Photo (And Photos) of the Week for Wednesday, March 17, 2021
It was our lucky day when we spotted this shot taken from an SR22 along Molokai’s North Shore.
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Aviation News Roundup for the Week of March 12, 2021
Top first-time planes purchased. High-speed internet for your plane? AOPA pushes for parking signage, a surprising flight training survey result, and a GPS jamming controversy are all in the news.
High-Speed Internet For Your Plane? An Elon Musk Comment Reveals Much
As SpaceX reveals Starlink plans, the future looks connected, up to a point
How Not To Launch A Drone
With much ceremony and fanfare, this launch of an R/C aircraft-like drone is spectacular, just not in the way that they’d hoped.
Women In Aviation Crushes Its Virtual Conference
The annual convention of the world’s largest organization of women in the world of aerospace had it all, well, virtually all.
Another Futuristic Vision of an Urban Heliport/Air Taxi Stand
An emerging autonomous air vehicle designer teams with Italian architectural firm on an eco-friendly tower design.
AOPA Proposes Signs to Tell Pilots Where They‘re Parking And How Much it Will Cost
It shouldn’t be so hard to know where to shut down at a strange airport, but it almost always is.
Going Direct: Should The Pandemic Change How We Look At Aviation‘s Safety Record?
The number of deaths from COVID-19 in one just one day is as much as 10 times greater than the number of light plane crash fatalities in an entire year. Does that matter?
Birdstrikes Are On the Rise
But the report on wildlife vs. aircraft encounters includes another, somewhat puzzling fact.
Hurrying To Oshkosh, Never Arriving
The crash of a Zenith LSA in Missouri shows how multiple factors can come together to create a disastrous outcome.
