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_______COLUMNS The Savvy Aviator #14: Engine Cooling — Less Is MoreIf your CHTs are running warmer than you’d like, odds are that you’ve got leaky cooling baffles under your cowling. Fixing those leaks is usually simple — and the less air leaks, the more is available to cool the cylinders.

For many airline pilots, flying for a living was a lifelong dream that began with noses pressed against an airport fence. Bruce Dickinson’s moment of truth came later in life as he crawled, retching drunk, down a Japanese hotel corridor scavenging for leftover food from room-service trays. But, then, Dickinson’s path to the left seat […]

AOPA is organizing a tangible way for pilots to help pilots bring help to the victims of the South Asia tsunami. AOPA is pledging to match, dollar for dollar, to a maximum of $25,000, contributions made by individuals (you don’t have to be a member) to AirServ International, a humanitarian organization that is using a […]

A pair of British physically challenged aviation buffs are out to prove that their disabilities don’t diminish their need for speed. Sometime in the coming year, John de Frayssinet and Jenny Ayers, both members of the British Disabled Flying Association, hope to claim a world record in their class for a flight from the southern […]

Here’s a Palm Pilot worthy of its name. Garmin has married a moving-map GPS with a Palm PDA to come up with the iQue 3600A. The new device is based on a terrestrial version of the same concept (the iQue 3600) which combined all the organizational and entertainment capabilities of the Palm Pilot with maps, […]

Commander Aircraft is apparently the latest casualty of 9/11 and the generally weak aviation market. The Bethany, Okla., plane-maker has asked a bankruptcy judge to convert its bankruptcy case from a Chapter 11 reorganization to a Chapter 7 liquidation. The company built about 200 of the speedy and luxurious four-place singles between 1992 and 2002. […]

The vast majority of midair collisions are in or near the pattern so investigators have their work cut out for them in the tragic meeting of an Air Tractor crop-duster and an Air Force T-37 5,000 feet above the wide-open spaces of Oklahoma on Tuesday morning. The Air Force pilots, instructor Capt. Christopher S. Otis […]

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