In Brief

If you’d like to fly a Zeppelin someday, here’s your chance. Airship Ventures has two more “Pilot for a Day” sessions coming up in California: Nov. 19 & 20 in Long Beach, and Nov. 30 & Dec. 1 at Moffett Field, near San Francisco. Click here for more details, and click here for a recent […]

Lancair’s Evolution turboprop kit prototype is on a tour of California and Arizona with stops in Hayward, Santa Monica, Copperstate Fly-In and San Diego. Demo flights will be available at all locations… Michael Moore’s latest movie Capitalism: A Love Story devotes a significant amount of time, including an interview with Flight 1549 Capt. Chesley Sullenberger, […]

The NTSB says the uncommanded pitch-up that occurred in July 2008 aboard an MD-81 carrying then-Senator Barack Obama was the result of an inadvertent partial inflation of the evacuation slide and subsequent binding of the elevator control cables… Thieves in Sweden used a helicopter as their getaway vehicle after robbing a cash depot in Stockholm. […]

The NTSB on Wednesday released its docket of documents related to the fatal crash of a firefighting helicopter in California in August 2008… A story in Air & Space Smithsonian laments the impending loss of Langley wind tunnel, as advocates rally to prevent its destruction… Friends of aerobatic pilot Vicki Cruse, who died recently in […]

Experienced pilot and general aviation supporter Gov. Sonny Perdue will be the guest speaker of the Atlanta Aero Club today. Perdue is an active commercially-related pilot and the lunch meeting marks the 25th anniversary of the organization. Need a place to stay in Oshkosh? Dorm rooms have opened up, cheap and close to the airport… […]

FAA is reviewing an AOPA suggestion to lessen the impact of the Cessna rudder AD… Bob Hoover and Wayne Handley share their insights on surviving close calls in aviation in a new “Close Calls” DVD; click here to watch the trailer… Bell’s 429 light-twin helicopter is now certified in U.S. and Canada… The Arlington Fly-In […]

Pilot Mike Goulian, who flies airshows and competes in Red Bull air races, is the winner of this year’s Bill Barber Award for Showmanship, which will be awarded at EAA AirVenture… The Air Race Classic has posted the top 10 competitors from this year’s women-only cross-country race, which wrapped up last weekend… Flying to Mexico? […]

PDFPlates.com is working to make FAA approach plates downloadable to your Kindle at no charge. If you’d like to be a beta tester, contact them… An Australian helicopter pilot dragged his passenger to shore and buried him neck-deep in sand to protect him from hypothermia Sunday night after they crashed in remote crocodile-infested mudflats. Rescuers […]

L-3 Avionic Systems has sued Cirrus Design, seeking $18 million because Cirrus canceled its plan to buy avionics for its jet from L-3 and switched to Garmin instead… Owners of certain Bonanzas and Barons affected by a circuit-breaker airworthiness directive with an Aug. 6 deadline now have an extension, but must follow strict procedures, as […]

The Paris Air Show opens today under the shadow of the crash of Air France 447 and an economic slowdown that is keeping some companies, including Cessna and Gulfstream, from attending. Still, more than 2,000 vendors are there and 300,000 people are expected to attend… The Canadian Forces Snowbirds air demonstration team has been grounded […]