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A motorcycle-racer-turned-computer-engineer-turned-airplane-designer claims to have designed a wing with “twice the lift and half the drag of anything in the world.” The wing is just one of the improvements Bill Montagne has made to the basic Super Cub design to create the Mountain Goat, which (hauling a 1,330 pound useful load off the ground in […]

The U.S. Navy claims it has met all environmental and legal obligations to establish a 30,000-acre training base in North Carolina. It filed a 77-page document supporting its claim as part of an appeal in a tangled legal proceeding over the base. However, an environmental group and two county governments are accusing the Navy of […]

The TSA alien flight-training rule is now in full effect but efforts continue in the background to make it “less intrusive,” according to an AOPA spokesman. The organization’s government specialist Andy Cebula said any non-U.S. citizen beginning training for a new rating or certificate must be registered with the TSA and undergo background checks. It’s […]

Those hoping to obtain a sport pilot certificate or instructor certificate in the coming year can now get their certified training records online from the EAA Web site … provided they previously registered with EAA before the Sept. 1, 2004, deadline. The records must be presented before pilots can take the written and practical tests […]

If you don’t think a wrecked Piper Aerostar could be worth $24 million you’ve probably never packed one with cocaine (and that’s a good thing). Wheeling, W.Va., police are looking for the Aerostar’s pilot after the plane crashed on airport property. It was carrying 520 pounds of the drug, some of it wrapped as Christmas […]

The TSA appears to be opening restricted airspace and airports a crack for business aviation. According to the National Business Aviation Association’s (NBAA’s) Web site, Rear Adm. David Stone, the assistant secretary of Homeland Security, said the TSA Access Certificate (TSAAC — used to grant waivers for some international operations) will likely be modified. The […]

https://avweb.com/avmail/ Reader mail this week about Cessna’s generosity, cone of no safety, the ATC death ray and more.

_______COLUMNS CEO of the Cockpit #40: Dear SantaFinding himself a swimming-pool-bound prisoner of a three-day re-route, the CEO takes a little time off from his enforced Fort Lauderdale layover to jot down a few ideas for the bearded fat man.

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