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When Art Nalls saw a brief news item that the British Navy was retiring its Sea Harrier fleet, it got him thinking. Not long after, he was the owner of the world’s only privately-held vertical takeoff and landing military jet. Nalls spoke with AVweb‘s Russ Niles about the hoops he jumped through to bring the […]

It’s true! The next time you find yourself making a trip on a commuter airline, you may or may not find it comforting to know that the pilot in the right seat of your regional jet isn’t old enough to buy you a beer at the destination airport bar. AVweb‘s Mike Blakeney set out to […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive This week’s video came to us under the radar, and we were planning to save it for another week – but after you see it, we think you’ll agree that it’s hard to put out of your head. (Maybe especially so if you watched the History Channel’s Lost Worlds episode […]

Dave MacRae has been flying back and forth across the U.S.-Canadian border for decades. The Princeton, New Jersey resident has dual citizenship, and his family has a summer residence in the Kawartha Lakes area near Toronto. He thought he’d seen it all until he landed at Buffalo, New York to clear Customs last Sunday. A […]

Earlier this year, the FAA enacted a rule that lays out the ownership and flight department management responsibilities for air charter companies, and last week AMI Jet Charter, one of the most respected charter operators in the U.S., had its operating certificate revoked under the provisions of the new rules. AVweb‘s Russ Niles talked with […]

We don’t know how many lives a Tiger can have, but Grumman’s venerable four-place single is getting another shot at success thanks to a Valdosta, Georgia company. True Flight Aerospace is planning a 60,000 sq. ft. plant at the airport there and hopes to have its first aircraft off the line by next summer. AVweb‘s […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive “This video is of an in-flight demonstration flown by the Russians’ SU-30MK fighter aircraft. You will not believe what you are about to see.” That’s how AVweb reader Richard Pantel opened the e-mail that gives us this week’s “VOTW.” He then goes on to describe the jet: The fighter can […]

For those of you struggling to put 50 hours a year on your Cessna 172, consider the long and productive life of a 1982 P-model that was retired last week with 30,000 hours on it, likely making it the highest-time 172 in the world. The 172, with tail number V3-HDN, has been making as many […]

When Bob Richards retired as a controller after 22 years in the O’Hare tower, he had a lifetime of stories to tell, not all of them pretty. He put his fingers on the keys and tried to give an honest account of not just the stress and demands of the job, but the human achievment […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive We know them as “waterbombers,” “superscoopers,” and “ducks,” but when wildfires burn out of control (as they did this week throughout Southern California), Canadair’s CL-series firefighters are nothing short of lifesavers. In this clip from CNN (posted on LiveLeak by user bellava), we see one such scooper flying low over […]