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A commercial pilot from Centerville, Mass., has been charged in federal court with four counts of making false statements on FAA medical forms, U.S. Attorney Michael J. Sullivan said on Friday. The 53-year-old pilot lied on four first-class medical FAA forms, Sullivan alleged. If convicted, the pilot faces up to five years in prison followed […]

With 800 jets sold already this year and some big orders pending, Boeing is closing in on surpassing its peak of 877 sales, set back in 1988. But in the manufacturing world, big orders can be a mixed blessing. Back in the late 1990s, high demand cost Boeing billions of dollars when the company ran […]

Picture this … you’re the captain of an Airbus A319-131, and you’ve just taken off from London into a clear night sky, bound for Budapest with 76 passengers on board. Approaching FL200, you hear a “CLUNK” and the cockpit goes dark. No autopilot, no multi-function displays, no radios, just a bit of backup lighting. An […]

BRAINTEASERS Quiz #101: Risk AnalysisFlight involves risk. ATC and AFSS supply information, but only the pilot-in-command can analyze potential threats and make the go/no-go call. Winter offers lots of decision-making material, some of which might stick to your pitot.

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Thielert, the German company that has attracted a lot of attention with its diesel engines for small aircraft, now is offering shares in the stock market. The company made its initial public offering on Nov. 17, with a share price of 13.50 Euros, and rose 2.2 percent on the first day of trading. Interest in […]

This year’s Red Bull air races, which wrapped up last month in San Francisco, proved there is no end to the public’s fascination with machines that defy gravity and go fast — and also showed a place for the Zivko Edge among aerobatic competitors. After American flyers Mike Mangold and Kirby Chambliss roared to the […]

If a new Garmin G1000 cockpit is on your holiday shopping list — or even if you just wish it were — now you can start learning all the details about how to use it before you get into the air, using a CD-ROM course on your home computer. King Schools this week released a […]

The pilot of an Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt helped guide a pair of pilots in a Piper light twin to a safe landing after their radios and instruments failed in the clouds over Germany, Stars & Stripes reported on Tuesday. Twenty minutes after taking off from The Netherlands on Nov. 15, an electrical wire in […]