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The Aviation Safety Foundation of Australia says it hopes to eliminate aviation accidents through a new education program. “Our aim is to reduce crash rates to zero,” said Mark Riley, of Zauril Aviation, who developed the program. “This program has the power to change aviation safety in Australia like nothing else,” he told the Border […]

In a year of remarkable aviation achievements (GlobalFlyer, SpaceShipOne) a solitary Aeronca Champ would easily escape notice as it putted over the countryside. But for a couple of 17-year-old cousins from New Jersey, the tiny tandem carried them to no less a sense of accomplishment than all of the well-funded exploits that captured the headlines […]

They never missed a rendezvous with bombers over war-torn Europe but the Tuskegee Airmen say they’ve had their last formal reunion. Members of the famed Red Tail squadron, unfortunately known as much for their heritage as their skill in the air, are getting too old to stage the annual event, which this year drew dozens […]

Australia’s security apparatus went on its highest level of alert for two hours when the pilot of King Air accidentally used a “secret code word” indicating he was being hijacked, while talking with air traffic control. The country’s national terrorism emergency plan kicked into full gear, an emergency command post was set up in a […]

The majority of production aircraft will never set a record of any kind but Gulfstream’s flagship G550 already has 15 speed records to its credit after only a couple of years on the market. The ultra-long-range bizjet went from Newark to Tel Aviv, a distance of 5,031 NM in nine hours and 52 minutes, which […]

The war on drugs hit new heights on the Afghan/Tajikistan border last month as Tajik officials boasted they’d finally stopped an aerial smuggler they’d been trying to shoot down for three years. That the aircraft of choice by the smuggler was a powered parachute apparently did little to diminish the sense of accomplishment by the […]

AVmail: August 29, 2005Reader mail this week about flying with a broken wing, better vision with shaded contact lenses and more.

COLUMNS CEO of the Cockpit #48: If This Is Coffee, Bring Me Tea — If This Is Tea, Bring Me CoffeeGA pilots know what it’s like to try and survive on vending-machine food. But when you make it to the majors, you can count on first-class meals in flight and in the hotels. Well, maybe […]