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Exploded view of the Learjet 24 training model from the Aircraft Atlas: nose, cabin shell, wings, tip tanks, engine nacelles and T-tail drawn apart, with the systems in colour
Lear 24XR, exploded view. An illustrative training model, not a photograph.

Look up.
Get curious.

Remarkable airplanes, clever engineering, and something new to learn each week.

By Lloyd Clark, pilot, flight instructor, and aircraft owner. Meet Lloyd

Explore the Lear 24XRTake a three-minute challenge

Contents

Everything here runs in your browser. No account, no pilot certificate required.

  1. Inside a vintage Lear 24A Learjet 24 pulled apart assembly by assembly, in interactive 3D.
  2. Cherokee Aircraft AtlasA Piper Cherokee 180, six systems and sixty-four parts you can isolate, follow, and test yourself on.Take a system checkride
  3. Flight LabRead a synthetic flight test the way an engineer does, on NASA's Open MCT.
  4. SR-71 Blackbird LabWhere should the shock wave sit? An inlet you can unstart.
  5. Mission StudioBusiness, backcountry, and leisure flying days, each already worked out.
  6. Flappy LearjetsVintage jets, fast reflexes, one more try. The arcade, at play.lloydpilot.com.
Today's questionOne question a day, from the Sunday Brief collection.Picked by the date; everyone gets the same one.Answer it

The Hangar

One piston single, one pressurized twin, one classic jet. Three different answers to the flying question.

Beechcraft Baron 58P reference photograph
Type photograph.

Beechcraft, pressurized twin

Baron 58P

A beautiful expression of the Beechcraft idea: capability, craftsmanship, and the possibilities of a good airplane.

LearjetLear 24XR

The Sunday Brief

Three minutes. Make a decision, understand the why, then try it with a twist.

RSS

Time Back

Can flying yourself turn a two-day business trip into a day trip? Sometimes. Change the numbers and see where the time really goes.

Count it door to door

3h 45m back in your day

Round trip, flying advantage in this example

Fly yourself5h 15m

Drive9h

Time you could spend with a customer, on another site visit, or back at home.

What this comparison includes

A hypothetical round trip with identical inputs in both directions. Use your own route distance and average airborne groundspeed, accounting for winds and climb and descent. The defaults are not performance claims for any aircraft.

The 90-minute ground allowance is an editable total for each one-way journey: getting to the airport, preflight, taxi, arrival tasks, and transport at the far end. Time at the meeting is excluded from both modes.

This estimates travel time only, not cost, range, aircraft suitability, or whether a flight should go. If the inputs favor driving, the result says so. Every business flight needs a practical backup.

Inside the cockpit

A real Piper panel. Choose an instrument, learn what it tells you, then test your eye.

Piper PA-28 instrument panel. Use the numbered buttons or instrument list to explore.

Piper PA-28 reference cockpit. Equipment varies by aircraft.

Field Notes

Two stories from the aviation files, then three quick calls to make.

Make your call