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What happened to just handing out a couple detentions? Luckily, school was not in session Wednesday night when a National Guard F-16 fired on Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School, in the vicinity of (globally speaking) Atlantic City, with 25 rounds from a wing-mounted cannon. The F-16, flying at 7,000 feet, was headed for a target […]

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____BRAINTEASERS Quiz #87 — Who Ya Gonna Call?If anything can go wrong it will, and if not in flight at least on this quiz. See how you’d handle this string of stressful equipment failures without blowing your cool.

You can’t say AVweb doesn’t know how to get readers’ attention. Our story on Monday about the risks of cosmic radiation included a remark that Australian flight attendants more than 16 months pregnant are not allowed to work aloft. Oops. Apparently, that was supposed to be 16 *weeks* — as our story now says. (Who […]

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has demonstrated hindsight and possibly the ability to listen — this exact issue was brought to the attention of TSA Rear Adm. David “The Head Honcho” Stone at AOPA Expo last month. The TSA has determined (granted, after publishing the rule) that gliders and lighter-than-air aircraft “do not present a […]

A group representing crop-dusting pilots in Australia is calling for a national effort to mark power lines so pilots can safely avoid them, ABC-Australia reported on Tuesday. The appeal from the Aerial Agricultural Association of Australia follows two helicopter crashes within three days. Both helicopters were spraying for locusts and hit power lines. Peter Mackay, […]

As new capacity limits on GA flights at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport went into effect this week, the FAA released a new study that says O’Hare must set its limits even lower in order to avoid gridlock. GA operations as of this week are limited to four per hour between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. […]

The federal government will spend $20.5 million to fund repairs at 71 airports that were damaged by hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne, U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta announced on Friday. The money will be distributed to airports in Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Puerto Rico. A range of projects […]

You’ve all heard the election results by now, but here is the GA spin on Tuesday’s votes. AOPA says 95 percent of the 105 congressional candidates it endorsed won their seats. But the election determines more than who’s in and who’s out. In the Senate, Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens takes over chairmanship of the powerful […]