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There’s some irony that the re-enactment of the 100th anniversary of the flight of the first powered heavier-than-air vehicle in Canada was scrubbed by cold, snow and wind. As organizers planned the re-enactment, the overriding fear was that Baddeck Bay on a lake on windswept Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia wouldn’t be frozen over […]

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. We can’t count the times we’ve been alerted to breathless cable news anchors waiting as a pilot burns off fuel for a mechanically-induced gear-up landing. And while they’re a heart-stopping event for those […]

Click for larger image A Colombian policeman obviously didn’t heed those signs at the airport with all the diagonal slashes through things you shouldn’t put in your checked luggage. The grenade he had in with his skivvies went off while the turbine-upgraded DC-3 he and 26 others were on was getting ready to leave Medellin […]

Congress has approved a tax break stimulus package targeted at airplane buyers as states get ready to apply $1.1 billion intended for airports as part of the stimulus package signed last week by President Barack Obama. The tax break takes the form of accelerated depreciation and, like the one first used post-9/11 to help manufacturers […]

The nightmare scenario sometimes conjured to push for further regulation of general aviation aircraft in the U.S. played out in Sri Lanka Friday and ended with one aircraft crashing into a government building and the other close to an air force camp. Used as weapons of war by rebel forces, two men flew two 1600-pound […]

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association President Craig Fuller announced Saturday name and format changes for his organization’s annual meeting, formerly AOPA Expo, to be held in Tampa this November. “We want to help you connect to the reasons that you fly,” he said, “so you can maximize the value you get from your personal aviation […]

Cirrus’ new CEO Brent Wouters took the case of aviation, specifically Cirrus aviation, to the public in a Fox business news segment Thursday. Treated with kid gloves (one interviewer even described his question as “Mr. Softball being lobbed at you” and asked the CEO to run with it), Wouters’ interview and outing to the public […]

NASA thought enough of the dangers of tailplane icing to flight test it and produce this video, which has eerie content relative to the discussion around Flight 3407. Online speculation swarming around the Feb. 12 crash of Continental Connection (Colgan Air) Flight 3407 in Buffalo that killed all 49 aboard plus one on the ground […]

Eclipse was holding steady last week that the furlough of 800 employees was temporary and necessary because of an unexpected slowdown in negotiations regarding the company’s sale. EclipseJet Aviation International Inc., owned mostly by ETIRC Aviation, is awaiting court approval to buy Eclipse Aviation. Money for the buyout has reportedly already been approved, but the […]

Carriers have long requested that passengers turn off their cell phones and electronic devices for certain phases of flight to avoid causing interference with flight deck instrumentation, but a recent incident shows that not all carriers have made the same request of their pilots. A Safety Alert for Operations (PDF) issued early this month by […]