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It may be the slowest jet-powered aircraft ever built but we bet it will climb. Powrachute, which builds lots of the familiar reciprocating engine-type chutes has, with the help of jet guru Les Shockley, strapped a former helicopter turbine to a basically standard powered ‘chute frame and is hoping to fly it for the first […]

Loan guarantees from the Canadian government have ensured the long-awaited (and frustrated) certification of the Seawind amphibian can go ahead, possibly as early as next year. Company President Dick Silva told a news conference at Air Venture that the money enabled the Quebec-based firm to overcome some technical certification issues regarding the materials and bonding […]

Scaled Composites is ready to launch SpaceShipOne from Mojave on September 29 in hopes of winning the $10 million X Prize, the X Prize Foundation announced yesterday. But designer Burt Rutan and astronaut Mike Melvill may have competition: the da Vinci Project team, based in Toronto, Canada, plans to roll out its completed Wild Fire […]

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He was hoping to spot dinner but fisherman Cory Fladeboe instead may have served up the solution to a 46-year-old mystery. Fladeboe was fishing for walleye on Green Lake in Minnesota when he got frustrated with his poor luck. He stuck his underwater camera over the side, hoping to see where he should be casting […]

With the opening of AirVenture tomorrow, expect new electronics goodies to pad your panel, including some interesting variations on GPS. For instance, recently formed Aspen Avionics has come out with a panel-mounted (experimental only) terrain-awareness display that fits in the hole vacated by your VSI. The AT300 plugs into your GPS shows aircraft position and […]

Colleges hoping for a slice of $7 million allocated for air traffic controller training in the proposed FAA budget are concerned about a stipulation that will exclude them and could end up closing their programs, while putting a bottleneck in the controller training and replacement process. The extra money, aimed at forestalling (or at least […]