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If you’re curious about what may appear to be outwardly erratic behavior among the highest ranks at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) — whose new president departed April 1 after nine months on the job — read your Business AVflash. For subscribers (sign up is independent of the AVflash you’re currently reading) AVweb‘s Business […]

On Friday, XCOR Aerospace became the second company to receive a Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) mission license from the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation. The company, based in Mojave, Calif., said it will use the license to test RLV technologies prior to suborbital space travel. XCOR said it will be the first to use […]

Air Scouts, a program of the Boy Scouts of America that was popular in the 1940s and ’50s, is slowly reappearing as three Air Scouting groups are now underway, one each in Texas and Illinois, and now the newest one at Moore County Airport in North Carolina. The co-ed program for youth ages 14 to […]

The Flight of Discovery, a team of general aviation pilots and scientists, plans to fly above the river corridors and overland routes followed by the Lewis and Clark expedition 200 years ago. The expedition, comprising eight fixed-wing aircraft and two helicopters, will depart from Clarksville, Ind., on June 1 and arrive two weeks later in […]

Advanced age plus severe stress put firefighting aircraft at risk of structural failure, and the maintenance and inspection programs currently in effect are inadequate, the NTSB said in safety recommendations issued on Friday. The board determined that fatigue cracking was the probable cause in three air-tanker accidents involving in-flight wing separations during firefighting operations. Inadequate […]

During this weekend’s Festival of Roses in Orangeburg, S.C., some pilots at the local airport decided to get into the spirit of the event and host an open house. Anyone who wanted to see the festival from the air was invited to visit the field, and for a donation of $10 or so, they could […]

The family of a Quebec man who died when his single-engine plane crashed into a 1,000-foot-high telecommunications tower in dense fog in 2001 is being sued for $2.5 million by the tower’s owner, CTV News reported Saturday. The wreck remained tangled in the tower for several days, and the tower was destroyed with dynamite to […]

_________ BRAINTEASERS Quiz #80 — Radar ContactDon’t you love that cozy feeling you get when an air traffic controller whispers, “Radar contact,” in your headset? But what service attaches to these words? Whether IFR or VFR it helps to know your radar vs. non-radar terms and expectations.

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