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A new online guide to general aviation, unveiled Tuesday by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), was designed to educate the mass media, but it’s likely to prove useful — or at least interesting — to many others. Among the information available at a click: profiles of GA manufacturers of airplanes, engines, avionics, and components; […]

Tower by tower, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) has been taking its show on the road, holding news conferences at busy airports around the country to voice concerns about understaffing. This week, media events at airports in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Honolulu followed similar ones held recently in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Seattle. […]

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_______COLUMNS The Pilot’s Lounge #76: And Now For Something …Got a lust for adventure? Tired of the status quo? Finished boring holes in the sky or getting $100 (let’s be honest — $200) hamburgers? AVweb’s Rick Durden hasn’t seriously thought about skydiving for many years, but recently he decided to take the plunge, and it […]

He drives a Chevy, is a baseball fanatic, loves his mom and we’ll go out on a limb and guess he likes apple pie, too. So, could George W. Bush accept an Italian helicopter as his official ride? Well, the Italians, with some help from the British, are hoping so. Agusta Westland (in a bid […]

Canadian pilots are being rallied to help save what has often been referred to as Canada’s Meigs Field. Indeed, the physical and political similarities between Toronto City Centre Airport and the gone but not forgotten Chicago waterfront airport are striking. Although Toronto’s island airport has been under siege for several years, a new federal proposal […]

A “relatively simple” onboard wake-turbulence detector is being developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Germany. The device, which uses mirrors and laser pulses to detect turbulence in front of an airplane, could help reduce congestion and the hazard created by vortex drag. “We are cooperating with eight teams […]

If one of the reasons you’re going to EAA AirVenture later this month is to shop for (or leave drool on) avionics, be prepared to be amazed at the length and breadth of the selection. The electronics sector has exploded in recent years with everything from synthetic vision and weather products to angle-of-attack indicators, and, […]