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Submit a Photo | Rules| Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | PastPOTW Winners Due to privacy issues, AVweb does not publish e-mail addresses of readers who submit photos. *** THIS WEEK’S WINNERS *** As usual, we received dozens of great photos from AVweb and AVflash readers this week. This week’s winner captures Capt. Christopher […]

A new report by AOPA’s Air Safety Foundation (ASF) about flight-training safety shows that instructional flight is safer than most other types of GA flying, AOPA said on Monday. But the study also revealed the two types of instructional accidents with the highest fatality rates: low-level maneuvering flight and midair collisions. “In the one case, […]

Submit a Photo | Rules| Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | PastPOTW Winners Due to privacy issues, AVweb does not publish e-mail addresses of readers who submit photos. *** THIS WEEK’S WINNERS *** “A Perfect Airshow Day”Susan Birrell Post at the Indianapolis Air ShowClick here to view a medium-size version of this imageClick here […]

Charges have been dropped against a medevac pilot ticketed last week in Stamford, Conn. William Pope was cited by police for contravening a local ordinance banning helicopters from landing in the city. He was picking up a premature baby for transport to an intensive care unit in New York… A fund created to help the […]

Why Not… A Canadian pilot will be spending a lot of time in the cockpit this coming year if his plans (and dreams) come true. Hans Hofmaier, of Qualicum Beach, on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island, left Nov. 6 on his Spirit On A Shoestring round-the-world flight in a 1946 Taylorcraft with a 65-horsepower engine. He’s […]

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) said deliveries of business jets were 32 percent lower than the same period a year ago. According to the organization’s shipment report for the third quarter of 2003, the fall in business-jet deliveries contributed to an overall 9-percent decrease in shipments of general aviation aircraft for the quarter. For […]

NASA’s Mars lander Spirit began sending black-and-white photos of the red planet back to Earth Sunday, just hours after a textbook landing on what scientists hope is a dry lake bed. The 3-D photos gave scientists the clearest view yet of the Martian surface and it’s only going to get better. The six-wheeled robot is […]

First Authorized BBJ Service Center In Middle East… The Middle East is emerging as a business aviation center, as evidenced by several recent announcements at this year’s Dubai Air International Show . On Dec. 8, Boeing signed an agreement with Alsalam Aircraft Company, making the company the first authorized service center for Boeing Business Jets […]

At last week’s Dubai Air Show, Airbus claimed supremacy in the commercial jet market, saying it is selling more jets than Boeing, its longtime rival. Boeing, however, was not so willing to move over to the No. 2 slot. While Boeing did not dispute that Airbus has more orders so far this year — 263 […]

Prognosticators, who tend to proliferate at year-end anyhow, are plentiful beyond reason this year. Everybody not busy reminiscing about the last 100 years is busy imagining the next. National Geographic Magazine has “The Future of Flying” as its December cover story. Popular Science weighed in last month with its “Gallery of Future Aircraft.” Cirrus Design […]