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A pair of New England balloon pilots have developed what they hope could be a new way for homebuilders to share design ideas, modeled after “open content” and “open source” collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux. “Closed content gets fixed in time,” says pilot Dan Nachbar, of Amherst, Mass. “Open content tends to evolve. Good […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive We watch a lot of flying videos in the course of a week, but left to our own devices, we would still miss some of the best. Thankfully, AVweb readers like Robert Reid are there to send us links when they find great videos around the web. Here’s one Robert […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Indy Aero at KMQJ in Mt. Comfort, Indiana. AVweb reader Penny Litz, a volunteer for the American Military Heritage Foundation, told us how Indy Aero came to her rescue recently: [T]he AMHF operates a rare Lockheed twin-engine PV2 Harpoon […]

Submit a Photo | Rules | Tips | Questions | Past Winners Each week, we go through dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of reader-submitted photos and pick the very best to share with you on Thursday mornings.  The top photos are featured on AVweb‘s home page, and one photo that stands above the others is awarded […]

New flight patterns at Newark are confusing pilots, controllers say… Bombardier Aerospace selected Pratt & Whitney Canada’s Pw307b engine for the all-composite Learjet 85… The 2008 Milton Caniff “Spirit of Flight” Award from the Aviation Hall of Fame goes to the X Prize Foundation… AeroLEDs now offers AeroSUNLite, a recognition/landing-taxi lighting system based on their […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Quality Aviation at KFBL in Faribault, Minnesota. AVweb reader Rick Lemon made a day stop at Quality while touring a nearby college with his daughter and wife: Jerry [from Quality] met me at the plane and provided a courtesy […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive In our latest “Video of the Week,” Powered Skydiving founder Dell Schanze puts a new paraglider through its paces by – what else? – tumbling through the sky with it. We see some pretty nifty stuff on the receiving end of your video recommendations, but this is something to behold: […]

Submit a Photo | Rules | Tips | Questions | Past Winners Each week, we go through dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of reader-submitted photos and pick the very best to share with you on Thursday mornings.  The top photos are featured on AVweb‘s home page, and one photo that stands above the others is awarded […]

Pilots in search of an aviation destination for summer have plenty to choose from. This week, the FAA published instructions for pilots flying into Oshkosh for EAA AirVenture, July 28 to August 3. The NOTAM takes effect starting July 25, and outlines procedures for arrival and departure. There have been some major changes since last […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to a relatively new FBO, Air 51 at LEX in Lexington, Kentucky. AVweb reader Graham Richardson discovered Air 51 “quite by accident”: We were stopping for fuel at [another FBO] as is our habit when at LEX when we passed […]