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Helicopter Makes It Rain (Money)

The passing of Leonard Maull roughly one year ago was remembered, Saturday, by an unannounced public event that carried out a last request contained in his will — to dump $10,000 from the sky over a specific marina in Delaware, local news WBOC 16 reported. The mission was carried out by a low-flying helicopter that […]

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Witnesses: B1B Broke Up Before Crash

Witnesses who saw the crash of a B-1B Lancer Cold War-era swing-wing bomber in southeastern Montana Monday say it broke up in flight, RapidCityJournal.com reported Wednesday, but those accounts remain officially unconfirmed. Early reports are often unreliable; these state that witnesses described the jet coming apart and scattering debris across several miles. The bomber was […]

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FAA Finalizes Policy On Blocking Aircraft Tracking

The FAA this week published its “final policy” regarding the procedures for aircraft owners and operators to ask the FAA to limit the dissemination of their Aircraft Situation Display to Industry data. This data can be used to show an aircraft’s track in real time on websites such as FlightAware. NBAA had raised objections to […]

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NAFI Holds New Student Seminar Tonight

The National Association of Flight Instructors will hold a one-hour webinar tonight (Aug. 21) at 7 p.m. Central on the topic of attracting new students. The webinar will be hosted by NAFI Chairman Bob Meder and it’s a continuation of the series of monthly webinars held by NAFI on topics of concern to those in […]

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IKHANA Delivers Twin Otter To Alberta

Twin Otters are nothing new in the Canadian North but a California company has supplied an Alberta company with a new version of the venerable design. G-Sky Aviation of Fort McMurray recently took delivery of aIKHANA RWMI DHC-6-200HG Twin Otter. The aircraft is a top-to-bottom rebuild and modification of a de Havilland DHC-6-200 that gives […]

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Two Unique Video Journeys From Aloft

Airborne video from a revolving GoPro and scenes from a NASA Antarctic mission posted over the last week contribute some unique footage to the miles of airplane videos on the Internet. Blogger Ney Grant mounted his GoPro to the wing of a Cessna 210 and assembled three minutes of his best clips from touring around […]

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AOPA Names Mark Baker As New President

Mark Baker, 55, a native of Minnesota and a long-time GA pilot, has been named by AOPA as the next president and CEO, taking over from Craig Fuller. “Mark brings 35 years of involvement in the GA community as a pilot, and decades of experience in leadership positions in the home-improvement industry, such as Scotts […]

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Continental Responds To Cylinder Concerns

In a letter sent to distributors last week (see link below), Continental Motors aimed to ease concerns about the FAA’s recently proposed airworthiness directive for ECi cylinders, noting that “no Continental Motors factory-new/rebuilt engines or parts are affected.” Continental said it has never used the ECi cylinders, so owners “can be confident that no AEC […]

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B-1B Bomber Wrecked, Crew OK

A B-1B Lancer, the Cold War-era swing-wing bomber, crashed in a remote part of southeastern Montana on Monday, but all four crew members ejected. The four were taken to local hospitals but all are expected to survive, officials said. The bomber, which was destroyed, was one of about 60 still in the U.S. Air Force […]

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From NASA, New Plans For Aviation Research

NASA is generally associated with space exploration, but the first “A” in NASA is for “Aeronautics,” and last week Administrator Charles Bolden unveiled a new strategic vision for the agency’s aeronautical research programs. The new plan will focus on key drivers that are expected to affect aviation over the next two to four decades, Bolden […]

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