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(SUMMARY) 'Flying The Tail Wheel Airplane' A Detailed Course In Conventional Gear Flying Whether its the low, slow flight of a Cub or Champ, or the high-performance of a P-51, flying an airplane with conventional gear requires a different skill set. A new book...

(SUMMARY) Had Not Previously Been Included Under The Provisions Of The Law Nearly two decades after the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was signed into law, Flight Attendants and other flight crews have been granted the same access to coverage that has long...

(SUMMARY) Avidyne's R9: So Simple, Even A Pilot In IMC Can Do It! So... a few months ago, we had the chance to sit back in awe at the expertise already displayed by one of the Avidyne R9 glass panel's most passionate advocates... and users. There are few more...

(SUMMARY) Veteran Of Five Spaceflights Logged 223 Days In Space Shannon Lucid, a member of NASA's first astronaut class to include women, has retired after more than three decades of service to the agency. A veteran of five spaceflights, Lucid logged more than...

(SUMMARY) Kansas Fourth District Congressman Mike Pompeo Presents Award To Spirit AeroSystems CEO At Annual Gala Kansas Fourth District Congressman Mike Pompeo and officials of the Wichita Aero Club presented the organization's second WAC Trophy Saturday to...

(SUMMARY) AD NUMBER: 2012-02-12 PRODUCT: Certain Bombardier, Inc. Model DHC-8-400, -401, and -402 airplanes

(SUMMARY) Avionics Master Switch Seeing Accelerated Failure Rate In Some Airplanes The FAA has issued an SAIB (Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin) concerning he avionics master switch on Cessna Aircraft Company (Cessna) Model 172R, 172S, 182T, T182T,...

(SUMMARY) Viral Video Drawing Massive YouTube Views One of the latest viral videos on YouTube was created by two high school seniors from Canada, who were inspired by edge-of-space projects using weather balloons. Their video shows a Lego man holding a small...

(SUMMARY) Palatka, FL, Event Shows How To Do Things Right Having recently attended the 2012 LSA Expo where the new management is quickly turning it into a profit machine for the organizing body (at the expense of the vendors and general public), I was...

(SUMMARY) Kern Planning Commission OK Was Unanimous Retired aircraft can face a wide variety of fates, from being salvaged for their expensive components, as in the case of the 747s acquired by Stratolauncher, to being left for decades in desert graveyards....

(SUMMARY) InFO Stresses That Pilots Need Clearance To Enter Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum Airspace The FAA has relased an Information for Operators (InFO) document emphasizing RVSM flight planning guidance. The document states "If either the operator or...

(SUMMARY) Get Your Wacky Ideas In NOW! Time is fast ticking down to a date the entire ANN staff looks forward to every year. See, each April 1st, we have a problem getting our stories straight... we make things up, we get silly, we exaggerate and lampoon. In...

(SUMMARY) Empennage Damaged, But Only Minor Injuries An instructor was flying with a student on approach to an airfield in Lingayen, Pangasinan in Central Luzon in the Philippines in a Cessna 152, a scenario which has been duplicated many times around the...

(SUMMARY) Process Slowed By Discovery Of Asbestos In Firewall In an odd twist, investigators looking into the Friday crash of a vintage biplane in Australia had to halt their work Saturday because a 1930s safety feature designed into the plane was declared a...

(SMART SUMMARY) All applications for medical and student pilot certificates will be filed electronically instead of on paper by October 1, the FAA said last week.