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(SMART SUMMARY) >>> AVWEB FUEL FINDERCURRENT PRICE FOR 100LL: $4.62 (down 1¢ from last week)CURRENT PRICE FOR JET A: $4.30 (down 4¢ from last week)Fuel prices provided weekly by AirNav, based on prices from the past 2 weeks.
(SMART SUMMARY) With Super Bowl XLIV about to kick off as we prepare this week's AVweb stories, we can't resist the temptation to delve into our mailbag and serve up a "Short Final" that's been holding for over a year:It was a Friday afternoon in November when we were departing OSU airport in the company King Air for our home base in Grand Rapids.
(SMART SUMMARY) In the wake of Colgan Air's Continental Flight 3407 that crashed outside of Buffalo last year, reporter and pilot Miles O'Brien has stepped up to front an investigative documentary, "Flying Cheap," to air on PBS and online, Feb. 9, 2010.
(SMART SUMMARY) A lot of pilots are active supporters of general aviation, but few of them put their money where their mouth is like Gary Bradshaw, founder of PilotJourney.com and a major contributor to the May 15, 2010 "Learn To Fly Day" initiative.
(SMART SUMMARY) Tyler Whitney, of Fenwick, Mich., has become the first EAA Young Eagle to pass his FAA private pilot written test by using Sporty's innovative Online Pilot Training Course, free of charge.
(SMART SUMMARY) For nearly three decades, general aviation has been struggling to find an unleaded replacement for 100LL avgas.
(SMART SUMMARY) Three people died in a midair collision between a Cirrus aircraft and a glider towplane Saturday near Boulder, Colo.
(SMART SUMMARY) It's not every day that a film crew flies into the Alta Sierra residential airpark east of Sacramento but Michael Graves had been so thoroughly lured into the story, he didn't have a clue that he would be the star of the show.
(SMART SUMMARY) General Aviation Modifications thinks so and demonstrated the new fuel to AVweb in a test flight and engine test cell run last week.
(SUMMARY) New Cargo Variant Completed Taxi Tests, Ready To Fly The first flight test of the Boeing 787-8 is slated for Monday, February 8, 2010. The first flight window will open 10:00am PDT....
(SUMMARY) Maintenance Discovered Body A body was discovered aboard a Delta flight 59 after a flight from JFK to Japan's Tokyo Nartia (NRT)....
(SUMMARY) Aircraft Released For Operations Worldwide The C-5M Super Galaxy completed operational test and evaluation in January, releasing the aircraft for use in worldwide operations. The tests, which lasted nearly 4 months, measured key performance parameters to demonstrate the capabilities and reliability...
(SUMMARY) Guest Editorial By Wes Oleszewski The headlines read "Bolden Denies Abandoning Human Spaceflight," but the budget for NASA says otherwise. Beware of politicians who rip apart national icons while offering undefined goals without deadlines. It is much the same as saying "we're going to bulldoze the W...
(SUMMARY) New Program Will Have Students Fly Robinson And Sikorsky Helos Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) recently announced its selection of Universal Helicopters (UHI) as the exclusive provider of the Helicopter Flight Training Program to students at the university's Prescott, AZ, campus....
(SUMMARY) Restricts Flights Until Monday Night A TFR has been issued over the site of the Middletown plant explosion because of the instability of the heavily damaged building....
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