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War Plans Prompt More Restrictions New York Gets ADIZ, More TFRs Added… Well, we knew something was coming and compared to some of the scenarios speculated in the days before President Bush made his Monday-night speech, the flight restrictions imposed on GA are relatively mild. “There were reports that we were going to impose ADIZs […]

Jeppesen Fixing Database Problem Some Airspace Boundary Depictions Flawed… Well, so much for the paperless cockpit. The FAA has issued a NOTAM warning pilots using Jeppesen NavData flight-planning information to use paper charts until the company sorts out a glitch in its database that might misrepresent the boundaries of several types of special-use and controlled […]

Eclipse Picks Pratt And Whitney Canada Engine In Same Family As Mustang’s… As AVweb speculated two months ago, the Eclipse 500 and Cessna Mustang will use derivatives of the same engine. Eclipse Aviation announced Wednesday that Pratt and Whitney Canada (PWC) will build the engines for the five-place 500. The announcement comes three months after […]

Last Day’s Coverage |Live Audio Feed | Day-by-DayCoverage Welcome to AVweb’s exclusive coverage of EAA’s AirVenture Oshkosh 1998, direct from Oshkosh each day of the show. This special OSH ’98 section will be updated EVERY DAY during theevent with special reports, tons of full-color photos, RealAudio feeds of significantspeeches and announcements, and AVweb’s inimitable no-holds-barred […]

An Air New Zealand ATR 72 crew was on its game earlier this month when the left engine caught fire just before landing.

Beta Technologies has announced it plans to develop, certify and produce the CX300, a dedicated electric conventional takeoff and landing (eCTOL) version of its electric-powered Alia-250 vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The company has been flying two test aircraft; one with vertical takeoff capability and one without a working rotor system required for the […]

Air New Zealand is calming passenger fears after conducting a flight with a two-year-old Boeing 787-9 with large patches of speed tape adorning the upper side of the wings. According to the New York Post, Australian opera singer David Wakeham had an overwing window seat on a recent flight, snapped a picture of what he […]

A joint venture between Boeing and electric transportation solutions company Kitty Hawk Corporation aimed at developing Kitty Hawk’s autonomous, all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi, Cora, got a new name on Monday. Now called Wisk Aero, the Mountain View, California-based venture will be led by Gary Gysin, who previously held the position of […]