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The Right to Flight I heartily applaud your editorial, “The Right to Flight” (ATIS, Aug. 24). Under Bush, the administration has gone way too far. They are using 9/11 as an excuse to curtail (and possibly eliminate) the freedoms of the average American. Spreading out from the U.S., a sludge-like ripple effect of limitations to […]

Cessna Incident Regarding flying without five feet of wing (NewsWire, Aug. 22) …The picture appears to be that of a P210. Five feet is an exaggeration since it appears from the photo that the aileron is intact and that surface extends to the tip.With extended wingtips incorporating a fuel tank, such as those provided by […]

The Government Accountability Office says countries that have privatized air navigation services have cut costs and their safety records haven’t suffered. The GAO looked at the private systems in Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the United Kingdom to see how they stacked up (no pun intended) and what it found could fuel debate in […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners This week saw a slight dip in submission numbers to our “Picture of the Week” contest – only forty-odd photos arrived – but, thankfully, there were some real keepers in the mix. Take this week’s winning photo, for example: Jay […]

AOPA Expo 2005 is set for Tampa, Fla., Nov. 3-5, online registration is now open… Vickers Vimy had successful test flight after repairs, could depart across the Atlantic this week… A New Zealand court has been told to reconsider its decision to give a pilot his medical back despite three incidents when he fainted… The […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners In mid-May, when “Picture of the Week” submissions were lagging, we put out the call for you to send us your best aviation photos – and you answered with a flood of brand-new pictures that were so exciting, so lively, […]

Glass Cockpits Go Ab Initio In last week’s AVweb (NewsWire, May 23) you quoted MTSU’s Paul Craig as saying, “The new [glass-cockpit] technology solves the two problems that make IFR different from VFR: 1) We can see through clouds, and 2) we can see where we are. With these two problems solved, what is the […]

Australian officials are asking two former pilots of Trans Air to go on record about their alleged safety concerns about the airline in the wake of a crash that killed 15 people on May 7. The Australian Transport Safety Board says the pilots are only willing to give off-the-record statements but those are worthless to […]

Chicago Tribulations It’s too funny that Mayor Daley would lament how his city doesn’t have any jets (NewsWire, May 16). He’s the one who literally kicked both the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard out of his city in the middle 1990s.I guess he doesn’t consider the F-16s in Madison, Wisc., close enough to […]

A Fairchild Metroliner SA227-AC apparently caught fire and exploded while flying at 20,000 feet above New Zealand on Tuesday. The airplane was carrying mail; the two pilots on board died… EAA Southwest Regional Fly-In coming May 12-15 at a new location, Hondo Airport, near San Antonio, Texas… New 757s are no more, but companies are […]