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https://avweb.com/avmail/ Reader mail this week about Rep. Weiner’s GA screening bill and AVweb’s Reno coverage, and more comments about the letter from controller “Jane Doe” and NATCA President John Carr’s rebuttal.

_______COLUMNS As the Beacon Turns #81: Of Mice and MMCHow could something with a brain so small wreak such havoc in a hangar? How can something so large squeeze into a quarter-inch gap between fairing and fuselage, or scale the slickest tailgear of an airplane? AVweb’s Michael Maya Charles wonders these things and more in […]

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A team of researchers has determined that Baron Manfred von Richthofen wasn’t himself when he followed a British plane behind enemy lines and was shot down in 1917. Researchers Daniel Orme and Thomas Hyatt claim von Richthofen was exhibiting the classic symptoms of the aftermath of a head wound he suffered nine months earlier. In […]

The odds-on favorite to win the private race for space has gone weightless. Burt Rutan took a spin (and probably a whole lot of other maneuvers) aboard Zero Gravity Corp.’s modified Boeing 727, which recently received FAA approval to provide NASA-style parabolic flights that give passengers up to 30 seconds of weightlessness. “It was really […]

Sometimes what goes up doesn’t necessarily follow the rest when it comes down. Nancy Morgan, of Hartselle, Ala., went outside her home to investigate the “whoomp” she’d heard and found what looked like the door of an airplane. Stoney Powell, the owner of the FBO at nearby Rountree Airport, confirmed her suspicions and has begun […]

Questions abound about the future of Renaissance Aircraft LLC and probably no one is more concerned than the city council of Cape Girardeau, Mo. On Oct. 1, Renaissance is supposed to start paying $21,000 a month in rent on a $2.1 million building the city built for the company so it could manufacture an updated […]

The Transportation Security Administration has released its alien flight training interim final rule (how an interim rule can be final only red tape can explain). At any rate, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) is applauding the publication of the rule, which is mandated by the Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act passed by Congress last […]