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With the FAA paying deserved attention to the maintenance of aging aircraft, companies still selling new aircraft are reporting good news this week; Mooney and Cirrus both had reason to celebrate. Cirrus set a sales record by delivering 62 planes in October and brought its three-month total to 222 airplanes. By comparison, it took Cessna […]

Well, every place has to be famous for something and Montreal’s propensity for freezing drizzle has earned it the starring role in a new aircraft icing study. Researchers from North America and Europe, including NASA and Canada’s National Research Council, will be loading five airplanes full of high-tech gear to see if they can better […]

The airplane classification hasn’t been formally created but already the first convention of light-sport aircraft (LSA) manufacturers and suppliers is being organized. The U.S. Sport Aviation Expo will be held at Sebring Airport in Florida Oct. 28-31, 2004. “We are extremely excited about the advent of the light-sport aircraft category and the new sport pilot […]

An Airworthiness Directive was issued concerning possible metal fatigue in T-34 wing spars after a crash in 1999, and now the FAA is checking maintenance records on a Texas Air Aces T-34 that lost a wing during aerobatic maneuvers last Wednesday. The tandem military trainer, built in 1965 by Beechcraft, lost its right wing at […]

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______SPECIAL EVENTS Learning To Fly Again For The First TimeBuilding a painstakingly accurate reproduction of a 100-year-old airplane is one thing — figuring out how to fly it, and not get killed in the process, is quite another. That’s the challenge faced by The Wright Experience team as they prepare for the once-in-a-lifetime celebration of […]

A Cleveland man who got snowed in while camping in the Adirondack Mountains in New York last week was rescued by a UH-1 Huey helicopter thanks to the help of his personal locator beacon (PLB). The rescue marks the first such use of a PLB in the contiguous United States. About 10 a.m. on Nov. […]

In Shanghai this week, businessman Li Linhai expects to take delivery of his brand-new Robinson R-44 helicopter, the first light aircraft bought for private use on the Chinese mainland. Li will fly his helicopter for business trips and family visits, he told the China Daily. Despite the high cost of flight training, about $241 per […]

Crew resource management may be old news to pilots, but the concept is now making waves in other industries where communication among workers can mean the difference between safety and disaster, The (U.K.) Herald reported Monday. Techniques that pilots use to help avoid accidents are being adapted to reduce the risk of mistakes in hospital […]

On Monday, the General Aviation Airport Security Working Group released its final report on GA security to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The goal of the Working Group, made up of representatives from GA alphabet groups such as GAMA, AOPA, EAA, NATA, NBAA, and more, was to develop guidelines for security at the nation’s GA […]