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Steve Griff started flying 40 years ago, when he was 16, and kept at it till he was a 767 captain, flying international routes for US Airways. But four years ago, a truck smashed into his pickup in North Carolina, and he’s now paralyzed from the chest down. “Fortunately, my hands and arms work fine,” […]

Hazelwood said that UAVs now flying in Iraq already are operating in the equivalent of Class B airspace. Balad Airbase, near Baghdad, “goes 24/7, 365 days a year [and] intermingles armed aircraft, medivacs, commercial aircraft, Fedex, and 20 to 30 UAVs everyday, all day. It has never had a UAV accident,” he said. But some […]

Cessna last week announced changes in its manufacturing leadership it says will allow it to better focus responsibilities to meet expected growth in the companys product line. Craig Estep, formerly vice president, operations, was appointed vice president, Citation/Caravan Operations. In this new role, Estep will have responsibility for all assembly and completion operations for Citation […]

A handful of Arizona pilots are flying supplies to a town on Mexico’s Baja Peninsula that was partly destroyed by Hurricane John earlier this month. The waterfront area of Mulege was inundated by flood waters of the Rio Mulege caused by the hurricane. The town has about 3,100 people, including about 500 Americans, many of […]

FAA Administrator Marion Blakey said the crash of Comair Flight 5191 might have been avoided if the CRJ-100 had been equipped with Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B). Blakey told reporters at a news conference at UPS’s headquarters in Louisville that ADS-B’s LCD screen (not unlike a host of vastly more affordable products currently available to the […]

R.J. Siegel, LoPresti’s vice president of operations, told AVweb on Tuesday that officials in Manitowoc “are really nice guys with good intentions,” but it was clear early on that Wisconsin was not a lead contender for the Fury manufacturing plant. He added that he negotiated with about 75 communities across the U.S. to find the […]

In a story in the Manitowoc Herald Times that ran shortly before the New Mexico announcement, Ken Stubbe, head of the town’s economic development commission, said “LoPresti didn’t seem willing or able to provide a detailed business plan to us, and that’s what we should have before we put together a proposal.” The paper characterized […]

When LoPresti Aviation announced plans to build its Fury in Belen, N.M., last week, it made a point of saying there were dozens of other communities interested in the business. Belen, along with the New Mexico government, offered a fat incentive program that included the state’s Job Training Incentive Program, the High Wage Job Tax […]

Submit a Photo |Rules |Tips |Questions |Past POTW Winners Those back-to-school specials must really be hot this week.It’s the only thing we can think of to explain why “POTW” submissionhave dropped a mere sixty-odd photos. (Heck, we had almost thatmany in the running for “top ten” status last week!) Not to worry.We won’t take it […]

When the Concorde quit flying, it seemed like the end of an era for supersonic passenger aircraft — but more likely, it was a blip in what will be a continuing story. Working on that next chapter are several companies laboring quietly away, hoping to build the transport of the future within the next 10 […]