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Today a USAF McDonnell Douglas C-17A Globemaster III, assigned to the 3rd Wing at Anchorage-Elmendorf Air Force Base crashed near the AFB. At the time of the accident, the C-17 was on a training mission for the upcoming Arctic Thunder air show.
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The FAA Safety Team is out in full force at the "World's Greatest Aviation Celebration" in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. You can find the FAA Safety Team-also known as the FAASTeam-in the FAA Aviation Safety Center, right next to the FAA control tower. At the booth you can learn more about the improvements to the www.FAASafety.gov website, sign up for the WINGS pilot proficiency program, and find out about FAA's aviation maintenance technician awards program. This is a great opportunity to talk with dedicated safety professionals whose number one job is to make general aviation as safe as possible. You can also check out the rest of the FAA Aviation Safety Center and see displays on all things aviation. The safety education forums held at the Safety Center cover such topics as "Aeronautical Decision Making," "Surface Safety," and "VFR Charts, Little Known Facts." See you there. For more information on EAA AirVenture, go to www.airventure.org.
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Photo: Avantair
Of all the high-end executive transports to choose from Gulfstream, Lear, Cessna Citation, Beech Super King Air, Sikorsky, Eurocopter Sony opted for the Piaggio Avanti for its summer blockbuster, Salt, starring Angelina Jolie as...
(SUMMARY) In a letter Monday to the General Aviation Avgas Coalition, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acknowledged it has no jurisdiction to regulate the fuel an aircraft burns and has not established a deadline by which aviation gasoline's lead...
(SUMMARY) For most Rounders, as those who have crossed every longitude are known, their trip is over in a relatively short period of time. Not so for Detlef Heun and Lilliana Tagliamonte. Their rounder plan, which also includes touching all the latitudes, is...
(SUMMARY) Aspen's high valued glass cockpit is now approved for aircraft weighing up to 12,500 pounds. Certification of its Evolution primary flight display (PFD) for Class III aircraft, those weighing between 6,000 and 12,500 pounds, was among the new...
(SUMMARY) Call N74589 the Cinderella of AirVenture's DC-3 Anniversary Ball. Seven and a half weeks ago the DC-3 was sitting in a field at the Covington Municipal Airport (9A1) in Georgia-virtually abandoned, a landmark to area pilots and some residents, and an...
(SUMMARY) Glancing at its spec sheet you'd think it was a high-performance compact sports car: zero to 60 in 3.9 seconds, a Subaru EJ22 engine, a CVT belt-drive transmission, and less than 1,000 pounds total weight. And while you'd be mostly correct.
(SUMMARY) On Monday, after one of the most unusual days in the 40 years of Oshkosh, I ran into Hartzell Propeller patriarch Jim Brown. After we made universal comments about the soggy ground and the thousands of airplanes that weren't here because they...
(SUMMARY) It's been 75 years, that's three quarters of a century, since the prototype of the Flying Fortress series took to the skies for the first time over Seattle, Washington. For so many reasons, the B-17 Flying Fortress became an American icon.
(SUMMARY) In today's world of kit build-this and quick build-that, it is ever rarer to see an all-original, scratchbuilt airplane, once a common site at Oshkosh and other fly-ins around the country. One of those rare one of a kind scratchbuilt creations is...
(SUMMARY) What could be simpler than an electric powered airplane? A motor with just one moving part, a battery, a control box, some wires to connect them, just hook 'em up and fly, right? Radio controlled model folks have been doing it for years.
(SUMMARY) What's the first thing you would do if you just took delivery of a brand new airplane? If you said you were flying it to Oshkosh, no pilot would be surprised.
(SMART SUMMARY) In his latest post to the AVweb Insider blog, Paul Bertorelli seems dazed and baffled by a world class case of whipsaw.
(SMART SUMMARY) At EAA AirVenture 2010, Ford has a number of attractions, not the least of which is a portable vertical wind tunnel.
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