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Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners Welcome back to AVweb’s “Picture of the Week.”  Several of you wrote to us at Sun ‘n Fun to ask where last week’s pictures were. Not to worry; we were only taking the week off to chase down news at […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners Sun ‘n Fun kicks off in just a few days, and our Official AVweb Toothbrushes are packed. As usual, we’ll be taking tons of photos to bring back home and show our friends and families – and since we’ve got […]

New Marine One Contract On a topic other than general aviation, I was disappointed to hear that the Navy’s presidential helicopter contract went to Lockheed-Martin as opposed to Sikorsky (NewsWire, Jan. 31). The Lockheed product — the US101 — is simply a licensed copy of the European Augusta EH101 helicopter. It will be built by […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners Quick! Grab a cold beverage and your best reading glasses, because this week our “POTW” submitters are battling it out in a game of chance! There were so many outstanding selections this week that we’ve chosen two photos for each […]

This is the eighth and last in a series of excerpts that began with Chapter One. Chapter Sixteen: Circuits Very much on my mind lately has been the fact that I am approaching the point where I may be turned loose at last for a solo flight. The landings have been reasonably well executed; to […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners Hot dog!  It’s time for another installment of AVweb’s “Picture of the Week”! We hope you’ll forgive our enthusiasm, but this week’s batch of submissions are something to get excited about.  (And we promise, there’s not a dead animal to […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners Welcome to another installment of “Picture of the Week,” where we run the most eye-catching aviation photos sent in by our readers.  If there was a theme to be found in this week’s contest entries, it was “spinning props” – […]

The status of airfields and navaids is uncertain in much of the region, and assessment teams are working to determine the status of facilities. Meanwhile, many aircraft are limited to flying VFR and only in daylight, though many have flown despite pounding rains. At the Port Blair airport in India, half of the 12,000-foot runway […]

Cessna Eyes Massive Boys-And-Girls Club Thank you for picking up this story (NewsWire, Dec. 9).Nothing but good can come of this idea: A major corporation spending its monetary and human resources on young people in their formative years. The kids who become part of this endeavor will learn many lessons, but the largest will be […]

Sport Pilot Sport Pilot, though convoluted and confusing, has some meritorious features. A simpler approach would have been to liberalize part 103, the ultralight regulations, particularly as regards the weight limitation of 204 pounds.Robin Nichols FAA Designee GAO Report The GAO report highlights a couple of things (NewsWire, Nov. 18:1. The number of FAA Designees […]