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The pilot of a Beaver floatplane that collided with a Cessna 150 near Renton, Wash., last August may have been confused by a tower controller’s report of the Cessna’s position as the two aircraft neared the Renton airport. According to an analysis done by the King County Journal, the tower controller was recorded as telling […]

Obtaining a simple Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) could become a relatively painless completion of a checklist supplied by the FAA … maybe. The agency has issued an Advisory Circular providing compliance checklists for common STC projects. “The standard compliance checklists show typical methods of compliance with the regulations and cross-references related guidance material,” said the […]

An accident involving a collision that destroys all or part of two aircraft would normally make headlines across the country but this unfortunate mishap slipped below the media radar, perhaps because it was a pickup truck that did the damage. Thanks to an AVweb reader, however, we’re able to tell you the sad tale of […]

Investigators have found a major fatigue crack in the spar of the wing that separated from a Chalk’s Ocean Airways turboprop Mallard on takeoff from Miami on Monday. The wing was recovered Tuesday and fatigue was quickly apparent. “We’ve seen fatigue. We don’t know why that fatigue appeared. That is what we’re trying to determine,” […]

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COLUMNS CEO of the Cockpit #52: There Is No Trying To Reason With The Holiday SeasonYou can be upset about working on Christmas, or you can be sanquine and reminisce about the good-old (holi)days of cooking turkey in the galley and layovers with belly dancers. AVweb’s fictional CEO of the Cockpit, looking at imminent retirement, […]

SpaceX plans to launch its Falcon 1 rocket into orbit today at 11 a.m. PST from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands… Tax savings can cover the payments on your new airplane for the first five years, says Columbia… Delay in thrust-reverser operation, tailwind, and runway conditions cited by NTSB in an update Thursday on […]

Cirrus Design will no longer have to fly its brand-new airplanes across the Atlantic to its European customers, under a new arrangement with Britten-Norman, based on the Isle of Wight in the U.K., Cirrus said last week. “Cirrus planes will still be assembled in our U.S. facilities, where they receive their Certificate of Airworthiness,” said […]

A hypersonic scramjet-powered vehicle was launched from the ground at the Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, Dec. 10. The launch was the first-ever free flight of a scramjet-powered vehicle using conventional liquid hydrocarbon jet fuel, Alliant Techsystems (ATK) said in a news release last week. ATK, the Defense […]