitive flying that prepares them for high-level aviation careers Thrust Flight, ...

I decided to take a series of a few aerobatics lessons. I just wanted to scratch the itch and be done with it. But the guy I was training with was into aerobatics competitions and he kind of twisted ...

If you told me at the beginning of this summer that my internship at the Ledger-Enquirer would involve doing nosedives and loop-the-loops in a 55-year-old airplane, I would have laughed. But that’s ...

I’ve hated flying for as long as I can remember. And then, last month, I pulled some serious Gs in an Extra 300L stunt plane with Red Bull aerobatic pilot Kevin Coleman. Earlier this year, Red Bull ...

Coushatta native Kevin Coleman was flying airplanes before he earned his driver's license. "I tell people all the time, I only ever had a Plan A, there was never a Plan B," said Coleman. "I had one ...

As a child in Colorado Springs, Colorado, aerobatic stunt pilot Jessy Panzer hated amusement park rides — and was terrified of flying on an airplane, let alone piloting one. Panzer is the lone female ...