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Canada’s Transportation Safety Board released its final report this week on a Caravan crash in which 10 people died in January 2004. Investigators found that the aircraft was over gross by at least 15 percent on takeoff, freezing participation was falling, and ice was visible on the leading edge of the wing. The aircraft climbed […]

The non-aviation press might not pay much heed to small airplanes most of the time, but one emerging exception to that is the two-seat Javelin Jet. Latest to notice it is Forbes Magazine. “In full sun on the runway at Centennial, surrounded by multimillion-dollar business jets, the Javelin stopped me cold,” writes Taylor Antrim in […]

The FAA has given a group of high schoolers clearance to launch a home-built rocket up to 17,500 feet on May 13 … so if you’re flying in the area, watch out. The rocket can climb at 20,000 feet per minute while making a lot of noise, but somehow it’s “a hobby that doesn’t get […]

Sectionals, GPS, and moving maps are all well and good, but sometimes what a pilot needs is a good old-fashioned street map — especially if you’re flying at low level over urban areas, trying to find a fleeing bad guy or a person in distress or a house on fire. A company called AeroComputers has […]

If flying in a Goodyear blimp is on your list of must-dos in life, this could be your chance. Goodyear has launched a new blimp and is holding a contest to find a name for it. The winner gets to have the blimp fly to his or her hometown and do their bidding for a […]

Offshore oil companies along the Gulf Coast are facing a critical shortage of helicopter pilots, the Daily Advertiser of Lafayette, La., reported on Sunday. Pay for pilots is going up, but many face long hours and mandatory overtime. Michael Suldo, whose company provides offshore aviation services, said 20 of his pilots have been deployed to […]

https://avweb.com/avmail/ Reader mail this week about anti-missile systems, ATC contracts, Lycoming crankshafts and more.

COLUMNS CEO of the Cockpit #56: The FAA Is Your FriendA necessary evil. A necessary leach. The FAA, according to AVweb’s CEO of the cockpit, is all those things and more. And in this month’s column, he’s even willing to admit some FAA bureaucrats are OK.

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AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” contest is sponsored by Aviation Safety magazine, the monthly journal of risk management and accident prevention. Thanks to all the pilots and AVweb readers who took time to nominate their favorite FBOs in our “FBO of the Week” contest. Today’s ribbon finds its target in Florida. AVweb’s “FBO of the […]