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ONE | TWO | THREE | FOUR | FIVE | SIX | SEVEN | EIGHT | NINE CLICK FOR LARGE IMAGESEACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW Spotting planesfrom Oshkosh tower The Pink Shirt Team Oshkosh departure control “RV over Fisk,rock your wings.” “No, not that RV –the other one.” ONE | TWO | […]

ONE | TWO | THREE | FOUR | FIVE | SIX | SEVEN | EIGHT | NINE CLICK FOR LARGE IMAGESEACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW Checking your hair was never this much fun … Maverick jet Getting ready for the Beach Boys Strings attached Light Sport glass Javelin mock-up Garmin glass in […]

AVweb editors and contributors will be in the AVweb booth during AirVenture to answer your questions and take your comments. Other editors from our sister Belvoir publications – like Aviation Consumer, IFR, and Kitplanes – are also on the schedule. Print out this schedule and bring it with you to Oshkosh. Remember, this schedule is […]

The only production four-seat or side-by-side taildragger still being built in the U.S., the Maule is a one-of-a-kind airplane. Its fans can verge on the cultish. 288 Its easy and forgiving to fly, they say, despite its rap as a groundlooper. Its simple to fix, good at going slow yet capable of respectable cruise speeds. […]

This is the problem with being a safety rep: After a while, your perspective changes on things. Sometimes, it seems like every thing. Take this story from a recent edition of AVweb, for instance: NTSB Finding Reassessed — Case To Reopen, Decades After … When a Piedmont Airlines 727 and a Cessna 310 collided over […]

The virtual airport, home of the Pilot’s Lounge, is much like any other little airport in the country. As with other modest, general aviation airports, we occasionally have the aeronautical version of the fender bender, where someone skitters off the side or end of a runway and comes to a somewhat ignominious halt.One of our […]

Lockheed FSS Needs Help! Re: the article in the June 29 AVweb, “Lockheed wants your feedback” …I’ve been trying to register/logon for several days without success. “Registration is never activated, no email confirmation sent, etc.”I’ve noticed a significant decline in FSS service since Lockheed took over. In almost 50 years of flying I can count […]

Like the changing of seasons, I imagine this scene happens at regular intervals through the year: The managing editor of some large technology magazine catches a story on the net about some crazy aviation idea that could revolutionize the industry, make flying possible for every man, woman and (quite possibly) child on the planet with […]

This article originally appeared in Aviation Safety, April 2004. Probable Cause Lots of pilots like to take to the air and find solitude and thereby freedom. For others, however, there’s something strangely comforting about operating under the watchful eyes of an air traffic controller. If you routinely fly in congested airspace — such as around […]

You know me. I’m the “To TBO and Beyond” guy. I believe in running engines as long as they’re demonstrably healthy, even if that means going beyond the manufacturer’s recommended TBO. Nothing disturbs me more than when I hear about owners who are talked into tearing down an engine that’s running just fine (or talk […]