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Engineers at Lehigh University have come up with a relatively simple device that allows pilots to custom-tailor the lateral stability of their aircraft in flight. According to PhysOrg.com, Prof. Joachim Grenestedt designed “canted tabs” that attach to ailerons. The tabs rotate around an aluminum tube inserted in the aileron. The pilot can adjust them as […]

While most of us enjoy any kind of aeronautical spectacle, there’s one occurring daily in the rainforests of South and Southeast Asia that many of us could happily avoid. Researchers from the University of Chicago are studying just how “flying snakes” manage to turn themselves into reasonably credible gliders. Their work is featured this month […]

In some respects it’s probably a good thing that the U.S. Navy doesn’t give up easily but, in the end, even it couldn’t stand up to an indomitable Minnesota mechanic and his dream … of course, having a congressional order on his side didn’t hurt. Lex Cralley pulled the wreck of a Brewster-built Corsair from […]

Warbird Adventures is urging all owners of T-6s, Harvards and SNJs to stop performing aerobatics in the aircraft until the results of an investigation into the loss of one of its SNJs last week are released. In a statement on its Web site, the company says it will cease operations until the results are known. […]

While the Cessna 150 was “threatening” Washington, D.C., Chicago Mayor Richard Daley wasn’t taking any chances. According to the Chicago CBS affiliate, emergency officials in Chicago were “put on notice” about the Washington alert. Chicago officials took an “immediate defensive stance” (whatever that means). While his staff was manning the ramparts, the enigmatic mayor was […]

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COLUMNS The Pilot’s Lounge #87: Etiquette Isn’t Just Raising Our PinkiesJust because you can take a 3g turn and handle turbulence with hardly a butterfly doesn’t mean you should make your passengers deal with all that. And we all know not to fly low over noise-sensitive areas. AVweb’s Rick Durden points out a few more […]

The various issues surrounding FAA funding and the future of air traffic control services will again take center stage in Washington on Monday and Tuesday as the National Air Traffic Controllers Association holds its annual legislative conference. The agenda of speeches and face-to-face lobbying comes a couple of weeks after the FAA let it be […]

Aircraft play a vital role in humanitarian efforts all over the world and now a Sandpoint, Idaho, company has not only come up with what it claims is the ideal aircraft for the purpose, it’s going to be able to cover the cost of 10 percent of the planes it produces for use in aid […]