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Dave Anders’ Questar Venture. BackTo AVweb‘s Reno 2000 Images

Vlado Lenoch’s P-51 Moonbeam McSwine qualifies on Tuesday. BackTo AVweb‘s Reno 2000 Images

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Preview Reno 2000: What’s New This Year AVweb‘s Reno 2000 Coverage Preview Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four Images A ride in a T-6 Texan A racing family RESULTS The pits at Reno’s Stead Airport are filling with airplanes, trailers and equipment. The temporary signs on Rt. 395 are up directing air race […]

I cut my teeth as a pilot in the Midwest — the Chicago area to be exact — and I learned lots about weather during those days. Among the things I learned is that 97 percent of weather is safely navigable (by a qualified and current pilot in a properly-equipped airplane, but that’s another subject […]

We’ve now beaten the technical issues to death, let’s go fly! If you haven’t read any of the prior material on this, please don’t fail to see “Those Fire-Breathing Turbos (Part 3).” This column is highly specific to the “turbonormalizer” systems as installed on Teledyne Continental Motors (TCM) “big bore” engines like the IO-520 and […]

Immediately after Air France’s Concorde crash, graphic photographs and video of the disaster were broadcast to millions of television viewers. So-called industry experts appeared on various networks soon after and speculated about the cause of the crash. One pundit, who has authored a book on aging aircraft, raised the specter of the inherent danger to […]

The busy brick-and-stone village of Newburyport, Massachusetts, embraces a scenic waterfront on the wide Merrimack River, close to the treacherous shoals where the waters empty into the Atlantic Ocean. Its narrow streets overflow with the seaside ambiance typical of the small towns along the North-of-Boston coast: historic buildings, upscale shops and restaurants, white-steepled churches, art […]

It’s a bit disconcerting when it happens. Every once in a great while someone says something that causes your jaw to drop in utter amazement. You stare at the person who just made the statement because you can’t comprehend its magnitude. Meanwhile, your tonsils are attracting flies. It happened to me recently, here in the […]

“My mind clicks on and off. I try letting one eyelid close at a time while I prop the other with my will. But the effect is too much, sleep is winning, my whole body argues dully that nothing, nothing life can attain is quite so desirable as sleep. My mind is losing resolution and […]