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Tuesday’s primaries put Sen. John Kerry on track to be this year’s Democratic nominee for president, and that is fine with the folks at the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA). The union yesterday gave its enthusiastic support to Kerry, after he courted them with a promise that there would be no ATC privatization on […]

https://avweb.com/avmail/ Reader mail this week about the Army’s Comanche helicopter, the scenic tour NPRM, and more.

_______COLUMNS Pelican’s Perch #78: Props Driving EnginesIf your CFI (or mechanic) instructed you never to let the propeller drive the engine, or never to run the engine “oversquare,” it’s time for a reality check. AVweb’s John Deakin addresses a few more of these engine myths that started back in the days of radial-engines.

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The Aviation Foundation of America seeks support to stop air-tour regs as the FAA’s online meeting continues…. Entry kits now available online for this year’s cross-country air races sponsored by U.S. Air Race… AirVenture this summer will open a new homebuilt camping area and headquarters… Liberty Aerospace won the 2004 Aerospace Industry Award in the […]

The TSA held a meeting Friday about security at repair stations — and the stand taken by the Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA) was that not only has the TSA failed to show that there is any problem with repair-station security, but the effort to improve it might actually make it worse. “We are concerned […]

The folks with the Air Care Alliance are putting out a call to all volunteer pilots who fly for charitable causes to support a bill now in Congress that would provide “Good Samaritan” liability relief. Letters from pilots and face-to-face meetings with representatives are a vital tool in gaining support for the bill, the Alliance […]

Improper installation of a spring may mean that some shoulder restraints installed in some Cessna aircraft will not restrain. The FAA has added 10 more serial numbers to its long list of Cessna airplanes affected by a proposed Airworthiness Directive (AD) regarding shoulder harnesses. The 10 additional numbers belong to Model TU206D aircraft. Because of […]

A radio-controlled model plane, the intrepid Flyin’ Tiger and the ubiquitous Steve Fossett were among the most memorable aviation record-setters of 2003, the National Aeronautic Association (NAA) said on Thursday. The model airplane TAM-5 became the first aircraft of its type to cross the Atlantic Ocean, traveling 1,882 miles from Newfoundland to Ireland in under […]

The folks at Honda might not like to talk much about their little jet, or its little engines — which it plans to manufacture under a recent deal with GE — but everyone else in the aviation world sure wants to talk about them. On Friday, Garmin announced that its G1000 integrated avionics system is […]