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Martin Halstead has loved aviation since his first flight at age 6, and now that he’s 19, he has his own airline. “I was joking with a friend that as my chances of getting a job in the airline industry were almost nil, I might as well start my own airline,” he said. The regional […]

It may be tough for some aviators to get their minds around the concept that somebody out there considers the FAA a model for how a bureaucracy ought to work … but to the Homeland Security Committee in the U.S. House, making the Transportation Security Administration look more like the FAA seems to be the […]

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_______COLUMNS Say Again? #56: The More Things ChangeThere is a lot of new technology coming to aviation and — amazingly — to air traffic control. But that doesn’t mean things will get better; nor does it mean things that already work OK won’t get corrupted by the latest and greatest. AVweb’s Don Brown steps back […]

For those in need of holiday gift ideas, a surplus MiG fighter could be just the thing. Albania has decided to sell off its aging fleet of 65 Soviet-era jets and resupply with modern helicopters. You can choose a MiG-15, MiG-17, MiG-19 or MiG-2, in various states of repair — or disrepair — some of […]

Bystanders are rarely hurt in GA accidents, but recently, two non-flying women were injured when airplanes crashed into them. Early Sunday morning, veterinarian Laura Pratt was driving to work near Houston, Texas, when a Piper PA-34 Seneca trying to land at an airport hit power lines, then crashed in the road, hitting Pratt’s car. The […]

Pilots in Melbourne, Australia, will undertake a special “Crash Scene Investigation (CSI) style” training session this Saturday, aimed at teaching them to avoid aircraft accidents caused by bad weather. “The whole day is one long whodunit and why,” said David Pattie, a safety expert with Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). The lesson will re-create […]

“Aviation in China is, of course, growing by leaps and bounds,” spokeswoman Abby Bried of the International Aviation Women’s Association (IAWA) told AVweb on Tuesday. That’s why the group met in Shanghai last week for its 17th annual conference. “They are in the midst of creating their aviation markets, from A to Z. And women […]

Boeing said on Monday it expects that customers in the Asia-Pacific region will buy 7,200 new aircraft over the next 20 years, at a cost of $770 billion. “The airlines will continue meeting passenger’s demands for more direct nonstop flights to destinations around the world with longer-range, efficient and comfortable airplanes,” said Boeing spokesman Randy […]