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The Friends of Meigs (FOM), never backing down from a fight, last week presented their latest proposal at the Chicago Park District budget meeting. The group’s plan calls for the city to reopen the airport, while developing part of the area as parkland and building an aviation museum. The FOM said its plan would solve […]

At last week’s Dubai Air Show, Airbus claimed supremacy in the commercial jet market, saying it is selling more jets than Boeing, its longtime rival. Boeing, however, was not so willing to move over to the No. 2 slot. While Boeing did not dispute that Airbus has more orders so far this year — 263 […]

Prognosticators, who tend to proliferate at year-end anyhow, are plentiful beyond reason this year. Everybody not busy reminiscing about the last 100 years is busy imagining the next. National Geographic Magazine has “The Future of Flying” as its December cover story. Popular Science weighed in last month with its “Gallery of Future Aircraft.” Cirrus Design […]

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_______COLUMNS Say Again? #31: Traffic TimeDo you know where the traffic is around you? The controller knows, and can usually tell you. But sometimes pilots make things more difficult than they need to be — when we’re just trying to keep away from everyone else. AVweb’s Don Brown tells how you can work with ATC […]

Thanks to some ultralight pilots, Canadian wildlife charity Operation Migration and hundreds of volunteers, there are 16 more whooping cranes ready to take on the world. The young birds, all born last May in captivity in Wisconsin, were literally shown the way to their winter home near Crystal River, Fla., on Monday. More than 1,000 […]

It may seem like 100 years to some of those at Lancair Certified but it only took the company eight years to reach a centennial of sorts. The Bend, Ore., company rolled its 100th Columbia 350 out of the factory earlier this week, a little more than a week before that big Dec. 17 to-do […]

Love them or hate them, airports usually evoke some kind of visceral reaction, but officials at Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport are wondering what to do about a “tourism expert’s” assessment. Alf Nucifora told The Wichita Eagle he thought the airport bland. But, then, maybe the airport is OK and it’s the city that’s bland, because he […]

Rescue officials scolded an Anchorage Fire Department Battalion Chief for failing to file a flight plan on a sightseeing trip that could have been his last. Wade Strahan, 56, spent a wet, frigid night in an unheated trapper’s cabin after his Cessna 172 skidded into Eklutna Lake last Friday afternoon. His disappearance sparked a massive […]

Labor peace between air traffic controllers and the FAA has been guaranteed (maybe) by the signing of a two-year extension of their contract. Although much of the contract is unchanged (including the base wage of controllers) the FAA did win some cost-saving measures in the deal. How much they’ll be able to save depends on […]