A bill that would have allowed airports on state land in Arizona to get leases of 20 years instead of the current 10 failed last week in the state legislature. The bill’s sponsors blamed pressure from Luke Air Force Base, which is close to Pleasant Valley Airport near Phoenix. The Air Force has said that […]
At Sun ‘n Fun 2005, AVweb had the pleasure of flying a Glasair Sportsman 2+2 … that we didn’t have to build. First impression: excellent short-field and slow-flight performance with respectable cruise, and light, balanced controls with little adverse yaw … but don’t expect short people to have an especially easy time getting in. The […]
The search for two mature pilots from Pueblo, Colo., who set off on a pleasure trip in a red and tan 1954 Piper Tri-Pacer on April 7, has been suspended. Claiborne Courtright, 81, and William Duffy, 77, were last seen when they bought fuel at Kremmling, about 80 miles northwest of Denver. In 150 search […]
A medevac helicopter operated by CareFlight made a forced landing Monday morning after a collision with ducks in flight near Aberdeen, S.D. Three ducks broke through the windscreen and splattered pilot Curt Smith with blood and broken glass. “It was just a big explosion and lots of wind,” Smith told The Keloland News. “I had […]
A New Zealand airline pilot has lost a round in court in his effort to return to the cockpit after his employer of 16 years fired him. According to the pilot, the airline unfairly used incidents in his private life to get rid of him. The airline said that even though the Civil Aviation Authority […]
A Nevada glider pilot has been quietly working away at breaking the North American distance record, with a flight of 1,212 miles in 13 hours and 17 minutes on April 3, breaking his own unofficial record of 1,130 miles set eight days earlier. Gordon Boettger flew a 33-year-old Kestrel 17 sailplane along the rising wave […]
AVmail: April 18, 2005Reader mail this week about “new” parachutes for airplanes, medical certification, ab-initio training in a high-tech plane and much more.
COLUMNS The Pilot’s Lounge #86: Oh %$#@! — I Think I Just Busted A Reg.Oops, now you’ve done it. You didn’t mean to but you got distracted and then … So now what? AVweb’s Rick Durden, a practicing aviation attorney, has lots of suggestions for how to work with the FAA and, hopefully, make it […]
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