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Our Thursday report noting that Mooney will offer buyers the new Garmin G1000 PFD in new production aircraft gave the impression that Cirrus, too, is offering the G1000. In fact, Cirrus aircraft are equipped with the Avidyne Entegra system while the Mooneys will have the G1000 system. Diamond DA40 buyers will have their choice of […]

Sometimes stuff happens and when it happens on airplanes it can have hilarious results. For some reason, a collection of funny flying stories came our way this week and they’re too good not to pass on. What happens when dry ice goes down a DC-8’s toilet? How about discovering new ways to vomit in the […]

Well, we can’t wait for this one to show up on Warbird Alley at Oshkosh. A Washington broker is selling what he claims is the only privately owned F/A-18A in the world on eBay. What’s more, the seller claims the aircraft was used by the Blue Angels in the early 1990s. The high bid (last […]

What happens when an Apache tangles with two Trojans (pages 4,5)? Broken airplanes and, we suspect, broken hearts. The T-28s were resting peacefully outside their hangars at Hicks Airfield (T67) near Fort Worth on the afternoon of Jan. 9, but it was the wrong place at the wrong time. The NTSB report says the pilot […]

A mechanic and his supervisors have been cleared of any wrongdoing over maladjusted elevator cables suspected of playing a role in the crash of a US Airways Express Beech 1900 on Jan. 8, 2003. All 21 people aboard the commuter flight, operated for the airline by Air Midwest, died when it climbed sharply after takeoff, […]

Decreasing numbers aren’t always bad news. EAA says the number of experimental aircraft accidents dropped 25 percent in the one-year period ending September 2003 over the previous 12 months and fatalities were down by 36 percent. The better safety record came as new experimental registrations hit record levels and the number of homebuilts on the […]

As AVweb reported Thursday, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) delivered a bushel of bad news (along with some bright spots in piston single sales) in its annual report, and the phones started ringing in corporate communications offices. “Cessna’s 2003 production numbers and market share are lower than 2002’s due to our revised Citation delivery […]

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When Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, 2001, 40 lives were lost, but on Sunday, one pilot’s dream came true. Sandra Dahl, the widow of First Officer Jason Dahl, climbed into an F-16 fighter jet in Colorado and took a 45-minute ride, looping, rolling, pulling Gs, and experiencing all the joys […]