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American and United Airlines have agreed to cut five percent of flights (that’s 62 flights) between 1 p.m. and 8p.m. in and out of O’Hare. The Department of Transportation hopes the reduction will cut down on flight delays. Delays at O’Hare ripple through the rest of the system causing problems at other airports. O’Hare’s stated […]

A British newspaper says FBI fears that an al-Qaida operative may be working as a pilot for a British airline are behind flight cancellations last week. The Daily Mirror says American investigators will screen all British pilots flying to the U.S. to try and root out the suspected mole. The paper quotes unnamed sources as […]

When New Zealand pilot Kelvin Stark, 58, found himself alone above the Pacific Ocean last week, with fuel-flow problems in the new PAC 750XL single-engine skydiving plane he was ferrying to California, other pilots tried to help, the New Zealand Herald reported Monday. In the dark, overcast night, Stark reached out on 121.5 and found […]

Note: Click on the links to read extended AVweb reports of each subject. For GA Airplane Builders, A Year Of Ups And Downs While some GA manufacturers had a good year — Cirrus Design, for one, kept setting new sales records — others found the going a bit rocky. In January, Commander Aircraft Co. filed […]

New Zealand has entered the increasingly crowded utility aircraft sector with a low-wing turboprop aimed initially at the skydiving market. Pacific Aerospace Corporation expects to have FAA certification early next year for the PAC 750 XL. It’s the first passenger aircraft ever designed and built in New Zealand and the company claims to have 18 […]

Naples Airport Regarding an effort to close the Naples Airport and force all users to outlying fields, AVweb wrote (Newswire, Dec. 8): “It means they get in their limousines and have one more martini,” [city council candidate William Willkomm III] said. This is yet another example of the kind of ignorance that endangers all our […]

“Locals” Won’t Supply Fuel… It looks like a famous Australian aerial adventurer who flew his RV-4 to Antarctica will be taking a Hercules home — and leaving his aircraft behind (after disassembly) until (perhaps) February. Jon Johanson, who in 2000 flew his Vans homebuilt aircraft from Australia to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh and back again, was […]

The Kitty Hawk Air Show is set for Dec. 17 and attendees will get a poignant reminder of just how far we’ve come in 100 years. Some of the best air show performers in the business will take to the air over the hallowed ground around Kill Devil Hills. Patty Wagstaff, the Aeroshell Aerobatic Team, […]

*** PREVIOUS RESULTS *** We received over 100 pictures last week. Congratulations to this week’s winner, Bruce Cooke, of Cambridge, New Zealand. His picture titled “Recreational RV” captures a RV4 as it prepares to taxi at the Waihi Beach airstrip in beautiful New Zealand. Bruce tells us this photo was taken during a NZ Sport […]

Carol Ann Garratt is back home in Florida, wiser and poorer, after a 41,000-mile flight around the world in her Mooney M20. Garratt took off from Kissimmee in early February with two goals in mind: to raise money for research into Lou Gehrig’s Disease (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS) and to fly her father to […]