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Pax Need Training, Mineta Says DOT Secretary Norm Mineta offered a glimpse last week into what the FAA will be looking for in safety guidelines for commercial space tourism. Speaking at the annual Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Mineta said that passengers who want to travel into space should get a […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners AVweb hopes you all enjoyed the Super Bowl – or whatever it was you were doing this week instead of submitting photos to our weekly “Picture of the Week” contest! Sigh.  We guess it was inevitable we’d eventually have a […]

There’s no end of innovation in the world, and here are a few interesting gadgets for aviators that we’ve run across lately. The Flightcell unit, made in New Zealand, allows pilots to use a cellphone or satphone through their headset, while remaining connected to the radios — perfectly legal down under, but in the U.S., […]

Meanwhile, a group of space entrepreneurs announced on Tuesday they are organizing a new Personal Spaceflight Federation to promote growth and safety in their new industry. The federation will work with the FAA as it develops industry standards for passenger safety and crew training. “In 2004, there were only 15 worldwide commercial space launches,” said […]

While funding to maintain the current aviation system is scarce, the system of the future is getting strong support. The proposed budget triples funding for the Joint Planning and Development Office, whose mandate is to transform the nation’s air transportation system to meet the needs of the year 2025. The Transportation Department says the next-generation […]

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” – […]

Tinkering with the current system is fine, but in the end, nothing less than a complete transformation will do the job — so says the Joint Planning & Development Office, a federal agency that has taken on the task of designing the Next Generation Airspace System (NGATS) for the year 2025. The plan, released to […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners “Weather” is the theme of this installment of “Picture of the Week.”  Our latest crop of photos took us around the world – from snowy Ontario to the sweltering Iraqi landscape to a rainy day in Tucson, Arizona.  Thanks to […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners It’s been another terrific week for “POTW” submissions – so good, in fact, that we snagged 47 images for our personal desktop wallpaper.  (At one a day, we’ve already got enough unique wallpapers to last us until late spring!)  Here […]

_______WHAT’S NEW What’s New — Products and Services for JanuaryThis month, AVweb’s survey of the latest products and services for pilots, mechanics and aircraft owners brings you flying DVDs, oil filter magnets, alternate air systems and much more. _______TRAINING The Cessna, the Sky … and the Cartoonist: Chapters Ten, Eleven and Twelve‘Round and ’round we […]