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A major snowstorm on Monday closed airports and affected aircraft operations from the Ohio Valley to the mid-Atlantic region. Several major airports were affected, with New York’s JFK International reporting 25 inches of snow and hundreds of flight cancellations. Ronald Reagan Washington National was also closed on Monday and nearby Dulles operated with a single […]

Eclipse Picks Pratt And Whitney Canada Engine In Same Family As Mustang’s… As AVweb speculated two months ago, the Eclipse 500 and Cessna Mustang will use derivatives of the same engine. Eclipse Aviation announced Wednesday that Pratt and Whitney Canada (PWC) will build the engines for the five-place 500. The announcement comes three months after […]

They share the same basic philosophy and their performance and capabilities are almost identical: Will Cessna’s Mustang and the Eclipse 500 now share the same basic engine? Pratt & Whitney Canada announced Thursday it will build a new type of small, efficient turbofan to power Cessna’s new entry-level Mustang, which is seen as a direct […]

Mustang Runs With Pratt & Whitney Eclipse To Follow?… They share the same basic philosophy and their performance and capabilities are almost identical: Will Cessna’s Mustang and the Eclipse 500 now share the same basic engine? Pratt & Whitney Canada announced Thursday it will build a new type of small, efficient turbofan to power Cessna’s […]

Tampa Skyscraper Crash… Released Monday, the NTSB’s factual narrative on the January5 teen / skyscraper crash in Tampa, which brought front-and-center the specterof GA terrorism and precipitated a list of non-mandatory recommendations fromthe FAA to flight schools, adds a little more to the story than what wepreviously knew. The 15-year-old student pilot who alone took […]

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Click any image to view a larger version. Gas balloons getting ready It’s loud, it’s boring, it’s inflation time for the gas balloons “Why do I always sound like a mouse when we inflate these helium balloons?” Much-needed sand for ballast — fortunately, New Mexico has a lot to spare Richard Abruzzo’s basket — ready […]

It sounds like a flat-out emergency. It’s the deafening din of helium gas, squeezing and squirming and squealing through hoses and valves and connectors, finding its way from a tank truck, across the launch field, and into the inflation port of a balloon. The noise is very alarming, and it’s nonstop. It whines and whooshes […]

The weather forecast all week has been consistent if nothing else – wrong 100 percent of the time. A thick layer of fog smothers Oakland like a ridiculous amount of Styrofoam pellets protecting a small package. Forces greater than the defense of wishful thinking demanded cancellation of our trip last weekend. As lunchtime approaches, the […]

Recently, I flew a practice ILS approach, hooded, and partial panel (with the AI and DG covered up). It was surprisingly easy – much easier than usual – because I used my VFR GPS to substitute for the DG, and to assist with keeping on the localizer during the ILS final approach. Here are the […]