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AOPA Expo 2001 Image Gallery

Click any image to view alarger version. AOPA’s Sweepstakes Bonanza leads the pack in the Parade of Planes from FLL to the convention center. Satellink Technologies’ Cessna 310 is close behind. Followed by a Luscombe 11E. This Stemme motorglider looked almost prehistoric on Ft. Lauderdale’s streets… …while this Super Cub on amphib floats followed. Something […]

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Confederate Air Force AIRSHO at Midland, 2001

Click here to skip ahead to the gallery This year, 95 airplanes converged on Midland, Texas, from all directions to take part in the world’s largest unrehearsed airshow. Not that each pilot hasn’t logged a lot of time in type and a lot of practice flying formation: they have. They just have never done it […]

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JPI’s FS-450: An End to an Aviator’s Avgas Anxiety?

Somewhere north of Cape Girardeau, Missouri … Normally, by this point on a trip like today’s my fuel situation never generates a thought. We’ve logged around 700 hours in the Comanche in the four years we’ve owned it, and we’ve flown this trip more times than any other; about 15 or 20 times in the […]

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FAA Administrator Jane Garvey’s Remarks at AOPA 2001

Remarks Prepared for Delivery Jane F. Garvey Administrator Federal Aviation Administration AOPA Expo 2001 November 8, 2001 Good morning. Never has there been a time when communications between the FAA and AOPA has been more important. We need to talk with each other and we need to talk straight. So let me get right to […]

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U.S. Flight Groundings

NOTAM 1/1016 advises that current editions of the Aeronautical Information Manual depicting intercept signals may be incorrect (this is true for the FAA’s online version) and makes corrections. !FDC 1/1016 FDC AERONAUTICAL INFORMATION MANUAL, TABLE 5-6-2, AIRCRAFT INTERCEPTING SIGNALS, SERIES 4, 5, AND 6, THE COLUMN HEADINGS ARE INCORRECT. THE LEFT COLUMN CURRENTLY LABELED INTERCEPTING […]

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Temporary Flight Restrictions Over Nuclear Sites

!FDC 1/1979 FDC TEMPORARY FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS OVER NUCLEAR SITES. FOR REASONS OF NATIONAL SECURITY. EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 02, 2001 2200 UTC UNTIL NOVEMBER 07, 2001 0500 UTC. PURSUANT TO TITLE 14 CFR SECTIONS 91.139, EMERGENCY AIR TRAFFIC RULES AND 99.7 SPECIAL SECURITY INSTRUCTIONS. ALL GENERAL AVIATION FLIGHT OPERATIONS ARE PROHIBITED WITHIN A 10 NAUTICAL MILES RADIUS […]

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Recent Developments in Airline Disaster Law

Almost everyone in the aviation industry — even those so fortunate enough to own and fly their own aircraft — travels on the airlines as a passenger from time to time. Suppose you are killed in an airline disaster. Will your family collect millions of dollars? Will it matter if the flight is international? Should […]

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Blowing Snow

Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately (and some would say that’s a good place to be), you’re aware of the increased security concerns manifesting themselves at various locations throughout U.S. airspace. A bunch of people and their airplanes remain grounded, many aircraft owners cannot fly their machines without paying a flight instructor (someone […]

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Bob Cardenas

Gen. Robert L. Cardenas was bornMarch 10, 1920, in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. At age five, he moved to San Diego,Calif., with his parents. He built model airplanes and helped local gliderpilots with dope-and-fabric projects. Being the top student in math and physicsat his high school earned him a two-year pre-engineering scholarship to SanDiego State University. […]

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