Can’t get airborne with an aviation cocktail? You need a layover. A friend recently mentioned that his favorite cocktail was the aviation, a sweet-and-sour gin and maraschino cocktail he’d had once — ...

There’s a lot to consider, so we gathered advice from Woodward and two aviation experts—Patrick Smith, a pilot and the founder of Ask the Pilot, and William J. McGee, a senior fellow for aviation and ...