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You may surprised to hear that one of the U.S. Air Forces prized F-22s nearly crashed on Sept. 19. Thats because the government had kept the incident under wraps until a Texas newspaper broke the story. The Dallas Morning News reports an anonymous senior Air Force official confirmed the accident, which nearly cost the life […]

The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) , the civilian auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, has selected two contractors to provide new eyes in the sky for its aircraft. The hyper-spectral imaging sensors and a visual computing network allows a sensor on a moving aircraft to detect objects on the ground by picking up light reflected […]

Sure, flying has always been associated with some element of risk, but a recent government study says it’s downright dangerous as jobs go. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released a list of the top 10 most dangerous jobs in America for 2002. In the report, examined by CNN and Money Magazine, pilots and […]

The last flight of the famed Concorde is nearly upon us, and many aviation enthusiasts, historians and those who want a last peek at the aircraft are planning to bid it farewell in style. Thousands of people are expected to pack Londons Heathrow airport to watch the final flight of Concorde on Oct. 24. Special […]

On Tuesday, EAA released some new data that shows the number of homebuilt aircraft is on the rise. The Oshkosh-based organization claims the homebuilt-aircraft segment has shown steady growth and there are now more than 25,000 U.S.-registered homebuilt aircraft. They account for more than 15 percent of the single-engine piston-powered general aviation fleet. EAA says […]

The Vantage jet may fly after all. Two men have purchased the assets of the bankrupt VisionAire Corp. with the hope of bringing the defunct jet program back into full swing. Matt Eller and Joel Goodman paid $441,000 to a St. Louis bankruptcy court for the estimated $110 million worth of technology, engineering equipment, parts […]

_______COLUMNS Pelican’s Perch #74: Hurricane (Part 2)AVweb’s John Deakin concludes his two-part series on the Hawker Hurricane with this report of his first time flying it. As you’ll see, it takes a lot of time just to get ready to go, but once it does, it does it in a Hurry!

“I’ve shot three thousand dead-stick landings in this airplane,” he said. Bob Hoover, the war veteran, test pilot, and grand old man of air show routines, last Friday saddled up in his famous Shrike Commander 500S for one last flight, The Flying Life‘s Jamie Beckett told AVweb. Hoover, along with co-pilot Steve Clegg, were wheels-up […]

It would appear that the long-standing battle over curfews at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport may be over, at least for now. In an arguably more sensible agreement between the city and the FAA, noise — not size — will determine which aircraft can use the airport between 11:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m. […]