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Oshkosh 2000 Newswire:
Day Six – Sunday, July 30

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Air Shows & Events

Oshkosh 2000 Newswire:
Day Three – Thursday, July 27

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Air Shows & Events

GAP Engine Update

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Air Shows & Events

Oshkosh 2000 Newswire:
Day Two – Wednesday, July 26

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Equipment Reviews

The Last Garmin GPSMAP 295 Review You’ll Ever Read

The title of this article is a thinly veiled attempt at humor about the timing of this review. It has been a year since Garmin first showed its long-anticipated color portable in July 1999 at EAA AirVenture, and since then I’ve lost track of how many emails I’ve received asking when I was going to […]

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AVweb Classics

Pelican’s Perch #31: Those Fire-Breathing Turbos (Part 1)

This column is a continuation of previous columns about manifold pressure(MP), props, mixtures, and engine management techniques. They are listed here for your reference. Reviewing them might be a good thing to do before venturing further into this one! PP #15: Manifold Pressure Sucks! PP #16: Those Marvelous Props PP #18: Mixture Magic PP #19: […]

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Eye of Experience

Eye of Experience #29:
Sight, Sound, and Feel

Wepreviously discussed the subject of flying by “sight picture” asopposed to “flying by the numbers.” Now we will undertake to considerall the sensory cues that a pilot uses in manipulating the controls of anairplane and making the machine do what he or she wants it to do (or, at leastkeeping it from doing that which […]

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Drinking from a Fire Hose: ATOP at the UAL Training Center

It’s a cold November Friday evening. I amstanding in the baggage area after deplaning a Boeing 737 at Denver’s InternationalAirport. Could it be that I can actually learn the basics of flying Boeing’s most prolificjet in just two days? I am asking myself why I had abandoned my wife, pregnant with our soon to arrive […]

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Commentary

Be Careful What You Wish For

I arrived at the United Airlines gates at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) an hour before my flight’s scheduled departure to San Francisco International Airport (SFO) only to find that it had been canceled. I sighed. “Not again!” I thought. At the departure gate, I waited my turn at the check-in counter while other passengers […]

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Commentary

The Envelope, Please

First, a Bit of Explanation This article has its roots in AVweb‘s news coverage of the last decade’s seemingly innumerable and interminable attempts to circumnavigate the globe in balloons, err, lighter-than-air craft. After watching countless attempts come a-cropper at various stages, AVweb‘s staff grew tired of all the attention being paid to the attempts. Our […]

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