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The Boeing S-307 Stratoliner arrived August 6 at Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia. The sole remaining example of the world’s first pressurized airliner will make The Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum and Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center its new home. The museum opens its doors for the public December 15… A Learjet 35A crashed […]

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Twenty-seven top pilots began competition Saturday in Anderson, S.C., in the six-day U.S. National Hot Air Balloon Championship… AOPA is taking names … nominations are welcome for the Certified Flight Instructor, Aviation Maintenance Technician, and Avionics Technician of the Year awards. Nominations for the FAA Safety Counselor of the Year are also open. Click here […]

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Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport may be renamed if a consulting group has their way. Leon Cargile has announced a national effort to get at least 20,000 names from the Web in an online petition to change the name of the airport to one that recognizes former Atlanta Mayor and civil rights leader Maynard Holbrook Jackson, […]

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Reviewing NTSB Appeals in 2002

Perhaps there are some people who have spent more time reviewing NTSB decisions over this past winter than I have. To those individuals I have some advice: Get a life! Go out to the airport. Talk to your wife. Play catch with your kids. Me, I live in northwest Ohio, which is not exactly a […]

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On The Fly…

A flash bulb may have saved three men who crashed a 172 this weekend in hilly wooded terrain some 60 miles east of Vancouver. All were soaked in fuel and sitting in the crumpled plane, according to The Province when at a Comrorant military rescue helicopter passed near the sight at 1:45 a.m., and one […]

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On The Fly…

Garmin announced this week it will unveil its G1000 integrated avionics system during EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh… The TSA is now accepting online applications from airline pilots who want to volunteer for training to carry weapons… Hartzell Propeller has received FAA and Transport Canada STCs for installation of its new blended airfoil two-blade metal constant-speed […]

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On The Fly…

Funding security is nearer for the Airport Watch Program. During appropriations discussions, Sen. Fritz Hollings successfully offered an amendment directing the continued funding of the toll-free 1-866-GA-SECURE hotline that allows pilots and other to report suspicious activity at airports. The bill containing the amendment will next go to the full Senate… A total of 22 […]

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