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Comair crash investigation update: memos show controllers had complained about inadequate staffing, and Comair pilots now are being told their charts for Lexington airport are incorrect… Flight students in New York will have to undergo security background checks, under a new law… Boeing’s 747 Large Cargo Freighter (LCF) flew for the first time on Saturday, […]

A Swedish pilot died after a midair collision during the Aero GP race in Malta on Sunday. Gabor Vargas, the Swedish aerobatic champion, died after his Yak-55 was struck behind the canopy by an Extra flown by Eddy Goggins, who parachuted to safety. The race around Malta’s harbor included “a combination of racing, air-to-air combat […]

The sole survivor of Comair Flight 5191, first officer James Polehinke, 44, remains in serious condition but has improved. Polehinke suffered “facial fractures, a complex fracture of the pelvis, two fractures of the spine, and broken bones in his left leg, right foot and right hand,” according to The Courier-Journal. He no longer requires life […]

If you’re in the Dallas area and have a fondness for DC-3s, the Commemorative Air Force has a deal for you. For $250 a seat ($1,650 for all seven seats) the CAF will take you on a tour of the Dallas area in the plane, more accurately known as an R4D (ask about the difference) […]

The first female space tourist will head to the International Space Station Sept. 14. Anouseh Ansari, the name sponsor for the Ansari X Prize competition, will join NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin on the launch of a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan… The FAA has written new rules […]

AOPA gives Lockheed-Martin a B+ for its operation so far of the Flight Service Station system… The FAA on Monday OK’d a new airport site for St. George, Utah… Kaiser Aluminum will provide aluminum to Eclipse Aviation for production of its jets, Kaiser said on Tuesday… A final FAA Airworthiness Directive aims to correct heading […]

Customs-related charges have been dropped against a Florida pilot whose fiery, but fatality-free, crash landing of a DC-3 on a Ft. Lauderdale street made headlines last year. Charles Riggs had been facing 19 charges of operating illegally but they were dropped after the FAA’s case against him was thrown out by an administrative judge. The […]

The FAA needs to address problems with its infrastructure, frustrated officials at Los Angeles International Airport said on Monday, after more delays due to problems with the ILS. The FAA says the system is fine, just a few unrelated glitches, but added it will ramp up efforts to fix the equipment… The NTSB’s factual report […]

If you’re tired of the traditional fly-in or $100 hamburger, there’s Burning Man. This free-form collection of artists and whatever in the desert near Gerlach, Nev., is busy enough that it rates a temporary tower for the airstrip. Bring food, water, a dust mask and your free spirit… A landing floatplane ripped the fiberglass roof […]

The TSA says a Cape Air pilot is not a security threat after all, settling a lawsuit… NASA and the U.S. Air Force this week formed an aeronautics research partnership to cooperate on studies of advanced aircraft design, propulsion, materials, and aviation safety… It could take 20 years to perfect missile-defense systems for airliners, according […]