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Submit a Photo | Rules | Tips | Questions | Past POTW Winners “Stiff competition” is the order of the day in our latest installment of “Picture of the Week.”  Not only do the number of contributions continue to rise as we enter fall here in the U.S., but the quality of photos seems to […]

The tax dollars that fund the U.S. Air Force and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) are not for nothing … the brains there are hard at work finding ways to deflect threats most of us didn’t even know existed. The trouble is, according to some New Zealand researchers, their fix might cause problems of […]

At the Tuesday forum, AOPA President Phil Boyer said his group, which represents more than 400,000 pilots, will be lending its considerable political clout to the effort, even though he’s been told it’s not his fight. He said that at debate between himself and Airline Transport Association President Jim May. May said piston-powered aircraft would […]

A New Zealand company says its decision to create a purpose-built two-place training aircraft is paying off. Alpha Aviation recently sold 12 aerobatics-friendly Alpha 160A aircraft and took options for 14 more from CTC Aviation, one of Britain’s largest flight training companies. It beat Cessna, Diamond and Piper offers for the deal. The 160A is […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions | Past POTW Winners If you love gawking at flying machines as much as we do, you’ve come to the right place – AVweb’s “Picture of the Week”! Every Thursday, we select and publish the top photos from dozenssubmitted by our loyal AVweb readers. It’s a tough […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips |Questions| Past POTW Winners Wha – co-winners?! That’sright! For the first time (that we can recall), we’ve got a tiefor first place here at “Picture of the Week”! Here’s whathappened: We got two terrific photos from this year’s Warbirdsover Wanaka, an annual air show at Lake Wanaka, New Zealand. […]

It was the perfect crime, right up until someone found, high and dry, the airplane that Howard Jamison claimed was under water somewhere off the coast of New Zealand. As AVweb told you in February, the Ashburton skydive operator was charged after the plane was found. Last week Jamison admitted to concocting an elaborate scheme […]

Nine New Zealand rugby fans were en route to an international tournament in Wellington, flying in a 60-year-old vintage warbird — a former Air Force de Havilland Devon — when something went awry. Passenger Dave McGall told the New Zealand Herald the aircraft was about 200 feet off the ground, headed for the runway at […]

A South Carolina teen claims to be the youngest dual-rated pilot in the U.S. According to his local newspaper, The Southern Pines Pilot, Zealand Shouse got a private airplane certificate on Dec. 10 to go along with his lighter-than-air ticket. His father, a former airport manager, is also a CFI and provided most of Zealand’s […]

An Alaska Airlines MD-80 landed safely Monday afternoon at Seattle-Tacoma Airport after a foot-long gash opened up in the fuselage at 26,000 feet. A ramp vehicle had dented the airplane just before takeoff… New Jersey has seen 44 aviation accidents so far this year, double the number in 2004. Thirteen people died, the Star-Ledger reported […]