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Disaster, exultation, milestones, conflict, celebration, tragedy, and remembrance … in 2005, the world of general aviation saw all that and more. Here’s our year-end review of the news, with links to AVweb’s original coverage for more details. Oshkosh Shows Us The Future If it seemed that after 100 years the world of flight would have […]

Richard Branson’s new spaceport in New Mexico could have competition from a similar site in Texas, according to an Associated Press report. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, had bought 165,000 acres near El Paso that will be used as a test site and an eventual spaceport. The AP said Bezos has also bought 25 […]

Dream all you want, the most sophisticated hardware coming off the line these days doesn’t need you, unless you’re good with a remote. Bell Helicopter announced earlier this week that its tiltrotor Eagle Eye TR918unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has received FAA certification. It’s the first such aircraft to get the FAA nod and we have […]

I don’t know why air disasters take on the names of towns or places. I guess we have to give them some sort of name to catalogue them in our minds. Perhaps geography is just convenient. It does seem unfair to the towns. Lockerbie, Scotland, didn’t have anything to do with Pan Am 103 blowing […]

The folks at XCOR Aerospace, who built the one-of-a-kind EZ-Rocket — a modified Long-EZ powered by two liquid-fuel rocket engines — are planning to break a cross-country flight record — by flying for 10 minutes. The EZ-Rocket will launch from Mojave on Dec. 3 and fly to California City, all of 11 miles away, Space.com […]

A pilot was hurt when his twin-engine cargo aircraft crashed into a Wal-Mart garden center in Manchester, N.H., on Tuesday morning. The airplane apparently had just taken off and was trying to return to the airport. The pilot was able to walk away from the crash… A V-22 Osprey being delivered to Edwards Air Force […]

It’s a small world, and the aviation industry is globalizing and outsourcing — Mexico has attracted Raytheon for wire harness work and Cessna has announced plans to follow. Last week, Bombardier Aerospace announced it will open a manufacturing plant in Queretaro, Mexico, in an effort to cut operating costs and boost profits. The company will […]

Fathers Day TFR Reading Ed Chromczaks response (AVmail Oct. 24) to Bill Hayes’ article Fathers Day TFR prompted me to seek out and read the original article.There was a statement in that original article that caught my attention. Bill said that the FSS disclaimer towards the presence of TFRs was intended only to “… help […]

At the same time, infrastructure is growing in support of the nascent industry. Last week, the FAA held its second annual International Aviation Safety Forum in Washington, D.C., and commercial space flight was added to the other more traditional topics on the agenda. Speakers for the space forum included SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Virgin […]

When Hurricane Katrina left the Gulf Coast devastated, general-aviation aircraft and pilots were there to help. AVweb reports on what has been done so far and what else we can do. The First Week The Storm Hurricane Katrina hit Florida first, killing 11 people as it passed over the peninsula on Aug. 25 with 80 […]