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Although a passenger-carrying commercial spaceship has yet to fly, four serious proposals to develop spaceports for the tourist trade in New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas are under review by the FAA, The Associated Press reported on Sunday. New Mexico already has a deal with Virgin Galactic to build a spaceport, expected to open in 2009. […]

Gulfstream last week said it recently completed its 1,000th product support flight since introducing its on-demand maintenance service in May 2002. According to the company, dispatch reliability rates among its in-service large-cabin fleet are in excess of 99.5 percent, but incidents such as a blown tire or a cracked windshield can still ground a plane. […]

A Vietnam War-era aircraft carrier, the USS Oriskany, will be sunk in the Gulf of Mexico off Pensacola as an artificial reef. Before the sinking, more than 400 veterans who served on the ship are expected at a reception being held, in part, to remember 32 airmen killed and two still listed as missing from […]

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Teledyne Continental Motors is giving away a free engine to someone who registers for its Aviator Services plan. Registrants qualify to win either a Continental or Lycoming certified IO-360 engine or one of four experimental engine models… Eight of 16 surviving members of the Doolittle Raiders gathered at Wright Patterson Air Force Base last week […]

The NTSB was unable to determine a reason for a March 2004 helicopter crash into the Gulf of Mexico, but said that a terrain warning system would likely have prevented the accident… Boeing to lay off 900 workers in Wichita, Kan…. Rob Penrod, formerly with Bell Helicopter, has joined Adam Aircraft as vice president of […]

This article originally appeared in Aviation Safety, January 2004. Currency, endorsements, certificates and “all available information” notwithstanding, the safety of flight depends on the pilot not exceeding his or her capabilities — except for that small minority of accidents caused by calamitous mechanical failure. That’s easy to say, but somewhat more difficult to live by.What […]

It appears the Relentless NXT Reno racer was destroyed following an emergency landing in New Mexico on its way to Palmdale, Calif. from Sun ‘n Fun. An FAA preliminary report says the unidentified pilot radioed a Mayday that the aircraft was on fire and then put it down on a dirt strip near Glenwood, N.M. […]

It’s not every day a personal airplane gets a parking ticket. It’s especially rare when the aircraft in question is a Gulfstream bizjet. But that’s apparently what happened recently in Honduras, according to the Miami Herald newspaper. Back in February, a Gulfstream GII landed at the capital’s Toncontn airport outside Tegucigalpa shortly after 11:00 pm […]

The future of satellite-based navigation may face its first big test just as we’re getting used to using it. NASA scientists predict a major burst of solar activity in 2010 or 2011, enough to disrupt GPS and wireless data and communications. “The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one,” […]