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Aviation Jobs In Demand

There’s just something about flying. Ignoring all the doom and gloom surrounding the airline industry, young people continue to flock toward careers in aviation, according to the Daytona Beach News Herald’s coverage of a recent aviation career fair. The News Herald sent a reporter to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s annual career fair and found optimism at […]

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AVweb’s Business AVflash

HAVE YOU SIGNED UP yet for AVwebs NO-COST twice monthly Business AVflash? Reporting on breaking news, Business AVflash also focuses on the companies, the products and the industry leaders that make headlines in the Business of Aviation. Business AVflash is a must read. Watch for a Business AVflash regular feature, TSA WATCH: GA IN THE […]

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MIT Team Teaching English To Airplanes

Imagine if you could talk to your airplane, issuing commands like “find the airport” or “fly the approach,” and it would obey? Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working on teaching an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to respond to English commands. “The system allows the pilot [who flies nearby in an F-15] […]

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TFRs Are Here, They’re Weird, Get Used To It

With the end of the U.S. election campaign, the ubiquitous VIP TFRs are expected to slow down for a while, but TFRs in their various forms certainly seem to be here to stay. What isn’t here, at least not yet, is any systematic or standardized format to help pilots navigate these restricted areas. While many […]

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GA Looking Bad In Front-Page Accidents

A Cessna 210 piloted by a CFI who reported a low fuel condition while on approach to the Torrance Airport, near Los Angeles, crashed into a house on Thursday. A 90-year-old woman who lived in the house was “stunned,” but unhurt. Local residents pulled the burning pilot from the wreck, reports said. An entire country […]

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Flyers Fill Flu Gap

Every crisis is an opportunity, the old saying goes, and some businesses in the border states are finding that the flu-vaccine shortage means more cash flow for them. Kenmore Air, a seaplane outfit near Seattle, Wash., is promoting “Flu Flights” to Canada, where flu shots are available. Kenmore says it will be “the most memorable, […]

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TSA Raises Alert Over Stolen Crop-Duster

The Transportation Security Administration issued an advisory on Friday that a Piper PA 25 Pawnee crop-dusting aircraft was stolen from Ejido Queretaro, near Mexicali, Mexico, on Nov. 1. “Although there is currently no indication that this has any connection to terrorist activity,” the TSA said, “the theft is cause for concern. Past information indicates that […]

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