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As the White House photo op fiasco continues to unfold, it looks like it’s going to evolve into a fascinating study of bureaucratic predilection toward secrecy. The question is, who ordered the clampdown?As we’re reporting today, an FAA memo making the rounds shows that one James J. Johnston in the FAA’s security branch wrote a […]

No, make that the entire country to the White House.Monday’s flyover of New York for a photo op of the 747 that serves as Air Force One was the most stunningly stupid decision by a group of adults authorized to use government airplanes that it’s possible to imagine. On a scale of 10 for utter […]

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. The guys finally make it out of Winnemuca after two days of snow and ice and cross the Sierras back into the Golden State.

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. Marc and Paul runnamucca in Winnemucca! That’s in Nevada, by the way – and home of the friendliest FBO on the planet. Good thing, ‘cuz the boys have been snowed in there for […]

Since I’m sure I’m not the only one who thought of it, I will only take part of the blame for the tragic waste that is the pile of rubble in some landfill near Oshkosh that was once the air traffic control tower at Wittman Regional Airport.Oh, by the way, I’m not one of those […]

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. Marc Cook and Paul Bertorelli continue their Sportsman odyssey with a look at this unique aircraft.

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. Gearing up for the Sun ‘n Fun extravaganza in Lakeland, Kitplanes editor Marc Cook and AVweb editorial director Paul Bertorelli are motoring around the west in Cook’s Glastar Sportsman visiting companies prior to […]

In addition to the comments you see here on our blogs and news stories about aviation events of the day, we get a small trickle of background e-mail with questions, suggestions and the occasional Molotov cocktail. I got one of the latter last night from a reader who allowed as how I was a disgrace […]

I have always been fascinated by World War II and especially by the history of the Manhattan Project. And that leads inevitably to the B-29 Superfortress and Paul W. Tibbets, whose arc through history put him at the point of two of the war’s biggest projects-the bomb and the bomber that would deliver it.Although it’s […]

Being a certified, card-carrying reactionary member of that special interest group known as general aviation, I am just as capable as the next guy-no, more capable-of reacting with outrage when our industry is put upon by the government. But I like to think of myself as an equal opportunity crank and yesterday’s fiasco with the […]