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When the pilot of a small twin lost an engine over Idaho while far from an airfield in bad weather late last month, he was lucky that two Air Force pilots were nearby on a training mission. Lt. Col. Evan Roelofs, in an F-15C, and Capt. Marco Parzych, in an F-16, from Mountain Home Air […]

The Westerly (R.I.) State Airport recently got a federal grant that will rebuild a runway and remove trees that obscure pilots’ visibility — but it’s too late for two pilots who died in a midair on that runway in November 2003. The NTSB last week released its final report on that crash, in which a […]

Plenty of pilots got their first introduction to controlling an airplane via remote-control models, and it seems that despite the advent of desktop flight simulators, the sport is still thriving. Now, under a new federal agreement between the Academy of Model Aeronautics and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, RC pilots will have more places to […]

The skies above the U.S.-Mexican border near Tucson have been busier than usual this week. Thirty pilots and their aircraft have joined a band of about 1,000 volunteers — some, including President Bush, call them vigilantes — who will spend the month of April working to deter illegal immigrants from Mexico. Leaders of the group, […]

An FAA official was handcuffed and detained when she disembarked in Kansas City after an altercation during a Southwest Airlines flight on March 26, The Kansas City Star reported on Saturday. A flight standards manager for the Central Region, she had argued with a flight attendant, according to the Star. The flight attendant told police […]

AVmail: April 4, 2005Reader mail this week about the ATC shortage, aging pilots, the new Marine One and more.

COLUMNS As the Beacon Turns #88: Putting on the WingsSome milestones in an aviation career have traditional recognition — how many of you had your shirttail cut off after soloing? — but far too often such events slide past because there is so much farther yet to go. AVweb’s Michael Maya Charles has watched one […]

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The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has waded into a simmering dispute between tenants and the management of Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh. Basler Flight Services complained to the department’s Bureau of Aeronautics claiming a competitor, Orion Flight Services, is getting preferential treatment from the airport by getting time to pay back rent and because it […]