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“We’re beginning to see a great number of visitors who come to the Pacific Northwest just to go on a kind of ‘aviation spree’ at the museums along the I-5 corridor,” Teri Thorning, director of Olympia’s Olympic Flight Museum, told the Associated Press recently. About a half-dozen aviation-themed museums are expected to attract more than […]

A race for space wouldn’t be very dramatic without some struggle and setback, and while the front-runners for the $10 million Ansari X Prize over at Scaled Composites have been humming along (with the substantial help of Paul G. Allen’s substantial funding), the pack of challengers deals with daily trials — and sometimes defeat. The […]

In frustration that an allegedly intoxicated pilot who was caught flying in Pennsylvania last January couldn’t be charged with flying drunk under current laws, the state legislature seems determined to come up with a remedy. The House has already introduced a bill to make drunk flying illegal, and now the Senate is working on another […]

New aircraft associations for owners of Pipers, Cessnas and Beechcraft have launched in the past few weeks. Trevor Janz, who together with Jennifer Julin founded the Piper Flyer and Cessna Flyer Associations, based in Wisconsin, told AVweb on Saturday they are excited about the project and have lots of ideas to serve their membership. “We […]

A lack of communication between an airline crew and air traffic control that resulted in an airborne intercept has sparked an inquiry in Europe … that and the scrambling of six military aircraft from three different countries, two each from the Netherlands, Germany and France … plus a sonic boom from the Dutch F-16s, heard […]

Owners of air-knocker airplanes with low-compression engines designed to run on 80-octane fuel will have to search for a new kind of juice soon. Kern Oil, the last standing producer of 80-octane aviation fuel, has stopped making the red stuff, AOPA reported Friday. While this development will come as no surprise to industry watchers, who […]

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