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Morse has christened the effort Honor Flight, and organized support from veterans’ groups and local businesses, who chipped in to provide meals and ground transportation for the travelers. The pilots paid the Aero Club rental fees, or flew their own airplanes. “It was the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done,” pilot Ron Smith told AVweb […]

“Honor Flight” Takes Off When the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., was dedicated last year, most veterans were already over 75 years old. Some of them were patients at the V.A. hospital in Ohio where Earl Morse works as a physician’s assistant, and Morse realized many of the aging vets would never make […]

For many pilots, their favorite summer events are not the air shows where they spectate, but the fly-ins where they can actually aviate … or at least, park and then hang out with other aviators. One newcomer is an as-yet-unnamed event now in the planning stages for Sept. 23-25 at the Alva (Okla.) Airport. Organizers […]

The first Tunica (Miss.) Air Races start today with Unlimited, T-6 and Formula One aircraft racing around pylons to win the Tunica Cup. Aerobatics and military aircraft will fly between events. Tunica, a 30-minute drive south of Memphis, Tenn., is a resort area with abundant casinos and hotels. Meanwhile, the Red Bull Air-Race season is […]

SATS Shows Its Stuff In Virginia With Memorial Day weekend past, it’s officially summer now across the U.S., and with summer comes a deluge of flying events — some old, some new and some in a state of metamorphosis. One unique event that starts Sunday in Danville, Va., is SATS 2005, a demonstration of the […]

Of course, terror from the sky comes in all shapes, sizes and colors, even red, white and blue. The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds rattled more than the windows during a photo shoot over New York City last Thursday. The team was in the area for a Memorial Day air show and couldn’t resist having their […]

On the other side of the country (and perhaps not coincidentally) folks in Santa Cruz, Calif., are still buzzing about a single-engine Cessna which, according to the Mercury News, “attacked Main Beach in the manner of a World War II fighter and buzzed Seacliff Beach so low that a driver on a beachside road could […]

Senator Wants Controls On Sightseers New York Sen. Charles Schumer is no stranger to pushing the panic button (he’s tried, among other things, to restrict helicopter flights in the Big Apple) and now he’s written FAA Administrator Marion Blakey asking that tighter restrictions be placed on small sight-seeing operations like the one involved in the […]

The potentially deadly consequences of lightly staffed control centers will undoubtedly get plenty of attention as the Swiss court system begins its civil and criminal assessments of the fallout from a midair collision of a Russian airliner and a DHL cargo jet on July 2, 2002. An American law firm has filed suit on behalf […]

The potential for air traffic controller shortages is a seemingly world-wide problem. The Czech Republic is grappling with manpower issues and even India, with just 1,000 controllers in a country of more than one billion people, is predicting dire consequences if hiring isn’t speeded up, according to the Times of India. The Airports Authority of […]