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Aero-trekking is the term coined by sport fliers who enjoy long-distance, low-level, open-air flying (although some say they “don’t hold with this high-sounding, techno-babble, aero-trekking moniker,” but prefer to use the term “kite-plane airtrekking”). The treks follow designated routes, ranked from 1 to 5 in difficulty, that extend for 50 miles or more across sparsely […]

Steve Griff started flying 40 years ago, when he was 16, and kept at it till he was a 767 captain, flying international routes for US Airways. But four years ago, a truck smashed into his pickup in North Carolina, and he’s now paralyzed from the chest down. “Fortunately, my hands and arms work fine,” […]

“Half the cost, with none of the hassle.” That’s what iFly founder Erik Lindbergh aims to deliver to pilots who want to fly state-of-the art Columbia 350s in his new fractional-ownership program, now ready to launch at six sites in Southern California. “Now more than ever, personal aircraft travel has the ability to transform your […]

AVMAIL AVmail: Sep. 10, 2006Reader mail this week about ATC, fuel prices and much more about the RJ crash in Lexington.

COLUMNS The Pilot’s Lounge #104: Preserving Our Aviation Treasures And HeritageAirports are not the only things that can be destroyed by a developer’s bulldozer. Sometimes progress at the airport itself can jeopardize treasures on the field, as AVweb’s Rick Durden reports from the U.S. heartland.

Lycoming’s latest crankshaft problem is a legal one. AVweb speaks with Robert Mills who is handling the case against Lycoming. Click through to listen. Check our audio news index and hear what you’ve been missing. Find exclusive interviews featuring Cessna’s Jack Pelton on his company’s LSA, TCM president Bryan Lewis, NATCA president John Carr, New […]

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The Canadian pilot of a Cessna 150 that was allegedly intentionally ditched in a Montana lake 24 years ago has been arrested in Texas and faces charges in connection with the death of his girlfriend in the ditching, according to the Vancouver Sun. Jaroslaw “Jerry” Ambrozuk, who had been living in Plano, Texas, under the […]

A handful of Arizona pilots are flying supplies to a town on Mexico’s Baja Peninsula that was partly destroyed by Hurricane John earlier this month. The waterfront area of Mulege was inundated by flood waters of the Rio Mulege caused by the hurricane. The town has about 3,100 people, including about 500 Americans, many of […]