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Submit a Photo | Rules | Tips | Questions | Past POTW Winners If you enjoy this week’s gawking at this week’s “POTW” winners half as much as we did, then you’re in for a treat!  Despite a dip in submission numbers, this week’s entries were top-notch.  (Just goes to show that quality and quantity […]

Lockheed FSS Needs Help! Re: the article in the June 29 AVweb, “Lockheed wants your feedback” …I’ve been trying to register/logon for several days without success. “Registration is never activated, no email confirmation sent, etc.”I’ve noticed a significant decline in FSS service since Lockheed took over. In almost 50 years of flying I can count […]

Two F-16s, one from Greece and one from Turkey, collided in midair above the Aegean Sea on Tuesday. The Turkish pilot was rescued, but the Greek pilot has not been found… The FAA says controllers would be out $700 million if they retire early, as NATCA has warned they will if the FAA’s offer is […]

While Raytheon would love to sell you a re-engined King Air 90, they’re just as happy selling single-engine trainers to the military. Earlier this month, the company announced it had begun producing the 300th copy of the T-6A Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) aircraft, which both the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy use […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners Submissions to our “Picture of the Week” contest continue to trickle in at a reduced rate.  For the second week in a row, we received only a few dozen entries – not uncommon for this time of year.  Fortunately, we […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners AVweb readers were cooking with gas this week – contributing just over 100 photos to our “Picture of the Week” contest.  Those are pretty high numbers for the slow period between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  More amazing still, almost half of […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners Submissions are picking up again after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday – that time of the year when a major portion of our North American readership dozes into a four-day turkey-digesting slumber.  As the numbers rise, quality holds steady – giving […]

Flight attendants trying to save a Cypriot airliner with an unconscious crew on board were locked out of the cockpit — by the plane — until it was too late to do anything, according to the Greek assessment of a computer simulation of the flight. More than 100 people died when the Helios Airways Boeing […]

With six crashes in the last six weeks killing close to 500 people, the loss of life in airliners worldwide this year already is greater than it was for all of 2004 (which was the safest in recent record). But of those six accidents, only one — the Air France Airbus A340 that skidded off […]

The co-pilot’s diary has been found in the wreckage of the Helios Boeing 737-300 that crashed in Greece two weeks ago, and it’s expected to document problems with the aircraft and the airline. “[My father] once told me that if any of it ever got out the company would close,” the co-pilot’s son, Yiannis Charalambous, […]