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Dig through the closet and dust off Mom’s old E6B flight computer, because it’s time to go old school with a cross-country planning quiz. (You’ll get your GPS back later.) Take the quiz. More Brainteasers

The Air Force Research Laboratory and Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works have, on June 2, flown their Advanced Composite Cargo Aircraft (ACCA), which they say “has the potential to change aircraft manufacturing as we presently know it, for the better.” ACCA program manager Barth Shenk’s words reinforce that the aircraft itself isn’t designed to be a […]

Neurosurgeon Doyle Borchers’ night flight from Palo Alto to Reno on Aug. 7, 2008, in a Cessna 172S was not authorized by his student pilot certificate and through investigation of his fatal crash that night the FAA and NTSB have found his body contained traces of a wide variety of drugs. The NTSB has not […]

United’s bid to replace up to 150 of the larger airliners in its fleet is poised to take advantage of a lagging economy and likely intended to cause a potential bidding war, but some feel it may be a sign the airline is having difficulty raising capital against older aircraft. The airline, which currently flies […]

A Minnesota jury has found that though the pilot was 25 percent negligent in the January 2003 fatal crash of an SR-22 that killed him and a passenger near Hill City, Minn., Cirrus and the University of North Dakota were 75 percent negligent. The result of the case hinges on the jury’s belief that that […]

A few days after Cirrus recalled 50 employees, Cessna has held true to its word and Friday distributed 700 60-day layoff notices to salaried employees as part of 1,300 cuts announced in April along with suspension of the company’s Columbus business jet program. The total company-wide carnage at Cessna had been sitting at 6,900 layoffs […]

Marcus Schrenker’s Piper PA46-500TP Malibu Meridian crashed January 11 in the Florida panhandle, without him aboard, and Schrenker Friday pleaded guilty to intentionally crashing an airplane and sending false distress calls related to his use of the aircraft in an alleged attempt to fake his own death. The 38-year-old Indiana fund manager was president of […]

News came Sunday that 17 bodies from Air France flight 447 were found roughly 400 miles northeast of the Fernando de Noronha islands off Brazil’s northern coast. Friday French officials concluded that “wreckage” found by Brazilian authorities in the ocean and an observed 12-mile long oil slick were not in fact from the Air France […]

EAA and AOPA say they’ve entered into a new spirit of collaboration to promote general aviation. Senior staff from both organizations met recently to figure out how to play on each other’s strengths for the common good of GA and members of both organizations, of which there is considerable crossover. “The majority of our nation’s […]

Flying, the oldest continuously publishing aviation magazine in the U.S., has been sold to the U.S. division of Swedish-based Bonnier Group. Flying was part of a five-title deal made by former owner Hachette Filipacchi Media Group, a division of French-based Lagardere. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and there is also no word on […]