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COLUMNS CEO of the Cockpit #62: Garden PartyIt’s really easy to get into the mode of complaining and bemoaning the state of aviation and, in particular, the airlines. Get a bunch of recently retired CEOs of the Cockpit together and it’s downright maudlin. Until someone comes by with a new perspective

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A DC-10 converted to drop firefighting retardant helped crews battle a stubborn fire near Santa Paula, CA Sunday. The aircraft dropped 12,000 gallons of retardant on the fire, which has been burning for three weeks and is threatening homes. “It’s been very, very effective and very impressive,” forestry agency spokesman Matt Streck told the Los […]

As a car, it can charitably be described as ugly. As an airplane it’s almost beyond description but one of four Aerocars left in the world (one crashed) is for sale in Grand Junction, Colo. Carl and Marilyn Felling say they don’t want to sell the machine they call Dumbo but it’s part of their […]

While it’s doubtful any airplane is loud enough to wake the dead, Craven County Airport Authority, near New Bern, N.C., isn’t taking any chances. The county is giving back $204,000 in federal funding after Civil War-era graves were found near the proposed site of new hangars and right where the new taxiway was supposed to […]

A Montreal man whose SUV was damaged by a Piper Cherokee making a forced landing last week says he can’t believe the spin his insurance company is putting on the mishap. Allstate says Bill Mack must pay the $1,000 deductible on the $4,000 in damages his Dodge Durango sustained when the Cherokee dropped in on […]

It was perhaps an appropriate scenario to end a storied era in military aviation. The Navy, quite wisely as it turned out, had a spare airplane waiting in the wings for the ceremonial final flight of an F-14 Tomcat at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia last week. Sure enough, the first airplane failed to […]

Locally imposed restrictions on the operation of experimental exhibition aircraft, most of them warbirds, have been lifted at airports in the Los Angeles basin. EAA says the relaxation came after three years of lobbying by the group. In 2003, the Van Nuys Flight Standards District Office (FSDO) decreed that experimental aircraft were effectively banned from […]