Cover star of the July issue is the RF5B, Sportavia’s long-wing motor glider development of Fournier’s fabled design. Flying the all-wood RF5B is as green as it gets in piston-engine sport aviation – making full use of lift from thermals or atmospheric ‘waves’ you can soar for hundreds of miles without burning any fuel at all! Where can you learn to fly this, or any other aircraft? Find out in the sixty-page Where to Fly Guide that comes free with this edition of Pilot. If jet-fuelled Top Gun: Maverick action is your thing, we have a Top Gun instructor’s account of the famed air combat school and making the first Top Gun movie    

Cover star of the July issue is the RF5B, Sportavia’s long-wing motor glider development of Fournier’s fabled design. Flying the all-wood RF5B is as green as it gets in piston-engine sport aviation – making full use of lift from thermals or atmospheric ‘waves’ you can soar for hundreds of miles without burning any fuel at all! Wher....