Features

I do believe I tried to pass on this little edict many years ago without success, and since I never saw a response, I will try one more time, just for my old Yankee mate, Ken Sunderland: An Aussie grazier flew his antique Auster aircraft to Mascot Airport, Sydney, some time back to enact some […]

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Columbia Aircraft Manufacturing will soon have new owners, and last week we asked AVweb readers to cast their predictions as to who would walk away with the company’s assets. Cessna is the leading contender, of course, and nearly 3/4 of AVweb readers have the company pegged […]

Bob Hoover Just finished watching the short video of Bob Hoover and his Shrike Commander (Video of the Week, Oct. 15). It sure brings back memories of all the times I watched this in person over the years at Oshkosh. It surely is beautiful. I don’t know if anyone could ever fill his shoes. Plus […]

My nephew Kermit had moved up in the world. Fresh out of the Aviation College at the University of South Toledo, he was a sales-rep gofer for one of the dozens of new VLJ manufacturers that dot the flying landscape of late.He was justifiably proud of the “Sky-Screamer 100.” Not only did this three-place, subsonic, […]

Overheard in IFR Magazine‘s “On the Air” The American League Championship series between Cleveland and Boston began on a Friday night. Early the next morning, after an IFR handoff to Boston Center, the pilot of a Boston-bound aircraft posed the all-important question: Piper 123:Sox win last night? Boston Center:Yeah! Piper 123:That’s too bad. [thoughtful pause] […]

[Read the first chapter of A Pilot’s History here.] Our class of 51 sergeants, with newly sewn stacks of chevrons on our sleeves and silver wings pinned to our shirts, arrived in Long Beach, Calif., the heart of aircraft manufacturing facilities. We were to ferry these aircraft to modification plants scattered around the country and […]

This Week’s Question |Previous Week’s Answers PREVIOUS RESULTS *** Rarely do we find that AVweb readers are all of one mind on an issue – but there was clear consensus on the answer to last week’s Question, Should passengers be allowed to use their cell phones on airliners?  That consensus, of course, was absolutely not.  […]

AFSS Nonsense With all due respect to Lockheed-Martin VP Dan Courain (Podcast, Oct. 5), he needs to pick up the phone and call AFSS himself. The problem isn’t just briefings; it’s the tying up of airspace and human resources as well.Case in point: I was unable to raise Atlantic City approach to cancel my IFR […]

August 30, 2007 Piper Arrow pilot was on a 1/4-mile final, making a late-night emergency landing at MSP due to a faulty nosegear indicator, with fire trucks and emergency vehicles lining both sides of the runway. Overheard:Wow, not even [U.S. President] Bush gets this kind of treatment when he lands! (The nose wheel held up […]

Fog shrouded the Northwest airport. A single-engine, retractable-gear airplane, with three aboard, was arriving from a routine, cross-country flight. The experienced pilot set up for a GPS approach. At the missed-approach point, the ground was still obscured so the pilot powered up and began a climb; but as the aircraft crossed directly over the airport, […]