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It may be the ultimate irony that airline pilots can easily find lucrative jobs — as long as they’re willing to travel. According to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal, American pilots are flying the coop on cash-starved, morale-depressed, pension-gutting domestic carriers and landing high-paying jobs in Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai. Former […]

Organizers of the Monaco Air Duluth Airshow are getting a hard-won lesson in public relations after their president told the owners of six homes bordering the airport they’d have to be somewhere else during the show. Ryan Kern told the six families that since their houses were in the air show box, they’d have to […]

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A 10-minute rocket flight and a two-day-long balloon flight were among the most memorable aviation records of 2005, the National Aeronautic Association announced last week. Dick Rutan flew XCOR’s EZ-Rocket, a modified Long-EZ, from Mojave to California City in just under 10 minutes, the “longest record flight” by a ground-launched, rocket-powered airplane. In February, Troy […]

Alvin White, who was Scott Crossfield’s boss at North American during the heyday of supersonic flight testing, died over the weekend. He was 88. “Al assigned Scott to the X-15 while Al took the less flashy XB-70, which he then proceeded to fly at Mach 3 for hours on end,” Rick Durden, who knew both […]

AOPA yesterday urged the FAA to support the continued operation of the loran navigation system until a permanent backup system for GPS is established. The U.S. Coast Guard plan to decommission the loran system is “premature,” AOPA said. “Once gone, loran will no longer be a backup option, and any other suitable aviation alternative would […]

Canadians had a string of close calls with falling airplane parts over the last week. “I was 12 feet away from being dead,” Norm Kataras told pulse24.com, after a window from a Beechcraft Baron smashed into a car lot. The window apparently broke off shortly after takeoff from Buttonville Airport. Just two days earlier, Wayne […]