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Officials at the French Museum of Air and Space at Le Bourget say their Concordes are not for sale, effectively quashing the recently unveiled plan to buy one of the airplanes and restore it to flying condition. “These two aircraft are part of the national heritage,” the Museum said in a news release on Monday. […]

The FAA is investigating and the NTSB is reportedly about to get involved after an incident in which a Qatar Airlines Boeing 777 hit approach lights while taking off from Miami International Airport last week. The aircraft apparently took off from an intersection with a midfield taxiway, leaving less than two-thirds the normal runway length […]

Retired astronaut Robert “Hoot” Gibson won the Unlimited Gold title at the National Championship Air Races in Reno on Sunday with a course speed of 488.983 mph. He flew the highly modified P-51 Strega and was substantially faster than Stewart Dawson in the also highly modified F8F Bearcat Rare Bear. He recorded a time of […]

A man is in the hospital in Waco, Texas, for a mental evaluation after he allegedly tried to steal a Learjet at the local airport. Police issued a statement saying the man drove his car through a security gate and parked beside the aircraft about noon on Thursday. He was approached by an off-duty police […]

A group of ex-Concorde pilots and other supporters says it has the financial backing to return one of the retired supersonic airliners to flight. Club Concorde says unidentified financial backers have committed almost $190 million U.S. to buy or lease an airframe and restore it to airworthy condition. In a separate arrangement, a single U.K. […]

AOPA released the first of a new series of weather videos Friday, offering pilots “real world” methods to gather and analyze weather with emphasis on preflight planning and en route decision making. The first video, “Weather Wise: Gathering Information,” is just over eight minutes long and reviews aspects of preflight planning while using Flight Service […]

An Air Canada jet on an international flight diverted to Germany Sunday to save a dog in the cargo hold from freezing to death. The flight, en route from Tel Aviv to Toronto, had 232 passengers along with Simba, a seven-year-old French bulldog, according to a report by CityNews of Toronto. Over Europe, the captain […]

The B-29 Superfortress “Doc” came alive Friday morning as the restoration team fired up each engine for the first time – persisting through 15 tense minutes when no. 2 failed to start after multiple attempts. The event, captured on webcam from Wichita, marked the start of a series of test runs before the Superfortress gets […]

The restoration team working on the B-29 Superfortress “Doc” will go on live webcam Friday morning for the first engine startups. The event will start at 8 a.m. CT in Wichita, where Doc is undergoing work at its hangar. Tom Bertels, a Doc’s Friends board member, told AVweb in an email Thursday the team wants […]

A hunter in Colorado was arrested for assault and menacing after allegedly shooting an ultralight pilot in flight. James Johnson, 50, was flying over his cornfield in the Byers area on Sept. 1 when he was reportedly hit with shotgun pellets, the Denver Post reported this week. Johnson’s injuries were minor and he was treated […]