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If the architects of the Sport Pilot certificate are correct, there should be thousands of teens like Kris Halvorson out there. At least that’s what they hope. Halvorson is a textbook case of how the simpler certificate is supposed to entice youngsters to fly. Halvorson earned his Sport Pilot certificate on June 18 at the […]

More then ever before, drivers and pilots are affected by the steeply rising fuel costs. But the folks at the EAA have a plan. Actually, they have numerous plans that can make the trip to Oshkosh for both drivers and flyers more economical. To help share travel costs to and from the show the EAA […]

The body of 42-year-old priest Adelir Antonio de Carli, who April 20 attempted to raise money for a worship center and rest stop for truckers by flying below an array of helium-filled balloons, may have been found in the Atlantic. Police in Brazil are investigating the findings of a tugboat crew 60 miles off the […]

Kent Couch, 48, Saturday lifted off from a pasture in Bend, Ore., suspended in a green lawn chair beneath a collection of more than 150 giant helium-filled party balloons, and covered about 235 miles in about nine hours, landing in Cambridge, Idaho. Couch controlled his ascent and descent with a Red Ryder BB gun and […]

Six years after the entire big air tanker fleet was grounded by the NTSB over airworthiness issues, some fear little has changed even as massive and abundant fires currently burning in northern California push the demand for the aircraft. Thursday, two Colorado congressmen pushed the Department of Agriculture for the Department’s plan to modernize the […]

GE Aviation has acquired assets of Walter Engines, the Czech turboprop manufacturer, for an undisclosed sum of less than $70 million, GE spokeswoman Deborah Case told the International Herald Tribune. The move affords GE a stake in the small turboprop aircraft market, where it previously had none, and the ability do battle for business with […]

Parasailing near the Gulf Coast city of Destin, Fla., is becoming a public-relations problem and potential danger for tourists, local business and local pilots. Destin airport is close enough to the ocean to pose concern, and operations at Eglin Air Force Base add to it. But add banner planes “that come two or three an […]

July 3 marked the first flight, a 45-minute jaunt, of Cirrus Design’s The-Jet — the company says the five-plus-two seat aircraft “performed flawlessly.” The first aircraft is dubbed “V1” for verification and validation testing. It, like other Cirrus aircraft, flies with a full-plane parachute — unlike other Cirri, The-Jet is powered by a Williams FJ33-4A-19. […]

Almost 65 years to the day after the original 390th Bomber Group departed for their trip across the Atlantic, the Liberty Belle B-17 is repeating her historic journey to England. The flight, which departed on June 30, took the historic aircraft on its original famed route, which originates from its home base in Georgia. Day […]

While Australia’s GA community has problems, in Greece, no GA community even exists. “Which is precisely why the International Council of Aircraft Owner and Pilot Associations (IAOPA) decided to hold their biennial World Assembly in Athens,” the group said this week. “Yiouli Kalafati, president of AOPA Hellas (Greece), wanted to show Greek authorities what they […]