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Flight Standards District Offices in Southern California are slated for consolidation, and this will mean moving about two dozen inspectors out of the FSDO at Los Angeles International Airport, the FAA said yesterday. “No jobs are being lost nor is headcount being reduced; we are simply going to be moving our aviation inspectors closer to […]

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_______COLUMNS From The CFI #10: What Type Are You?Ready to move into a jet? No matter how big, all jets require a type rating if you want to fly one. You might think that means they’re hard to learn and harder to fly, but usually that isn’t true. AVweb’s Linda Pendleton explains what it takes […]

It was just a publicity stunt, but the concept of drive-thru fast food from the comfort of your cockpit has stirred a lot of wishful thinking. In Atlanta last Thursday, the captain of an AirTran Airways 737 taxied up to the window of a specially designed Wendy’s drive-thru. An honorary “air-food controller” passed carry-on bags […]

Large flocks of migrating geese are suspected of causing a breakdown in the radar at the St. Louis air traffic control center last Wednesday morning. About 7 a.m., radar screens showed about 3,000 blips, which the system interpreted as 3,000 aircraft. The Airport Surveillance Radar model 9, or ASR-9, became overloaded and crashed, the St. […]

BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman have been working to build systems that could defend airliners from shoulder-fired missiles, and last week both companies successfully tested their designs in flight. An American Airlines 767 outfitted with BAE’s Jeteye system flew from Fort Worth, Texas, while Grumman’s Guardian system was tested Wednesday on an MD-11 that took […]

The folks at XCOR Aerospace, who built the one-of-a-kind EZ-Rocket — a modified Long-EZ powered by two liquid-fuel rocket engines — are planning to break a cross-country flight record — by flying for 10 minutes. The EZ-Rocket will launch from Mojave on Dec. 3 and fly to California City, all of 11 miles away, Space.com […]

When Kitfox kit manufacturer ETG Corp (Skystar Aircraft) declared bankruptcy last month, Kitfox builders were stuck. Some had already ordered and paid for their Rotax engines through the company, but that money never made it to Rotax. Now the chances that they will ever get that money back, or their engines, are slim at best. […]