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It may not seem the time for another new low-cost airline to emerge, but what the hey … it seems they’re the only segment of the airline industry making any money right now. Independence Air, the latest to enter the low-cost wars, announced last week it will be flying to 27 different airports from its […]

As German investigators published their final report on what caused a fatal midair in the skies over southern Germany, the Swiss air traffic control agency apologized for their role in it. A single controller working for the Swiss firm Skyguide was on duty at the time of the July 1, 2002, crash. Controller Peter Neilson […]

Congressional pressure has forced the U.S. Navy to say “uncle” in a case of David and Goliath. In 1991, vintage plane buff Lex Cralley of Princeton, Minn., went down to Craven County, N.C., and dug up the rusting pieces of a World War II-era Brewster F3A-1 Corsair that had laid abandoned there for 60 years. […]

Shreveport (Louisiana) Downtown Airport (DTN) has a message for you. If you’re planning to wander out onto a runway in anything other than a plane, with anything other than control-tower approval, don’t do it there. The FAA began an all-out assault on runway incursions under the leadership of Jane Garvey, and takes them very, very […]

If you’re flying behind a prop that was worked on by the Southern California Propeller Service in Inglewood, Calif., it’s likely going to cost you. The FAA is considering a $3,000 fix for about 1,000 propellers that were overhauled by the company. The feds say they are proposing an AD to prevent blade failure that […]

If last week’s news about the harassment suit filed by the Massachusetts group Stop the Noise made your blood run cold, you’d better fire up a heater before you read this. A group that has named itself Stop the Stunts seems to be taking its cue from Stop the Noise. The Mineral Point, Wis., group […]

Saturday (according to a TFR issued May 20) saw the airspace around Austin (Texas) Bergstrom International Airport restricted for GA traffic and open for the president … who showed up but then skipped the event he was in town to see. Alas, the Temporary Flight Restriction, which read in part, “AIRCRAFT FLIGHT OPERATIONS ARE PROHIBITED […]

_________ BRAINTEASERS Quiz #81: Know Your LimitsThe freedom of flight is only limited by your imagination and a few thousand federal regulations. Let’s navigate down to the regulatory minimums without slipping too many surly FAR bonds.

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Despite a week that began cool, wet and windy, Sun ‘n Fun officials in Lakeland, Fla., confirm things ended well. By the last of the seven-day run at Lakeland’s Linder Regional Airport, some 160,000 visitors had walked through the gates, 5,000 airplanes had come to visit, and 501 commercial exhibitors — a record number — […]