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The immediate future of Horace Williams Airport in Chapel Hill, N.C. appears secure after the state’s General Assembly passed amendments to the current budget requiring the airport to stay open until a suitable, accessible replacement can be built, something not likely to happen soon. The airport is owned by the University of North Carolina, which […]

The world’s only intact, as-original DC-7 could take flight for the first time in 33 years in early August. Legendary Airliners, a Florida travel club, hopes to ferry the former Eastern Airlines passenger plane from St. Paul, Minn., to Miami after replacing a balky engine. The company had hoped to make the flight in mid-July […]

A year ago, the newest entry in the mid-sized turboprop single market was a paper airplane. Later this week, the prototype of the

Pilots who’ve done it say there’s no better way to see New York City but a local senator wants to close the so-called Hudson River Corridor to GA. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) claims New York City is being shortchanged on security by the existence of the uncontrolled VFR corridor and he believes the Big Apple […]

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_______COLUMNS Motor Head #1: GA Engine Technology — Are We Getting the Shaft?It’s easy to be embarrassed by the state of the general aviation technology when we have to admit to our non-pilot friends that our engines use such quaint items as magnetos and (gasp!) carburetors. Many pilots and aircraft owners wish they could, for […]

The biennial Farnborough Air Show opens outside London today, with Airbus and Boeing competing to show off their latest designs and to battle for orders. A record number of U.S. companies will be there, including a healthy contingent from the U.S. government and the military, who spurned last year’s Paris Air Show over political differences […]

First it was the pigeons, cooing and roosting and making a smelly mess of the tower at Palm Beach International Airport. But when the pigeons were banished, the tiny mites that feed on them got hungry, and discovered 38 warm-blooded controllers right downstairs. “When they’re crawling on you, and you can’t see them, it kind […]