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A six-year-old Hanford, Calif., girl was the first to take advantage of a partnership between Angel Flight West and iFly, a fractional ownership group that splits Columbia 350 aircraft. iFly co-founder and Angel Flight member Erik Lindbergh announced last week that iFly will donate 20 hours of flight time per year for each member of […]

Any landing you can walk (or swim) away from may be a good one but it seems unlikely that Nor Azlan Yazid’s ditching technique will make it into Malaysian Airlines’ procedure book. The 25-year-old student in the airline’s training program was on a solo training flight when his Diamond DA40 developed an unspecified engine problem […]

Its always best to take your time on a model project, but a British mans admittedly obsessive attention to detail kept him working on one project for 11 years. And does it ever show. David Glen of Whaddon finished an almost unbelievably faithful one-fifth scale model of a Spitfire Mk I late last year, and […]

Well you never know who your friends are, and the aviation alphabet groups can add the League of Rural Voters to the growing list of organizations opposed to the Bush administrations plans for reorganizing the FAA. In a statement issued last week, League President Neil Ritchie described GA as the lifeline to rural communities and […]

The Barnstable Patriot says results of an audit of the finances of Barnstable Airport in Massachusetts could let the air out of a lawsuit by a company challenging the local airport commissions monopoly on fuel sales. Rectrix Commercial Aviation Services, which opened a $6.5 million FBO at Barnstable in 2005, claims revenues from the government-owned […]

The FAA says air traffic control staffing levels are actually better than they are portrayed in the FAA Administrators Fact Book, but the National Air Traffic Controllers Association maintains the agency remains far behind in keeping the consoles occupied. An FAA spokesman told GovExec.com that figures in the fact book showing a net decline of […]

The pilot of a Cessna 182 that crashed near Delta, Colo., a year ago had smoked pot within three hours of the crash and was impaired by its effects at the time of the accident, according to an NTSB report that was released in October and reported last week in Glenwood Springs Post Independent. Pilot […]

The White House has come to the defense of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after she faced a barrage of criticism over her limited transportation options home to San Francisco. Since shell take over the Oval Office if the president and vice president somehow become incapacitated, the thinking in Washington is that she should have […]

According to a story in the Chicago Tribune, the air traffic controller on duty at the time of a midair collision near Chicago in February of 2000 admitted in court last week he didnt know precisely where the two crash airplanes were when he was directing them on approach to Waukegan Airport. Waukegan didnt have […]

They do things the old-fashioned way in Bartlesville, Okla. Instead of weaving a complex fabric of tax breaks, lease discounts and other incentives commonly used to attract industry to a town, the good people of Bartlesville are simply putting cash on the table. For every job created by the new Micco Aircraft plant, the community […]