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IFR spoke with Charlie Richardson, a veteran controller and controllers’ instructor, about what happens when screens go dark at a major control center. Duration: File Size: download here

Last week’s Dubai Air Show may have been a turning point in commercial aviation history. Oil-rich Middle Eastern countries have apparently decided that they want to take the area’s historic role as crossroads of the world and give that a modern, aviation-centric context. Airlines there accounted for most of the hundred billion dollars in aircraft […]

As you may have read in Thursday’s AVwebFlash, the sands of time have buried an intact P-38 for more than 60 years since it was abandoned on a Welsh beach. Now named the Maid of Harlech (for a town near the beach), the Second World War fighter will soon be recovered and restored to original […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]