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Growing up poor on the streets of Miami, Barrington Irving had no reason to expect to set an aviation record. Later this year, however, he hopes to be the youngest pilot to fly solo around the world. ”A part of me is like there’s no way I’m about to do this — a kid with […]

Building an airplane is often a years-long commitment but Marc Cook took less than three weeks to take a Glasair Sportsman from the crate to the sky. The editor in chief of our sister publication Kitplanes was the prototype builder for Glasair’s new “Two Weeks To Taxi” program that will be introduced at Sun ‘n […]

If Lockheed Martin’s experience is typical, don’t expect private companies to be lining up in droves to take over any future government aviation work through the so-called A-76 outsourcing process. More than a year after winning the $1.9 billion contract to run the flight service station system, company spokesman Joe Cipriano said it’s only recently […]

An Ohio flight instructor says the NTSB is wrong to assume that just because he was the only one aboard a plane with the proper credentials that he was the pilot in command. Matthew Sullivan, 24, of Dublin, Ohio, was sitting in the right front seat of a Bonanza when it crashed a mile short […]

The FAA is looking for private-sector partners to develop new avionics for use with satellite-based navigation, particularly the Wide Area Augmentation System. In a bid to spur interest from companies in developing the new devices, the agency is invoking a rarely used procurement method called other transaction authority (OTA). Under an OTA, the private company […]

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COLUMNS CEO of the Cockpit #55: Walk-Around, 5 a.m., LAXEven grizzled, old, jaded and chubby captains of wide-body airliners sometimes have to preflight their giant steeds. It may not resemble the preflight a young student would do, and mechanics no longer help out, but the tradition is alive and well for AVweb’s CEO of the […]

Indian air force commanders say a woman’s place is in the cockpit of a fighter jet but the delicate nature of cultural and social traditions in the country is keeping them from yankin’ and bankin’ with the men. “We have not been asked and the government’s policy is that only men can qualify to fly […]