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Picture of the Week: AVweb’s Flying Photography Showcase

Submit a Photo | Rules | Tips | Questions | Past Winners “Picture of the Week” will return next Thursday, once we’ve returned from EBACE and had a chance to look through all the great photos you’ve been submitting. (You are submitting them, right?) – A quick note for submitters:  If you’ve got several photos […]

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News

Balloonists Launch Open-Content Build-Your-Own Project

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 […]

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Video of the Week

Video of the Week: P-51 Mustang Emergency Landing

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 […]

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FBOs

FBO of the Week: Indy Aero (KMQJ, Mt. Comfort, IN)

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 […]

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Picture of the Week: AVweb’s Flying Photography Showcase

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 […]

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Aviation News

On the Fly …

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 […]

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FBOs

FBO of the Week: Quality Aviation (KFBL, Faribault, MN)

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 […]

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Picture of the Week: AVweb’s Flying Photography Showcase

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 […]

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News

Summer Aviation Events Gearing Up

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 […]

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