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When French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery flew off alone into a July night in 1944 and vanished, his mysterious end became an integral part of the story of his life. Now, hundreds of pieces of a wrecked Lockheed Lightning, found on the Mediterranean seabed off the coast of Provence, have been positively identified […]

https://avweb.com/avmail/ Reader mail this week about Sport Pilot delays, avian warning systems, airshows and more.

_______COLUMNS As the Beacon Turns #75: Mistakes Are Good!Most pilots hate to make mistakes. Aside from the obvious dangers of getting hurt or killed, the damage to one’s pride prevents most pilots from stopping to contemplate the advantages of making (safe) mistakes. AVweb’s Michael Maya Charles is back in the simulator and (mostly) enjoying learning […]

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Sonic booms rattled southern Oregon last week but the Air National Guard isn’t apologizing. Spokeswoman Capt. Mitzi Mazzia said two F-15s broke the sound barrier last Thursday morning as part of a readiness exercise. Residents of Coos Bay and North Bend and Charleston weren’t ready, however, and flooded authorities with calls… If Richard Branson says […]

And then there were six … or is it five? Raytheon’s effort to decommission the fleet of Beech 2000 Starships has met with some resistance by pilots who just don’t want to give up the composite, canarded, tailless twin turboprop that the company once hoped would revolutionize the business-aircraft market. Last year it decided support […]

The FAA says John Salamone has paid a high enough price for his alleged aerial antics over Philadelphia International Airport and the agency won’t be levying any fines against him. Salamone is alleged to have thrown the airspace over northern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey into chaos for four hours on the night of Jan. […]

Another country, another study, the same results. Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) recently completed an analysis of fatal general aviation accidents over a 10-year period and has come up with findings essentially similar to other studies done on the subject. The vast majority of fatal accidents are caused by pilots, not hardware, and 78 […]

AOPA President Phil Boyer says his “productive meeting” with Northwest Airlines CEO Richard Anderson Friday led to the result that the two “will agree to disagree” on the topic of user fees for air traffic control services. Anderson claimed in an editorial in Northwest’s Inflight Magazine (reported earlier by AVweb) that airlines are subsidizing general […]

The city of Ocean City, Md., is asking the FAA for more time to come up with a plan to buy, sell, transfer or otherwise rid itself of the complications a successful golf course has created in relation to the local airport. As AVweb reported earlier, the FAA wants $13.3 million from Ocean City to […]