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The Bell/Agusta BA609, a civilian version of the Osprey V-22 tiltrotor aircraft, flew in Arlington, Texas, last week for the first time since 2003. During the 1.3-hour flight, the crew tested hover mode forward, sideways and backwards, and navigated the pattern at 86 knots with 75-degree forward tilt on the outboard nacelles. During the next […]

With the debate over user fees for GA gathering steam here in the U.S., the issue is playing out in a more extreme form down under, where Australian GA pilots face a fourfold increase in the fees they pay for government services. “This is getting very, very scary and more to the point, it’s proving […]

Jurors in a federal court said last Thursday the Little Rock (Ark.) National Airport must pay over $2 million to the widow of an airline captain who died in the 1999 crash of an American Airlines MD-82, The Associated Press reported. The lawsuit alleged that the airport was negligent because the approach-light system (at the […]

Pilots who have been waiting — some since 2003 — for upgrades that would make their Garmin units WAAS-capable will have to wait longer still. “Regrettably, Garmin has delayed the WAAS upgrade for our GNS 430/530, GPS 400/500, and GNC 420 units until the third quarter of 2006,” Garmin spokesman Ted Gartner told AVweb on […]

COLUMNS CEO of the Cockpit #45: Dead DinosaursWe’re all flying with dead dinosaurs — well, all of us powered pilots anyway. Airlines love to blame their bankruptcies on the price of fuel, but they won’t raise fares to cover it. So AVweb’s CEO of the Cockpit and some other pilots discuss other ways to use […]

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In the May 30 edition of AVweb a quote concerning NASA’s involvement in manned space exploration was incorrectly attributed to Burt Rutan. At a recent conference on commercial space development, Rutan was critical of NASA’s record in space projects but did not use the words that we attributed to him. “My critiques of NASA have […]

It seems like a simple enough idea … place lights at runway intersections that glow red when it’s unsafe to cross. And it seems to be working, in an experimental installation at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. In a three-month study concluding this week, there was only one minor incursion, compared to three incursions in the […]

IndUS, a U.S.-based aviation company, opened an aircraft showroom in downtown Bangalore this week, the first of its kind in India. The company aims to fill what it sees as an unmet demand for personal aircraft. The showroom has new airplanes on display and sells books, model airplanes, T-shirts and other aviation-related items. Dr. Ram […]