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_______COLUMNS The Pilot’s Lounge #69: In 2004, We Resolve2003 was, in some ways, a great year for aviation; and in other ways, it was pretty sad. But we’re already thinking about 2004. AVweb’s Rick Durden has assembled his quick list of things his fellow pilots in The Pilot’s Lounge have resolved to accomplish in the […]

As of Saturday, the Beagle lander on Mars had not yet sent a signal, but efforts are continuing… The body of a man in his mid-20s was found inside the wheel well of an American Airlines flight from Jamaica that arrived at New York’s JFK Airport on Christmas Eve… Al Haynes, the captain who flew […]

On Friday, a ferry pilot en route from Hawaii to California ditched in the mid-Pacific after reporting a fuel problem, and was killed. Kelvin Stark, 58, of Tauranga, was ferrying a brand-new Pacific Aerospace Corporation PAC 750XL plane to Oakland. It was the first of the $1.7 million aircraft to be sold overseas, according to […]

Qantas will begin carrying up to six armed air marshals on flights between Australia and Singapore, the Australian government said on Friday. The deal had stalled over who would pay for the seats, and was settled when the government agreed to pay corporate rates. The program will cost the government about $7.5 million (U.S.) per […]

Harry Combs, who was honored earlier this month in North Carolina as one of aviation’s top 100 pioneers, died Tuesday in Phoenix, Ariz. Combs, 90, was a former president of Gates Learjet and founder of AMR Combs, a national chain of corporate aircraft service centers. “He was a very dynamic individual — a perfectionist, really, […]

Steve Holzinger, a 19-year-old from Marlton, N.J., says it was “a dream come true” when he was named the youngest-ever Airshow Fan of the Year at the annual convention of the International Council of Air Shows, held earlier this month in Dallas, Texas. Holzinger drives up to nine hours in a day in his 1986 […]

On Saturday, both the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder were recovered from the 727 that crashed into a building and then plunged into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff on Thursday from the tiny West African country of Benin. The airliner, operated by the Lebanese-owned Union des Transports Africains (UTA), was carrying […]

Ballistic Recovery Systems, of South St. Paul, Minn., said last week it has set a new company record for revenues. Sales totaled $6.5 million in 2003, up 29 percent from the year before. The company attributed the increase to its new general aviation products and to a growth in sales of parachute systems for recreational […]

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