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AVweb’s Sun ‘n Fun photo galleries are now complete with full size hi-res images (some as large as 2560×1920 pixels — you can count the rivets on the wings or the hairs in the pilots nose) available for inspection or download. Air show aircraft in flight, on the ground, vintage aircraft on the grass, one […]

A volunteer flying group is helping casualties of the war in Iraq cope. Angel Flight West is playing a major role in getting loved ones to visit the wounded and attend the funerals of Marines based at Camp Pendleton in San Diego. The base has suffered a rash of casualties among its soldiers stationed in […]

An international team of skydivers set a new record for formation skydiving at Zephyrhills, Fla., on Sunday. The team achieved a two-point formation with 121 skydivers. “Two points” means that after the first formation was complete, the group transitioned into a second formation before breaking off the effort at 6,000 feet. The event required 20 […]

Backup systems worked perfectly to maintain air traffic control and communications functions during a power failure at Los Angeles International Airport Monday. “The system worked seamlessly without interruption to air traffic operations,” said FAA spokesman Greg Martin. Monday’s power failure was in sharp contrast to one a week earlier in which the backup systems failed […]

The FAA says it will have a revised version of the Sport Pilot/Light-Sport Aircraft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in front of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the next week or so. FAA spokeswoman Allison Duquette told AVweb Wednesday that the goal is to get the rule out “as soon as possible.” […]

When Frantzler Narcisse talked, pilots at Lantana Airport and Palm Beach International couldn’t listen … to each other and air traffic control. Authorities dismantled Narcisse’s pirate radio station last week after pilots complained his signal was blocking communications at the two airports. “That was one hell of a dirty transmitter,” Terry Jones, a news helicopter […]

Perhaps Allen Rothenberg. of Rockville, Md., saw our recent Ercoupe coverage, because he wrote to tell us he’s planning a 13,000-mile trip in the low-wing plane-for-all-people around the perimeter of the lower 48 states to celebrate his 75th birthday. “I thought you might be interested in some information about an Ercoupe that not only will […]

A Cirrus SR22 crashed and burned Monday shortly after departure from Greenwood County Airport in South Carolina, killing all four souls on board. Corky Smith, an NTSB investigator working the site, told The Index-Journal witnesses saw the aircraft lift off the runway, climb to roughly 30 feet, then descend to roughly 10 feet over the […]

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