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The Japanese government has confirmed that spatial disorientation was the cause of the fatal crash of a Japanese Air Self-Defense Force in the Pacific off northern Japan in April. Officials didn’t say how they know this but they said it had nothing to do with the aircraft, which hit the ocean at more than 600 […]

Texas Aircraft is jump-starting the launch of its new Colt light sport aircraft with a $12,000 discount for orders placed this week at AirVenture. The Colt was soft-launched earlier this year but as AirVenture gets underway, Texas Aircraft is ginning up serial production and expects formal approval under ASTM consensus standards in a few weeks. […]

With some 370 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft grounded, the minor dent to airline capacity has caused airlines to scour the wet-lease market for replacement seats. According to a Wall Street Journal report, wet-lease demand is skyrocketing and so are the lease prices. The MAX grounding has impacted airlines all over the world, although most have […]

It’s unpronounceable so don’t even try. Palimpsest means something reused or altered but still bears traces of an earlier form.  Commonly applied to ancient manuscripts when Roman publishers were too stingy to buy new parchment and forced authors to write over Cicero’s remainders. Et mortuus est, et nos non petendam (he’s dead and won’t sue […]

Reuters is reporting that Stratolaunch Systems, the rocket launch company founded by the late Paul Allen, will be closed after unsuccessful efforts to sell it. Allen, who died at 65 last October, teamed up with Scaled Composites founder Burt Rutan to create the launch system, which was to use a massive six-engine aircraft to carry […]

Premier Aircraft Sales is now offering a fully refurbished pre-G1000 Cessna 172 with a new Garmin panel and Continental/Thielert Centurion diesel engine for less than the cost of a new avgas-powered Skyhawk. AVweb’s Russ Niles spoke with Premier’s VP of Operations Art Spengler about the instant market acceptance of the new product. Duration: File Size: […]

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to watch on YouTube. Although most people think multiple landings are what wears aircraft tires the most, the reality is that they take a bit of beating during taxi, too. And if tires are underinflated, they’ll tend to […]

Before flight, every pilot must plow through a spaghetti bog of regulations designed to enhance safety by potentially scaring the flyer to stay on the ground. But you won’t scare easily once you ace this quiz. Take the quiz. More Brainteasers

Within the privacy of our own hangars, many pilots envision ourselves with a fistful of throttles and a cheap cigar clamped in a DC-3 captain’s grimace. Take your multi-engine fantasies to new heights by overpowering this quiz. Take the quiz. More Brainteasers

Inside a big sky, little mistakes are easily masked before ATC calls a foul. But on the ground, the margin for error shrinks, and one slip across a hold-short line could ruin your day. Save that day by acing this quiz. Take the quiz. More Brainteasers